In one of his books, Allan Kardec explained why we should talk about Spiritism to the children, affirming that the objective of doing that is to prepare them for life as well as providing them important resources so that they can achieve what has been planned in the spirit-world, as shows this weeks’ editorial, entitled Education and its role among children and adolescents.

One of the highlights in this issue is the interview that the couple Ivone and Aloísio Ghiggino, from Rio de Janeiro, conceded to the journalist Katia Fabiana Fernandes, from London, in which both of them talk about their journey in the Spiritist Movement and emphasizes the importance of divulging the Doctrine of Spirits with responsibility and based on Allan Kardec’s teachings.

Another highlight this week is the special article in which Leonardo Marmo Moreira examines the most common problems faced by beginner mediums. In his article, the author reminds us that rescue mediumship may be an interesting option for the ones who are starting in mediumship, not presenting mediumistic intensity.

The youngster Aldeir Felix Honorato, Pharmacy and Biochemistry student, has presented his course conclusion thesis last July in the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry of the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (MG), which was about the so-called Grandpa Pedro’s balm, as shows the confrere Arísio Antonio Fonseca Junior, the new correspondent for this magazine in that city. 

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The 3rd October reminds us two important fact in the Spiritism’s history. 

In 1804, on this very same day, the one who would become known as Allan Kardec,  the Spiritist Doctrine Codifier, was born in Lyon, France. On the 3r October 1943, Emmanuel signed the preface of the first André Luiz’s work, the book Nosso Lar (Our Home), released in the subsequent year by the Brazilian Spiritist Federation.