Human afflictions in a Spiritist perspective

Our interviewee today is Deusa Maria Samu, from Piaui, who lives in the city of Sao Paulo, the state capital. Clinical and hospital psychologist postgraduate in Thanatology, she has been a Spiritist since 1990. She is a volunteer at the institution Seara Bendita, and is an exhibitor and coordinator of the Parents Meeting of the Childhood and Youth Areas. As a very much requested speaker, she has focused in talking about mourning to comfort families. This and other questions pertaining to human afflictions are the subject of her interview.

What is the purpose of a Spiritist House? This is the title of the Special Article written by our collaborator Rogerio Miguez, from Sao Jose dos Campos (SP). According to him, one of the most relevant challenges that we Spiritists face today is to maintain the basic units of the movement, that is, the Spiritist Houses, aligned with the postulates and practices presented in the truly Spiritist literature.

The Spiritist calendar records in November the date of Eurípedes Barsanulfo's disembodiment, which occurred on November 1st, 1918. Referring to the event, Thiago Bernardes gives us, in a Special Article, some biographical notes about the great Spiritist educator and about two striking previous lives of Eurípedes in our world.