How Americans
see Spiritist teachings and
practices
Currently living in
Marietta, Georgia (United
States), Marcelo Parpinelli
Medeiros, graduated in
Journalism from PUC-SP and
working professionally as a
journalist in the land of
Uncle Sam, is our
interviewee. In the
interview, with the peculiar
view of journalists, he
reveals important facts
about the Spiritist movement
in the United States and
tells us how the typical
American sees Spiritist
teachings and practices
today. The article, which is
worth reading, is one of the
highlights of this edition.
Another highlight is the
Special Are We All Really
Mediums? written by our
collaborator and respected
spiritist scholar Leonardo
Marmo Moreira. After
carefully examining the
issue, which raises so many
doubts especially outside
the spiritist milieu, he
recalls in his article that
from the popularization,
without further explanation,
of the phrase "all are
mediums", a series of
questionable procedures have
been registered in our
Spiritist movement.
That many contemporary
scholars and researchers
have verified the reality of
the survival of the spirit
after death and its return
to a new existence, with a
view to its ascension
towards perfection, is a
fact that many readers
certainly ignore and that
our collaborator Jorge Leite
de Oliveira discusses with
his well-known competence,
in a special subject that is
also one of the highlights
of this issue.
