Inner reform
is essential to our
spiritual evolution
The thought expressed in the
sentence above is from the
spiritist scholar Anselmo
Ferreira Vasconcelos, from
São Paulo-SP, author of the
Special that we publish in
this edition and it is one
of its highlights. The
proposed transformation,
says the columnist, infuses
“new purposes and meaning
into our lives”. But, he
warns, only really strong
spirits have the moral
strength and dignity to
carry out this exercise,
although we know that this
initiative is vital for
those who want something
beyond the glories and
successes typical of
corporeal life.
A native of São João do
Paraíso, currently residing
in Montes Claro-MG,
Wanderlino Arruda is our
interviewee. Graduated in
Letters and Law, with a
postgraduate degree in
Linguistics, Semantics and
Brazilian Literature and
specialization in Social
Communication and Higher
Education Methodology, he is
a member of the Council of
the Spiritist Fraternity
Canacy, which he has chaired
for three terms, in addition
to being a lecturer, writer,
poet and member of several
educational and literary
institutions.
It passed away at the age of
97 in the early hours of May
19, in Juiz de Fora-MG, our
friend José Passini, doctor
in Linguistics and
internationally known
Esperantist. Professor and
former rector of the Federal
University of Juiz de Fora,
he was born in Nova
Itapirema, in the interior
of São Paulo, but lived for
more than 75 years in Juiz
de Fora. Renowned Spiritist
speaker, he was one of the
collaborators of the
magazine O Consolador,
in which he was part of the
Editorial Board since its
foundation on 18/4/2007.
