To turn tears
into smiles, all we need is
hands, heart and mind
The thought expressed in the
sentence above is contained
in a verse of the poem Ombro
Amigo, which became the
slogan of the work developed
by the Spiritist Hospital
Chaplaincy Project,
coordinated by our
interviewee, pediatrician
José Luiz Moraes, from
Vitória (ES), member of
board of the Espírito Santo
Medical-Spiritist
Association (AMEEES). The
interview is one of the
highlights of this edition.
Infantile dementia and
palingenesis is
the title of the Special
written by the writer and
spiritualist scholar Marcus
De Mario, from Rio Janeiro
(RJ). In the article, he
makes considerations, in the
light of reincarnation,
regarding Niemann-Pick
disease type C (NPC),
classified by science as a
rare disease, of hereditary
origin, neurologically
progressive and terminal,
which generally affects
children in pre- infancy.
Another highlight of the
edition is the report by
Jorge Gomes on the British
scientist Alfred Russel
Wallace, a notable
naturalist, anthropologist,
geographer and researcher of
mediumistic phenomena, who
passed away on November 7,
1913. Several activities
were remembered throughout
2023, in different
countries, the 200th
anniversary of his birth,
which occurred on January 8,
1823 in Usk, Wales.
