Fundamentals of Spiritism: The soul, the afterlife, psychic abilities, mediumship, and reincarnation and how these influence our lives

The book is very well written! With substantial information according Spiritism. Very reliable! I bought it as a gift and I feel very happy with the results.

“The continuous existence of a spirit entity regarding the state that awaits all human beings after death is no longer a metaphysical abstraction or an article of religious faith, but instead a positive and specific fact demonstrated through the study of psychic phenomena and mediumship by way of Spiritism.” So states the author in the first chapter of this very informative book.Author Jon Aizpurua is a clinical psychologist, economist, and professor living in Venezuela. He has authored a number of other books with a wide circulation in Spanish-speaking countries. This book is an English translation and updated edition of Los Fundamento del Espiritismo, originally published in 2000.The serious seeker of Truth who is unfamiliar with the research and writings of Allan Kardec, the 19th Century French educator whose research into mediumship gave rise to Spiritism, should find this book very enlightening. But even those who have read Kardec’s 1857 classic, The Spirits’ Book, and his other works. should find much in this book to clarify, refresh, and renew the teachings of Spiritism, which is especially popular in Brazil and other South American countries.“Spiritism liberates men from its anguish over death, giving meaning to immortality by bringing out with crystal clarity the authentic reality of human destiny aft the physical state of disintegration,” Aizpurua writes. This situation completely differs from the sanctimonious heavens and gloomy hells of all religious mythologies.”The primary focus of the book is that of explaining mediumship. Aizpurua discusses the various types of mediums – speaking, writing, seeing, hearing, healing, and intuitive. He goes on to explain various phenomena, including materialization, levitations, apports, the direct voice, direct writing, and even tiptology (communication through table tilting). Most importantly, he explains all the difficulties, obstructions, and barriers to effective spirit communication, many of which are misunderstood by skeptics and debunkers and seen as evidence that the medium is a fraud. “The mental projections emitted by the spirits may adopt many various forms and should be carefully interpreted since they are of a symbolic character,” he offers in connections with seeing mediumship, adding that mediumship should not be confused with clairvoyance, A medium, he explains, see scenes or objects in the spirit world, while a clairvoyant see things through extrasensory perception. sometimes at a great distance.Other subjects discussed by Aizpurua include reincarnation, magnetism, the aura, animism, and obsession. I found the section on obsession especially interesting and meaningful. I have long been of the opinion that many mental disorders are the result of negative or low-level spirit influence, something many Brazilian and other South American mental health workers understand and treat accordingly but which is denied or not even considered in American mental health practices. Aizpurua discusses the varieties and degrees of negative spirit obsession, ranging from simple obsession, in which the spirit interferes with the thoughts of the victim and opposes his will, to subjugation, in which the obsessing spirit completely controls or possesses the victim.Overall, Aizpurua offers the most comprehensive and effective treatment of mediumship and all of its concomitants that I have seen in a text book format. .