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The Spiritist Codification:
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References. Recommended sites about Spiritism
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http://www.allan-kardec.org/
 | The U.S. Allan Kardec Educational Society (AKES) has recognized that
the unconventional sentence structure and terminology used in the
original English translation of The Spirits' Book made it a hard book to
read, "at times obfuscating Kardec's flawless logic and the guides'
superb discernment and wisdom". They commenced a comprehensive new
translation, published in 1996, which can be ordered on the internet or
by mail at the AKES addresses given on their website. |
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http://www.SpiritistSocietyFlorida.com
| The Spiritist Society of Florida contains an excellent summary
of the Spiritist doctrine as well as many inspiring messages
channeled through the mediums that work at this center. |
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http://www.sgny.org/
| The Spiritist Group of New York. |
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http://www.ssbaltimore.org/
| The Spiritist Society of Baltimore. |
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http://www.spiritismonline.net/
| Spiritism Online (USA Portal). |
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http://www.spiritistdoctrine.com/
| Spiritism 101. |
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http://www.usspiritistcouncil.com/
| United States Spiritist Council. |
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http://www.spiritist.org/
| International Spiritist Council. |
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http://www.geae.inf.br/en/
| GEAE is a group of organizations
devoted to the study of the Spiritist Doctrine. They publish a newsletter in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritism
| Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, has several articles
about Spiritism and Kardec's works. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Kardec
| Allan Kardec biography. |
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http://studentorgs.utexas.edu/kardec/
| Allan Kardec University Study Group (Austin, Texas, USA). |
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http://www.spiritwritings.com/kardec.html
| Free books about Spiritism and Spiritualism including The
Spirits' Book and The Mediums' Book by
Allan Kardec (original English translation by Anna Blackwell).
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| Recently published books about Spiritualism and related matters, i.e.
reincarnation and mediumship: |
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A Lawyer presents the case for the Afterlife
| This free book by Victor Zammit provides an excellent summary of the scientific evidence about the
reality of the afterlife, mediumship, reincarnation
and more. |
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www.Afterlife101.com
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www.survivalafterdeath.org.uk
| The International Survivalist Society publishes articles and
books about psychical research, mediumship, and the survival of
consciousness. |
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Kardec's Spiritism
| Although Kardec's Spiritism is a vast topic that has been
covered by hundreds of books published in Spanish and Portuguese,
few are available in English and even fewer have been originally
written in English. This makes the book Kardec's Spiritism by Emma
Bragdon, Ph. D., an important contribution to the growing interest
of the English-speaking audience. Emma Bragdon has spent time in
Brazil studying the healing aspects of Brazilian Spiritism and her
books are an excellent source of information for anyone who is
interested in modern's day Spiritism, spiritual healing, or in
complementary medicine. |
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The Supreme Adventure: Analyses of Psychic Communications
| Robert Crookall meticulously compiled from a wide variety of
sources, this analysis of personal testimonies of the experience of
death and survival describing what happens when we die. This excellent
book was first published in 1961 and remains a very important work in
the field of psychical research. |
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www.VanPraagh.com
| Professional medium James Van Praagh in his book Reaching to Heaven
offers a guidebook for the living, which charts the course of the soul
as it journeys through life, death, and rebirth. Beyond his psychic
gifts, Van Praagh has a gift for simplifying complex spiritual ideas and
writing about them in a conversational tone. |
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www.CourageousSouls.com
| The book Courageous Souls: Do We Plan Our Life Challenges Before
Birth? by Robert Schwartz contains ten true stories of people who
planned the challenges they would experience in their next
reincarnation. The book includes actual conversations people had with
their future parents, children, spouses, friends, and other loved ones
during the pre-birth planning process.
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| Recommended Blogs with frequent posts and commentaries on related
afterlife topics:
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http://metgat.gaia.com/blog
 | Michael E. Tymn, editor of The Searchlight, a quarterly
magazine published by the Academy of Spirituality and Paranormal
Studies, maintains a Blog which covers many interesting metaphysical
subjects in detail, from Spirit Communications, including the works of
Allan Kardec and other pioneer researchers, to the history of the
Modern Spiritualist Movement, and much more. |
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http://michaelprescott.typepad.com/
| Best selling author Michael Prescott discusses a wide verity of
topics in his "Occasional thoughts on matter of life and death", from
the evidence for survival of conciousness, to evolution, the history
of Christianity, Shakespeare, and many other very interesting subject
matters, this is a most read Blog for anyone interested in afterlife
studies.
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| Recommended Books about Reincarnation
in Christianity:
| The Gospel Explained by the Spiritist
Doctrine by Allan
Kardec. This
exceptional work offers a reasonable and logical
explanation for the teachings and miracles of Jesus from the perspective
of reincarnation and spirit phenomena. The book
also explains the origins of the reincarnation belief
in the Western world, from the times of the ancient Greek civilization
when great philosophers like Pythagoras, Socrates
and Plato, taught this concept. We recommend the AKES
translation of the book which can be obtained through their
website:
http://www.allan-kardec.org/.
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Kardec's Spiritism
by Emma Bragdon.
Emma Bragdon, Ph.D., has been studying the modern movement of Brazilian
Spiritism (Kardecism) and its practical therapeutic applications as
alternative medicine. In the appendix of her book there is an excellent
summary of the relations between the concept of Reincarnation and
Christianity and how this relationship has changed in different times:
http://www.emmabragdon.com/review_kardec.html
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Children's Past Lives by Carol Bowman and Steve Bowman.
This book, along with the classic Twenty Cases
Suggestive Of Reincarnation by Dr. Ian Stevenson about
children that remember their past lives, are the best documentation for
this kind of scientific evidence we have today about reincarnation.
Chapter 14 of Children's Past Lives contains a summary of the
political events that lead to the removal of the reincarnation concept
from the official Catholic theology of the time, in spite the fact that the belief
in reincarnation was supported by several Church Fathers, including
Origins of Alexandria. An extract of Chapter 14 (Dogma Bites
Man) can be found online here:
http://www.childpastlives.org/dogma.htm
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Reincarnation The Missing Link in Christianity by Elizabeth Clare Prophet.
Using information from The Bible, as well as from the Gnostic Gospels
found in Nag
Hammadi (Egypt)
in 1945 and
the Dead Sea Scrolls found in 1947, the author makes a very strong scholar case in
favor of the presence of the reincarnation concept in the teachings of
Jesus as well as in some early Christians. From Jesus, to the
Gnostics, to the European Cathars killed during the
Crusades, to Giordano
Bruno judged and killed by the Inquisition, the belief in reincarnation did not
completely disappear from Christianity in spite of the efforts of
several powerful Emperors, Kings, and Church leaders.
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Reincarnation A New Horizon in Science, Religion,
and Society by Sylvia Cranston
and Carey Williams.
This book, as others from the same author Sylvia Cranston, like
Reincarnation: Phoenix Fire Mystery,
offer an excellent background on the concept of reincarnation, pulling
information from Western and Eastern traditions as well. It should be noted that
even though Sylvia Cranston writes from the perspective of Theosophy,
the information she provides is extremely valuable for anyone interested
in studying the concept of reincarnation through different historical
times and different cultures.
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Edgar Cayce On Reincarnation
by Noel Langley.
Contains an excellent analysis of the information obtained through Edgar
Cayce, internationally known as the American Sleeping Prophet, about
reincarnation and karma. The author also gives detailed accounts of
several ecclesiastic councils, like The First Council of Nicaea in 325
AD
sponsored by Roman Emperor Constantine and The Second Council of
Constantinople in 553 AD sponsored by Emperor Justinian, where the issue of
the pre-existence of the soul (another name for reincarnation) was
declared anathema and removed from the official
theology of the time.
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Reincarnation: A Study of Forgotten Truth by E. D. Walker.
Anthological work about reincarnation in Christianity
and its relationship with the Eastern concept of karma. This book is an
important reference for anyone studying the concept of reincarnation in
Christianity.
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| For more information about Reincarnation please continue on the
Scientific Evidence section or go to our reincarnation page here:
Past Lives Research and Reincarnation
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