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Especially of interest to those involved with healing and healthcare: The first book to describe contemporary spiritual healing centers in Brazil including a psychiatric hospital where spiritual healers collaborate with conventionally trained healthcare professionals. There are more than 12,000 of these centers in Brazil; 20-40 million Brazilians use this resource for spiritual growth, healing, and to maintain wellness. These Centers welcome people of all religions and cultures, offering effective forms of healing as a free service.

The introduction to the philosophy of Spiritism is presented in a clear, easy to understand manner. The description of the methods for healing used over more than 150 years demonstrate that Brazil has developed an effective model of integrative health care.

The author spent half of each year, 2001-2012, in Brazil studying these centers and hospitals. She is a psychologist, teacher, prolific author and pioneer in the area of healing and spiritual awakening. She suggests that importing components of Brazil's Spiritist Centers could help us improve our ailing healthcare system.

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Date de parution	21 février 2013
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EAN13	9781456610043
Langue	English

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Reviews:

From John Zerio, Ph.D.
President of the Allan Kardec Educational Society

"Written with insight and sensitivity, this book is an extraordinary introduction to the rich wellness tradition of Brazilian Spiritists. Authentic and lasting body wellness comes with a sound and well adjusted spirit. This is the foundation of Spiritist thought. Spiritist communities have become notable centers of healing by treating and engaging the whole being in the process ... Dr. Bragdon captured the essence of this grass-roots model that will one day transform our medical care environment. A book that will change the way you think about yourself, and give you strength to explore new pathways. A book that has strength and soul."

From Stanley Krippner, Ph.D.
Co-author, "Extraordinary Dreams" and "Becoming Psychic."

"Allan Kardec's books have played a historic role in the development of several spiritual healing traditions, yet they are virtually unknown to the American public. (This book) attempts to rectify this situation. It is thoroughly researched and thoughtfully written. Bragdon's goal is to demonstrate how U.S. health care would benefit by incorporating spiritual perspectives, and many of Kardec's insights seem surprisingly contemporary, even though he wrote them in the 1800s ... Numerous spiritist centers base much of their diagnosis and treatment on Kardec's pioneering discussion of what is now called "energy medicine."

From Jeffrey D. Rediger, M.D., M.Div. Medical Director, McLean Hospital SE Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA.

"Dr. Bragdon is on the leading edge of issues that must be addressed if we are going to realize a transformation in the ways in which health care is currently conceptualized and delivered. The future lies in the development of capacities which lie latent within all of us, and in technology which is more commensurate with recent scientific developments. Dr. Bragdon's book is an important step in that direction."

From Heather Cumming, a translator for John of God:

"Great book - beautifully written, a wonderful asset for anyone planning visiting John of God."

From Kay Sandberg, CEO/ Executive Director
Health Medicine Institute/Forum, Lafayette, CA

"Dr. Bragdon's book offers a refreshing solution for transforming healthcare in a way that builds community and supports the individual in a holistic manner. The United States healthcare establishment would do well to apply and adapt the winning strategies and altruistic values employed by Brazilian Spiritists."

From David Lukoff, PhD.
Professor of Psychology, Saybrook Graduate School

"Health professionals in the West have become much more open to including spirituality in clinical work. While Kardec's approach cannot be transferred en toto to contemporary medicine and psychotherapy, Dr. Bragdon's cross-cultural study of Brazilian Spiritists is a rich resource for seeing how spiritual healing can be taught and practiced."

From Ron Holman, PhD. CEO of a Mental Health HMO

"In today's world the rising cost of Health Care Insurance shows the United States is headed for a time when only the rich can afford Health Care Insurance! Kardec's Spiritism brings possibilities to light. There is indeed Hope we can avoid financial ruin when spiritual healing is combined with allopathic medicine."

From Marilyn Feldberg, Psychosynthesis Therapist/Teacher Founder and Director of WYSE [World Youth Service and Enterprise]

"We are not just this body, or mind, or feelings. We are essentially the eternal spirit that has no end. I honour Bragdon's great respect for other cultural approaches and can quite clearly see a new spirituality coming from Brazil that will lead our world towards deep healing through a renewal of the teachings of the Christ."

From Bob Dinga and Diana Rose, tour leaders from USA taking groups to the Casa de Dom Inacio:

"We appreciate Emma's thorough research and compelling perspective. Her book succinctly offers the reader a clear look at a new option beyond the conventional standard of current healthcare, and one that's long overdue for our country."

KARDEC'S SPIRITISM

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Kardec's Spiritism:
A Home for Healing and Spiritual Evolution

Emma Bragdon, PhD.
Director: Spiritual Alliances, LLC.
Woodstock, Vermont, USA.

Foreword by
Rustum Roy, PhD.
Chairman: Friends of Health
Member: U.S. National Academy of Science

Lightening Up Press
Woodstock, Vermont

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802-674-2919

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Copyright © 2004-2013, by Emma Bragdon, Ph.D.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers.

First Printing: July 2004

Bragdon, Emma, 1946-
Kardec's Spiritism: A Home for Healing and Spiritual Evolution
Includes bibliographic references, glossary, and index.
1. Spirituality 2. Metaphysics 3. Health 4. Religion 5. Brazil

Graphic Illustrations:
Marty Cain ( marty@nhvt.net )

Graphic Design and Typography:
Cookson Publishing ( mark.cookson@valley.net )

Cover Design:
Blue Design ( www.bluedes.com )

Acknowledgements

I deeply appreciate the generosity of Laurance Rockefeller and the Lloyd Symington Foundation who sponsored the research and printing of this book.
I have had the great good fortune to come to know Elsie Dubugras and Martha G. Thomaz, two women who have been leaders in the development of Kardecist Spiritism in Brazil since the 1940s. I have learned much from their wisdom, good humor, and dedication to the path of service. Julika Kiskos, a Brazilian psychologist, both introduced me to these leaders, and helped me understand Spiritism through the lens of Parapsychology. She took Spiritism "out of the clouds of mysticism" and anchored it into the footprint of science, as her teacher, Hernani Andrade, did.
I thank other wonderful Brazilians who also gave of their time and goodwill to help me gather details about Spiritist Centers in Brazil and the philosophy behind their good works. Without the friendship of Elizabeth Pereira, of Abadiania, this book could not have been created.
Johann Grobler, MD, is one of those avant-garde psychiatrists who integrates notions intrinsic to the path of spiritual evolution into his practice of medicine. Since we met in March, 2001, our conversations have helped refine my thinking on many themes articulated in this book. Johann has also been my host and benefactor allowing me to visit his Lighuis (Lighthouse) Farm in South Africa, and use his extensive library during three long retreats. Johann's analysis of Laussac's electromagnetic medical devices grounded and supported my enthusiasm for this new arena of Energy Medicine.
My community of friends and sources of spiritual guidance, stretching all around the world, continue to bring peace, good humor, and inspiration into my life. The interconnectedness we share inspires me to work with joy.
The ferocity, friendship and caring of my editor, Joby Thompson, is the reason this book is as cogent as it is. Profound thanks.
May this book honor the Perennial Wisdom teachings, the teachers, and all loving beings who inspire us to proceed on the "Path of Love."

January, 2004
Woodstock, Vermont
and
Lighuis Farm, South Africa

Foreword by Rustum Roy, PhD.

I n his 2003 Presidential Address to the MAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), Floyd Bloom, Professor of Neuroscience at U.C. San Diego and former Editor of "Science," minces no words. Nor can anyone else who calls himself or herself a scientist mince words any longer. Bloom introduces the paper thus: "This problem is the imminent collapse of the American health care system." He refers to "the Delusions of Success" of the incredibly expensive research system for medicine. ($25 billion of public funds for NIH alone ... $1 billion of private money to bring one new major drug to market.)
Emma Bragdon's book offers a practical, down to earth, thoroughly researched (i.e. studied, with ample reproducible data), possible partial solution to the U.S.' problems. Unbelievable you say!? ... well, read it first. As a physical scientist holding five professorships in three