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Allan Kardec, a name he adopted later in life, was initially a scholar and educator.
The project, based in Brazil, is a unique use of the to disseminate information about the history of Kardec and Spiritism.
Find out how the Spirits communicated with Allan Kardec for the codification of the Spiritist Doctrine, in France, from the 1850s.

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Discover Allan Kardec: The Visionary Who Bridged Science and Spirit

The Birth of Spiritism

Kardec’s journey into Spiritism began in the 1850s when he encountered mediumship—the ability of certain individuals to communicate with spirits. Intrigued by these phenomena, Kardec decided to explore them systematically. His goal was to sift through what was real and what was just illusion.

In 1857, he published The Spirits’ Book (Le Livre des Esprits), which is considered the cornerstone of Spiritism. What’s fascinating is how this book came to be. Kardec didn’t just write it on his own. He worked closely with mediums—people who communicated with spirits—to gather their messages and insights. He then compiled and organized these messages into a coherent set of principles and teachings. So, the book wasn’t just his work; it was a collaborative effort involving the spiritual realm.

Kardec’s Global Impact

Kardec’s ideas didn’t just stay in France; they traveled far and wide. His writings, translated into various languages, touched people across Europe, the United States, a

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Carlos S. Alvarado, PhD, Research Fellow, Parapsychology Foundation

I recently received from my colleague and friend, Alexander Moreira-Almeida, interviewed a while back in this blog (click here), an announcement about an important online project about the life and work of Allan Kardec (Hyppolite-Léon-Denizard Rivail), founder of Spiritism in France in the nineteenth century. The project, based in Brazil, is a unique use of the Web to disseminate information about the history of Kardec and Spiritism. I present below parts of the announcement of the project that Alexander sent me.

Allan Kardec

The Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) in Brazil launches next Tuesday (September 1^st), in a virtual event, at 7 pm, the portal of the Allan Kardec Project, which gathers original manuscripts by Allan Kardec (1804-1869), a French thinker who studied psychic/spiritual phenomena and founded a spiritualist philosophy which he called Spiritism. The launch event can be followed live by TV NUPES on YouTube, at: https://youtu.be/fVpFmp9hdc4.

Despite Kardec’s influence, academic re

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SPIRITISM EASILY EXPLAINED

By the year 1848, several strange phenomena were gaining notoriety in the United States, consisting in noises, raps and movement of objects with no apparent cause. They would happen spontaneously, several times, with a characteristic intensity and frequency. However, it soon became clear that these phenomena could also occur through the presence of certain people whom were known as ''mediums''. These people could provoke the phenomena at will, making experiments possible. Such experiments were made using tables, not because these objects are more favorable than others, but because they were more convenient, movable, and because it was easier to sit round them than any other furniture. In this way the rotation of tables was achieved, and subsequently, movements in all directions; jumps, turns, fluctuations, violent strokes etc. These phenomena were originally called 'table dancing' or 'table turning'.

Initially the facts could be perfectly explained by the action of an electric or magnetic current or unknown kind of fluid, and such was the first forme