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Spiritism and Science: overcoming modern challenges and errors

In this article, we explore the challenges faced by Spiritism as a scientific doctrine. We highlight the importance of the scientific method recommended by Allan Kardec, emphasizing the need for psychological analysis of evocations. The lack of this rigor undermines the credibility of the Doctrine in the modern scientific context.

The scientific continuity of Spiritism

Not only from unchecked spiritist communications does this sad scenario form. Many others erect true systems of ideas on metaphors used by Kardec in his studies, failing to understand that scientists, especially at that time, glimpsing new scientific aspects that they had no way of explaining, created metaphors to try to give light to the idea they sought to express, entrusting the continuity of science with better explanations.

Cover image: Allan Kardec and Paul Janet

Punishment and reward: you need to study Paul Janet to understand Allan Kardec

Many, when reading Kardec, suppose that he, due to the words he used in his works, was just reproducing ideas and concepts originating from the Catholic Church. Nothing could be further from the truth, as we will see in this article, since Kardec was, in fact, using the concepts widely disseminated and understood in the midst of French cultured society, which, by the way, was the class that was most interested in the study of Spiritism.