Fraternal Welcoming at Spiritist Centers

With contributions by two renowned neurologists, this is the first practical guide to the serious and delicate task of attending to people who seek Spiritist centers. The scope of this work can be gauged below.

Part One – The Interviewer
1. Preparing Interviewers
What is a Spiritist center?
What is a fraternal welcoming?
The kind of people who seek the Spiritist center
The attending person (the interviewer)
Important attitudes
How to attend to people (the interview)
Progress of the interview
Other precautions
Respecting the interviewee’s religion
Referral
Return for evaluation (follow-up interviews)
Factors which may contribute to satisfactory results
Avoiding dependency issues, etc.
2. Suggested organization for fraternal welcoming
Human resources needed for organizing such work
What is a lecture?
What is a pass or laying on of hands?
The pass-giver team
Supportive mediumistic meetings
3. Recommendations on the use of “fluidified” water at spiritist centers
“Fluidified” or “magnetized” water, etc.
Part Two – Concerning interviews
4. Family maladjustments
5. Material and financial issues
Explanations to give according to the complaints
Spiritual assistance
6. The loss of loved ones through disincarnation
7. Illness
What is an illness? Where or what does it comes from?
Cures: should or should we not seek them?
Are there spiritual resources for healing?
Healing through fluid action
The faculty of healing or healing mediumship
Prayers can heal
Faith as an attracting power
Why is one person healed but not the other? etc.
8. Infirm of body or spirit
Psychiatric disorders
Schizophrenia (various types)
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders (OCD)
Bipolar Disorder (or Manic-Depressive Psychosis)
Phobic neurosis
Organic diseases belonging to the field of neurology
Illnesses without organic causes
Causes of obsession
Types of obsession
Influence of the disincarnate on the incarnate
Influence of the incarnate on the disincarnate (a fact which also may occur)
Auto-obsession (i.e., Self-obsession)
Self-punishment – remorse
Emergence of the past (animism)*
Spiritual assistance
9. Spiritual assistance to the physically infirm and those with spiritual disorders or obsessions
How to organize supportive mediumistic meetings
Passes
10. Children’s relationship with spirits
What is a child?
Natural interchange between children and spirits
Real-life cases
Memories of previous lives
May children be disturbed due to the presence of disincarnate spirits?
Characteristics of children plagued by painful memories or under the influence of disturbing spirits
Assistance procedures at the Spiritist center for spiritually obsessed children and their families
Recommendations about family behavior at home
Mediumistic phenomena in preadolescents and adolescents
What to do in the Spiritist center?
11. Abortion
Is it a crime to induce abortion?
Reasons given to justify induced abortion
If an abortion has already been performed
When there is intention to cause an abortion
How to overcome financial difficulties?
In case of fear of birth defects
Is it only the mother that is going to suffer the consequences of an abortion?
12. Suicide
Factors that may lead to suicide (according to experts on the subject)
Types of suicide
Potential suicides (how to identify them)
Real-life case
The interviewer’s attitude (counseling)
13. Human sexuality
What is homosexuality?
Fraternal welcoming procedure
Real-life cases
14. Epilepsies
Epileptic seizures
Types
What causes it?
Is it hereditary?
Can it cause mental retardation?
How to help during an epileptic seizure
15.Epilepsy and mediumship
Questions submitted to Dr. Nubor Orlando Facure:
Responses
16.Mediumship
Commonly used expressions among spiritists
Help procedure
17.“Protocol” to those seeking a Spiritist Center because
of their suffering
Part three – Messages
Fraternal welcoming
Therapeutic listening
Disturbed