EDUCATION AND TRAINING

CIMA, SPIRITIST CULTURE MOVEMENT, offers its members regular, theory and practice, courses on Spiritist education for the purposes of knowledge and comprehension of the historical, philosophical, scientific, sociological and ethical foundations of the Spiritist doctrine and their applications in the daily routine 

INTRODUCTORY LEVEL

ANALYSIS OF WORKS

• Life and Work of Allan Kardec, by André Moreil.
• The Reason for Life, by Léon Denis.
• Spiritist Behavior, by Jaci Regis.
• You and Spirits, by Wilson García.
• Africanism and Spiritism, by Deolindo Amorim.
• The Source of Moral Ideas, by Manuel Porteiro.
• Brain and Thinking, by Ernesto Bozzano.

SPIRITIST DOCTRINE - A SYSTEMATIC COURSE

NIVEL I. SPIRITISM - GENERAL FOUNDATIONS

UNIT I

Introduction, Basis tenets of the Spiritist doctrine.

UNIT II

Spiritist concept of God. Universal evolutionism. Preexistence and survival of spirits. Multiple inhabited planets.

UNIT III

Spiritism and spiritualism. Spiritist thinking throughout the ages. Expressions by means of talking tables in the 19th century. Allan Kardec's work. The emergence of Spiritism.

UNIT IV

Physical and spiritual composition of man. Body, spirit and peri-spirit. Attributes of the peri-spirit.

UNIT V

Communication with spirits throughout the history. Medium expressions in ancient and modern times.

UNIT VI

Spiritist view of mediumship. What is a medium? Theories on mediumship. Animism and mediumship. Various criteria for classification of mediumship. Moral, cultural and technical education of mediumship. Purposes and aims of mediumship. Assessment of medium activities.

UNIT VII

Reincarnation. Basic definitions. Research into reincarnation. Evidence of reincarnation.

UNIT VIII

Obsession. Mental disorders. Causes of spiritual obsession. Variety and complexity of obsessions. Spiritist treatment.

UNIT IX

Individual magnetism. Historical aspects. Magnetism and Spiritism. The aura. Peri-spiritual strength cores. How to apply magnetism.

UNIT X

Spiritism and Parapsychology. Historical evolution of Parapsychology. Classification of paranormal phenomena.

UNIT XI

The Spiritist paradigm. Mission of Spiritism.

Guide for trainees: The fundamentals of Spiritism, by Jon Aizpúrua.

NIVEL II. SPIRITIST DOCTRINE - PRACTICAL COURSE

UNIT I

Conscience and modified states. Breathing. Considerations on breathing physiology. Breathing and physical, mental and spiritual health. Rhythmical breathing techniques.

UNIT II

Relaxation. Clinical fundamentals of relaxation. Exercises. Schultz's autogenous training. Jacobson's progressive muscle relaxation. Sophrology and hypnosis.

UNIT III

Focus of thinking. Use of positive thinking. Techniques. Meditation practice.

UNIT IV

Psychic visualization. Techniques. Visualization of past lives. Ideoplastic formations. Healing mental emissions. Psychic self-preservation.

UNIT V

Individual magnetism. Conditions for its application. Application techniques. Imposition of hands. Magnetic pass.

UNIT VI

Spiritism and thanatology. Oral and spiritual induction in disincarnating.

UNIT VII

Getting ready to join medium sessions. Medium exercises.

NIVEL III. SPIRIT DOCTRINE - PRACTICAL COURSE

UNIT I

Allan Kardec's trials. Introduction, background and overview of The Mediums' Book.

UNIT II

Are there spirits?

The difference between the extraordinary and the supernatural (with the apt conclusion that most things seen as supernatural are only extraordinary but natural phenomena).

UNIT III

The method in medium practice.

UNIT IV

Mind over matter. Physical expressions. Smart expressions.

UNIT V

Visual expressions. Bi-corporeity and transfiguration. Invisible world lab.

UNIT VI

Haunted sites. Nature of communications.

UNIT VII

Sematology and typology. Neumatograpy or straight writing. Neumatophony. Psychography.

UNIT VIII

About mediums. Writing mediums or psychographs.

UNIT IX

Special mediums.

UNIT X

Training of mediums. Challenges and risks of mediumship.

UNIT XI

The medium's role in Spiritist communication.

UNIT XII

Medium's moral influence. Environmental influence. Mediumship in animals.

UNIT XIII

About obsession.

UNIT XIV

Identity of spirits. Evocations.

UNIT XV

The right questions for spirits.

UNIT XVI

Contradictions and hoax. Charlatanism and misrepresentation.

UNIT XVII

Review and general assessment of the objectives. 

Panel of coaches.