ON THE RADAR

• New Book Alert! Two new English titles from the Manoel Philomeno de Miranda Project are now available from Leal Publisher, at $15.00 each. Mediumistic Practice treats mediumship as an instrument of progress and sets out what practising it responsibly actually asks of us. Mediumistic Meetings gathers the group's research on how spirits manifest in mediumistic meetings, and on the therapies that surround them.
• Help Name a Spiritist AI (Voting Closes September 23): Kardequinho is a new AI built by InBot with the Plenitude Spiritist Society, for conversations about everyday life in the light of reason, ethics and good sense. Its makers are asking us to choose a name that works best in English. Visit the site, talk to the bot, and cast your vote by Wednesday, September 23. The project calls it "a study tool, not an oracle," which strikes us as exactly the right ambition. kardequinho.org
• The Fox Sisters Comes to Toronto (October 10): After its Los Angeles premiere last month, Wagner de Assis's feature film about Kate and Margaretta Fox screens at the Brazil Film Fest Toronto on Saturday, October 10. It opens in Brazilian cinemas on September 24. Festival programme | Tickets
• A Walk Through Spiritualist London (September 27): Here is a different kind of gathering: not a lecture or a congress, but a walking tour of the city's history. "Walking Through History: Spiritism in Tour" spends Sunday, September 27 at the London sites where the Spiritualist movement made its history, following the story as Arthur Conan Doyle told it. It starts at Canary Wharf Pier and is coordinated by the Marcelo Mota Spiritist Book Club of Birmingham and the Allan Kardec Study Group of London. Participation is free. Register here, or call or text 07950 181581.
• Fátima Gathered, and Switzerland Is Next: At the end of August the 4th International Spiritist Congress Joanna de Ângelis met in Fátima, Portugal, around the theme "Overcoming the Pains of the Soul: The Path to Mental Health." The organisers have already announced where the journey continues: the 5th Congress will take place March 26–28, 2027, in Einsiedeln, Switzerland. Worth putting in the calendar early.
• Where Science Met Spirituality in Florida: On September 12 the Spirit Science Summit gathered Jeffrey Mishlove, Helané Wahbeh of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Alexander Moreira-Almeida and Haroldo Dutra Dias in Davenport, Florida, for a full day on consciousness, well-being and Spiritism. More than 300 people attended in person, and more online.
• Happy Anniversary! Next month the Spiritist Society of Las Vegas turns nine, and is marking it with a series of talks running through October. They began as two separate groups that started in the same city at the same time and decided, a few years later, to join forces. In Newark, New Jersey, Spiritist Group Emmanuel celebrates four years with its third seminar, "Between Pain and Light: The Path to Hope," on October 24. And don't forget that Group Hope Joanna de Ângelis in Anaheim, California turns 40 this Saturday!
• Revue Spirite No. 25 Arrives October 3: The next edition of the International Spiritist Council's journal, "Law of Adoration: Drawing Closer to God," launches at the National Spiritist Congress in Lisbon, Portugal, an occasion that also marks 100 years of the Portuguese Spiritist Federation (FEP). A century of continuous work is no small thing. Congratulations to FEP!

FEATURED THIS MONTH

Dialogues on Mediumship

• I Am a Medium. What Now?
• Ethics and Responsibility in Mediumship
• Overcoming Challenges in Spiritist Mediumship Meetings
• The Spiritist Mediumistic Meeting: What Is It, and What Is Its Purpose?
• Spiritist Mediumship: Myths, Misconceptions, and Clarifications

• Listen to Spiritist Conversations: What Is This Mediumship Thing?, a friendly place to start.
• Study the Council's full Mediumship Study Cycle, led by Jacobson Trovão: eight topics, from the spiritual ancestors of mediumship to the structure of the perispirit, recorded in Portuguese and available in English.
• Read Mediumistic Meetings, one of this month's new titles from the Manoel Philomeno de Miranda Project.

NEW RESOURCES

Read

• Revue Spirite No. 24 — "Conscience": closing a four-part study of the Divine or Natural Law, this issue treats conscience as a law we recognise rather than invent, reading Question 621 of The Spirits' Book alongside Plato, Augustine and Kant, and setting Kardec's view against what neuroscience says today.

Watch

• Spiritist Talk Series (USSF):
  • Peace Is the Way by Lia Gouveia
  • Kardec's Advice for the Age of AI by Dan Assisi
  • Materialism and Spiritism by Yuri Castro
  • Developing the Role of the Dialoguer in a Mediumistic Meeting by Bob Blakely
• Psychology & Spirituality (USSF):
  • Ep 182 — Grief Transformed and Compassion
  • Ep 183 — Beyond Loss: Inner Maturity and Peace
  • Ep 184 — The Forgotten Self: Brain versus Spirit
  • Ep 185 — Consciousness and Immortality
  • Ep 186 — The Dawn of Consciousness
• Spiritual Light (BUSS):
  • The Future of Humanity According to Spiritism
  • Why Does Evil Exist? Freedom, Responsibility and the Making of Our Future
  • Who Watches Over Us?
  • Science and the Soul: The Empirical Case for Consciousness Beyond Death
  • The Power of Thought: How Our Mental Life Shapes Spiritual Reality
• 2026 Spiritist Figures Series: Marlene Nobre (BUSS):
  • #9 — "The Clamour of Life" by Karen Dittrich

Let's Listen To It Again:

EVENTS

Coming Up:

• September 26: Group Hope Joanna de Ângelis 40th Anniversary — with Mário Sérgio, president of Mansão do Caminho (Anaheim, CA — USA)
• September 27: Walking Through History: Spiritism in Tour — a free full-day walking tour from Canary Wharf Pier (London, UK)
• October 10: The Fox Sisters at Brazil Film Fest Toronto — 1:50 p.m., the Wagner de Assis film in English (TIFF Lightbox, Toronto — Canada)
• October 10–11: 19th Spiritist Conference of Georgia — "The Spiritist View of Afflictions" (The Venue Marietta, Marietta, GA — USA)
• October 24: SPIRITISMx 2026, 8th edition — "Mediumship: Understanding a Natural Ability" (St. Anne's College, University of Oxford, UK)
• November 7: The 20th US Spiritist Symposium — "The Compass for Spiritual Progress" (Dania Beach, FL — USA) — Register

THE SPIRITIST TIME MACHINE

• September 2, 1914: Albert de Rochas discarnates in Grenoble, France. An engineer and administrator of the École Polytechnique, he spent years on the experimental study of hypnosis and what he called the externalisation of sensibility, and was among the first Europeans to document regression to earlier lives under trance.
• September 5, 1892: William Stainton Moses discarnates in Bedford, England. An Anglican clergyman and schoolmaster who came to mediumship as a sceptic, he produced the writings published as Spirit Teachings and helped found the Society for Psychical Research.
• September 6, 1853: Victor Hugo sits at his first table-turning séance, in exile on the island of Jersey. The sessions continued for two years and filled notebooks that were not published in full until long after his death.
• September 8, 1888: The First International Spiritist Congress opens in Barcelona, Spain, gathering delegates from across Europe and the Americas and giving the movement its first properly international meeting.
• September 12, 1876: Auta de Souza is born in Macaíba, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. She died of tuberculosis at twenty-four, leaving the poems of Horto; decades later verses signed with her name appeared through the mediumship of Chico Xavier, in Parnaso de Além-Túmulo, his first book.
• September 17, 1839: Ira Erastus Davenport is born in Buffalo, New York. With his brother William he took the spirit cabinet to audiences across the United States and Europe, and was argued about everywhere he went.
• September 25, 1914: José Herculano Pires is born in Avaré, São Paulo. Philosopher, journalist and translator, he gave Brazilian readers much of Kardec in Portuguese and wrote some of the movement's most rigorous commentary.
• September 27, 1813: Epes Sargent is born in Massachusetts. A poet, editor and playwright, he turned his later years to Planchette, or the Despair of Science and The Scientific Basis of Spiritualism, arguing the case in plain English.
• September 30, 1897: Thérèse of Lisieux discarnates in Lisieux, France. Her writings on the small, hidden path of love have reached readers far beyond the Church that canonised her.

We hope you enjoyed what’s on our radar for this month.