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Periodical: Revista de Estudios Psiquicos (Chile)

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Revista de Estudios Psiquicos.
Organo del Centro de Estudios Psiquicos de Valparaiso y del Centro Eduardo de la Barra de Santiago.
1903--1919 Weekly, monthly
Valparaiso, Chile.
Language: Spanish.
Editor: Dr. Tomas Rios Gonzales.
Succeeds: A Donde Vamos?
1/1, 1903-1919 (vol. 8, no.85 is August 1910).
32pp. Unusually, all issues are numbered sequentially, reaching more than 3400 by 1915.

This was an internationally respected journal of psychical research published by the Centro de Estudios Psiquicos of Valparaiso in conjunction with the Centro Eduardo de la Barra of Santiago. It carried original research and articles by Charles Richet and other notable workers, as well as articles by and excerpts from Annie Besant (on World War I), Ella Wheeler Wilcox ("La fe es un poder constructivo"), Juan Antiga (a later confederate of R.S. Clymer), and others and short pieces on the unusual and marvelous: spirit photography, Nicholas Tesla, a child with a sixth sense, various mysterious disappearances, "curious prophecies" about the wars of 1870 and 1915, etc. It also carried an article (complete with sheet music) on "Music Dictated by Spirit Mendelssohn." The Bulletin de la Societe d'Etudes Psychiques de Marseilles in 1913 quotes this journal as concluding that Alberto de Sarak, the Count of Das was a true "Maestro" and had "facultades realmente poderosas." National Library of Medicine; Instituto de Estudios Internacionales, Biblioteca IEI.

Other Sources:
Issues:Revista de Estudios Psiquicos V12 N139 Oct 1915
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Revista de Estudios Psíquicos was a Chilean Spanish-language review that presented spiritism under the banner of 'psychical studies', the scientific framing Latin-American Espiritismo adopted to validate survival of the soul. Its pages turn on the doctrine and ethics of mediumship — including the Kardecist insistence that a medium must not make the spirits' aid a livelihood — and on the moral self-cultivation of the spirit as it advances against the 'retarding forces' of its own progress. Like its River Plate and Andean counterparts it fused Allan Kardec's reincarnationist doctrine of survival with an aspiration to empirical, 'psychic' respectability. It belongs to the network of Southern Cone spiritist reviews that carried Kardec's teaching across Spanish-speaking South America.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Psychical Research and Parapsychology | Spirit Photography | Theosophy