Spiritualism

Spiritism, also known spiritist doctrine or doctrine of spirits is a philosophical doctrine born in France in the mid-nineteenth century. This doctrine is based on books written by French spiritualist Allan Kardec. Spiritualism itself as a "science of observation and a philosophical doctrine. According to its founder is "the science dealing with the nature, origin and destination of the spirits and their relations with the world body. As a philosophy, includes all the moral consequences flowing from those same relationships. "[1]

The spiritist doctrine has adherents in many countries around the world.

Sense of the term Spiritism.

The term "spiritualism" (French Spiritism, in spirit, 'spirit', and isme 'doctrine') emerged as a neologism, more precisely, a porte-Manteau, set by Frenchman Allan Kardec to name specifically the doctrine of spirits, the body of ideas collected and codified by him in The Book of Spirits (1857).

It is worth considering also that the French and spiritism spiritism English are two separate doctrines, but very similar in its principles and definition, and both terms are translated into Spanish interchangeably spiritualism.

However, the use of the word, whose root is common to many Western nations of Latin or Anglo-Saxon origin, made him to be rapidly incorporated into everyday use to describe all that he had regarding communication with spirits. Thus spiritualism, today identified the various religious and philosophical doctrines they believe in the survival of the spirit (soul) after death of the physical body, and mainly on the ability to communicate with them, or deliberately causing, via ritual or naturally.

The foundation principles of spiritualism contained in his most important works are:

* The existence and uniqueness of God
* The existence of spirits: The man is a spirit attached to a body (with a connection named perispirit). The Spiritist define the term soul when the spirit is tied to a body (ie when the red). The spirit is an intelligent individual (before and after death) and immortal.
* Reincarnation: is the natural process that allows living successive times, as spiritualism with the function of enabling the improvement of the spirits, associated with a law of cause and effect.
* Communicability of the Spirits (mediumship): The ability to communicate with the spirits incarnate (live) and disembodied (dead) through mediumship.
* Law of cause and effect, understood as universal ethical compensation mechanism to all minds, that our present condition is the result of our past deeds.
* The plurality of inhabited worlds. The earth is not the only planet with life in the universe.

Besides this can be accepted as secondary characteristics

* The concept of equal creation of all spirits, "simple and ignorant" in its origin, and invariably for perfection with identical skills for good or for evil, given the free will (This concept destroys the belief in angels as created beings or demons aside and condemned forever to the good or bad)
* The notion that spirits are responsible for their actions throughout their lives.
* Evolution or progress of the spirit in a similar and complementary process of biological evolution.
* There is no heaven, hell or purgatory, the state intellectual, moral and psychological condition determines your happiness or unhappiness on after death.
* Jesus is considered by the Spiritist as a model and moral guide for humankind spiritualism does not accept the dogma of the Holy Trinity, believes that Jesus is a spirit like men, but in a much higher evolutionary state.
* The morality of Christ, contained in the Gospel, is the way to secure progress of all men, and practice is the solution to all human problems and is the target to be achieved for all mankind.

Spiritism in Cuba

Spiritism is another of the more popular religions rooted in Cuba, she appeared on the island in the middle of the nineteenth century from the United States. Its predecessor was Dr. Armando Carnot. The fact that not able to establish an orthodox Catholicism, even in the most exalted of Cuban society at the time, promoted the emergence of all kinds of believers, mixing different religious denominations, formed a rich syncretism between different belief systems.

Despite a privileged place in the beliefs of the people, little has been disclosed this form of religiosity, has not been repaired at the place it occupies in the Cuban religious spectrum where their presence is increasingly prominent and comprehensive with the rest of religious systems that coexist with it.

Currently, spiritualism has an enormous wealth and in the western region of the island's mix of spiritualism with other practices of any other traditional Cuban religions such as Santeria, Palo Rule, the naniguismo and popular Catholicism, gave rise what is known as cross-spiritualism.

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