History of the Spiritist Movement in the U.S.A.

2015 © United States Spiritist Council
Prepared by: Jussara Korngold
First Spiritist Institutions
1854 – Society for the Dissemination of Spiritist Knowledge – New York,
NY
It was the first recognized Spiritualist organization in the U.S.
Centro Libertad del Espiritismo in NY,
Founded in December 13, 1933, by the couple Luis Perez
and Pilar Perez, spiritist immigrants from Puerto Rico,
who arrived in NYC in 1930.
1959 – Saint Joseph Spiritual Church Inc. – Hoboken, NJ, founded by
Gilberto Sepulveda
1960 – Lic. Luis
Guerrero Ovalle
established three
Spiritist
Organizations in
Miami, Fl.
1. The Spiritualist
Science
Foundation
2. Ciencia
Espiritualista
Moderna,
currently known
as Ciencia
Espiritista
Kardeciana
Founded in 1975
(co-founder
Benjamin
Rodriguez)
3. Ateneo Espirita
de Miami
Benjamín
Rodríguez
founded
BEZERRA DE
MENEZES'
KARDECIAN
SPIRITIST
ASSOCIATION, in
1985.
First Spiritist Institutions
1965 – Salim and Phillys
Haddad together with Chico
Xavier founded a Spiritist
Center in Elon College (now
Elon University, since 2001),
North Carolina
Divaldo Pereira Franco - USA
It was in 1976, that
Divaldo Pereira Franco
gave his first talk in the
USA , in the city of Miami.
He visited the West Coast
for the first time in 1981
(February 18th to 23rd ).
First Visit in NYC - 1986
Lic. Luis Guerrero Ovalle, Divaldo Franco
First Spiritist Institutions
1987 – Creation of the
Kardecian Spiritist Federation
of Florida, Inc., by Benjamim
Rodrigues (Colombian)
A participant in the foundation of
the International Spiritist Council.
1992 - ISC (CEI) is an organization
founded on November 28th, 1992,
by national associations of the
Spiritist movement in various
countries.
1997 – Creation of the United
States Spiritist Council
FORMATION OF THE UNITED STATES SPIRITIST COUNCIL – Year 1997
Board of Directors from 2009 to 2015
Board of Directors from 2015 to 2018
Regional Congress
1992 – Spiritist Encounter
– New York, NY
Regional Congress
1994 – Spiritist
Encounter,
Miami, Fl
Worldwide Spiritist Congress – Brazil 1995
Members of ISC (International Spiritist Council
Nestor Masotti, Portugal, Divaldo Franco, Roger Perez, Benjamin Rodrigues, Espanha, Janet Duncan
National Congress
2000 - American Spiritist Congress,
Miami, FL (800 Attendees)
The Allan Kardec Spiritist Center (Ponto de Luz)
resulted from a group that was founded in 1990, by
Genoveva Rodrigues, Conceição Durval, Vilma
Garcia e Norma Guimaraes. It was also the result of
a group of people that started meeting in the 80’s
at the basement of the church San Francis of Assisi,
in NYC at 33rd street, next to the Madison Square
Garden.
The group was composed of Mrs. Luzia Almeida,
Marcelo Almeida, João Zério, professor at the
University of Phoenix. They continued their
gatherings, once a week, to study Spiritism in
English until some of the members moved to
another state. Marcelo continued the meetings
every Friday at 6:30 p.m., the last Fridays of the
month were dedicated to mediumship meetings.
Later the meeting changed from English to
Portuguese and more people started attending. It
was when AKDS was officially founded in 1990.
AKES
In 1984 a small group of friends decided to give a
formal character to the activities they started in
1980. Thus the Allan Kardec Educational Society
was founded in Philadelphia to promote the Spiritist
philosophy in the United States.
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The founding members were the brothers Marcelo,
Leonardo, and Jose de Almeida, Maria Hanna, Ed
de Melo, Ellie and Gene Hart, and John Zerio. The
Spiritist philosophy had until then only one working
cell in the United States outside of Florida, the
Christian Spirit Center, founded by Mr. Salim
Haddad and Evelyn Morales.
The speaking tours by Divaldo Franco became
annual events of Spring for the AKES' team. in High
Point, North Carolina.
In 1992 AKES sponsored the first meeting of the
Vision 2000 project with 23 delegates from seven
states - Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., New Jersey,
New
York,
Florida,
California,
Connecticut,
Massachussets and for Canada.
Spiritist Group of New York Founded:
April 2001
First Registered Spiritist Group in the US with
activities only in English
Founded by Jussara & Joao Korngold and Elmo Deslandes
13 books published in
English to date
Spiritist Alliance For Books
Foundation
April 2001
Sponsored by Prof. Cesar Reis
CAPEMI
First time in history that the 5 books of the Spiritist
Codification, in English, were available to the public.
Anna Blackwell 1872
Anna Blackwell 1876
Janet Duncan 1987
2007 Edicei - 2015 USSC
2007 Edicei
2008 Edicei
SAB 2003
5 Books of the Codification
SAB 2003
Spiritist Society of Baltimore
Founded in October 1998, registered in 2001/2002
The first Spiritist study group in Baltimore, MD,
started on October 1998 by Vanessa Anseloni
and some friends, with the Systematized Study
of the Spiritist Doctrine. Initially, the studies
were held in Portuguese and coordinated by
Vanessa and Jorge Godinho (1998-2000).
The first informal name given to the group was
"Paulo de Tarsos Spritist Group" following by
"Spiritist Group of Baltimore" and finally "The
Spiritist Society of Baltimore, Inc." at its
incorporation in 2001-2002 with all activities in
English.
SSB Publisher 2005
The SSB started to publish books in 2005 in
collaboration with the Editora Leal da Mansao
do Caminho, the first publication were
“Understanding Spiritual and Mental Health.”
but the only publication by SSB alone was in
2010 with the book "Enlightening Messages”
So Far, SSB has published 6 books and
recorded 7 Cds...
First Spiritist Literature Fair (NYC)– August 2004
Metropolitan Museum of New York Year
2005
The Perfect Medium includes images from the 1860s to the 1960s. In addition
to photographs depicting spirit mediums, séances, ghosts and ectoplasm, this
book includes photographs of "fluids" and auras that tread the line between
scientific experimentation and abstract art. There are camera-less thought-ographs that appear to show glowing shapes and other-worldly faces in a swarm
of bubbles. Levitations are recorded, too -- both in the form of leaping mediums
caught in mid-air, and objects like folding snack tables that are supposedly
defying gravity.
Lily Dale – July 22nd , 2006
The U.S. Spiritist Medical Association
(SMA-US) is a non-profit 501(c)(3)
educational organization created in 2006
that supports and advances the paradigm
of integrative medicine in its goal to bridge
medicine and spirituality.
1st Spiritist Congress - Baltimore Congress - Year 2007
150 Years of Spiritism
2nd Spiritist Congress
New York Year 2008
2nd Spiritist Congress - New York Year 2008
Propelling our Integral Healing with the Spiritist Therapy
New York Congress 2008
2004
2008
3rd Spiritist Congress - Boston – Year 2009
Reincarnation: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
USSC PUBLISHER FOUNDATION– 2009
16 books published to date
Books in English
Formation of the Tristate Spiritist Federation
Year 2009
4th Spiritist Congress - Fort Laudardale – Year 2010
Mediumship – A Bridge Between Two Worlds
Edicei of America Foundation – July 6th, 2010
39 books published in English to date
5th Spiritist Congress - San Francisco – Year 2011
Spiritual Awareness & The New Earth
Kardec Radio
was launched on July 4th, 2011
at 12 PM (EST) as a tribute to Independence
Day in the United States of America and its
impact in the world! Carlos Dias and Vanessa
Anseloni were its founders. Kardec Radio has
listeners in more than 77 countries.
6th Spiritist Congress - Atlanta – Year 2012
Love and Enlightenment – A Pathway to Self-Healing
7th Spiritist Congress – Dallas – Year 2013
Love and Enlightenment – A Pathway to Self-Healing
8th Spiritist Congress - – Year 2014
Love and Enlightenment – A Pathway to Self-Healing
9th Spiritist Congress - – Year 2015
Laboratory of the Invisible World
LEAL PUBLISHER – FOUNDATION: Dec 2015
10th Spiritist Congress – Year 2016
San Diego - California
The Transformative Power of Love