Science and Spirit

Synopsis

A Brazilian soldier killed in the 1934 Constitutional Revolution “drops in” unexpectedly on a medium nearly thirty years later, giving his name and numerous personal details, almost all of which turned out to be true. A family is terrorised by bombardments of stones thrown by invisible hands, and by inexplicable outbreaks of fires, some of them witnessed by the police. A little girl astonishes her parents by giving detailed information about her dead uncle, again all true. It appears that she is in fact her uncle reborn. These are three of the many cases of paranormal phenomena that were meticulously investigated by pioneer Brazilian parapsychologist Hernani Guimarães Andrade (1913–2003), who was both a scientist and a Spiritist. Here, he provides some of the best evidence on record, whether for poltergeists, reincarnation, or survival after death.