Wisdom of the Spirits

In the light of Allan Kardec

Some questions we carry our whole lives

Here you can ask yours — about the death of someone you loved, about the meaning of a sorrow, about what comes next. No hurry, no judgement, no need to explain yourself to anyone.

Free, no sign-up, and no personal data collected. Your questions are not stored.

A place to think out loud

There are questions we never ask aloud. Not because they are forbidden, but because we don't know who to bring them to. They arrive late at night, in traffic, after hard news — and they stay, going in circles.

This space was made for those hours. The conversation rests on the five works Allan Kardec assembled and on the accounts André Luiz brought back from the other side — together, more than a century of offering millions of people a calmer way of looking at life and at what follows it. You needn't agree with anything, or know anything beforehand. Just ask.

What the conversation is like

  • You lead

    Ask however the question comes out. Backtrack, change the subject, ask for it again in plainer words. Nobody expects you to know the right terms.

  • No hurry, no audience

    There is no sign-up, no email, no history kept anywhere. When you close the page, the conversation will have happened only between the two of you.

  • Honest when it doesn't know

    If the answer isn't in the works, you will be told so plainly. And when it comes from an account of André Luiz rather than from settled Doctrine, you are told that too — so you know the weight of what you received.

The five works

Published between 1857 and 1868, this is where the Doctrine is settled.

Who was Allan Kardec
  1. The Spirits' Book 1857

    The oldest questions: whether God exists, what we are, why we are here, and where we go afterwards.

  2. The Mediums' Book 1861

    On the communication between the two worlds — how it happens, what to expect of it, and the care it asks for.

  3. The Gospel According to Spiritism 1864

    The teachings of Jesus read with both heart and reason, with charity at the centre of everything.

  4. Heaven and Hell 1865

    On divine justice, what becomes of the soul after death, and why no penalty lasts forever.

  5. Genesis 1868

    Creation, so-called miracles and the future, looked at without setting faith against science.


And the accounts of André Luiz

Thirteen books dictated by the Spirit André Luiz and written down by Chico Xavier from 1944 onwards — the last of them with Waldo Vieira. Not treatises: accounts by someone who told what he saw after dying.

  • Nosso Lar (Our Home)
  • The Messengers
  • Missionaries of the Light
  • Workers of the Life Eternal
  • In the Greater World
  • Release
  • Between Heaven and Earth
  • In the Realms of Mediumship
  • Action and Reaction
  • Evolution in Two Worlds
  • Mechanisms of Mediumship
  • Sex and Destiny
  • And Life Goes On

Almost everything known about what life is like on the other side comes from them — the arrival after death, the colonies, the rescue of those who suffer, mediumship seen from within. Here they enter as what they are: the account of an experience, not established law. When the conversation leans on them you will hear that said plainly; and where an account seems to go beyond Kardec, Kardec is what holds.

Stay as long as you need

There is no limit to the questions on a subject, and no right time to come. If today it's only one question, that's fine. If it's a long conversation, that's fine too.

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