The Contribution of Mediumistic Writing Analysis to the Survival of Consciousness | Heberth de Souza

Heberth Paulo de Souza is a doctor affiliated with the Research Center in Spirituality and Health (NUPES), School of Medicine, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF). He graduated in Languages (Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei), is a Specialist in the Portuguese Language (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais), Master in Portuguese Language (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais), Doctor in Linguistic Studies (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) and Post-doctor in Spirituality and Health (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora).

The aim of this study is to investigate the stylistic fit of literary texts under different genres, produced by supposed spiritual authors, obtained while under mediumistic trance.

The stylistic characteristics was investigated in three mediumistic literary works, comparing the features present in the texts produced by the authors “in vitam” and the features identified in the texts supposedly written by the same authors “postmortem” through mediums: i) Poems allegedly produced by five authors, published in Parnaso do Além-Túmulo, through the medium Chico Xavier: João de Deus, Antero de Quental and Guerra Junqueiro (from Portugal) and Cruz e Sousa and Augusto dos Anjos (from Brazil); ii) Texts from Brazilian author Humberto de Campos, produced also through the mediumship of Chico Xavier; iii) Three novels from alleged spiritual authorship of Bezerra de Menezes, produced by the medium Yvonne do Amaral Pereira: A Tragédia de Santa Maria, Dramas da Obsessão and Uma História Triste.

The study strongly suggests that literary texts are a potential source of investigation for the possibility of the continuity of the human mind as an instance that manifests itself in texts via mediumistic activity.

Presented at the online PA Symposium “Advances in Mediumship Research” on February 27,2021; program chaired by Helané Wahbeh, Director of Research at IONS. Download the Abstract at https://parapsych.org/articles/66/537/abstracts_advances_in_mediumship.aspx

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Published on May 8, 2021

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