Alan kardec?

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Alan kardec?

Answer 1

TR is correct, but I just wanted to add something else. There are many unknown things in the universe, and I believe this is what alan kardec was trying to figure out. People see and experience stuff.

Ghosts might not be dead people returned from the grave, but there are things that people are experiencing. Kardec left the world of logic and explored the possibility that one could communicate with the spirit world through a method known as spirit tapping.

Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail was his birth name and he believed that a spirit renamed him Alen Kardec.

Unlike many who are simply trying to make a buck by exploiting peoples gullibility, I believe Kardec authentically got drawn in and tried to legitimatly explore the spirit world.

Answer 2

Léon-Dénizarth-Hippolyte Rivail, better known by his nom de plume of Allan Kardec was born at Lyons, on the 4th of October 1804, of an old family of Bourg-en-Bresse, that had been for many generations honorably distinguished in the magistracy and at the bar. Of the numerous educational works published by him may be mentioned, A Plan for the Improvement of Public Instruction, submitted by him in 1828 to the French Legislative Chamber, by which body it was highly extolled, though not acted upon; A Course of Practical and Theoretic Arithmetic, on the Pestalozzian System, for the use of Teachers and Mothers (1829); A Classical Grammar of the French Tongue (1831); A Manual for the use of Candidates for Examination in the Public Schools; with Explanatory Solutions of various Problems of Arithmetic and Geometry (1848); Normal Dictations for the Examinations of the Hotel de Ville and the Sorbonne, with Special Dictations on Orthographic Difficulties (1849) These works, highly esteemed at the time of their publication, are still in use in many French schools; and their author was bringing out new editions of some of them at the time of his death. He was a member of several learned societies; among others, of the Royal Society of Arras, which, in 1831, awarded to him the Prize of Honor for a remarkable essay on the question, "What is the System of Study most in Harmony with the Needs of the Epoch?" He was for several years Secretary to the Phrenological Society of Paris, and took an active part in the labors of the Society of Magnetism, giving much time to the practical investigation of somnambulism, trance, clairvoyance, and the various other phenomena connected with the mesmeric action., the title of Le Livre des Esprits (The Spirits' Book);when he published was not under his  own name, but under the pseudonym of Allan Kardec.  

From the same materials he subsequently compiled four other works, namely, The Mediums' Book (a practical treatise on Medianimity and Evocations), 1861; The Gospel as Explained by Spirits (an exposition of morality from the spiritist point of view), 1864; Heaven and h**l (a vindication of the justice of the divine government of the human race), 1865; and Genesis (showing the concordance of the spiritist theory with the discoveries of modern science and with the general tenor of the Mosaic record as explained by spirits), 1867. He also published two short treatises, entitled What is Spiritism? and Spiritism Reduced to its Simplest Expression. It is to be remarked, in connection with the works just enumerated, that Allan Kardec was not a "medium,"Among the thousands by whom he was thus visited were many of high rank in the social, literary, artistic, and scientific worlds. The Emperor Napoleon III., the fact of whose interest in spiritist-phenomena was no mystery, sent for him several times, and held long conversations with him at the Tuileries upon the doctrines of The Spirits' Book.

Answer 3

I think if you're smart you'll pay attention to TR.Wushoboy wants to believe,he's going to figure it out.

Answer 4

That's the name of a French spiritualist from the 1800's. It's not his real name, but one that he thought was given to him by a spirit conjured up by a medium. Strange guy, he had a solid scientific background but became enamored and bamboozled with the spiritualists of the day. As I said in another reply, people can compartmentalize their beliefs to a great degree and even intelligent people can fall for the strangest flim-flam.