Opening prayer
First: Write down the following list of professions in cards. Ask each child to take a card and play mime. The other children will need to find out what the professions are:
a - Dentist
b - Hairdresser
c - Professor
d - IT professional
e - Painter
f - Cleaner
g - Nanny
Second: talk to the children.
How was it possible to discover the professions cited in the cards? Through gestures and mime (actions instead of words).
Are there other ways to communicate with people? Phone, email, letter, talking, radio, TV, internet, newspaper, etc.
What is communication? Communication is when someone transmits an idea and the other person understands.
Can we send and receive messages from any person or place? Yes, through the various communications’ resources.
Can we receive messages from disincarnate spirits? Yes, through mediumship communications.
Third: tell the children the story called Mediumship – a commitment with goodness.
Fourth: dialogue about the story.
Do you understand what a medium is? Ask the children to explain. Remember them that the medium is a spiritist worker who must study the Spiritist Teachings in a study group in a Spiritist Centre. This will enable him/her to perform their work well as an intermediary between the material and spiritual world.
What types of mediumship exist? Ask the children to answer this question. The spiritist teacher may decide to go further into adding more details to their answers with information such as: Physical Mediums (are more especially fitted for producing physical phenomena, such as the movement of inert bodies, noises), Sensitive or Impressionable Mediums (are able to recognize the presence of spirits by a vague impression, a sort of shuddering sensation), Hearing Mediums (hear the voice of spirits), Speaking Mediums (generally speaks without knowing what he says, and often gives utterance to instructions far above the reach of his own ideas, knowledge, and intelligence), Seeing Mediums (are endowed with the faculty of seeing spirits), Writing mediums or Psychographs (writes under the influence of Spirits), Healing Mediums (gift, possessed by certain persons, of healing by the laying-on of hands, by the look, by a mere gesture, without the help of medication)
Why do disincarnate spirits send messages?
Have you ever heard of spirit games? It’s not a joke; it's dangerous to call spirits. Those spirits who come once called are mischievous spirits or malicious, that can hurt us, trying to inspire bad ideas and bad thoughts.
What is the best place to get in touch with spirits? On Spiritist Centres in mediumship meetings. Explain to the children what mediumship sessions are: it is a gathering of workers, which starts with a prayer. It is then studied a small passage of a doctrinal book. The Spiritist Doctrine grants us doctrinal knowledge and the Gospel the moral base. Soon after, the spirits communicate with the help of mediums: in writing or through voice. But there are spirits who are confused, who are not accustomed with the return to spiritual life or find themselves in difficult situations and need help. Then the leader of the work talks with them, trying to help them. The meeting is closed with a prayer.
Remember them that if you hear or see a Spirit, you should pray, asking the good spirits to help him.
Ask the children if they have any questions on mediumship or mediums?
Obs.: this lecture aroused considerable interest among the children. We made a circle in order to facilitate dialogue, listening to several questions that came to us. We can cite people and messages that were received in the Spiritist Group they participate, as well as take some books that were psychographed so they can handle them.
Fifth: tell a story about Chico Xavier, if there is time available. If the spiritist teacher find interesting, the next class could be on Chico Xavier (tell about his life and stories, reinforcing the theme of mediumship). Click here to see the suggested class on the medium.
Closing Prayer
Suggested Class suitable for: second cycle (9 to 10 years old) and third cycle (11 to 12 years old).
Translation: Carolina von Scharten, London, linked to BUSS - The British Union of Spiritist Societies .
