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History of Spiritism in Costa Rica<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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As early as 1874, the vicar Domingo Rivas warned from his pulpit against the circulation of Allan Kardec's spiritism literature in the country. Although the exact beginning of spiritism in Costa Rica is unknown, since 1896 there was at least one occult circle that published the magazine Grano de Arena, edited by a barber from Alajuela, a painter and a craftsman named Domingo N\u00fa\u00f1ez, Agust\u00edn Ramos and Pedro P\u00e9rez respectively. The magazine declared itself to be rationalist and was strongly critical of Catholicism. It ceased printing in 1889 due to lack of funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Domingo Rivas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Among the people linked to the publication were the Nicaraguan lawyer Salvador Jir\u00f3n, the educator Amadeo Madriz (tutor of the writers Manuel Gonz\u00e1lez Zeled\u00f3n and Carlos Gagini), General Federico Fern\u00e1ndez (brother of the president and Freemason Pr\u00f3spero Fern\u00e1ndez and father of the intellectual and theosophist Rogelio Fern\u00e1ndez G\u00fcell), the politician Francisco Boza, the Colombian Francisco Lamus and the Spanish businessman Antonio Rodr\u00edguez, and women such as Celina Fern\u00e1ndez Giralt and Mar\u00eda Rojas. In 1896 the \"Sociedad Benefactora de Estudios Psicol\u00f3gicos\" was mentioned for the first time in El Grano, which would connect with international spiritism organisations, particularly in Spain, and distribute the \"Revista de Estudios Psicol\u00f3gicos de Barcelona\" in the country, as well as publish articles from El Grano abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the beginning of the 20th century, spiritism attracted the attention of different thinkers, disenchanted with both scientific positivism, of which they were critical because of its materialism, and traditional religiosity, especially Catholicism, which they branded as superstitious. Omar Dengo was one of these, and he wrote an article on the death of the chemist and spiritism William Crookes. Costa Rican spiritists in general sought to apply a scientific and rationalist methodology to spiritism, distrusting what they considered to be superstition. Among the figures who became interested in spiritism were Omar Dengo, the chancellor Ricardo Fern\u00e1ndez Guardia, the magistrate Alberto Brenes C\u00f3rdoba, the painter Enrique Echandi, the future dictator brothers Federico and Jos\u00e9 Joaqu\u00edn Tinoco, and the esoteric scholar Rogelio Fern\u00e1ndez G\u00fcell who, according to Abelardo Bonilla, was initiated into spiritism by the Mexican president Francisco I. Madero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Omar Dengo <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Spiritism was quickly denounced by various Catholic clergymen accusing it of Satanism. In 1906 the Franklin Circle of spiritists was formed to study the mediumistic abilities of Ofelia Corrales. In 1911, the \"Spiritist Centre Claros de Luna\" was formed, directed by the future director of the National Museum (under Tinoco's government) and director of the \"Colegio Superior de Varones\", Ramiro Aguilar, which published a magazine of the same name from 1923 onwards. Its members included the future Minister of Education Napole\u00f3n Quesada, Daniel Gonz\u00e1lez V\u00edquez (brother of President Cleto Gonz\u00e1lez V\u00edquez), R\u00f3mulo Tovar, Moises Vincenzi Pacheco and the future Minister of Education and Director of the Colegio Superior de Se\u00f1oritas Salvador Uma\u00f1a.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ofelia Corrales with the spirit of Mary Brown (Maria Luisa Andrade). Annals of Psychical Sciences, Paris, (February, 1911)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Between 1921 and 1923 spiritism circles were created in Puntarenas, Lim\u00f3n, Goicoechea and Mora. By 1925 the \"Centro de Estudios de Psicolog\u00eda Experimental\" was founded and published the monthly magazine \"El Estudio\" between November 1925 and October 1928.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Historia del espiritismo en Costa Rica Desde 1874 ya el vicario Domingo Rivas alertaba desde el p\u00falpito contra la circulaci\u00f3n de literatura espiritista de Allan Kardec en el pa\u00eds. Aunque se desconoce el inicio exacto del espiritismo en Costa Rica ya desde 1896 existe al menos un c\u00edrculo ocultista que publica la revista Grano de […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5641","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nHistoria del espiritismo en Costa Rica - Uni\u00f3n Esp\u00edrita<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nuevo-renacer.com\/en\/historia-del-espiritismo-en-costa-rica\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Historia del espiritismo en Costa Rica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Historia del espiritismo en Costa Rica Desde 1874 ya el vicario Domingo Rivas alertaba desde el p\u00falpito contra la circulaci\u00f3n de literatura espiritista de Allan Kardec en el pa\u00eds. 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