Energy Imbalance and Fluidic Magnetism

Fluidic therapy is used in spiritist centers as a way to transmit vital and spiritual energy to others.

Humans are composed of a spirit, perispirit and a material body.  Spiritism teaches us that the condition of our material body is directly related to our healthy or unhealthy spirit body or perispirit.  The positive and negative qualities of our thoughts and emotions, the morality of our behaviors, the moral qualities of our surrounding environment and the condition of other nearby entities (incarnate and discarnate) affect the state of the spiritual fluids that make up our perispirit and our personal energy field.

Over time, as we struggle with the stresses and challenges of material life, the health of our perispirit is eventually compromised by the negative thoughts that we allow our mind to foster, the still imperfect tendencies in our behaviors, the influence of less elevated beings that we attract, the disturbing qualities of the environmental fluids in the places that we visit, and any excessive physical exertion or abuses.  As a natural result, our energies become unbalanced, leaving us susceptible to emotional, physical, and spiritual disturbances that become worse with time if no changes are made.

One way to protect ourselves against this harmful process is through the regular exercise of mental and behavioral vigilance, the study of morally edifying teachings, and a strong connection with spiritual benefactors through prayer and elevated thoughts. However, even in spite of our efforts to do all those things, most of us still find ourselves enduring physical ailments of varying degrees and emotional pains that draw on our strength.

Another way to combat factors that are damaging to the perispirit is by using fluidic therapy to restore and balance our vital spiritual fluids.  Fluidic therapy is made possible by "hand passes" (to be explained at a later time) and magnetized water.  Before a session, water is poured into small cups.  During the session, our spiritual benefactors magnify the water, and the group drinks it once the session has finished.  Magnetized water is not a spiritist invention, it has been used as far back as the 15th century. 

In "Genesis," Kardec writes: 

The ability to heal through fluidic interaction is very common and can be developed through exercise, but the instant cure via imposition of the hands is much more rare and its appearance in the maximum degree should be considered exceptional.  Even so, in diverse periods throughout history, and amidst almost all peoples, there have been individuals who have had the faculty in an eminent degree.

He later states:

The effects of fluidic action on the patients are extremely varied.  Sometimes, it is slow and requires prolonged treatment, as in regular magnetism; other times, it is fast, like an electric current.  There are even people who have such an ability that they can operate instant cures in some patients, via the imposition of the hands, or even exclusively through an act of will.  Between the two extremes of this faculty, there are infinite shades.  All the cures of this type, however, are varieties of magnetism and differ only in the intensity and speed of action.  The basic, underlying principle is the same: the fluid, acting in its role as a therapeutic agent and the effects of which depend on the quality of the fluid and other special circumstances.