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Foundation


AME Porto – Medical-Spiritist Association of the Oporto’s Metropolitan Area was founded in April 18th, 2004, at the city of Oporto (date of The Spirits Book publication and Allan Kardec’s bicentennial), by health professionals, particularly from Medicine area and the like, after examination at the Extraordinary General Assembly, called upon for this purpose, where were approved by unanimity its Social Departments, Statutes, and Internal Regulations.

Given the successful First and Second Medical-Spiritist National Symposium, a pioneering event in Portugal, organized and carried out by its founders, it was a catalyser for the constitution of
AME Porto, due registered and legalized upon the Portuguese State as a non-profit association of scientific and cultural nature.

 

 
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Institution


AME Porto is a scientific and cultural association, with no political nor economical purposes, with an eminently scientific, philosophical, ethical, moral and social character, committed to the Official Science and to the rigorous spiritist culture, due to its relationship with Spirituality, constituted by men and women of science, who aim to find the Whole Man by means of a bio-psycho-social-spiritual approach.

AME Porto members are recognizably spiritist, working for the Portuguese and world spiritist movement, particularly within Great Oporto’s Metropolitan Area, such as: directors; coordinators; courses leaders; national and international lecturers; collaborators from spiritist associations; writers and chroniclers for the various national and international spiritist media, etc.

 

 
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Objectives


AME Porto objectives are of scientific and cultural nature, and its concern is the study of the spiritist culture and its phenomenology, or as also said, "paranormal or metaphysical". It aims at the incentive of investigation which promotes Man’s clarification while a Physical and Spiritual being, its relationship, integration and application to the fields of Philosophy, Ethics, Pedagogy, and contemporary Science, particularly Medicine and those disciplines that are directly related to this, searching for its fundamentation by creating and making studies, experiments and investigations, hence contributing to the development of scientific paradigms toward the Human Being Bioethics.

Its action is of nationwide character, though privileging Oporto’s Metropolitan Area, encompassing various cities of the so called ‘Great Oporto’, such as Póvoa de Varzim, Matosinhos, Vila do Conde, Maia, Valongo, Gondomar, Espinho, Vila Nova de Gaia and Oporto, among others.

Divulge and preserve the medical-spiritist movement together other liberal professional classes, the spiritist movement and to the general public.

It is also its function to disseminate the medical-spiritist movement by collaborating with educational and research institutions (Universities, Faculties, Hospitals, Medical and Psychological Clinics), and assistance and other general institutions.

The promotion of cultural and scientific events that conduct to the development of its research workings with their spreading to the competent organizations.

The maintenance of experience exchange with similar associations and others of recognized ethical and scientific value.

 

 
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Activities


Events accomplished and promoted by AME Porto:


1st Medical-Spiritist National Symposium
(Oporto, Portugal - 2003)

2nd Medical-Spiritist National Symposium
(Oporto, Portugal - 2004)

3rd Medical-Spiritist National Symposium
(Ilhavo, Portugal - 2005)

4th Medical-Spiritist National Symposium
(Lagos - Algarve, Portugal - 2006)

 

 

Events to which AME Porto was invited and took part:


3rd Andaluzia’s Spiritism Workshop
(Seville, Spain - 2003)

2nd Barcelona’s Spiritist Workshop
(Barcelona, Spain - 2004)

3rd Spiritist Up-to-Date Thinking Workshop
(Matosinhos, Portugal - 2004)

1st Meridian of the Conscience Meeting
(Barcelos, Portugal - 2004)

4th Andaluzia’s Spiritism Workshop
(Jáen, Spain - 2004)

12th National Spanish Spiritist Congress
(Ciudad Real, Spain - 2004)

 

U.S.E Campinas Workshop
(São Paulo, Brazil - 2005)

 

Campinas's Brain Institute Meeting
(São Paulo, Brazil - 2005)

 

 2nd Braga's Spiritist Workshop
(Braga, Portugal - 2005)

 

UNIESPÍRITO (International University of Spirit Science) Meeting
(São Paulo, Brazil - 2005)

 

3rd Spiritist Woman's Week
(Lagos, Portugal - 2005)

 

AME RIO (Rio de Janeiro Medical-Spiritist Association) Meeting
(Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 2005)

 

2nd West's Spiritist Workshop

(Obidos, Portugal - 2005)

 

Health and Spirituality: 28th CECA's Anniversary
(Oporto, Portugal - 2005)

 

Igualada's Spiritist Workshop
(Barcelona, Spain - 2005)

 

ABRAME (Brazilian Association of Spiritist Magistrates) Meeting
(São Paulo, Brazil - 2006)

NEPER (Nucleus of Studies of Problems Religious Spirituals and of the

Institute of Psychiatry of the Hospital of the Clinics of the College of

Medicine of the University of São Paulo) Workshop
(São Paulo, Brazil - 2006)

4th Spiritist Woman’s Week
(Lagos, Portugal - 2006)

4th Barcelona’s Spiritist Workshop
(Barcelona, Spain - 2006)

7th Human Integration Workshop
Orense, Spain - 2006

Igualada’s Spiritist Workshop
(Barcelona, Spain - 2006)

6th Andalusia’s Spiritism Workshop
(Cordoba, Spain - 2006)

1st Cycle of Setúbal Spiritist Lectures
(Setúbal, Portugal - 2007)

8th Andalusia’s Spiritism Workshop
(Huelva, Spain - 2008)

1st International Spiritism Symposium
(La Palma, Canary Island, Spain - 2008)

London Spiritist Workshop
(London, United Kingdom – 2009)

 

 
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Social Departments


AME Porto reaches its objectives by means of its Social Departments which are the General Assembly, the Fiscal Council, the Directive Council, that together make the General Council, and also, the Scientific Council.

 

 
Directive Council:
 
President
Lígia Almeida, M.D. (Physician), specialist in Geriatrics with sub-specialization in Geriatric Cardiology. Post-graduated as Master in Biochemistry and Pharmaceutics by the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She worked more than ten years within InCor’s (University of São Paulo’s Heart Institute) Area for Teaching and Research, with several of scientific articles published at the most respected world medical reviews in the speciality, and several of scientific lectures on "atherosclerosis and cardiovascular ageing" in the European Union, the United States of America and Brazil. Presently, she is a clinic director at the city of Oporto.

 
Vice-President
Graça Menezes, (Physician), specialist in Cardiology with sub-specialization in Arrhythmology. Post-graduated by the University of Barcelona, Spain. Presently, she is a Physician at “São João University Hospital”, at the city of Oporto.

 
Treasurer
Maria de Lurdes (Nurse at "São João Hospital"), of the city of Valongo

  
Second Secretariat
Ester Pinto (Gerontologist), in Oporto’s "Hospital S.A."
 
 
Scientific Council:
 
Dr. Lígia Almeida, M.D. (Cardiogeriatric Doctor and researcher)
Dr. Vasco Souza (Psychologist)
Dr. Cristina Santos (Pharmaceutic and researcher)
Eng. Domingos Alves (Civil Engineer and researcher)
Dr. Paulo Pinto (Biochemist and researcher)
Prof. Dr. Luís de Almeida, Ph.D. (Astrophysicist and ESA’s councillor)
Prof. Dr. António Pascoal, Ph.D. (Mathematician and NASA’s councillor)

 

 
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Associates


Those singular people recognizably spiritists may be
AME Porto associates, having Allan Kardec as compass and who professionally are medical doctors, or the like, due registered at the "Portuguese Medical Association" or at the class representative professional institution to which they belong.
 
AME Porto is constituted by six associate categories:
a) Founders;
b) Active;
c) Collaborative;
d) Academic;
e) Correspondents;
f) Honour.

 
a) Founder Associates
All medical professionals and the like, recognizably spiritist and who have signed
AME Porto Foundation Minutes, the Presence Book to the General Assembly at its foundation in April 18th, 2004, at the city of Oporto.

 
b) Active Associates
Medical Doctors recognizably spiritist, due registered at the "Portuguese Medical Association", who ask for their subscription at
AME Porto, as proposed by two associates and formally agreed by the Directive Council.
 
c) Collaborative Associates
Graduate professionals of other areas linked to Medicine, recognizably spiritists, due registered at their respective professional representative offices, as proposed by two associates and formally agreed by the Directive Council.
 
d) Academic Associates
University spiritists interested and in full agreement with the institution’s objectives who ask for their subscription at
AME Porto, as proposed by two associates and formally agreed by the Directive Council.
 
e) Correspondent Associates
Medical Doctors or the like, recognizably spiritists, living outside Oporto’s Metropolitan Area and due registered at their respective professional representative offices, who ask for their subscription at
AME Porto, as proposed by two associates and formally agreed by the Directive Council.
 
f) Honour Associates
People of proven aptitude with no distinction of nationality or profession, living in Portugal or abroad, who proposed by the associates have performed relevant services or significant collaboration to
AME Porto in any of its activities.

 

 
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Localization

 

 

 
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Links


ADEP – Portuguese Association of Spiritism Divulgers (Portugal)
AKSS – Allan Kardec Spiritist Society of Maryland (United Sates of America)
ALUBRAT – Transpersonal Portuguese-Brazilian Association (Portugal)
AME Brasil – Brazilian Medical-Spiritist Association (Brazil)
AME Rio – Rio de Janeiro Medical-Spiritist Association (Brazil)
BIAL Fondation (Portugal)
BUSS – British Union of Spiritist Societies (United Kingdom)
CTEC – Transdisciplinary Centre for Consciousness Studies (Portugal)
Clinical Review of Psychiatry (Brazil)
FEMEDAR – Argentine Medical Spiritist Federation (Argentine)
GEEAK – Gruppen for Spiritistiske Studier Allan Kardec (Norge - Norway)
HOJE – Jean Evangelista Hospital (Brazil)
ICC – Campinas Brain Institute (Brazil)
ISC – International Spiritist Council
ISC – International Spiritist Council (European Department)
NRS – Nederlandse Raad voor het Spiritisme (Nederland - Holland)
SSB – Spiritist Society of Baltimore. (United Sates of America)
SSF – Svenska Spiritistiska Fórbundet (Sverige - Sweden)
UNIESPÍRITO – International University for the Spirit Sciences (Brazil)
USSC – United States Spiritist Council (United Sates of America)
 

 

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Contact

 

AME PORTO – Associação Médico-Espírita da Área Metropolitana do Porto
Rua Martim Moniz, 398 - 1º Dto.
4100-329 Porto
Portugal

Telephone: (+ 351) 96 166 02 18
E-mail:
http://www.ameporto.org

 

 
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