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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.
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.
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.
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)
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)
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.
Localization
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)
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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