02/22/2026
*What's Lighting Me Up This Week*
I recently finished reading a great book recommended to me by one of my wonderful clients called Nosso Lar: Life in the Spirit World by Francisco Candido Xavier (aka Chico Xavier), dictated by the spirit Andre Luiz.
Chico Xavier was a very popular Brazilian medium in the 20th century who wrote close to 500 books using automatic writing, wherein spirit wrote through him.
Nosso Lar (Portuguese for “Our Home”) was published in 1944 and recounts the experience of a spirit being named Andre Luiz as he returns to the spirit world. Andre describes Nosso Lar as a transitional spirit colony where some spirits come to experience a stage of recovery, healing, and spiritual education before they are able to reincarnate again. The society is focused on labor and service, and is highly organized with 6 Ministries (e.g., Regeneration, Assistance, Communication, etc) that connect them both to the terrestrial realm (aka Earth) and the higher planes.
During his time in Nosso Lar, Andre begins to see the ways in which he did not fulfill his previous life’s purpose, and starts to slowly open up to the importance of humility, service, and love.
While I personally like to believe that the spirit world is much more vast than we can understand or know while incarnated here and while also acknowledging that any channeling or automatic writing necessarily contains the specific imprints or perspective of the channeler in some ways, it’s a beautiful, haunting book that offers a reminder of how deeply interconnected we all are.