Allan Kardec Doctrinal Society of New York  (AKDS) is a 501(c) 3 Non-profit Organization established in 1990. The purpose for which the corporation was formed is to demonstrate that the everyday living of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the objective to be reached by humankind.  To this end we promote the methodic and systemic study of Spiritism as codified by Allan Kardec in its triple aspect: scientific, philosophic and religious.

 

Our motto is “without charity, there is no salvation”, inspiring all to turn compassion into action.

 

AKDS promotes and organizes activities of social and philanthropic assistance to benefit all who need it in our community including several charities in Brazil, among them: Mansão do Caminho (Mansion of the Way), in the State of Bahia, with the goal of social improvement through education and moral awareness and bringing information to the community on societal and psychological issues without losing sight of the moral transformation that must come as the basis for spiritual growth.

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AKDS promotes the dissemination of Spiritism through its active Center, an appropriate meeting place for its activities in Long Island City, New York, holding study groups; distributing and publishing spiritist literature; maintaining a spiritist library of hundreds of titles in Portuguese, English and Spanish; video library and showings of spiritist speeches; lectures of local and international speakers.

 

AKDS holds prayer meetings and offers psychosomatic therapy sessions; helps through the grieving period of those dealing with the disincarnation of loved ones; lends an ear to those needing to share their burden with a loving friend, offering solutions where possible or referring to professionals otherwise.

 

Spiritism has a fundamental mission among human beings, the inner renewal of each individual, furnishing explanations of our destinies, reason through which many concepts are restored or corrected, so consciences may be enlightened and hearts may be consoled.

 

Allan Kardec, the eminent Codifier of Spiritism, says it best: "Whoever has meditated upon Spiritism and its consequences, and circumscribes it not to the production of a few phenomena, comprehends that it opens to humanity a new way, and unrolls to it infinite horizons. By initiating it into the mysteries of the invisible world, it shows to it its true role in creation, a perpetually active one, as well to the spiritual state as to the corporeal one. Man marches blindly no more. He knows from whence he came, where he is going, and why he is on the earth. The future show its reality to him, disencumbered of ignorance, prejudice, and superstition. It is no more a vague hope. It is a palpable truth, as certain to him as the succession of day and night. He knows that his being is not limited to a few instants of an ephemeral existence; that the spiritual life is not interrupted by death; that he has already lived, that he will live again, and that of all he has acquired in perfect by labor nothing has been lost."   

 

The monetary support for our programs come from charitable donations and fund raising campaigns.  We invite you to join us with your tax-deductible contributions to the Allan Kardec Doctrinal Society of New York to continue to lend a helping hand to all in our community.

 

Community extends beyond measurable marks and the improvement of one is a light that shines upon the whole.

 

 

God Bless.