Bedri Ruhselman, one of the great men with duty who would enlighten humanity in future was born in Istanbul, in 1898.

 

Bedri Ruhselman, son of a family of soldiers, drew attention with his musical talent at an early age. While continuing his education, he also took private violin lessons. This talent would later lead him to the Prague Conservatory where he enrolled for music education and where he was introduced to classic spiritualism. Actually, young Bedri’s interest in spiritual matters had manifested when he was 9 years old. When he was only 12 years old, he was conducting spiritual sessions. In one of such sessions, it had been learned that First World War would start four years later. And when the war was broke out, he had returned to Istanbul from Gallipoli where his family was residing at that time and graduated from Kabatas Lycee and enrolled in Medical College. However, upon the insistence of his forensic medicine teacher Saim Ali Bey, he excelled in the entrance exam of Prague Conservatory and was forced to quit medical college at his last year.

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As he continued his musical education in the Prague Conservatory, in 1920s, he studied the pioneers of classic spiritualism like Allen Kardec, Gustave Geley, Charles Richet, Leon Denis, William Crooks and become experienced in hypnotism and spiritual sessions. In those days, Bedri Ruhselman was forming the principles of a new school which he would later term Neo-Spiritualism. And in 1923, when he returned to Istanbul from Prague upon his graduation from the conservatory, a new period was about to start for both himself and for the spiritualism in Turkey and in the world.

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Between 1926-1935 he worked as a music teacher in Anatolia. Also he completed his medical education and graduated as a medical doctor. In 1936, knowledge he was provided with through the spiritual sessions by “The Master”, in mediumship of renowned musicologist H. Saadettin Arel become a strong factor in emergence of neo-spiritualism. During his residency at the Bakırkoy Mental Hospital, Bedri Ruhselman was writing articles in Fener magazine.

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1943-1946 “Principles of Neo-Spiritualism are written in Afghanistan”

After completing his military service between 1940-1941, Bedri Ruhselman went to Afghanistan. He completed his opus titled “Ruh ve Kainat” (Spirit and Universe) there, in which he explained the ideas of Neo-Spiritualism in three expansive volumes. When he returned to Turkey in 1946, he published it.

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1947-1950 “Activities of Neo-Spiritualism accelerate”

Dr. Bedri Ruhselman started new spiritual sessions in 1947. His public conferences in Ankara and Istanbul universities and his book, “Ruhlar Arasında” (Among Spirits) have followed this. The sublime duty he shouldered would lead him studies which intensified in time.

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1950 “Neo-Spiritualism gains an institutional identity: MISRS is established...”

While working as a medical doctor in cruise ships to Marseilles, Bedri Ruhselman completed the groundwork which he created through his spiritual activities in 1950 by establishing Metapsychical Investigations and Scientific Research Society. Now, Neo-Spiritualism has gained an institutional identity. While writing articles for İç Varlık magazine, he published his book “Allah” in 1951. He started publishing a bulletin for Anatolia and this bulletin transformed into Ruh ve Kainat magazine in 1952. In the same year, he presented a paper on “Mediumship” in Stockholm congress of the International Spiritualist Federation. In 1953 he published his book, “Mukadderat ve İcabat” (Destiny and Necessity). As his intense work continued, he presented a paper to the Ministry of National Education, petitioning for spiritual matters to be included in the curriculum of schools. Various flyers were published and disseminated to public.

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1957: “Toward the true duty...”

Master Dr. Bedri Ruhselman resigned from the MISRS in 1957 in order to complete his true duty. His purpose was receiving knowledge that would unify humanity from spiritual world by conducting intense and private sessions. He deserved his last three years to this purpose and completed his true duty. When he left his physical body in 1960, MISR Society continued the duty of spreading the knowledge which he entrusted.