''Nosso Lar: Life in the Spirit World'' (

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: ''Nosso Lar''), also known as ''Astral City'', is a novel by the Brazilian spiritist

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Francisco Cândido Xavier. First published in 1944,http://www.febeditora.com.br/departamentos/nosso-lar/. Retrieved at 2017-06-05 it tells the story of André Luiz, a prominent doctor who lived in the city of

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. After dying, André Luiz finds himself neither in

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nor

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, depicted in the teachings he had received during his

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upbringing, but rather in the so-called umbral, a region where less-than-perfect souls face the consequences of their infelicitous actions while alive. After a while, He is able to perceive the presence of Clarêncio, a friendly spirit who had been trying to help him all along during his time in ''umbral''. Clarêncio then takes him to Nosso Lar, a spirit colony, or astral city, where André becomes acquainted with the intricacies of

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and

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