Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar

Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar (; born October26, 1970) is a Brazilian medium, speaker, television presenter and writer. He is the founder and leader of the Mary Christ Society, an organization with consultative status at the United Nations Economic and Social Council. He has hosted the television program Salto Quântico since 1994, broadcast on some open television networks in Brazil and also in the United States, and gives weekly lectures broadcast live on YouTube.

Biography Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar was born on October 26, 1970 in Aracaju, in the state of Sergipe, to a mother who was also a medium. He claims that as a child, he heard the voices of spirits and saw them, mistaking them for the living. He described his supposed out-of-body experience with the spirit of his maternal great-aunt, Sister Brígida, as an "epiphany." The organization has had consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council since 2018. The organization owns the charity Núcleo de Educação Espiritual e Saúde Irmã Brígida, which operates in Aracaju. In 2008, he announced his departure from Kardecist spiritism, "declaring the independence and universalist character" of the organization.

His books and lectures commonly address themes related to spirituality, humanism and happiness. He defines his school of thought as Christian and unrelated to formal religious movements. He is also known for defending minority groups, especially women, black people and the LGBTQ community. He attributes the coordination of his activities to a spiritual guide named Eugênia-Aspasia,

He has been openly gay since 2008. The following year, he married Wagner Mendes.