Diversos autores espirituais trabalham com a psicografia de Francisco Cândido Xavier em Ideias e Ilustrações, coletânea de agradáveis contos que buscam auxiliar na compreensão dos ensinamentos do Evangelho do Cristo. Estimulantes e consoladoras, as mensagens inspiram a reforma íntima, a esperança e o profundo amor ao próximo, abordando temas como o valor da vida, a reencarnação, a humildade e a justiça. O estudo, edificante, torna-se instrumento valioso para enfrentar as inúmeras dificuldades do dia a dia, e seu singelo conteúdo motiva nossa jornada neste mundo de provas e expiações.
Francisco de Paula Cândido Xavier, popularly known as Chico Xavier was a popular "medium" in Brazil's Spiritism movement and wrote 412 books through a process known as psychography. The profits of his books were all donated into charity work.
He influenced the establishment of Kardecist Spiritism as one of the religions professed in Brazil.
In 1981 and 1982, Chico Xavier was nominated for the Nobel peace prize and on October 3, 2012, was named as "The Greatest Brazilian of all time" by one of the biggest brazilian television channel (SBT), based on a viewer-supported survey.