Thursday, January 22, 2009
Profile in English
Peruvian nationalized Colombian. Medicine Doctor, Psychiatrist and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist from National Major University of San Marcos, at Lima, Peru (1966), from Department of Psychiatry’s Graduate’s School, the same University (1969) and from Center for Development of Psychoanalysis also at Lima, Peru (1981). In Peru, he was University professor in the National Major University of San Marcos’ Industrial Relations School and in the Medicine Faculty of the same University. Since 1985, has been University professor in the National University of Colombia’s Psychology and Nursery Faculties, Colombian Medicine School, University of Los Andes, Family Well-being Colombian Institute and Social Welfare of the District Department. Has been member in several national and international congresses and is a Member of Psychiatrists and Psychotherapists Scientific Societies at Peru and Colombia. In his Private Office, he is dedicated to the Individual, Couple, Family and Groups Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Author of several scientific books and papers.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Preliminary note:
I have translated this document to English from my original in Spanish. I want to apologize for this translation’s accuracy, because my English is not good enough. I will be getting this translation better as possible to me.
What Holistic Spirituality is?
Holistic Spirituality is born of the effort of almost all my lifetime to interlace, through the delicate lens of the New Holistic Science, the Mystical form of the Christian Spirituality with my formation and experience of decades in Psychoanalysis and Bhakti Yoga (Esoteric Psychology), and with my studies and self-taught humanist formation, which includes Quantum Physics, Tantra Yoga, as well as Theology, History, Mythology and Western Philosophy.
Besides, such effort implies the biological and psychological knowledge of my formation and identity as scientist, medicine Doctor, Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist, as well as the personal and professional experience due of have been practicing Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in a daily basis during already 43 uninterrupted years.
Last but don’t least, this effort includes my believing and practicing Christian being. This affirmation, I believe, deserves an extension. I am “a nonreligious” believer: I identify myself like spiritual and Christian, axes of a very personal system, that I denominate Holistic Spirituality, a construction that includes several structures which condenses understandings and lessons received directly of the Word of God, much of it written in the Bible and other sacred books, and some of it through directly revealed Word, like that received by numerous people (between which I include myself) and authors of different times and latitudes.
Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique, Quantum Physics as well as the four Canonic Gospels and the Epistles of the New Testament, much of the “Apocryphal (Gnostic) Gospels” and great part of the written work of George Ivanovich Gurdjieff, Piotr D. Ouspensky and Maurice Nicoll, are important components of my epistemological and spiritual foundations.
On synthesis, Holistic Spirituality is based on the understanding that we, the human beings, are slept.
Holistic Spirituality does not prohibit nor condemns anything. It only invites gently “to wake up of the dream”, by means of understandings and procedures whose origin goes back at the beginning of the historical times and that have been enriched as much by a new understanding of the Sacred Christian Scriptures, and by important aspects of the Eastern spirituality and not few approaches based on the Quantum Physics.
Holistic Spirituality does not accept nor valued trying to found a spiritual activity, in seeding guilt, fear and threats of punishment, resources misguidedly used trying to separate people from “sin”. Holistic Spirituality even promotes a revision of the notion of “sin”, by means of the psychological and spiritual analysis of the notion itself. Such analysis has their starting point in the initiative to explore the meaning of the very word used by the authors of the Bible for “sin” in the original one in Greek: “hamartia”, whose literal translation is “aiming mistake” or “missing the target ".
Finally, without forgetting my profession of faith already mentioned, I affirm my desire and I offer my better effort to maintain, to where it is humanly possible, the greater attainable scientific neutrality in relation to the intentions and develops of the Holistic Spirituality.
I consider that the best position in favor of such scientific neutrality is my clear conscience of spiritual non neutrality.
Besides, such effort implies the biological and psychological knowledge of my formation and identity as scientist, medicine Doctor, Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist, as well as the personal and professional experience due of have been practicing Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in a daily basis during already 43 uninterrupted years.
Last but don’t least, this effort includes my believing and practicing Christian being. This affirmation, I believe, deserves an extension. I am “a nonreligious” believer: I identify myself like spiritual and Christian, axes of a very personal system, that I denominate Holistic Spirituality, a construction that includes several structures which condenses understandings and lessons received directly of the Word of God, much of it written in the Bible and other sacred books, and some of it through directly revealed Word, like that received by numerous people (between which I include myself) and authors of different times and latitudes.
Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique, Quantum Physics as well as the four Canonic Gospels and the Epistles of the New Testament, much of the “Apocryphal (Gnostic) Gospels” and great part of the written work of George Ivanovich Gurdjieff, Piotr D. Ouspensky and Maurice Nicoll, are important components of my epistemological and spiritual foundations.
On synthesis, Holistic Spirituality is based on the understanding that we, the human beings, are slept.
Holistic Spirituality does not prohibit nor condemns anything. It only invites gently “to wake up of the dream”, by means of understandings and procedures whose origin goes back at the beginning of the historical times and that have been enriched as much by a new understanding of the Sacred Christian Scriptures, and by important aspects of the Eastern spirituality and not few approaches based on the Quantum Physics.
Holistic Spirituality does not accept nor valued trying to found a spiritual activity, in seeding guilt, fear and threats of punishment, resources misguidedly used trying to separate people from “sin”. Holistic Spirituality even promotes a revision of the notion of “sin”, by means of the psychological and spiritual analysis of the notion itself. Such analysis has their starting point in the initiative to explore the meaning of the very word used by the authors of the Bible for “sin” in the original one in Greek: “hamartia”, whose literal translation is “aiming mistake” or “missing the target ".
Finally, without forgetting my profession of faith already mentioned, I affirm my desire and I offer my better effort to maintain, to where it is humanly possible, the greater attainable scientific neutrality in relation to the intentions and develops of the Holistic Spirituality.
I consider that the best position in favor of such scientific neutrality is my clear conscience of spiritual non neutrality.
About the book "Interlacing Science and Faith"
Based on the development of the Holistic Spirituality, and eager to offer my personal testimony on how I arrived at it, I wrote in Spanish “Interlacing Science and Faith”.
I began that task towards 1959. Then I was an 18 years old medicine student, astonished by the contemplation of the Cosmos, the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the stars, the atoms and the always present restlessness about the Maker of those Cosmos and my relation with Him.
Some yellowish annotations in my old Medicine books, sketch books and even in loose leaves I lovingly conserved, have been dated from that distant 1959.
Through the years and until the present time, with some interruptions, I continued producing and interlacing such annotations. Sometimes I used them to comments of this nature in the books of Psychotherapy I wrote, other are now dispersed in dozens of Journal papers and Newspaper articles here and there… Finally, some years ago, I began to give them the form that, at last, was materialized in this book
I turned 67 years old in September 2008 and, in January of 2009, I have declared it concluded and ready for the Publishing house.
This work tries to integrate my main sources of knowledge and understandings. Besides of my scientific and esoteric formation, these sources are: 1. the intense spiritual experiences I have had in my process (of all my life) knowing God and learning to have experiences with Him; 2. my own painful experiences with "aiming mistakes" and "missing the target" 3. wisdom contained in spiritual documents and sacred books of different spiritual mainstreams and religions from diverse times and cultures, especially if guaranteed by tradition and antiquity and 4. comprehensions based on some outstanding Bible’s passages.
I began that task towards 1959. Then I was an 18 years old medicine student, astonished by the contemplation of the Cosmos, the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the stars, the atoms and the always present restlessness about the Maker of those Cosmos and my relation with Him.
Some yellowish annotations in my old Medicine books, sketch books and even in loose leaves I lovingly conserved, have been dated from that distant 1959.
Through the years and until the present time, with some interruptions, I continued producing and interlacing such annotations. Sometimes I used them to comments of this nature in the books of Psychotherapy I wrote, other are now dispersed in dozens of Journal papers and Newspaper articles here and there… Finally, some years ago, I began to give them the form that, at last, was materialized in this book
I turned 67 years old in September 2008 and, in January of 2009, I have declared it concluded and ready for the Publishing house.
This work tries to integrate my main sources of knowledge and understandings. Besides of my scientific and esoteric formation, these sources are: 1. the intense spiritual experiences I have had in my process (of all my life) knowing God and learning to have experiences with Him; 2. my own painful experiences with "aiming mistakes" and "missing the target" 3. wisdom contained in spiritual documents and sacred books of different spiritual mainstreams and religions from diverse times and cultures, especially if guaranteed by tradition and antiquity and 4. comprehensions based on some outstanding Bible’s passages.
Other books of the author.
“The Dialogue with Couples in Conflict” (Transference and Countertransference in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Couples). Ediciones Bautista, Lima, Peru, 1983.
“Live in Couple… and enjoy it! “, (a guide for comprehensions and tools for the Couple). Ediciones Gamma, Bogota, Colombia, 1992.
“Raise a happy baby and a boy without traumas” (a manual for the raising and an education of babies and children, and a complete Program for the Prevention of Violence, Crisis of the Values and Addictions). Intervalo Editores. (Círculo de Lectores). Bogota, Colombia, 2002.
“The Human Factor in the Organization” (Self-esteem, Motivation, Democratic Leadership, Human Relations, Organizational Climate, Enterprise Development and Organizational Ethics) Intermedio Editores (Círculo de Lectores). Bogota, Colombia, 2001.
“If you are not enjoying it… so what do you live for in a Couple?” (Taking care of the Couple’s relationship. Divorce without Divorce. Insipid coexistence and waste of energy. The sexuality of the stable Couple. Adult Love. No authoritarian ethics for Couple and Family). Intervalo Editores. (Círculo de Lectores). Bogota, Colombia, 2004.
In Publication process:
“Does not divorce you self before trying a Couple’s Psychotherapy.” (a practical guide choosing Psychotherapist and a perspective about what happens in a Session of Couples’ Psychotherapy).
“Interlacing Science and Faith.” (From Psychoanalysis, Quantum Physics and Esoteric Psychology, a testimony of the experience of the author with Holistic Spirituality).
“Romanza of thorns and petals” (Poetry).
“Live in Couple… and enjoy it! “, (a guide for comprehensions and tools for the Couple). Ediciones Gamma, Bogota, Colombia, 1992.
“Raise a happy baby and a boy without traumas” (a manual for the raising and an education of babies and children, and a complete Program for the Prevention of Violence, Crisis of the Values and Addictions). Intervalo Editores. (Círculo de Lectores). Bogota, Colombia, 2002.
“The Human Factor in the Organization” (Self-esteem, Motivation, Democratic Leadership, Human Relations, Organizational Climate, Enterprise Development and Organizational Ethics) Intermedio Editores (Círculo de Lectores). Bogota, Colombia, 2001.
“If you are not enjoying it… so what do you live for in a Couple?” (Taking care of the Couple’s relationship. Divorce without Divorce. Insipid coexistence and waste of energy. The sexuality of the stable Couple. Adult Love. No authoritarian ethics for Couple and Family). Intervalo Editores. (Círculo de Lectores). Bogota, Colombia, 2004.
In Publication process:
“Does not divorce you self before trying a Couple’s Psychotherapy.” (a practical guide choosing Psychotherapist and a perspective about what happens in a Session of Couples’ Psychotherapy).
“Interlacing Science and Faith.” (From Psychoanalysis, Quantum Physics and Esoteric Psychology, a testimony of the experience of the author with Holistic Spirituality).
“Romanza of thorns and petals” (Poetry).
“Interlacing Science and Faith”. Table of Contents.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
1. First intuitions. 2. Beginning the search. 3. Encounter with the esotericism: Gurdjieff teachings. Esoteric Psychology. 4. Brief autobiographical note on the presence of The Feminine. 5. “Levels of being”, Emotional Maturity, Harmony of the Structure of the Character and “Levels of Spirituality”. 6. First revealed Interlacing. 7. Copernicus, Galileo and the dethronement of the Homo Sapiens. 8. Freud and his impact in the humanity. 9. The discovery of the Infantile Sexuality. Synthesis of Psychoanalysis: Responsibility. 10. Psychoanalysis and the “nonscientists” systems of Inner Development. 11. Moral responsibility. 12. My encounter with the Christian Spirituality. First steps towards the Holistic Spirituality. 13. What is this book? 14. The forms of the Spirituality. 15. The Holistic Spirituality. 16. What this book is not. 17. Intention of this book. 18. Who is for and who is not for this book? 19. Bureaucratic churches and fundamentalist clergymen.
FIRST PART: SCIENCE, PHYSICS AND PSYCHOANALYSIS TODAY.
Chapter 1.
XXI Century Science.
1. 1 Traditional Science and its only object of study, the material. Descartes, Newton. The Positivism. 1. 2 The New Holistic Science admits as study object, the not-material: the mind and the spirit. 1. 3 Interlacing and Holistic Science. The scientific approach in XXI Century. 1. 4 The material Universe. 1. 5 The immaterial Universe. 1. 6 Cognitive Processes: living is knowing. 1. 7 Psychoanalysis, pioneer of Holistic Science.
Chapter 2.
XXI Century Physics.
Introductory note on Vibrations. 2. 1 Physics of the “loose gears” or “loose bricks”. 2. 2 Time, space and the loose mind. 2. 3 First indications of “revealing of the Quantum”. What Quantum Physics is? What are the quanta? And… what is the Quantum? 2. 4 The infinitely immense interstellar Universe. Einstein, the space-time and the gravity. 2. 5 The infinitely small sub-atomic Universe. Quantum interlacing. Electrons quicker than the thought: EPR Paradox. 2. 6 Uncertainty Principle. The mind and the conscience of the observer. Global Consciousness Project: first investigations on the influence of the not-material on the material. 2. 7 An implicit order in the Universe. The "not evident". The physicists and the “superior reality”. Interlacing Quantum Physics and Spirituality. 2. 7. 1 My leitmotiv: to enunciate and to develop a Holistic Hypothesis on Spirituality as a human experience. 2. 8 Mystics, spiritualist and esoteric schools that in distant times intuited the quantum realities.
Chapter 3.
The influence of the not-material on the material.
3. 1 “What the bleep we know…” The Quantum Physics. 3. 2 Quantum Attitude and spiritual Attitude. Things versus possibilities of conscience. 3. 2. 1 The prayer and the Law of Attraction. 3. 3 Global Conciousness Project (GCP) and the use of the Random Events Generator (REG). 3. 4 The first REG. 3. 5 Global Conciousness Project 3. 6 The GCP and Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. 3. 7 Field experiments: field-REG and Conscience of Group. 3. 8 Experimentally modifying the frequencies of Random Events by emotional expressions. 3. 9 Scientific antecedents in the study of the influence of the not-material on the material. 3. 10 Carl Gustav Jung and the Collective Unconscious. 3. 11 Rupert Sheldrake and the “extended mind”. Morphic fields. How and where from the form emerges? 3. 12 Morphogenetic Fields. 3. The 13 Morphogenetic Fields are intrinsically Holistic. 3. 14 Mental Fields and brains. 3. 15 Chaos and brain. 3. 16 Society like a super organism. 3. 17 Human groups and multitudes. 3. 18 The “Extended Mind”. 3. 19 Sensation of “being observed”. 3. 20 “Extended Mind” and praying at a distance. 3. 21 "Global Mind". Holistic vision of the World. 3. 22 Karl R. Popper and John C. Eccles: “The mind and its brain”. 3. 23 Epigenetics.
Chapter 4.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and the formation of Mind process.
4. 1 Psychoanalytic understandings on formation of the mind. 4. 2 Attitudes, convictions and process. 4. 3 What a baby is? What a child is? Learning the Empathy. 4. 4. 1 Mind Structure: Self and Internal Parents. 4. 4. 2 Identity. 4. 5 Consequences of the faults and errors in the relation of the parents with the baby and the child. 4. 6 First Consequence: Division of the Internal World. In the limit between the Psychoses and the Neuroses. 4. 7 Second Consequence: Devastation of the Self-esteem. The adoration of oneself and Narcissism. Narcissism, as opposed to Self-esteem. 4. 7. 1 Third Consequence. Diffusion of Identity. 4. 8 Integrating the anatomical brain and the subjective brain.
Chapter 5.
Presence and Psychoanalytic Unveiling.
5. 1 Instruments of the psychotherapeutic dialogue. 5. 2 Transference or “the ruling of the experiences of the past". 5. 3 Freeing oneself of the veils of the transference: psychoanalytic unveiling. 5. 4 Replacing the Powerful Negative Internal Parents by the image and presence of the psychotherapist. 5. 5 Presence or "the ruling of the present reality". From psychotherapist’s presence to the Self presence.
Chapter 6.
Inner freedom.
Introductory Note on Freedom. 6. 1 Esoteric Psychology, Inner Glance and Psychotherapy. 6. 2 Functional Autonomy and Inner Freedom. 6. 3 Self-help, Functional Autonomy and the inner source of emotional well-being. 6. 4 How is obtained, by means of the Psychotherapy, that of “leaving the negativity” and “being positive”?
Chapter 7.
Proximity of two minds and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
7. 1 Objectivity and Subjectivity, two ways to be related the Internal World to the External World. 7. 2 External Reality. 7. 3 Internal Psychic Reality. 7. 4 Subject and Object in the Traditional Psychoanalysis. 7. 5 The two subjectivities: 7. 5. 1 Subjectivity/Error. 7. 5. 2 Subjectivity/Understanding. 7. 6 Taking people like utensils: Objectivation and “treating someone like a thing”. 7. 7 Creating and maintaining an open mind: the Subjectality. 7. 8 Subjectality and Spirituality. Spiritual Neuroscience. 7. 9 A small subjectal game of words about the faith. 7. 10 The proximity of two minds: Subjectal relations. 7. 11 Otherness and Mutuality.
SECOND PART: AN APPROACH TO A PSYCHOLOGY OF FAITH.
Chapter 8.
Playing, magic, Transitional Phenomena and Otherness.
8. 1 Psychoanalytic Model and Gurdjeffian Model. 8. 2 Playing and magic. 8. 3 Omnipotent control and magic. 8. 4 Inside, outside, “Intermediate Zone”, Transitional Phenomena. 8. 5 Learning to wait is learning tolerance to frustration. 8. 6 Playing and waiting. 8. 7 The Subjectal is also the superposition of Intermediate Zones. 8. 8 Black magic and spiritual magic. 8. 9 Playing, magicing, misticing. The otherness. Loving encounter and Sacred Encounter. The Sacred Couple. 8. 10 A Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in a journey of gurdjeffian work. 8. 11 First interlacing between some aspects of psychoanalytic understanding with some of gurdjeffian understanding.
Chapter 9
Science, the scientists and God. Freedom and fundamentalist clergymen 9. 1 Stigmatization of the believing scientists. 9. 1. 1 Disqualification line I. 9. 1. 2 Why the controversy on the existence of God? An approach to the notion of `freedom'. Love and Freedom. 9. 1. 3 Love and “sin”. 9. 1. 4 A commentary on the three classes of suffering. 9. 2. 1 Disqualification line II. 9. 3 Why the fundamentalist clergymen’s fever forcing the literal acceptance of the Sacred Scriptures? 9. 4 God and the Scientists. 9. 5 Stephen Hawking and the “History of Time”. 9. 6 What would happen if God allowed to be demonstrated through Traditional Science? , or, if He were turned evident to Humanity, being this one as it is now? 9. 7 Scientists, between God and the fundamentalist clergymen. Chance or “random”. “Causes” or chance. 9. 8 Holistic understanding of the origins of life. Creationism, Darwinian Evolutionism, “Intelligent Design” and Evolutionary Creationism. 9. 9 A South African paleontologist joins this cause. 9. 10 Nothing of “convictional affirmations” in this field.
Chapter 10
From primitive life to Homo Sapiens.
10. 1 Origin of the life. 10. 2 Understandings and tools for an adequate study of life as container of spirit. 10. 3 Vital functions. 10. 4 Hydration and basic acid balance. 10. 5 Metabolism. 10. 6 Reproduction. 10. 7 Evolution and specialization. 10. 8 Evolution of the reproduction. 10. 9 Evolution of the Nervous System. 10. 10 Humanization process through the neuronal multiplication of the neurons, circuits and the volume of the brain. 10. 12 Appearance of the Conscience. 10. 13 The Spirit. 10. 14 Dust of stars, original mud. 10. 15 Mind and human spirit. 10. 16 Traditional Science’s fight “to create” artificial life.
Chapter 11.
Approaching to an holistic description of my encounter with God.
11. 1 Methodological approach I: first step in my approach to develop a scientific understanding of the spiritual. 11. 1. 1 From Traditional Science. 11. 1. 2 From Holistic Science. 11. 2 Methodological approach II: my thirst of infinite. Spiritual women in my life. 11. 3 Methodological approach III: construction of a Holistic Hypothesis. 11. 4 Methodological approach IV: under which influences I choose to be placed? Having experiences for God. 11. 5 Methodological approach V: compilation of inner vivencies, experiences and understandings. Having experiences of God. 11. 6 Syntheses of what happens in my Inner World during a session of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. 11. 7 From the methodology of the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, a synthesis of what happens in my Inner World during a spiritual experience. 11. 8 Dialoguing with a not-believer reader. 11. 9 Holistic Science and spiritual life. 11. 10 A little quantum irony.
THIRD PART. THE SPIRITUAL; SPIRITUALITY AND FAITH FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF HOLISTIC SCIENCE.
Chapter 12.
Unveiling the Spiritual: faith.
Introductory note on XXI Century Spirituality, Quantum Physics and Astronomy. Holistic theory of the Traces. 12. 1. Prayer and mystical experience: psychological exploration of Spirituality. 12. 2 The soul, the almatic and the spiritual. 12. 2. 1 The soul. 12. 2. 2 The spirit. 12. 2. 2. 1 The different spiritualities. 12. 2. 2. 2 Identity and the “demonic”. 12. 2. 2. 3 Identity versus Identification from spiritual point of view. 12. 2. 3 Almatic people 12. 3 Beginning of unveiling the spiritual. 12. 4 The "not evident" “superior reality”. 12. 5 Attempt of Holistic synthesis and understanding of the vicissitudes of the human spirit from the “Fall” to before the Salvation. 12. 5. 1 Why God started the Creation? 12. 5. 2. Describing and understanding the “Garden of Eden situation”. 12. 5. 3 Version one of the “Fall”. 12. 5. 4. Version two of the “Fall”. 12. 5. 4. 1 What we took off to God when we “fall”? 12. 5. 4. 2 And… what we gave Him in exchange? 12. 6 The “Fall” and the Salvation. "Sin” and the Cross’s Work. 12. 6. 1 Version one of Salvation. 12. 6. 2 Version two of Salvation. 12. 7 The spiritual, a human experience. Mystical experience. 12. 8 Manifestation of Divinity 12. 9 The subjectal and the spiritual. 12. 9. 1 Religion. 12. 9. 2 Holistic Spirituality.
Chapter 13.
Self-esteem, Narcissism, Idolization and Self adoration: Egomania .
13. 1 “Light people” and Narcissism. 13. 1. 1 “Light culture” and relativization of Moral. Negation of absolutes. Narcissist swelling and negation of God. 13. 2 Self-esteem. 13. 3 Narcissism in the Bible. 13. 4 Psychoanalytic glance to Narcissism. 13. 5 Narcissism according to Psychoanalysis. Contributions of Heinz Kohut and Otto Kerberg. 13. 6 Idolization and self adoration: egomania. 13. 7 Self adoration is, only a psychopathologic phenomenon…? or contains some spiritual element? Analysis of the Temptation. 13. 8 Spiritual Correlate of Suicide.
Chapter 14
How a narcissistic ego affects the practice of Science, Esotericism and the Mysticism?
14. 1 Science. 14. 2 Esotericism. 14. 3 Mysticism.
Chapter 15.
Outline of a Gospel of Lord Jesus Christ for the emotional and mentally disabled people.
15. 1 Is all people apt to understand and to decide about the Sacred Writings? 15. 2 Differences between mental and emotional disabled people. 15. 3 “Light people” and “searching people”. 15. 4. Is it necessary the scientific formation of ministries, shepherds, priests and other spiritual leaders?
Chapter 16. Instinct and “sin”. The ambiguous sensation to having “trimmed” freedom.
16. 1 What the instinct is? 16. 2 Discerning between Mind and Soul. 16. 3 Instinct, instinctive impulse, necessity and desire. 16. 4 Eros, the instinct of love and Tanathos, the instinct of death. The paradox of Eros and Tanathos. Beyond the Pleasure’s Principle. 16. 5 The loose of control and the instinctive manifestations. Sublimation. 16. 6 Freedom, “sin”, “the inconvenient” and “what brings consequences”. 16. 6. 1 Is God a blackmailer? Those who try “to bribe Him”. 16. 7 Privacy, “free consensus” and “sin”. 16. 8 Disdainful “light people” and dissatisfied and worried “searching people”. 16. 9 Choosing under which influences I will place myself. 16. 10 Reiteration on the Otherness or Mutuality. The Sacred Couple. “What God likes” and “what God does not like”. 16. 11 First steps toward “being Christian” from the point of view of the Holistic Spirituality. 16. 12 “Free Will” from the psychological point of view . 16. 13 The psychological problem of Freedom. 16. 14 Spiritual Freedom and God’s suggestions. 16. 15 “Sin” is only “aiming mistake” or “missing the target”. 16. 16 "Sin” and what moves us away about the intention to which we were created.
Chapter 17.
Guilt and punishment. Preoccupation, responsibility, repentance and reparation.
17. 1 What is the guilt? Guilt, an imaginary inner state. 17. 2 Guilt and punishment. 17. 3 Guilt and fundamentalist clergymen. "Sin" promoted by guilt. 17. 4 Freedom, Responsibility, Preoccupation, Reparation. "Punishment" or consequence? Unbalancing and recovering the balance of Universal Justice. Loss of Glory. 17. 5 Recognizing our responsibility before God, and repairing Him. What sanctity is? 17. 6 Responsibility of bureaucratic churches.
Chapter 18.
A ferocious, cruel and vindictive God, or a Loving, Just and Merciful God?
18. 1 God, the poker, the Cosmos and the Law. 18. 2 God’s Justice in the Old Testament: “Sin”, guilt and punishment. 18. 3 God’ Justice in the New Testament: Mercy of God. 18. 4. Does God “allow” the suffering of the humanity? A Princeton academician accuses God as “or incompetent or evildoer”.
Chapter 19.
Worldliness and Spirituality. The evil, the Good and Raising Self Awareness. Conversion. The problem of the Authority. A liberating motivation.
19. 1 “Being worldly” and “being a world man”. 19. 2 Becoming aware of the “sensation of merit”. 19. 3 The evil. 19. 4 Spiritual conversion. 19. 4. 1 About “adrenalin”… 19.5 The “tendency to evil” is not inherent to the world. 19.6 “Raising self awareness” and vital experience. 19. 7 To speak and to display. Conversion. 19. 8 Authority and obedience… or discernment and freedom? Direct authority of God versus human, political or ecclesiastical delegate authority. The Inner Spiritual Authority. 19. 9. A liberating motivation.
FOURTH PART: SCIENTIFIC MORAL, INTERNAL ETHICS AND SPIRITUAL MORAL.
Chapter 20.
Scientific humanist Ethics.
20. 1 Subject of will and moral subject. The self and the meaning of life. 20. 2 Meaning of the world must be “outside the world”. 20. 3 So then… why a scientific humanist Ethics? 20. 4 Moral sense. 20. 5 Psychological and psycho-social factors of Ethics. 20. 6 Ethics and Inner Glance. 20. 7 Differences between Ethics and Moral. 20. 8 “Moral education” and the education in love. 20. 9 Valuations, Values and self-devaluation. 20. 10 Reiteration on the unconscious guilt. 20. 11 Scientific humanist Ethics and Emotional Health. 20. 12 Internal, democratic, humanist, natural Ethics versus external, autocratic, clerical Ethics. 20. 13 Natural behavior turned “bad” by the clerical Ethics. 20. 14 The Scientific humanist Ethics cannot be general.
Chapter 21.
Bureaucratic religion and churches. 21. 1. Religion, as opposed to the spiritual. 21. 2 How I can be spiritual without being religious? Is it possible to skip the bureaucratic churches?
Chapter 22.
The way from the Internal Ethics to the Spiritual Moral.
22. 1 What we must do and what we must be. 22. 2 Thought and feelings as vibratory energies determining reactions in natural world. 22. 3 Is it possible a spiritual Ethics without God?
FIFTH PART: HOLISTIC APPROACH TO SPIRITUALITY, SEXUALITY AND DEATH.
Chapter 23.
Spiritual disciplines and religions: its recommendations and prohibitions about sex.
23. 1 Trying a classification. 23. 2 Evolution from the concrete, material, sexed God, towards the abstract, spiritual non sexed God. 23. 3 Spirituality, eastern Religions, ancient western and American religions: concrete and/or absent Gods. 23. 4 Abrahamic Religions. 23. 4. 1 Catholic Church. Brief glance to History. 23. 4. 1. 1 Comment on Mary Magdalen: was she the First Apostle? Was she the wife of the Savior? 23. 4. 2 The Bible. 23. 4. 3 The Judaism. 23. 4. 4 The Mohammedan. 23. 4. 5 From Christian Spirituality to Holistic Spirituality.
Chapter 24.
Holistic Spirituality, Psychoanalysis and the esoteric Christianity or Bhakti Yoga.
Brief notice on Gurdjieff’s teaching. 24. 1 Cosmology. The Creation Beam and the “factory of suffering”. 24. 2 The effort for conscious work in the Inner Self. External and Internal aid. 24. 3 Worldly effort or “light people’s way of life”. Spiritual effort. 24. 4 Gurdjieff “egos” and conscience levels. 24. 5 All real psychology begins by the study and knowledge of oneself. 24. 6 New parallels between Gurdjieff’s System and Psychoanalysis. 24. 7 Parallels between Gurdjieff’s System and Christian Spirituality. 24. 8 The idea of Good prior Truth.
Chapter 25.
The sacred sense of the no procreative sexuality.
25. 1 Gurdjieff’s System and sexuality. 25. 2 Brief understanding of “the Centers” and the energies in Gurdjieff’s System. 25. 3 What is “correct sexual activity”? 25. 4 Wasting energy. The devastating fighting for power.
Chapter 26.
Tantra Yoga: the Sacred Sexuality and the Cult to The Feminine.
26. 1 What Tantra Yoga is? 26. 2 Not only a sexuality: a complete way of living. 26. 3 Sacred sexuality, spiritual sexuality. 26. 4 The cult to The Feminine and Tantra. 26. 5 Tantric man, tender man. 26. 6 To blood and fire, extirpating the magical women and “civilizing” the millenarian cultures and their wisdom.
Chapter 27
Woman and Spirituality. Spiritual superiority of the Woman. Why the necessity of a no sexed and abstract God?
27. 1 Gabriel Garcia Marquez's proclamation “Women to power”. 27. 2 The failure of the males. 27. 3 Self-esteem and dialogue. Narcissism, monolog and domination. 27. 4 The Goddess, peace and solidarity. 27. 5 The patriarchal God and the reptilian man. 27. 6 From Matriarchy to Patriarchy. The Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s proposal to return to Matriarchy of 27. 7 The way from the sexed God towards the Spiritual God. 27. 8 Teresa de Avila, Juan de la Cruz, and the mystical éxtasis. 27. 9 The Chant of the Chants. 27. 10 The origin of sexual and spiritual superiority of the woman. 27. 11 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Feminine Unitive. 27,12 Gurdjieff, esoteric Christianity and the preeminence of woman.
Chapter 28
And after all this… “where it is, oh death, your sting?” (First Corintian’s Epistle 15: 55).
28. 1 Death and Science. 28. 2 Death and the act to die. 28. 3 Dying of “the other” and the own death. 28. 4 The suffering around the death, manipulated by the bureaucratic churches. 28. 5 Conscience of the death versus fear to the death. 28. 6 Quality of life and quality of death. 28. 7 The “good dying” and humility. 28. 8 A “light people” death: negations and rationalizations. 28. 9 Fear to the dead person and disqualification of the life. 28. 10 Nature of the death. 28. 11 In “the tunnel”. 28. 12 The humanity and its four tunnels. 28. 13 Reiteration on quality of life and quality of death.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Introduction.
1. First intuitions. 2. Beginning the search. 3. Encounter with the esotericism: Gurdjieff teachings. Esoteric Psychology. 4. Brief autobiographical note on the presence of The Feminine. 5. “Levels of being”, Emotional Maturity, Harmony of the Structure of the Character and “Levels of Spirituality”. 6. First revealed Interlacing. 7. Copernicus, Galileo and the dethronement of the Homo Sapiens. 8. Freud and his impact in the humanity. 9. The discovery of the Infantile Sexuality. Synthesis of Psychoanalysis: Responsibility. 10. Psychoanalysis and the “nonscientists” systems of Inner Development. 11. Moral responsibility. 12. My encounter with the Christian Spirituality. First steps towards the Holistic Spirituality. 13. What is this book? 14. The forms of the Spirituality. 15. The Holistic Spirituality. 16. What this book is not. 17. Intention of this book. 18. Who is for and who is not for this book? 19. Bureaucratic churches and fundamentalist clergymen.
FIRST PART: SCIENCE, PHYSICS AND PSYCHOANALYSIS TODAY.
Chapter 1.
XXI Century Science.
1. 1 Traditional Science and its only object of study, the material. Descartes, Newton. The Positivism. 1. 2 The New Holistic Science admits as study object, the not-material: the mind and the spirit. 1. 3 Interlacing and Holistic Science. The scientific approach in XXI Century. 1. 4 The material Universe. 1. 5 The immaterial Universe. 1. 6 Cognitive Processes: living is knowing. 1. 7 Psychoanalysis, pioneer of Holistic Science.
Chapter 2.
XXI Century Physics.
Introductory note on Vibrations. 2. 1 Physics of the “loose gears” or “loose bricks”. 2. 2 Time, space and the loose mind. 2. 3 First indications of “revealing of the Quantum”. What Quantum Physics is? What are the quanta? And… what is the Quantum? 2. 4 The infinitely immense interstellar Universe. Einstein, the space-time and the gravity. 2. 5 The infinitely small sub-atomic Universe. Quantum interlacing. Electrons quicker than the thought: EPR Paradox. 2. 6 Uncertainty Principle. The mind and the conscience of the observer. Global Consciousness Project: first investigations on the influence of the not-material on the material. 2. 7 An implicit order in the Universe. The "not evident". The physicists and the “superior reality”. Interlacing Quantum Physics and Spirituality. 2. 7. 1 My leitmotiv: to enunciate and to develop a Holistic Hypothesis on Spirituality as a human experience. 2. 8 Mystics, spiritualist and esoteric schools that in distant times intuited the quantum realities.
Chapter 3.
The influence of the not-material on the material.
3. 1 “What the bleep we know…” The Quantum Physics. 3. 2 Quantum Attitude and spiritual Attitude. Things versus possibilities of conscience. 3. 2. 1 The prayer and the Law of Attraction. 3. 3 Global Conciousness Project (GCP) and the use of the Random Events Generator (REG). 3. 4 The first REG. 3. 5 Global Conciousness Project 3. 6 The GCP and Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. 3. 7 Field experiments: field-REG and Conscience of Group. 3. 8 Experimentally modifying the frequencies of Random Events by emotional expressions. 3. 9 Scientific antecedents in the study of the influence of the not-material on the material. 3. 10 Carl Gustav Jung and the Collective Unconscious. 3. 11 Rupert Sheldrake and the “extended mind”. Morphic fields. How and where from the form emerges? 3. 12 Morphogenetic Fields. 3. The 13 Morphogenetic Fields are intrinsically Holistic. 3. 14 Mental Fields and brains. 3. 15 Chaos and brain. 3. 16 Society like a super organism. 3. 17 Human groups and multitudes. 3. 18 The “Extended Mind”. 3. 19 Sensation of “being observed”. 3. 20 “Extended Mind” and praying at a distance. 3. 21 "Global Mind". Holistic vision of the World. 3. 22 Karl R. Popper and John C. Eccles: “The mind and its brain”. 3. 23 Epigenetics.
Chapter 4.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and the formation of Mind process.
4. 1 Psychoanalytic understandings on formation of the mind. 4. 2 Attitudes, convictions and process. 4. 3 What a baby is? What a child is? Learning the Empathy. 4. 4. 1 Mind Structure: Self and Internal Parents. 4. 4. 2 Identity. 4. 5 Consequences of the faults and errors in the relation of the parents with the baby and the child. 4. 6 First Consequence: Division of the Internal World. In the limit between the Psychoses and the Neuroses. 4. 7 Second Consequence: Devastation of the Self-esteem. The adoration of oneself and Narcissism. Narcissism, as opposed to Self-esteem. 4. 7. 1 Third Consequence. Diffusion of Identity. 4. 8 Integrating the anatomical brain and the subjective brain.
Chapter 5.
Presence and Psychoanalytic Unveiling.
5. 1 Instruments of the psychotherapeutic dialogue. 5. 2 Transference or “the ruling of the experiences of the past". 5. 3 Freeing oneself of the veils of the transference: psychoanalytic unveiling. 5. 4 Replacing the Powerful Negative Internal Parents by the image and presence of the psychotherapist. 5. 5 Presence or "the ruling of the present reality". From psychotherapist’s presence to the Self presence.
Chapter 6.
Inner freedom.
Introductory Note on Freedom. 6. 1 Esoteric Psychology, Inner Glance and Psychotherapy. 6. 2 Functional Autonomy and Inner Freedom. 6. 3 Self-help, Functional Autonomy and the inner source of emotional well-being. 6. 4 How is obtained, by means of the Psychotherapy, that of “leaving the negativity” and “being positive”?
Chapter 7.
Proximity of two minds and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
7. 1 Objectivity and Subjectivity, two ways to be related the Internal World to the External World. 7. 2 External Reality. 7. 3 Internal Psychic Reality. 7. 4 Subject and Object in the Traditional Psychoanalysis. 7. 5 The two subjectivities: 7. 5. 1 Subjectivity/Error. 7. 5. 2 Subjectivity/Understanding. 7. 6 Taking people like utensils: Objectivation and “treating someone like a thing”. 7. 7 Creating and maintaining an open mind: the Subjectality. 7. 8 Subjectality and Spirituality. Spiritual Neuroscience. 7. 9 A small subjectal game of words about the faith. 7. 10 The proximity of two minds: Subjectal relations. 7. 11 Otherness and Mutuality.
SECOND PART: AN APPROACH TO A PSYCHOLOGY OF FAITH.
Chapter 8.
Playing, magic, Transitional Phenomena and Otherness.
8. 1 Psychoanalytic Model and Gurdjeffian Model. 8. 2 Playing and magic. 8. 3 Omnipotent control and magic. 8. 4 Inside, outside, “Intermediate Zone”, Transitional Phenomena. 8. 5 Learning to wait is learning tolerance to frustration. 8. 6 Playing and waiting. 8. 7 The Subjectal is also the superposition of Intermediate Zones. 8. 8 Black magic and spiritual magic. 8. 9 Playing, magicing, misticing. The otherness. Loving encounter and Sacred Encounter. The Sacred Couple. 8. 10 A Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in a journey of gurdjeffian work. 8. 11 First interlacing between some aspects of psychoanalytic understanding with some of gurdjeffian understanding.
Chapter 9
Science, the scientists and God. Freedom and fundamentalist clergymen 9. 1 Stigmatization of the believing scientists. 9. 1. 1 Disqualification line I. 9. 1. 2 Why the controversy on the existence of God? An approach to the notion of `freedom'. Love and Freedom. 9. 1. 3 Love and “sin”. 9. 1. 4 A commentary on the three classes of suffering. 9. 2. 1 Disqualification line II. 9. 3 Why the fundamentalist clergymen’s fever forcing the literal acceptance of the Sacred Scriptures? 9. 4 God and the Scientists. 9. 5 Stephen Hawking and the “History of Time”. 9. 6 What would happen if God allowed to be demonstrated through Traditional Science? , or, if He were turned evident to Humanity, being this one as it is now? 9. 7 Scientists, between God and the fundamentalist clergymen. Chance or “random”. “Causes” or chance. 9. 8 Holistic understanding of the origins of life. Creationism, Darwinian Evolutionism, “Intelligent Design” and Evolutionary Creationism. 9. 9 A South African paleontologist joins this cause. 9. 10 Nothing of “convictional affirmations” in this field.
Chapter 10
From primitive life to Homo Sapiens.
10. 1 Origin of the life. 10. 2 Understandings and tools for an adequate study of life as container of spirit. 10. 3 Vital functions. 10. 4 Hydration and basic acid balance. 10. 5 Metabolism. 10. 6 Reproduction. 10. 7 Evolution and specialization. 10. 8 Evolution of the reproduction. 10. 9 Evolution of the Nervous System. 10. 10 Humanization process through the neuronal multiplication of the neurons, circuits and the volume of the brain. 10. 12 Appearance of the Conscience. 10. 13 The Spirit. 10. 14 Dust of stars, original mud. 10. 15 Mind and human spirit. 10. 16 Traditional Science’s fight “to create” artificial life.
Chapter 11.
Approaching to an holistic description of my encounter with God.
11. 1 Methodological approach I: first step in my approach to develop a scientific understanding of the spiritual. 11. 1. 1 From Traditional Science. 11. 1. 2 From Holistic Science. 11. 2 Methodological approach II: my thirst of infinite. Spiritual women in my life. 11. 3 Methodological approach III: construction of a Holistic Hypothesis. 11. 4 Methodological approach IV: under which influences I choose to be placed? Having experiences for God. 11. 5 Methodological approach V: compilation of inner vivencies, experiences and understandings. Having experiences of God. 11. 6 Syntheses of what happens in my Inner World during a session of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. 11. 7 From the methodology of the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, a synthesis of what happens in my Inner World during a spiritual experience. 11. 8 Dialoguing with a not-believer reader. 11. 9 Holistic Science and spiritual life. 11. 10 A little quantum irony.
THIRD PART. THE SPIRITUAL; SPIRITUALITY AND FAITH FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF HOLISTIC SCIENCE.
Chapter 12.
Unveiling the Spiritual: faith.
Introductory note on XXI Century Spirituality, Quantum Physics and Astronomy. Holistic theory of the Traces. 12. 1. Prayer and mystical experience: psychological exploration of Spirituality. 12. 2 The soul, the almatic and the spiritual. 12. 2. 1 The soul. 12. 2. 2 The spirit. 12. 2. 2. 1 The different spiritualities. 12. 2. 2. 2 Identity and the “demonic”. 12. 2. 2. 3 Identity versus Identification from spiritual point of view. 12. 2. 3 Almatic people 12. 3 Beginning of unveiling the spiritual. 12. 4 The "not evident" “superior reality”. 12. 5 Attempt of Holistic synthesis and understanding of the vicissitudes of the human spirit from the “Fall” to before the Salvation. 12. 5. 1 Why God started the Creation? 12. 5. 2. Describing and understanding the “Garden of Eden situation”. 12. 5. 3 Version one of the “Fall”. 12. 5. 4. Version two of the “Fall”. 12. 5. 4. 1 What we took off to God when we “fall”? 12. 5. 4. 2 And… what we gave Him in exchange? 12. 6 The “Fall” and the Salvation. "Sin” and the Cross’s Work. 12. 6. 1 Version one of Salvation. 12. 6. 2 Version two of Salvation. 12. 7 The spiritual, a human experience. Mystical experience. 12. 8 Manifestation of Divinity 12. 9 The subjectal and the spiritual. 12. 9. 1 Religion. 12. 9. 2 Holistic Spirituality.
Chapter 13.
Self-esteem, Narcissism, Idolization and Self adoration: Egomania .
13. 1 “Light people” and Narcissism. 13. 1. 1 “Light culture” and relativization of Moral. Negation of absolutes. Narcissist swelling and negation of God. 13. 2 Self-esteem. 13. 3 Narcissism in the Bible. 13. 4 Psychoanalytic glance to Narcissism. 13. 5 Narcissism according to Psychoanalysis. Contributions of Heinz Kohut and Otto Kerberg. 13. 6 Idolization and self adoration: egomania. 13. 7 Self adoration is, only a psychopathologic phenomenon…? or contains some spiritual element? Analysis of the Temptation. 13. 8 Spiritual Correlate of Suicide.
Chapter 14
How a narcissistic ego affects the practice of Science, Esotericism and the Mysticism?
14. 1 Science. 14. 2 Esotericism. 14. 3 Mysticism.
Chapter 15.
Outline of a Gospel of Lord Jesus Christ for the emotional and mentally disabled people.
15. 1 Is all people apt to understand and to decide about the Sacred Writings? 15. 2 Differences between mental and emotional disabled people. 15. 3 “Light people” and “searching people”. 15. 4. Is it necessary the scientific formation of ministries, shepherds, priests and other spiritual leaders?
Chapter 16. Instinct and “sin”. The ambiguous sensation to having “trimmed” freedom.
16. 1 What the instinct is? 16. 2 Discerning between Mind and Soul. 16. 3 Instinct, instinctive impulse, necessity and desire. 16. 4 Eros, the instinct of love and Tanathos, the instinct of death. The paradox of Eros and Tanathos. Beyond the Pleasure’s Principle. 16. 5 The loose of control and the instinctive manifestations. Sublimation. 16. 6 Freedom, “sin”, “the inconvenient” and “what brings consequences”. 16. 6. 1 Is God a blackmailer? Those who try “to bribe Him”. 16. 7 Privacy, “free consensus” and “sin”. 16. 8 Disdainful “light people” and dissatisfied and worried “searching people”. 16. 9 Choosing under which influences I will place myself. 16. 10 Reiteration on the Otherness or Mutuality. The Sacred Couple. “What God likes” and “what God does not like”. 16. 11 First steps toward “being Christian” from the point of view of the Holistic Spirituality. 16. 12 “Free Will” from the psychological point of view . 16. 13 The psychological problem of Freedom. 16. 14 Spiritual Freedom and God’s suggestions. 16. 15 “Sin” is only “aiming mistake” or “missing the target”. 16. 16 "Sin” and what moves us away about the intention to which we were created.
Chapter 17.
Guilt and punishment. Preoccupation, responsibility, repentance and reparation.
17. 1 What is the guilt? Guilt, an imaginary inner state. 17. 2 Guilt and punishment. 17. 3 Guilt and fundamentalist clergymen. "Sin" promoted by guilt. 17. 4 Freedom, Responsibility, Preoccupation, Reparation. "Punishment" or consequence? Unbalancing and recovering the balance of Universal Justice. Loss of Glory. 17. 5 Recognizing our responsibility before God, and repairing Him. What sanctity is? 17. 6 Responsibility of bureaucratic churches.
Chapter 18.
A ferocious, cruel and vindictive God, or a Loving, Just and Merciful God?
18. 1 God, the poker, the Cosmos and the Law. 18. 2 God’s Justice in the Old Testament: “Sin”, guilt and punishment. 18. 3 God’ Justice in the New Testament: Mercy of God. 18. 4. Does God “allow” the suffering of the humanity? A Princeton academician accuses God as “or incompetent or evildoer”.
Chapter 19.
Worldliness and Spirituality. The evil, the Good and Raising Self Awareness. Conversion. The problem of the Authority. A liberating motivation.
19. 1 “Being worldly” and “being a world man”. 19. 2 Becoming aware of the “sensation of merit”. 19. 3 The evil. 19. 4 Spiritual conversion. 19. 4. 1 About “adrenalin”… 19.5 The “tendency to evil” is not inherent to the world. 19.6 “Raising self awareness” and vital experience. 19. 7 To speak and to display. Conversion. 19. 8 Authority and obedience… or discernment and freedom? Direct authority of God versus human, political or ecclesiastical delegate authority. The Inner Spiritual Authority. 19. 9. A liberating motivation.
FOURTH PART: SCIENTIFIC MORAL, INTERNAL ETHICS AND SPIRITUAL MORAL.
Chapter 20.
Scientific humanist Ethics.
20. 1 Subject of will and moral subject. The self and the meaning of life. 20. 2 Meaning of the world must be “outside the world”. 20. 3 So then… why a scientific humanist Ethics? 20. 4 Moral sense. 20. 5 Psychological and psycho-social factors of Ethics. 20. 6 Ethics and Inner Glance. 20. 7 Differences between Ethics and Moral. 20. 8 “Moral education” and the education in love. 20. 9 Valuations, Values and self-devaluation. 20. 10 Reiteration on the unconscious guilt. 20. 11 Scientific humanist Ethics and Emotional Health. 20. 12 Internal, democratic, humanist, natural Ethics versus external, autocratic, clerical Ethics. 20. 13 Natural behavior turned “bad” by the clerical Ethics. 20. 14 The Scientific humanist Ethics cannot be general.
Chapter 21.
Bureaucratic religion and churches. 21. 1. Religion, as opposed to the spiritual. 21. 2 How I can be spiritual without being religious? Is it possible to skip the bureaucratic churches?
Chapter 22.
The way from the Internal Ethics to the Spiritual Moral.
22. 1 What we must do and what we must be. 22. 2 Thought and feelings as vibratory energies determining reactions in natural world. 22. 3 Is it possible a spiritual Ethics without God?
FIFTH PART: HOLISTIC APPROACH TO SPIRITUALITY, SEXUALITY AND DEATH.
Chapter 23.
Spiritual disciplines and religions: its recommendations and prohibitions about sex.
23. 1 Trying a classification. 23. 2 Evolution from the concrete, material, sexed God, towards the abstract, spiritual non sexed God. 23. 3 Spirituality, eastern Religions, ancient western and American religions: concrete and/or absent Gods. 23. 4 Abrahamic Religions. 23. 4. 1 Catholic Church. Brief glance to History. 23. 4. 1. 1 Comment on Mary Magdalen: was she the First Apostle? Was she the wife of the Savior? 23. 4. 2 The Bible. 23. 4. 3 The Judaism. 23. 4. 4 The Mohammedan. 23. 4. 5 From Christian Spirituality to Holistic Spirituality.
Chapter 24.
Holistic Spirituality, Psychoanalysis and the esoteric Christianity or Bhakti Yoga.
Brief notice on Gurdjieff’s teaching. 24. 1 Cosmology. The Creation Beam and the “factory of suffering”. 24. 2 The effort for conscious work in the Inner Self. External and Internal aid. 24. 3 Worldly effort or “light people’s way of life”. Spiritual effort. 24. 4 Gurdjieff “egos” and conscience levels. 24. 5 All real psychology begins by the study and knowledge of oneself. 24. 6 New parallels between Gurdjieff’s System and Psychoanalysis. 24. 7 Parallels between Gurdjieff’s System and Christian Spirituality. 24. 8 The idea of Good prior Truth.
Chapter 25.
The sacred sense of the no procreative sexuality.
25. 1 Gurdjieff’s System and sexuality. 25. 2 Brief understanding of “the Centers” and the energies in Gurdjieff’s System. 25. 3 What is “correct sexual activity”? 25. 4 Wasting energy. The devastating fighting for power.
Chapter 26.
Tantra Yoga: the Sacred Sexuality and the Cult to The Feminine.
26. 1 What Tantra Yoga is? 26. 2 Not only a sexuality: a complete way of living. 26. 3 Sacred sexuality, spiritual sexuality. 26. 4 The cult to The Feminine and Tantra. 26. 5 Tantric man, tender man. 26. 6 To blood and fire, extirpating the magical women and “civilizing” the millenarian cultures and their wisdom.
Chapter 27
Woman and Spirituality. Spiritual superiority of the Woman. Why the necessity of a no sexed and abstract God?
27. 1 Gabriel Garcia Marquez's proclamation “Women to power”. 27. 2 The failure of the males. 27. 3 Self-esteem and dialogue. Narcissism, monolog and domination. 27. 4 The Goddess, peace and solidarity. 27. 5 The patriarchal God and the reptilian man. 27. 6 From Matriarchy to Patriarchy. The Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s proposal to return to Matriarchy of 27. 7 The way from the sexed God towards the Spiritual God. 27. 8 Teresa de Avila, Juan de la Cruz, and the mystical éxtasis. 27. 9 The Chant of the Chants. 27. 10 The origin of sexual and spiritual superiority of the woman. 27. 11 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Feminine Unitive. 27,12 Gurdjieff, esoteric Christianity and the preeminence of woman.
Chapter 28
And after all this… “where it is, oh death, your sting?” (First Corintian’s Epistle 15: 55).
28. 1 Death and Science. 28. 2 Death and the act to die. 28. 3 Dying of “the other” and the own death. 28. 4 The suffering around the death, manipulated by the bureaucratic churches. 28. 5 Conscience of the death versus fear to the death. 28. 6 Quality of life and quality of death. 28. 7 The “good dying” and humility. 28. 8 A “light people” death: negations and rationalizations. 28. 9 Fear to the dead person and disqualification of the life. 28. 10 Nature of the death. 28. 11 In “the tunnel”. 28. 12 The humanity and its four tunnels. 28. 13 Reiteration on quality of life and quality of death.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
FOREWORD.
(By FERNANDO ALAYZA MUJICA, Peruvian psychoanalyst).
It is, surely, the “thirst of infinite”, about which the author of this book talks us, the wire that allows us to understand how come, from the beginnings of his existence, the passage by his adolescence and his arrival to the present of his adult life, to have crossed and surely not to have finished his permanent, consistent, doubtful, contradictory, ambivalent, affirmative and critical search, looking for explaining to himself as to all we, his friends and readers of this book, his personal and particular way to have metabolized and understood, to today, his vital experience.
Then, this text summarized multiple levels of experience of a human being who, as a vital person, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, a believing in God being, is mainly a human being in all its dimension.
It is not accidental either that Felix emphasizes in its book -in its vital experience- what he denominates a Holistic Spirituality. On the contrary, the interlacing of the very diverse planes of the vital experience at diverse chronological and emotional moments, conform a multiple series of mixtures that, in a while –by means of personal evolution and mental growth-, raises to us as a tight synthesis of the history of how all this happened…
Or, at least, of what it is possible to put in black and white in paper.
I say this because, surely Felix knows it, lamentably everything cannot completely be poured to the writing, the word, the gesture or the symbol: thus, this we call “spiritual”, “existential zone”, is outlined by the word, the gestures, the writing and the symbols… but not totally translated… never totally expressed what in more deep of the being it has been developed, evolving and modifying throughout the vicissitudes of ours developing in the Universe.
And this is another one of the great merits of this text: in the writing, he pours himself more by means of some kind of an intuitive existential comprehension which is beyond the same text, that is within the text but is communicated more distantly and nearly than in the thickness of the paper marked by the ink, in the words.
There is something “guessed and felt” and it have much to do with an always present nonverbal communication in the text… Independently of so many whichever famous and recognized personages it mentions, independently of the sophisticated degree of gnoseologic and theoretical elaboration we discern, independently of so many other merits that text, as chapter to chapter edition, implies and beyond the high interest and curiosity that their expositions provoke, one feels that the author not only has written what has thought, experimented and vivenced but also that Felix -like in all the texts that I know him and in all the conversations that during so many years we have had and we will continue having-, he warmly tears himself in the sequence of the chapters plenty of coherently ordered and sequenced knowledge; they conform a “body” of thoughts and feelings that totally maintain to the intuitions and affirmations of the writer.
Its referring theoreticians -psychoanalytic, philosophical, quantum physics, esoteric-, they are as important as the referring ones to the interpersonal relations that, so far, were intensely lived by Felix in his life. And it seems most important to me because he puts in a same level these great thinkers and these human beings with those who he shared true experiences of love, enjoyment, and for that reason, of transcendental and universal mutual knowledge.
Ever since I began to read the book until the very end, it went and came in me the thought of Donald W. Winnicott - distinguished British psychoanalyst when, affirming the existence of an internal, subjective and unconscious world and another one, an external world, beyond our corporality, he emphasized emphatically that human being lives permanently in an intermediate space that, conjugating both, denominated “the space of the cultural experience”, as the space of the creativity in the human experience.
I feel that Felix’s book comes from there, from the deeper of his unconscious life, to the most distant of his conscious life. Conjugating years of his intellectual, existential and human tasks.
With his book, Felix has made us a great gift that I feel plenty of brotherly and solidarity towards all we, his brethren human beings.
He has given us his multiple and complex experience. He offers us it in order to using it, most of all, in order that his restlessness can be metabolized and used in our daily life by all we.
Felix, thousands of thanks for your book and thousand of thanks for you.
Fernando Alayza Mujica.
COMMENTARY TO "INTERLACING SCIENCE AND FAITH".
(By MARITZA CARLA CANTONI SALAZAR, my daughter).
Dear beloved daddy, here you go: my first perceptions of your book…
I began reading it without stopping by several hours and have had to stop because the real life summons me, but this first part already is letting much to say…
Your book is, for me, a proposal that tries to integrate the being in a “whole”. The communion of the body and the spirit, the mind and the soul, the visible and the invisible, science and faith that, although for almost everybody is something antagonistic, are part of a unit that is summoned through the loving presence of God as you yourself you refer.
I feel in your lines a moderation and a calm derived from the freedom you have found through knowledge, absent of all fanaticism that distorts all, free of those hateful fanaticisms in which, as you relate, sometimes you were immersed and that you, at any cost, could leave thanks to the infinite love of God, the tenacious investigation and constant search through prayer and meditation, search that today, leads you to offer us this balance, to me perfect, between Faith and Science; sources both of a single unit that is God.
I have been moved to tears by the sensitivity unfolded since the beginning of the book, imagining to my young father, astonished watching the stars in the firmament and asking himself not only for the immensity of the Universe but for the amazing human being.
This adventure written in 432 pages is, as I said sometimes to you, dangerous but so brave… I know that you know that you will not find in all people, the understanding and the acceptance for your expositions, although you have gone ahead to this possibility segmenting somehow to the reading public and determining “who is for and who is not for this book”, which seems healthful to me.
You know what? I do not know why, reading you, I evoked a class of Physics in high school in where they taught to me the scientific method and the formulation of hypothesis for the verification of such-and-such fact that would have to be proven. This book is for me, the “scientific method of the spirituality of being” if therefore it is possible to be called so. The explanation of everything through Science, Quantum Physics and the human spirit related of insurmountable and absolute way to God that, although cannot be seen, it is verified to each step and it guarantees in all the reflections and clinical arguments not only of doctors but in the experiences that you, as a Psychoanalyst and a untiring seeking human being of the truth of the being, you propose.
All your scientific understandings of Psychoanalysis and Quantum Physics, as you refer framed in the Spirituality can be, let me tell you, a probable misunderstood and no digestible product. I think about some people saying: “And… how you can digest this as one eats it?” Then you have been able to make it perfectly digestible.
This digestible word brings to memory a conversation with a friend to whom I commented that I went to Psychotherapy, and I am in Psychoanalysis. She asked to me: “what is that of Psychoanalysis”? I did not have a predetermined concept, only what I have had as my own experience as a patient of Psychoanalysis in these years, which puts to me somehow in one of the segments of people for your book is for. All that was, surely, besides of my own interests and search of answers to so many questions.
In order to summarize I answered to my friend with the first what flowed in me, which, although is a little strong and not very pleasant, I am going to tell it such as I told her: I said her that for me, Psychoanalysis has been a laxative powerful enema of soul, that makes you vomit all your interior… a unique opportunity to throw out all “ the crude” experiences that we ate throughout life, having the wonderful opportunity to return us to eat all those experiences but either digested, without which these cause that enormous indigestion to which they leads us, yes or yes, at some moment in what it can make burst the soul and the body and leave us in madness.
Instead, one can remaining it as a part of that necessary hardware, which feds itself of all good and all bad things that happens to us.
I relate all this to you because your book accompanies to me in this experience of having my way to reality, but taken of the hand of God. Small detail, isn’t? Exactly the wonderful ingredient, is Him, the essential salt of life that would have to be the engine of those who are in this search of inner peace and the inner maturity, a truth that is impossible not to accept, to feel, to breathe. Many of we let ourselves convince by “demonstrable” scientific proposals, loosing the knowledge that, is from God from where depart our essence and that Him would have to become the center of all our experiences.
The content of the book breaks the paradigms including before the “formality” of the own Psychoanalysis when integrating the Christian Spirituality to the process of the inner knowledge.
I am not a scholar in Holistic nor scientists subjects… I am, as they would say, a simple mortal being with a strong desire to know, to grow and to learn. What I know is what it does matter: when you found a root of which to take hold to explore and to open the mind to the understanding, everything is possible. Your book offers that strong root. Now I know that it will safely grow in many of the hearts of those who read to you, stimulating to us to go beyond visible, touchable and the merely understandable, exploring and accepting… accepting us.
I love you a very lot and thanks again to you: Your “Paqueta”.
It is, surely, the “thirst of infinite”, about which the author of this book talks us, the wire that allows us to understand how come, from the beginnings of his existence, the passage by his adolescence and his arrival to the present of his adult life, to have crossed and surely not to have finished his permanent, consistent, doubtful, contradictory, ambivalent, affirmative and critical search, looking for explaining to himself as to all we, his friends and readers of this book, his personal and particular way to have metabolized and understood, to today, his vital experience.
Then, this text summarized multiple levels of experience of a human being who, as a vital person, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, a believing in God being, is mainly a human being in all its dimension.
It is not accidental either that Felix emphasizes in its book -in its vital experience- what he denominates a Holistic Spirituality. On the contrary, the interlacing of the very diverse planes of the vital experience at diverse chronological and emotional moments, conform a multiple series of mixtures that, in a while –by means of personal evolution and mental growth-, raises to us as a tight synthesis of the history of how all this happened…
Or, at least, of what it is possible to put in black and white in paper.
I say this because, surely Felix knows it, lamentably everything cannot completely be poured to the writing, the word, the gesture or the symbol: thus, this we call “spiritual”, “existential zone”, is outlined by the word, the gestures, the writing and the symbols… but not totally translated… never totally expressed what in more deep of the being it has been developed, evolving and modifying throughout the vicissitudes of ours developing in the Universe.
And this is another one of the great merits of this text: in the writing, he pours himself more by means of some kind of an intuitive existential comprehension which is beyond the same text, that is within the text but is communicated more distantly and nearly than in the thickness of the paper marked by the ink, in the words.
There is something “guessed and felt” and it have much to do with an always present nonverbal communication in the text… Independently of so many whichever famous and recognized personages it mentions, independently of the sophisticated degree of gnoseologic and theoretical elaboration we discern, independently of so many other merits that text, as chapter to chapter edition, implies and beyond the high interest and curiosity that their expositions provoke, one feels that the author not only has written what has thought, experimented and vivenced but also that Felix -like in all the texts that I know him and in all the conversations that during so many years we have had and we will continue having-, he warmly tears himself in the sequence of the chapters plenty of coherently ordered and sequenced knowledge; they conform a “body” of thoughts and feelings that totally maintain to the intuitions and affirmations of the writer.
Its referring theoreticians -psychoanalytic, philosophical, quantum physics, esoteric-, they are as important as the referring ones to the interpersonal relations that, so far, were intensely lived by Felix in his life. And it seems most important to me because he puts in a same level these great thinkers and these human beings with those who he shared true experiences of love, enjoyment, and for that reason, of transcendental and universal mutual knowledge.
Ever since I began to read the book until the very end, it went and came in me the thought of Donald W. Winnicott - distinguished British psychoanalyst when, affirming the existence of an internal, subjective and unconscious world and another one, an external world, beyond our corporality, he emphasized emphatically that human being lives permanently in an intermediate space that, conjugating both, denominated “the space of the cultural experience”, as the space of the creativity in the human experience.
I feel that Felix’s book comes from there, from the deeper of his unconscious life, to the most distant of his conscious life. Conjugating years of his intellectual, existential and human tasks.
With his book, Felix has made us a great gift that I feel plenty of brotherly and solidarity towards all we, his brethren human beings.
He has given us his multiple and complex experience. He offers us it in order to using it, most of all, in order that his restlessness can be metabolized and used in our daily life by all we.
Felix, thousands of thanks for your book and thousand of thanks for you.
Fernando Alayza Mujica.
COMMENTARY TO "INTERLACING SCIENCE AND FAITH".
(By MARITZA CARLA CANTONI SALAZAR, my daughter).
Dear beloved daddy, here you go: my first perceptions of your book…
I began reading it without stopping by several hours and have had to stop because the real life summons me, but this first part already is letting much to say…
Your book is, for me, a proposal that tries to integrate the being in a “whole”. The communion of the body and the spirit, the mind and the soul, the visible and the invisible, science and faith that, although for almost everybody is something antagonistic, are part of a unit that is summoned through the loving presence of God as you yourself you refer.
I feel in your lines a moderation and a calm derived from the freedom you have found through knowledge, absent of all fanaticism that distorts all, free of those hateful fanaticisms in which, as you relate, sometimes you were immersed and that you, at any cost, could leave thanks to the infinite love of God, the tenacious investigation and constant search through prayer and meditation, search that today, leads you to offer us this balance, to me perfect, between Faith and Science; sources both of a single unit that is God.
I have been moved to tears by the sensitivity unfolded since the beginning of the book, imagining to my young father, astonished watching the stars in the firmament and asking himself not only for the immensity of the Universe but for the amazing human being.
This adventure written in 432 pages is, as I said sometimes to you, dangerous but so brave… I know that you know that you will not find in all people, the understanding and the acceptance for your expositions, although you have gone ahead to this possibility segmenting somehow to the reading public and determining “who is for and who is not for this book”, which seems healthful to me.
You know what? I do not know why, reading you, I evoked a class of Physics in high school in where they taught to me the scientific method and the formulation of hypothesis for the verification of such-and-such fact that would have to be proven. This book is for me, the “scientific method of the spirituality of being” if therefore it is possible to be called so. The explanation of everything through Science, Quantum Physics and the human spirit related of insurmountable and absolute way to God that, although cannot be seen, it is verified to each step and it guarantees in all the reflections and clinical arguments not only of doctors but in the experiences that you, as a Psychoanalyst and a untiring seeking human being of the truth of the being, you propose.
All your scientific understandings of Psychoanalysis and Quantum Physics, as you refer framed in the Spirituality can be, let me tell you, a probable misunderstood and no digestible product. I think about some people saying: “And… how you can digest this as one eats it?” Then you have been able to make it perfectly digestible.
This digestible word brings to memory a conversation with a friend to whom I commented that I went to Psychotherapy, and I am in Psychoanalysis. She asked to me: “what is that of Psychoanalysis”? I did not have a predetermined concept, only what I have had as my own experience as a patient of Psychoanalysis in these years, which puts to me somehow in one of the segments of people for your book is for. All that was, surely, besides of my own interests and search of answers to so many questions.
In order to summarize I answered to my friend with the first what flowed in me, which, although is a little strong and not very pleasant, I am going to tell it such as I told her: I said her that for me, Psychoanalysis has been a laxative powerful enema of soul, that makes you vomit all your interior… a unique opportunity to throw out all “ the crude” experiences that we ate throughout life, having the wonderful opportunity to return us to eat all those experiences but either digested, without which these cause that enormous indigestion to which they leads us, yes or yes, at some moment in what it can make burst the soul and the body and leave us in madness.
Instead, one can remaining it as a part of that necessary hardware, which feds itself of all good and all bad things that happens to us.
I relate all this to you because your book accompanies to me in this experience of having my way to reality, but taken of the hand of God. Small detail, isn’t? Exactly the wonderful ingredient, is Him, the essential salt of life that would have to be the engine of those who are in this search of inner peace and the inner maturity, a truth that is impossible not to accept, to feel, to breathe. Many of we let ourselves convince by “demonstrable” scientific proposals, loosing the knowledge that, is from God from where depart our essence and that Him would have to become the center of all our experiences.
The content of the book breaks the paradigms including before the “formality” of the own Psychoanalysis when integrating the Christian Spirituality to the process of the inner knowledge.
I am not a scholar in Holistic nor scientists subjects… I am, as they would say, a simple mortal being with a strong desire to know, to grow and to learn. What I know is what it does matter: when you found a root of which to take hold to explore and to open the mind to the understanding, everything is possible. Your book offers that strong root. Now I know that it will safely grow in many of the hearts of those who read to you, stimulating to us to go beyond visible, touchable and the merely understandable, exploring and accepting… accepting us.
I love you a very lot and thanks again to you: Your “Paqueta”.
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