Transpersonal Philosophy

Most of our life “problems” have their origin in our interaction with others. Our culture shapes the scenarios in which our psychic experience on this Earth will unfold. The personal and social relationships that derive from that particular social structure will determine our livelihood and our growth, our values and expectations, and in these contexts the person who enjoys and suffers the fascinating experience of life will be constructed. Perhaps the greatest difficulty in this experience is the individual inability to make a balanced evaluation of the problems and well-being that affect us. This inability also occurs at the social level, since cultural self-absorption prevents the breadth of perspectives necessary to understand human movement as a whole. In the same way that we cannot form a complete or adequate image of a city if we always remain inside it and do not know what is outside it, we cannot satisfactorily understand the identity of a culture by forming only ...

  Kintsugi is the Japanese art of restoring broken pottery or glass with gold lacquer. The fine crystal cup does not return to its original state but, thanks to the gold, is transformed into something of greater beauty and value. Life experience inevitably produces breaks in our psyche of different kinds and degrees: our harmony is broken. Emotional or mental suffering fractures our identity, insecurity and doubt invade us and the meaning of our life seems to dissipate. Restoring homeostasis, the balance of our person, requires taking a step back from the tumult of the crisis to gain a level-headed perspective on what is happening. Our personal mask has been broken and putting it back together requires a good dose of gold as well as the hands of a mask craftsman, a connoisseur of the human soul. The gold lacquer for the reconstruction-transformation of the personal mask is the word. The word is the instrument. Not only the ordinary scientific word that provides method...