Transpersonal Philosophy

Let us discuss some basic aspect of ego formation: its appearence out of the uroboric round. The uroboric round is the realm of the primordial waters (you can listen to my Podcast on the Primordial Waters). I really recomend you the book: The Origin s and History of Consciousness by Erich Neumann. (Princeton University Press). Neumann was a friend of Jung and member of the Eranos Group. We could understand the appearance of the ego from the unconscious through the myth of the emergence of an island from the primordial waters. Its appearance, however, is not permanent and definitive, especially at the beginning. The tides of the unconscious rise and the island is once again covered by the waters. Only a progressive systematization of consciousness leads to its permanence. To keep consciousness awake, a force of determination is necessary, which requires a display of psychic and physiological energy. For the appearance of consciousness it is necessary to exert an energy that moves...

  Those of you who have studied with me will have noticed my insistence on some concepts that I consider fundamental for a deep understanding of existence beyond the cliches of knowledge that make up both our “manas” mind and our “buddhi” mind. One of them is “morphism”, or mapping. One of the great difficulties of the philosophy of different traditions is the difficulty in establishing morphisms of concepts. When we enter a new terrain of thinking, feeling or volition, our Soul traces morphisms that take the unfamiliar to the familiar. The “Path of Beauty” is one of those terrains. The Soul-Spirit relationship is totally intuitive, direct and spontaneous, but you have to know how to listen, that is, forget the language of everyday life full of ambiguities and inherited errors. Yes, we not only inherit positive things, our traditions are also accumulations of mistakes, committed with the best intentions, of course. The metaphor of the dance of Shiva and Shakti descri...

  Aquellos de vosotros que habéis estudiado conmigo, os habréis dado cuenta de mi insistencia en algunos conceptos que considero fundamentales para una comprensión profunda de la existencia más allá de los clichés de conocimiento que configuran tanto nuestra mente “manas” como nuestra mente “buddhi”. Uno de ellos es el de “morfismo”, o mapeo. Una de las grandes dificultades de la filosofía de diferentes tradiciones es la dificultad para establecer morfismos de conceptos. Cuando entramos en un terreno nuevo del pensar, del sentir o de la volición, nuestra Alma traza morfismos que lleven lo poco familiar a lo familiar. El “Sendero de la Belleza” es uno de esos terrenos. La relación Alma-Espíritu es totalmente intuitiva, directa y espontánea, pero hay que saber escuchar, es decir, olvidar el lenguaje de la vida cotidiana lleno de ambigedades y errores heredados. Sí, no sólo heredamos cosas positivas, nuestras tradiciones son también cúmulos de errores, cometidos con...