Transpersonal Philosophy

  We learn by repetition, but we understand by sympathy. Musical harmony, the series of overtones, is the expression of unity in multiplicity that occurs due to sympathetic resonance. The Remembrance, the Dhikr that the Sufis speak of, is that: resonance through sympathy, letting vibrate, allowing life to activate the seed that our soul wishes to express in this existence. The identity mask can hinder that “sympathy vibration”. As you know, the Latin word “persona” literally means the mask of the theater actor. It is through that mask that the actor “sounds” his/her part in the work, “per-sonat”, “through-sounds”, but the actor is not the mask, and she knows it. In the hells of the Hindu, Jain and Buddhist traditions, their inhabitants are completely absorbed in the scene before them, just as the cat fascinated with the ball of wool forgets everything around it, and they do not remember that they are wearing the mask of a person who suffers in a particular hell. This ...

  Aprendemos por repetición, pero entendemos por simpatía. La armonía musical, la serie de armónicos, es la expresión de la unidad en la multiplicidad que se produce debido a la resonancia por simpatía. El Recuerdo, el Dhikr del que hablan los sufís es eso: resonancia por simpatía, dejar vibrar, permitir que la vida active la semilla que nuestra alma desea expresar en esta existencia. La máscara de identidad puede entorpecer esa vibración por simpatía. Como sabéis, la palabra latina “persona” quiere decir, literalmente, la máscara del actor de teatro. Es a través de esa máscara que el actor “hace sonar” su parte en la obra, “per-sonat”, “a través- suena”, pero el actor no es la máscara, y lo sabe. En los infiernos de las tradiciones Hindú, Jainita y Budista, sus habitantes están absortos por completo en la escena que tienen delante, como el gato fascinado con el ovillo de lana olvida todo a su alrededor, y no recuerdan que llevan puesta la máscara que pad...

  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...