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...

  A brief note to clarify again the relationship between philosophy and psychology. In a society like ours it is generally assumed that philosophers and psychologists are those who are accredited by a university with a major on these fields, that is, those people who have followed specific teaching programs and passed certain exams. Neither Pythagoras, nor Heraclitus, nor Buddha, nor Socrates, nor Plato, nor Aristotle, nor Plotinus, nor Lao-Tzu, nor Sankara, nor... (the list would be immense...), well, none of the major philosophers and psychologist in history ever had a university accreditation. It is very important not to fall into the clerk’s mentality in relation to philosophy and psychology. Psychology as academic knowledge developed under philosophy’s umbrella until the last quarter of the 19th century. We can still find remnants of this lineage connection acknowledged by the academic world. The dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy of Language recognizes th...

  Una nota breve para aclarar de nuevo la relación entre la filosofía y la psicología. Se hace necesaria en una sociedad como la nuestra en la que de forma generalizada se asume que filósofo y psicólogo son quienes están acreditados por alguna universidad al repecto, es decir aquellas personas que han seguido unos programas específicos de enseñanza y superado ciertos exámenes. Ni Pitágoras, ni Heráclito, ni Buddha, ni Sócrates, ni Platón, ni Aristóteles, ni Plotino, ni Lao-Tse, ni Sankara, ni… (la lista sería inmensa…) bien pues ninguno de esa lista tuvo nunca una acreditación universitaria. Y con la psicología pasaría lo mismo. Es muy importante no caer en la mentalidad funcionarial en relación a la filosofía y la psicología. La psicología como saber académico se desarrolló dentro del seno de la filosofía hasta el último cuarto del siglo XIX. El diccionario de la Real Academia Española de la Lengua, reconoce este parentesco, y nos dice en una de las acepciones de...

  The transpersonality of the Soul makes the understanding of what we call "personal identity", the egoic mask narrative, impossible without the understanding of the group identity to which we belong. That is why it is important to know mythopoetics, the symbolic construction of identity of our culture. Myths are transpersonal in social terms (we could say: transocial) , and that is what the concept of "Mythologem", coined by Karl Kerenyi, illustrates. The term designates the common elements in myths belonging to different traditions, like the tales of the Sacred Child, the descent of the hero to the underworld, the marriage of the King-God to the Earth Goddess, and so on. [for more on this see my little essay on mythologems: https://construccionsimbolicaidentidadhumana.blogspot.com/2013/09/what-is-mythologem.html]  The transpersonality of the masks of gods and their actions has produced all kinds of confusion. The superimposition of one myth on anoth...

       We have seen that, according to Zoroastrian mythology, Spenta Armaiti is the mother of Daena. Translated into our own metaphors: our Soul and our Spirit are children, each in their own ontological rank, of the Soul and Spirit of the Earth. This is already found in many different mythologies, in fact, it is a generalized intuition that all of us have when we approach Earth from the perceptual depth of our Tripartite Souls (when we approach Earth from our Xvarnah, the projection link of light or mapping of light of the Soul onto Earth). In the “Path of Beauty”, Daena appears with the Sanskrit name of Purusha, but with the same meaning of “Human Spirit” or “Human Atman”.      Let me now tell you another episode of Zoroastrian myths: the crossing of the Chinvat Bridge. I'm going to reduce the myth to its fundamental elements. The Chinvat Bridge is the threshold that separates life and death. A quick remainder: as we already know, Soul...

       Basic emotions provide the semantic basis of animal and human language. We understand animals and they understand us because of the basic emotional continuity of all animal life. Anxiety and desire, or if we put it in terms of basic emotions: the neural system of fear and the neural system of search (dopamine system), have a semantic content that express the Speech of the Vital Will (as the other basic emotions do).      Basic emotions specify a direction for action and a modus operandi, and for this reason they imply a type of non-declarative, non-verbalizable, knowledge-but knowledge nonetheless- at the organism’s disposal. That knowledge is part of the Speech of our Volitive Soul (not all of it, for there are connecttions of the Volitive Soul to what we call physis at large ) . By non-declarative cognitive procedure I understand that which is linked to non-declarative or implicit memories. Non-declarative memories are informatio...

       I am not asking what academic psychology is, what is taught at universities, but the question is more anthropological, broader: what is the human psyche? What is psychology in my life? What is my psychological dimension? Most of you have been studying it for years, but even those who approach it for the first time as a college subject have some more or less vague ideas about its scope and content. Its study appeals to you for various personal reasons. Some of you are interested in the application of psychology performed by our society, its individual and social therapeutic dimension. Others are thrown into the arms of psychology by an inner search, the need to better understand the nature of the human soul and the mind. In other terms, some of you choose to study psychology while others are chosen by it. These two paths start from a common source: the need for knowledge of oneself, the motto that could be read at the entrance to the sanctuary of ...