RESEARCH
Education of the rational intelligence & education of the emotional intelligence
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Human
factor as key driving forces in the Earth' s system -
Agenda 21. Earth Summit Rio 1992:Education,
including formal education, public awareness and training are
recognized as a process by which human beings and societies can reach their
fullest potential. Education is critical for promoting sustainable development
and improving the capacity of the people to address environment and development
issues. Both formal and non-formal education are indispensable to changing
people´s attitudes so that they have the capacity to assess and address
their sustainable development concerns. It is also critical for achieving
environmental and ethical awareness, values and attitudes, skills and behaviour
consistent with sustainable development. To be effective, environment and
development education should deal with the dynamics of both the physical/biological
and socio-economic environment and human - which may include spiritual
- development, should be integrated in all disciplines.
The
role of the sciences for sustainable development - Agenda 21.
Earth Summit Rio 1992:Increasing
public awareness - Agenda 21. Earth
Summit Rio 1992:
Index:
1.
Letter: Growth
of the plants and inner growth of human beingIn EarthProgram I have just applied the laws of growth of the nature, particularly of the plants, to the personal growth of the human being. I use the tool - or the law -of analogy and correspondences for building the bridge between the outer and the inner world. Interdisciplinarity for me does not only mean to link together different sciences like natural sciences and psychology, but also to make bridges between the physical, the emotional and the spiritual worlds of the human being. I will share with you an example of how I do it.
Growth of the plants and inner growth of the human being:
* Stages of growth: You know that the plants grow. Everybody knows that, because it is visible to all. That is the beauty of my work: that it has to do with things that everybody sees! And it is so simple. And you know also that there are different stages of growth: the seed coming out of the soil, the stage of growing leaves, then the stage of flowering, then the stage of maturity. Then the harvest (for the agricultural crops for example). And it does not stop here: then there is the transformation: from wheat to flour, and then to bread, and then to nutrition in the body and then to energy for the body. (These are new dimensions of growth). And we can go even further: we can also say that it becomes action, love, will. These are all stages of growth. But of course, for the plants the growth stops at harvest time.
* Begin and end of stages of growth:And a characteristicum of the stages of growth is that there is always a beginning and an end, and you can´t go fully to the next stage if you don´t have reached the end of the previous stage: the flowering has to finish (such a sadness, is´nt it?) before the fruit can really mature. This is life. It is life to step from one stage to another one, to leave things, leave security, ideas, etc… In nature there is a scientifical reason for this necessity of ending a stage before beginning the next: it is called "the partitioning of carbohydrates": the energies have to be partitioned differently for each stage of growth. The plant produces with the photosynthesis carbohydrates (the sugar) and these carbohydrates are the building stones of the visible body of the plant. When the plant grows her leaves, she has to send her carbohydrates to the leaves, so that they can grow. But when it is time for flowering, most of the produced carbohydrates has to be sent now for the growing of the flower and so no more carbohydrates are sent to the leaves. For us human being, it means that we have to shift our energy from the old stage to the new one. If we don´t end something, the necessary energies for the next stages are not awailable. For us human being it is difficult to close a situation, but it is a necessary condition for the next step.
* Stages of inner growth of the human being: But what are the stage of growth in the inner worlds of human being? I distinguish three big stages of the inner growth in human being:
1.) I am identified with the plant: I think I am just the plant. In psychosynthesis it it the stage of being identified with the subpersonalities. I am dependent of the climate outside, if it is warm or cold, if it is rainy or dry. I am also dependent of what the gardener - if there is one - is doing or not doing. Brief, I am dependent. I am "child". I am a child in my inner life, I am child in my emotions. I cannot do anything about my feelings and emotions: there are just there (the psychological climate of my life).
2.) I disidentify myself from the plant and I beginn to take care of my own life. I start to be also the gardener: I am the plant and the gardener. The gardener in this case is the "I" of psychosynthesis, the center of the personal level. I can take decisions about myself and what is very important, I take care of myself. I take responsibility of myself. I want to. This is the stage of discovering and experiencing the will in psychosynthesis. I work on the soil (the lower unconscious of psychosynthesis) and I learn how to cooperate with the climate and the sky (the higher unconscious, the transpersonal level of psychosynthesis: the world of "qualities"). But as a gardener I am dependent of the climate: of course if it is not raining, I can water my plants, but if it is winter I cannot make it become summer. This is the second stage of the inner growth of human being. It is being "young".Young inside, young in my emotional life.
3.) The third stage of inner growth of human being is identifying myself also with the sky and even with the sun: it means I start to work there, where are the causes: the climate, the weather. I discover my inner sun (the transpersonal Self) and I make the weather. But making the weather, i.e. working in the world of the causes, means working for everybody, not only for my own plant: The sun is the center of the solar system: it has to do with the whole planet Earth. If I identify myself with the sun, then I shine for all the plants, for all the landscapes, for all the earth.. What I mean is that altruismus (working for a whole) and love are here the condition of this stage. To work on the weather, "making the weather", means to know about ecological interdependence, to know about the seasons, about the planet orbit around the sun, to know about day and night of life, to know also about the shadow (only when then sun is shining then I can see the shadow!). It means to collaborate with a lot of cosmical principles. Here I take responsibility for the whole and I work within the whole: I work for the Earth, because if I have a body and I´m sitting here in Vienna or in the U.S. it means I am also the earth.
But the point of this stage of growth is not to be just the sky and the sun. The point is to initiate seasons and influence the growth of my own plant and my landscape. To be only sky is not enough: this is the transpersonal world of the psyche. The transpersonal is the climate which shapes the personality level, which shapes the here and the now. If we want to see changes into reality here on earth, we can work on the climate. But the personality level is very important: a very hot summer without plants growing on the soil just brings burnings and it is the desert. Making a lot of meditations means to bring much sun on earth, but if I have nothing, if there is no water, or I have just a lot of "weeds" - and my small plant is very small - on my personality level, then more sun means more drought or more weeds, which will suffocate my small plant. Or if I live in a way that is polluting my inside atmosphere, it does not help to be the sun (the self): its rays will always be destorted when they reach my level of personality. You see that there is an interdependence between the landscape (personality level) and the climate.
Think about the climate change, the ozon depletion and our responsibility in our way of living and producing. My opinion is that the environmental challenges of the present time have to do with this stage of growth: it is an existential crisis of growth of our planet earth, a leaving the previous stage of growth and coming into the next.
As an agrometeorologist and in my work now in the national weather forecast institute of Vienna, I see so many analogies between the climate, the weather and the psychological climate of our feelings: even the equations which describe the system-states of the weather can be applied. The rays of the sun are electromagnetical waves, and these rays are absorbed and changed when they pass into the atmosphere: the rays of our Self are deviated and changed when they pass our world of feelings: if it is cloudy inside us (cold bringing feelings for example), most of the rays of the Self are absorbed by the cloud and do not reach the earth. It is grey. How often is also our inner sky grey and we don´t see our inner sun? (we don´t have contact with our Self).
I could write many and many more things about this - it is a fascinating world of correspondences, but I think the letter will be to long, just for a homepage. I wrote about the theory, the concept, but the aim of this theory is DOING. It is working in the world of the causes to create new causes, so that we can have different effects on our level of personality. This is what matters me.
2.
letter: I apply psychosynthesis to ecology
and natural sciences (with socio-political implications)
See also 5. Letter: Assagioli´s Egg diagram of the human psyche in Psychosynthesis and the solar system
I apply psychosynthesis to ecology and natural sciences (with socio-political implications). The idea is: if I see things differently (with one more dimension - the transpersonal), then I will also act differently: and we needs actions! I am agrometeorologist (I am specialized in the influences of the weather on plant growth) and I am working at the national weather service in Vienna in the research department of weather forecasts (modeling of the atmosphere). May be you will think, what this has to do with psychosynthesis... Well: I made a bridge (an interdisciplinary link) between the nature inside us (as it is described by psychosynthesis) and the nature outside us (as it is described by natural sciences). (Macrocosmos = Microcosmos). I use the tool of analogies and I make the analogy between planet Earth ( = level of personality) and Sun (= self), the sky with its atmosphere (= transpersonal level, the plants and the human being.
Self = sun = sun
transpersonal level = sky (weather) = atmosphere
level of personality = plants (landscape) = planet Earth
I = gardener (gardener of myself!) = ??? humanity?
lower unconscious = soil = geology???
I base my researchs also on the writings of Alice A. Bailey and on the seven rays (book "a treatise on cosmic fire").
3.
Letter: The exercise of seasons and landscape:
experiencing the core of growth. The development and the changes From an e-mail received: "I was really impressed with your use of analogy and the Law of Correspondence regarding the plant, gardener, sky and sun as analagous to >the process of growth. I see this as a marvelous PS exercise. Do you conduct workshops using this process? If so, I would be interested in an exercise description."
In all the exercises I offer the possibility to make a personal experience of some concepts of natural sciences corresponding to some qualities of psychosynthesis. - For example making the experience of the factors of growth: the climate (weather outside/weather inside. The sun), the soil (how do I nourish my self, I am well rooted? The experience of the quality of being secure), the water (do I water myself? Where comes the rain from?). - Experiencing the laws of growth: photosynthesis (from the photosynthesis to the psychosynthesis), energycycles (sun radiation: The energy flow from the Self to the I, the use of the energy of the Self for the I) - Making the experience of growth and the different stages of growth as a plant (as an individual).
The exercise I describe you, is for the work on the personality level: it is the exercise with seasons and landscape. It is about experiencing seasons in life and experiencing the core of growth: the development and changes.
Here the exercise of seasons and landscape. The aim of this exercise is to experience growth and the changing of seasons in my inner world and to explore my way of living within it: do I recognize when a new season is coming in my life? Do I accept to leave the previous season behind me or do I struggle for maintain it? How is my way of coping with changes?
1. Step: Visualization of a landscape: I ask the participants to visualize a landscape that they know. It is important that it is a landscape that they love and which they feel to be in contact with. (The emotional connection must be build up). Then I ask them to see all the parts, all the elements of this landscape (it is viewing our personality level and the differents elements of the landscape could represent our subpersonalities). And then I ask them to look at the season. Is it winter, summer, etc...? How do you recognize that it is this season and not another? Be always in contact with your feelings and be aware of your bodyreactions. 2. Step: Identification with the landscape. Identify yourself with this landscape or with a part of this landscape. Feel yourself as this part of landscape. How do you feel? What do you experience? How do you experience the season? What is the quality that you are coming in contact with? 3. Step: let the seasons start. The present season ends and the next comes. How do you react as a part of the landscape? What changes do you experience? What is happening in your environment? What do you feel? What is the quality that you are coming in contact with? 4. Step: Work with symbol. Let come up (do you say so in English?) a symbol for what you are experiencing. Maybe there is also a message for you. Then draw it and then write some notices. 5. Step: the next season comes. (Exploring my way of coping with changes). Identify yourself again with the part of the landscape. You experience how times goes on and how this season parts away and a new one comes. What do you experience? Do you change? How? Does change also your environment? And how do you feel? Are you sad? Are you happy and looking forward for the next season? Again symbol, draw, notices, 6. Step: And then so on for all the seasons: the third season is coming. Again the same process. Then the last season is coming. Again the same process. 7. Step: At the end the first season you had comes back again: how do you react? Do you recognize it or is it completely new for you? What is the quality you are experiencing? 8. Let emerge a symbol for the whole experience during all the seasons. This experience represents your life. Draw the symbol. Write notices. 9. Shifting to the mental level and grounding: Answer the following questions a) Could what I have experienced now, have something to do with my own life? If yes, what? b) Assuming that these images are a language, what would they tell me? How could I translate them in thoughts? c) Can I find a relation to my day-to-day life? If yes, what? Try to be so concrete as possible.
4.
Letter: Meterology
and the seven rays: Sorry, only
german version available! Not yet in English. - This is just a very
short summary.5.
Letter: Assagioli´s
Egg diagram of the human psyche in Psychosynthesis and the solar system
