The "backgrounds" of historical events have been accomplished for centuries with the same methods, schemes and strategies accurately experimented. From the discovery and colonization of America to the war in the Gulf or the current war in Iraq, every single aggression has been -and is still- preceded by the old propitiatory ritual carried out by the wizards of the tribe, the priests of the Empire or the experts in communication.
Invoking benevolent spirits, the protection of the gods or the consent of the crowds requires the same mixture of ingredients that can successfully persuade warriors, raise sentiments and skilfully manipulate collective perception. Rites and ceremonies, words and sacred images, documents and television or satellite images contain an enormous potential of psychical energy capable of triggering the phenomenon of adrenalin excitement, of political exaltation, religious fanaticism and, not less dangerous, of submissive consent in democratic masses.
"A weakened global perception leads to a weakened sense of responsibility since each individual tends to be responsible solely for his specialised task, and also to weakened solidarity, since each individual perceives solely the ties to his own city, region or nation"
Education for a conscious perception of reality is an indispensable tool for the individual to get oriented in his choice of life, in his decisions and in the definition of reasons that support any type of action, minimizing the threshold of error caused by the environment ; but the risk of illusion is still present, tied to the identification with models produced by a society that homologates individual perception and reduces it to statistics, something perhaps useful for a political or commercial survey.
The recognition of individual awareness is accomplished gradually through a process of cultural, social and spiritual identification with evolutionary models of consciousness. Nowadays, the process of individualization is interrupted, as if the virtual bridge of consciousness that leads to the maturity of earth identity had collapsed.
Edgar Morin declared: " There is an increasing democratic deficit because experts, specialists and technicians have taken possession of a growing number of vital problems. Learning becomes more esoteric ( available only to specialists ) and anonymous ( concentrated in data banks, used by anonymous authorities). Technical knowledge is reserved for experts who are competent in their closed field and incompetent when that field is parasitized by outside influences or modified by new events. In these conditions the citizen loses the right to knowledge"
The right to knowledge must not be confused with the right to education. One of the most astonishing aspects of the last decades is the fact that education can no longer teach what "to know" means , what "knowledge" means and what the "purpose" of knowledge is . The fragmentation of truth into numerous branches of knowledge, more or less specialised, esoteric or massive, continuously moves the target at which the string of soul intends to aim
Bewitched by technological innovation, blinded by manuals that teach how to "conquer" happiness, excited by the emotions produced by new age literature and philosophy and finally distracted by the images of cultural consumer society, the soul of the western world wanders restlessly in bookstores, cinemas, museums or conferences dedicated to it .
We may consider Raffaello as one of the precursors of western soul, perhaps the first artist free from any type of prejudice and philosophical or psychological education. Nevertheless, in a short time Raffaello obtains the keys to knowledge capable of opening all the doors of the Temple of knowledge.
The light emitted by the image, gets filtered by the eye, reaches the cortex of the mesencephalon that specializes in transforming electromagnetic frequencies into neuroelectrical stimuli, is then sent to the two superior hemispheres tso it can decoded into meaningful images. The mesencephalon makes no distinction between a light emitted from a photograph and one that comes from real objects.
Invoking benevolent spirits, the protection of the gods or the consent of the crowds requires the same mixture of ingredients that can successfully persuade warriors, raise sentiments and skilfully manipulate collective perception. Rites and ceremonies, words and sacred images, documents and television or satellite images contain an enormous potential of psychical energy capable of triggering the phenomenon of adrenalin excitement, of political exaltation, religious fanaticism and, not less dangerous, of submissive consent in democratic masses.
"A weakened global perception leads to a weakened sense of responsibility since each individual tends to be responsible solely for his specialised task, and also to weakened solidarity, since each individual perceives solely the ties to his own city, region or nation"
Education for a conscious perception of reality is an indispensable tool for the individual to get oriented in his choice of life, in his decisions and in the definition of reasons that support any type of action, minimizing the threshold of error caused by the environment ; but the risk of illusion is still present, tied to the identification with models produced by a society that homologates individual perception and reduces it to statistics, something perhaps useful for a political or commercial survey.
The recognition of individual awareness is accomplished gradually through a process of cultural, social and spiritual identification with evolutionary models of consciousness. Nowadays, the process of individualization is interrupted, as if the virtual bridge of consciousness that leads to the maturity of earth identity had collapsed.
Edgar Morin declared: " There is an increasing democratic deficit because experts, specialists and technicians have taken possession of a growing number of vital problems. Learning becomes more esoteric ( available only to specialists ) and anonymous ( concentrated in data banks, used by anonymous authorities). Technical knowledge is reserved for experts who are competent in their closed field and incompetent when that field is parasitized by outside influences or modified by new events. In these conditions the citizen loses the right to knowledge"
The right to knowledge must not be confused with the right to education. One of the most astonishing aspects of the last decades is the fact that education can no longer teach what "to know" means , what "knowledge" means and what the "purpose" of knowledge is . The fragmentation of truth into numerous branches of knowledge, more or less specialised, esoteric or massive, continuously moves the target at which the string of soul intends to aim
Bewitched by technological innovation, blinded by manuals that teach how to "conquer" happiness, excited by the emotions produced by new age literature and philosophy and finally distracted by the images of cultural consumer society, the soul of the western world wanders restlessly in bookstores, cinemas, museums or conferences dedicated to it .
We may consider Raffaello as one of the precursors of western soul, perhaps the first artist free from any type of prejudice and philosophical or psychological education. Nevertheless, in a short time Raffaello obtains the keys to knowledge capable of opening all the doors of the Temple of knowledge.
The light emitted by the image, gets filtered by the eye, reaches the cortex of the mesencephalon that specializes in transforming electromagnetic frequencies into neuroelectrical stimuli, is then sent to the two superior hemispheres tso it can decoded into meaningful images. The mesencephalon makes no distinction between a light emitted from a photograph and one that comes from real objects.
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