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Pier Luigi Lattuada M.d., Ph.D.

It is said that in the nineteen sixties a blue-eyed German missionary went to an indigenous tribe in the Mato Grosso which had just come into contact with the white man for the first time. A few days later he was found tied to a pole without any eyes. Obviously the Indios liked his blue eyes and so took them. Underlying this story are the Indios and missionary’s assumptions. There is a good possibility that one of the missionary’s assumptions was: Only Christ can offer salvation, and the primitive populations need salvation. The Indios’ assumptions must have been different: if we take his eyes we will gain their strength.

We can say that every story has underlying assumptions. They form the basis of every scientific theory, discipline or human action. The problem is that many of these assumptions are implicit, after we have acquired them we take them for granted.

As the saying goes: if you don’t know the assumptions on which your actions are based, act on the basis of the assumptions that you don’t know. This means that the assumptions act in your stead.

When we really want to know what we are doing, if we want to process systems of knowledge which provide a guarantee and are valid, if we wish to increase our degree of freedom and “personal power” we must be fully aware of the assumptions which we base ourselves on.

We intend to list below the assumptions which we share and on which our thinking, feelings and actions,  are based. They are basically a series of assumptions, most of which have been shared for thousands of years by the most diverse of spiritual traditions and other main lines of transpersonal thinking as Charles Tart reminds us in his work Transpersonal psychologies.

The intention is to come up with a proposal which serves as a guide line for drawing up a “Transpersonal Manifesto” to be approved and signed by everybody who recognises it: scientists, artists, intellectuals, spiritual travellers, willing men and women etc.

Please go on website: www.eurotasitaly2009.eu and post your sentences or suggestions in “contributions”, or send it directly to our mail transpersonal@fastwebnet.it

We will present the Manifesto at the 11th EUROTAS Conference on Sunday 18  in the final Round table: The Wisdom Council : contributions for a Transpersonal Manifesto

Beyond the Mind

11th EUROTAS Conference: 15-18 October Milano

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