Method: integration of the culture, psychological knowledge of oneself and spirituality

“It is crucial to know ourselves well, but I wouldn’t want to reassure you by this, not even if you arrived in the highest of heavens (…) But I believe that we’ll never know ourselves well, if we don’t try, all together, to know God” (Saint Therese of Jesus).

The rising humanity is integral: therefore it is peace-loving

The most specific element in our laboratories consists of integrating three learning levels and formative levels that are normally separated: the cultural, psychological and spiritual levels.
We believe that today only their correct integration is functional for the emersion of the new humanity.

Each and every one of us has the need of the strong interpretive keys in this present moment of a new culture of transformation. But we also need to know ourselves better, to know our blocks, our egoistic defense systems, our fears, our rages, our hatred and in this way even our most authentic desires, our needs, our spiritual aspirations etc. Thus, we are in need of a specific psychological self-learning.

“The oldest generation looks with concern its own children and their more or less strange behavior. But children tend to live the unconscious life that was never lived by their parents, the things that their parents have ignored or never dared to face, at times even deceiving themselves. (…) Parents have nothing to be surprised about except for their own lack of preparation, and the ignorance that they have of their own psychology, that at times is the fruit of a seed planted by their own parents: lack of preparation and ignorance perpetuates unto infinity the course of ‘not-knowing’ oneself. My solution to this problem is to educate the educators, create schools for adults” (Carl Gustav Jung).

Finally, we are in need of spiritual practices that are real experiences for us; we need to go from a preeminently represented religiosity (abstract concepts, moral laws, exterior rites) to a personally-fulfilled spirituality.
Only an authentic spiritual realization of the celebrated mysteries can renew and give sense to liturgical celebrations.

In the ‘Peace-Path’ groups, the three levels of understanding are expressed in three practices:

Study; Exercises’ of self-knowledge; and meditation which becomes prayer.
For the part more directly spiritual, we use the meditation techniques of oriental origin, as forms of preparation for Christian prayer.
Only the authentic silencing of our ego can open us to the real listening of the Word of the Lord that regenerates us.

“Authentic practices of meditation, with their origin from the Christian East and great non-Christian regions that attract today’s man, divided and disoriented, can offer a good way to help a person of prayer to stand before God interiorly calm, even in the midst of extreme solicitations” (Joseph Ratzinger).