The Parks of Study and Reflection

It is in the Parks that the works of the School are carried out, a set of studies and practices which allows access to experiences of contact with the hidden internal dimensions.

That depth cannot be captured by the language or the categories of space-time in which we believe we live. However, in particular circumstances, it becomes accessible, manifesting or erupting in experiences that move our consciousness and change our lives decisively. The experience of that which has no name but does have meaning-contact with an unfathomable profundity where space is infinite and time is eternal. Although brief, these experiences are of great consequence because they give us meaning, joy and fulfilment.

Since ancient times, we human beings have perceived the trajectory of our life in its finiteness. We ask ourselves, where we've come from and where we are going, and to experience the search for meaning while also feeling the need to overcome pain and suffering. And every time human consciousness has managed to glimpse the Profundity of the Mind, inspired answers have arisen and great forces have been released. The rapture of falling in love, the inspiration of artists, the ecstasy of the mystics, all have their source in those common depths. The great religious and spiritual currents that have grown through history were also born from these "sacred experiences".

In different historical moments, different people and cultures have translated human inferiority as diverse and, on occasion, opposed poetic or mythical landscapes. Nevertheless, all of them have their concealed center of gravity in the Profound. In this planet of ours, in which societies are rapidly becoming globalized, it will be precisely that renewed experience of contact with the transcendent which could foster a recognition and spiritual encounter between the peoples of the world.

The Parks of Study and Reflection are places for meeting and for the spreading of a new spirituality that rejects all forms of violence and discrimination; a spirituality that appeals to the sacred dimension of the human mind to find freedom and meaning. Every human being, no matter their beliefs may participate in this emotional, moving and experiential path.

For many, these Parks become places that translate a time and space loaded with meaning.

There are regions of the mind which have special meaning, and when we connect with or access these regions, a great internal commotion is produced. They are regions with psychic charge, located at a certain height and depth in the internal space. So, for example, many legends spoke of mythical cities, places which were home to the deepest aspirations."When they spoke of the city of the Gods, which the heroes of many peoples strove to reach; they spoke of a Paradise where gods and humankind lived together in transfigured original nature." (Silo: Complete Works. The Inner Look. XX. The Inner Reality. 1998.)

Every people have their allegories and it could not be any other way, since these translations of non- representable meanings made with the raw material of the corresponding cultural landscape at a given time.

These "internal places" are related or occasionally coincide with external places that then take on sacred characteristics because of the importance they have for us, according to each person's culture. That is why we make pilgrimages to them in order to receive the psychic charge accumulated there. In these places, we want to be better, more connected with ourselves and with others.

The Parks are a search for and expression of the sacred; that is, of the best aspirations of the human being who today is preparing to awaken from a profound sleep.

A new civilization is being born and will go acquiring its representation in the world, which will be the translation of that profound reality.