manifestazioni patologiche più o meno gravi.

An exchange of motivated and reasonable opinions helps the understanding of the global political, economic and "spiritual" process. In truth, I would insist on this last aspect which I consider primary. Unfortunately, spirituality, in the sense of "intelligence consciousness", has been supplanted by religions, especially those of Jewish origin (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) which bring with them a mass of materialistic ideologies that then result in an artificial division of humanity. The thirst for money, power, control and exploitation of nature and its creatures and even Confucianism-Marxism (which strives to restore a sense of social justice using artificial means) are all forms of division of the human being.
If we could share at least the sense of humanity, among us who have a "broader" vision of life, perhaps we could say that we have come closer to Man...
But even this approach cannot be compulsive or perceived as a "burden", it is enough to know how the world goes and accept it as it is, adapting to it but observing it with our intelligence, a conscience not contaminated by it. After all, we cannot have relationships with everyone, we can only relate to those who have the same attitude as us and this is the dictate of life itself: the similar seeks its similar.
The important thing is not to transform the dissimilar into an "enemy", you never know when there may be a "rapprochement", since the common matrix is the same... everything is interconnected.
Paolo D'Arpini - Italian Bioregional Network
Testo Italiano:
Uno scambio di opinioni motivate e ragionevoli aiuta la comprensione del processo politico, economico e "spirituale" globale. In verità insisterei su questo ultimo aspetto che ritengo primario. Purtroppo la spiritualità, nel senso di "intelligenza coscienza", è stata soppiantata dalle religioni soprattutto quelle di origine giudaica (ebraismo, cristianesimo e islam) che si portano appresso una messe di ideologie materialistiche che poi sfociano in una divisione artificiale dell'umanità. La sete di denaro, di potere, di controllo e sfruttamento della natura e delle sue creature e persino il confucianesimo-marxismo (che si sforza di ripristinare un senso di giustizia sociale utilizzando mezzi artificiali) sono tutte forme di divisione dell'essere umano.
Se riuscissimo a condividere almeno il senso di umanità, fra di noi che abbiamo una visione più "ampia" della vita, forse potremo dire di esserci avvicinati all'Uomo...
Ma anche questo avvicinamento non può essere compulsivo o percepito come un "peso", basta sapere come va il mondo ed accoglierlo com'è adattandosi ad esso ma osservandolo con la nostra intelligenza coscienza non contaminata da esso. In fondo non possiamo avere rapporti con tutti, possiamo rapportarci solo con coloro che hanno il nostro stesso atteggiamento e questo è il dettame della vita stessa: il simile cerca il suo simile.
L'importante è non trasformare il dissimile in un “nemico”, non si sa mai quando potrà esserci un “riavvicinamento”, poiché la matrice comune è la stessa... tutto è interconnesso.
Paolo D'Arpini - Rete Bioregionale Italiana
Vedanta, literally “after the Vedas” is a secular school of thought based on the nondual Absolute, called “Brahman” in the Upanishads, the Vedantic philosophical texts (post-Vedas).
On the dating of the Vedas and Vedanta, the opinions of scholars, historians and religious people, differ quite a bit. The difference in views is above all between Western and Indian researchers. According to Europeans, prone to the pro-Western belief of a cradle of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean civilization, the Vedas are placed around the first millennium BC and the Upanishads in the period just before the birth of the historical Buddha (6th century BC). Obviously, for some Indian historians the dates are different and very far from what European historians affirm. But let's analyze the concepts expressed and leave aside the datings (irrelevant for the purposes of the substance).
The peculiarity of the Advaita Vedanta philosophy is that it does not refer to any deity. The non-dual Absolute is between being and non-being. It is the Self (Atman), or the Awareness devoid of attributes, which is the container and content of all that manifests itself, self-existent, and at the same time beyond every manifestation and thought.
The Self enjoys its own illusion of existing as an object separate and distinct from itself and according to the Vedanta - this comedy is made possible through five masks or "sheaths" (in Sanskrit "kosha") that hide the Self from the self (the absolute Self from the relative Self).
They are: "annamaya", "pranamaya", "manomaya", "vijnanamaya" and "anandamaya".
Annamaya is the sheath composed of food, the physical body. Its constituents are the five elements in the gross state, in various gradients of mixture. The things of the objective, experienced world are made of the same material.
Pranamaya is the sheath of vital energy (in the Bible “vital breath”), which denotes the quality of life, its expression is breathing, in Sanskrit “prana” and its five functions or “modes”: “vyana” which goes in all directions, “udana” which rises upwards, “samana” which equates what is eaten and drunk, “apana” which descends downwards, “prana” which goes forward (collectively they are defined with the term “prana”). The five organs of action also belong to the sheath of “prana”, namely: speech, grasping, proceeding, excretion and reproduction.
Manomaya is the sheath of consciousness, or individual mind, its functions are asking and doubting. Its channels are the five organs of knowledge: hearing, sight, touch, taste and smell.
Vijnanamaya is the sheath of self-consciousness, or intellect, i.e. the agent and the enjoyer of the result of actions. This mask, or envelope, is considered the empirical soul that migrates from one physical body to another (in the theory of metempsychosis).
Anandamaya is the sheath of joy, not the original bliss that is of Brahman, it is the pseudo bliss (experienced in deep sleep) of the so-called “causal body”, the primary cause of transmigration. Another name for it is “avidya” or nescience or ignorance of the Self.
According to the Indian scholar T.M.P. Mahadevam it is possible to rearrange these five masks into three “bodies”:
1 - “annamaya”, the gross physical body;
2 - “suksma-sarira” the subtle body, the set of the three sheaths of prana mind and intellect (“pranamaya”, “manomaya” and vijnanamaya”);
3 - “karana-sarira”, the causal body of the “anandamaya” sheath.
It is through these three bodies that we experience the so-called “external” world in the three states of waking, sleep and deep sleep.
Empirical experience manifests itself through the five sheaths, projected or reflected in the concept of “space” and “time”, without them the relative consciousness of a “world” could not exist.
As the philosopher M. Heidegger said: "How did human existence procure a clock before pocket watches or sundials existed? ... Am I myself the "hour" and my being there is time? Or, ultimately, is it time itself that procures the clock in us? Augustine pushed the problem to the point of asking himself whether the soul itself is time. And, here, he stopped asking..."
Paolo D'Arpini - Committee for Lay Spirituality