This multidisciplinar essay introduces an open, transforming and evolutionary approach to political conflicts. Although initially based upon the conflict in the Basque Country, it also addresses other existing socio-political problems, especially those concerning indigenous peoples of the world and already constituted nations or states. This transpersonal approach attempts to uncover and apply a new form of integral hermeneutics that might help to overcome the problems of our present era, here known as the "interparadigmatic period." It is evident that a profound transcultural and global change is needed in order to draw a new model of expanded and inclusive consciousness that paves the way for a more integral worldview.

 

Essentially, the following questions are posed: What is truly happening in the world, with most of mankind already sunk in a deep, growing, and unsurmountable crisis that negatively affects all the spheres of human life? Is this situation telling us that the very essence of human nature is changing in the attempt to give birth to a different kind of human being which will possess a more comprehensive and integral cosmovision and self-knowledge? Are human beings about to reach a better understanding of the inner and outer cosmos that surrounds them? Is humanity growing towards a new transnational, and even transhistorical, spiritual age that will be based on a more solidary and synthetic planetary paradigm able to peacefully negotiate all kinds of diversity through a drastic shift in consciousness? This book proposes that all these questions, however difficult to answer they might initially appear, may have similar, general, and ultimately natural and even simple answers.

 

To this end, I will introduce a novel approach to both objective and subjective realities. In order to articulate this mystical, synergic, and evolutionary vision, an integrated conceptualization based upon a new kind of terminology is necessary. I see this new language as a "psychological Esperanto," a meta-language of the spirit which may allow to overcome all kinds of "political and hiperdualistic hooliganism." At the same time, this study includes other subjects ranging from "a general theory of the dynamics of crisis, conflict and human destructivity" to the so-called "mathematics of the spirit," i.e., a transpersonal approach that will disclose "an integrated concept of the nature of Evil, its essence, nature, and meaning." In this vein, "a new trans-historical approach to the present world crisis" is advanced, as well as a suprarational-supranational synthesis. This process of transpersonal self-determination implies a political negotiation of the different levels of consciousness through a democratic, non-dual character. All this is mediated through a "dialogical dialogue" leading to a "transcultural and transnational cross-fertilization," which is finally summarized in a "transpersonal political manifesto." All in all, this essay tries to delineate a new antitotalitarian political paradigm as part of the new emergent science and culture.

 

In order to grasp the new understanding of reality, it seems essential to dive in the maximal depths and potentials of non-dual and anti-dualistic awareness, the most hidden -- conscious and unconscious -- motivations and human boundaries, and the different stages and states of consciousness. The rationale for this integral approach is that, in the long or short term, any kind of "hiperdualism" always ends up predetermining the shape of a confronting and violent external reality not only in personal and psycho-spiritual realms, but also in the different socio-political cosmovisions and ideologies. In this context, the long-lasting conflict in the Basque Country -- mainly because this is a land that lives, both from physical and psychological perspectives, torn apart between North and South, East and West, premodernity and modernism, individualism and collectivism, capitalism and recalcitrant marxism -- offers an especially fruitful opportunity to search for a pluralistic model of "experimental country" that might serve as a paradigmatic case of the usefulness of this new integral paradigm in any other conflicting areas of the world.

 

Salvador Harguindey MD., Ph. D., is a medical oncologist previously at Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo, New York, with a Ph. D. doctorate by The University of the Basque Country. He is a member of the Association of Transpersonal Psychology (ATP), the Spanish Society of Transpersonal Psychology (SEPT) and the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO). He has published numerous scientific articles on the intimate nature, causes and new avenues to the pathogenesis of cancer. He has also published two novels: "An unwanted child or the Crib of Don Quixote" (Ed. Helios, Madrid, 1981) and "The lives of Daniel and George" (Ed. Luz Pradera, Vitoria, Spain, 1987). He has collaborated in a wide array of publications, from newspaper articles to short stories and chapters in books, both of a scientific and literary nature. His next "transpersonal" novel: "The day that God went to the movies" will be published in the near future.