And it was said that God, in order to not be alone, created the Universeand Living Beings in an Act of Love! And It was done with a Primordial Boom of Particles which, while expanding in atemporal-time and unlimited-space, became Intelligent Matter which scattered and concentrated until the Suns and the Worlds emerged. And, as part of the package, God created Earth.

In the beginning, -the Earth was formless void, there was darkness over the deep, with a divine wind sweeping over the waters"(1). Heat waves and cold waves, metal on metal, and the interaction of gases and liquids enabled the creation of the Primordial Sea; and in it, a First Being, a universe concentrated within a limit of life, established in a membrane and in movements of contraction and expansion -- involving ruptures and reproduction. Radiations generated unicellular and multicellular transformations, organizing small Beings/Gods in constant formations.

And thus, Forms constructed Forms, continually disorganizing and organizing themselves, expressing themselves in multiple life events which went from singularity to organization in layers of existence each time larger and more complex (2). From Primitive Beings to Primitive Marine Plants, from Primitive Marine Animals to Ancient Terrestrial Plants, from the First Marine Animals to Terrestrial Animals, revolutions and reconsiderations, divine happenstance determined the structures of the biological universe. Archetypal construction in trans-evolution memories which passed from chaos to order and, by dissolving into other small chaos, created new orders, now thinking beings, the Homo-sapiens.

Homo-sapiens, this planetary organism, this series of experienced facts, interconnected to create complexity, this living process, organizational, that feels and reflects on its own continuity and form (2).

Homo Sapiens. Men/Women who, while organizing themselves in tribes, became shamans, chiefs and warriors; who, while producing the social, invented themselves as heroes, goddesses, righteous men; and who, while establishing the family, projected themselves as holy women, doctors and legislators. Men/Women, humanity’s totem, fruit and seed of their own instinctual knowledge, gravitated around the idea that the earth was not the center of the universe but another astral body in an incommensurate constellation; who needed to assume that the universe was unstable and therefore changeable, and forever changeable.

Men/Women who embittered the vision of their evolutionary proximity to animals with minute comparisons; and who even dreamed that their own behaviour was the voice of a not completely known unconscious, in need of perennial revelation.

Corpus Inconscientis

We revealed ourselves as beings governed by our own life and death instincts; beings who, through a psychopathology of daily life, an expression of the creation drama of our own history, made existent our own species. And as constructors of a medicine of the soul, in order to account for the Original Act and for our own definition, we predicted that our path would pass by deeply into active terrain, the field where victory must be achieved, in a meeting that accomplished the inestimable service of updating and manifesting the forces of love, buried and forgotten (3).

...And we said: Men/Women must be healed, we must constantly reconnect him/her to the Original Act of Love and continually submit him/her from the restraint of the bond to the encounter of bodies. And for this we spoke to whomever could hear: -If you do not know the ocean, you are just simply lost no matter who you are. You may know about the ocean as if in a mirror only if you are afraid to drown in its depths, but you can never stop being a part of the ocean, emerging from its depths and returning to its stillness. And in coming from and returning to the ocean, you take its depth with you; not a little bit of depth as against the great ocean depth." (4)

... And by diving, we discover that everything passes through the somatic and beyond the somatic, through the psychic and beyond the psychic. Everything passes through a form of energy, the foundation of life; a primordial energy that fills all space and is the source from which all forms were derived; a vital energy identical to that of human organisms; an energy that commands both the psychic domain and the somatic; a basic functional unit; a center of experience. (5)

... And we intended orgasmic potential, which involves the entire organisms potential for (chaotic) convulsions of pleasure, to represent the intensive fullness of love, the foundation of a desired health, whose strength develops in opposition to orgasmic impotence or the impossibility of loving. And we left in search of a supreme common orgasm experience through the complete fusion of two vibrating energy systems. And of this search, as with the mutual and silent search for the way to the cosmic sensations and vibrations of the loved one, we knew that they were supreme pleasures, transparent as water from a stream, delicious as the perfume of a flower on a spring morning. This hot and lasting experience of love, of contact and reciprocal abandonment of bodily pleasure thus became, for us seekers, a perfectly dignified servitude. (4)

Still for being human

From the biological universe to the cosmic ocean, God and Beings continue to be in partnership in the continual construction of a new existence. And so it is, in the formation of a new person, where a germ cell, present in the paternal entrails, releases itself to flow freely. Thus, electrifying and touching events create explosive and definitive phenomena. The explosion of a mature follicle, the release of the egg and the propelling of seminal liquid launches the ritual of the search for a new humanity. A humanity which, albeit already present in every gestation movement, is mysteriously distant and sought after.

In the formation of a new Person, a sperm and an ovum -- microscopic worlds -- follow a contumacious determination and move towards one another. The ovum outside the ovary is moved along by wave-like (peristaltic) contractions of the tube, thus navigating its destiny. Three million sperms push each other, vigorously swimming against the current of molecules, gravities, and obstacles, premeditating a possibility.

A veritable torrent, a mucous river, turns these heroic sperm into beings constantly renewed in their hunger to keep going. The surrounding substances stimulate the race and create effects of attraction in the path of the ovum. One of them will make first contact with the ovum, generating a series of structural modifications. At the same time, the ovum reorganises itself to allow, now through a more permeable membrane, the penetration of this being, into its deeper inside. A world of viabilities.

It’s the new person. Zygote, unique, whole, global, existential project. It is a come-to-be human.

...Who keeps going as well as
Sargon was brought forth .................. conceived in
in a hidden place .............................. uterine tube
His mother, the vestal
laid me in a vessel
made of reeds .................................. zona pellucida
closed my door with pitch
nd dropped me
down into the river ............................ in the uterine tube
which did not drown me ..................... the secretions of the
uterine tube, which
nourish or famish...
(6)

...Like me,
Multiply myself to grow
without undoing myself.
...Like the one who
"The river carried
him to AKKI the water .........................adoption by
carrier who lifted him up ......................endometrium
in the kindness
of his heart
He became his gardener ......................early implantation
chorionic embryo
and then king ....................................mature foetus (6)
Like him in the "neverending story", sunk in
"Images of quicksand, swamps; exposure (upon loss of
zona pellucida): then, after all those possible storms,
winds, risks of shipwreck, drowning; experiences of
breaking up, going to pieces, adoption by the
uterus... (6)
Like you, in
"A bed of crimson joy or a battleground? The original
template for all reception, entering: pushing oneself in or being pulled in; battling one’s way in or a
reciprocal embrace of love... (6)
... Like someone who says:
"I feel like a sponge. A deep underwater creature
like an anemone.
I’m sodden with terror, suffused with fear, a
terrified sponge.
I’m helpless. I can’t move. it’s meaningless to get
out of it by running away, talking or anything. I’m
quivering inside and out." (6)
...Like the
Determinations: entrance holes
exit holes
Paced urgencies and
lines of action
Axle.
To create spaces, fold unto oneself
Propulsion bomb: heart, heart
My - me - first - organ
...Like
One point with the other
One side with the other
Eyes: see
Arms: touch?
Feet: paths!
Head, neck, trunk
Ear, nose, mouth
Nipples, genitals
Organs, organs
Grains
...Like at a
Rest! Only to grow...
Seven months. Only to grow... (Just grow?)
...Like in a dream
I dream and feel, and
move and dream...

Like in the state in which he/she "suddenly heard strange noises coming from the outside world. They had a very unusual echoing quality as if resounding in a large hall or coming through a layer of water". He/she "tried to identify what produced the sounds and where they were coming from. After some time, he could recognise human voices laughing and yelling and sounds that resembled carnival trumpets. Suddenly, the idea came to him that this must have been the fair held in his native village every year two days prior to his birthday." (7)

Yes. To be human one must have a "formative process in an organizational field, - a self - construction in interaction. One must have "morphic fields which organize the development and maintain the shape of the systems in all levels of complexity." One must have occurrences in the Field of Love where one shapes and is shaped. (8)

... And, still one must be born and therefore, the "tribulations begin. (...) What was once unbounded space becomes more confining each day. (...)

And one day the baby finds itself... a prisoner. (...) Struggles. Protests. (...) The child accepts - is there any choice? (...) Then one day the prison comes to life (...), it begins, like some octopus, to hug and crush. (...) So that once the infant has recovered from its initial fright, it comes to like them. (...) To wait for the contractions, to hope them. (...) It surrenders to them; arches its back, quivers with pleasure at this sensual game." (9)

Until one day... once again, everything changes. Why everything is so impermanent? "The prison has gone bersek, demanding its prisoner’s death. (...) With its heart bursting, the infant sinks into this hell. (...) The end is surely near." (9)

"Then (...). The whole world bursts open. (...) Nothing! - except void. (...) Freedom! - and its intolerable. (...) Alone, I am nothingness, diziness. Take me back! Contain me again. Destroy me! But let me exist..." (9)

Walking the path to humanity

It is always necessary to be born. Be born and be. And more, more than to be born... To be born is not enough. It is necessary to be rebirthed. It is necessary to be rebirthed, since it is possible to have been born, grown, aged, and yet not "born." But in order to continue being born, we need, forever, a voice... A very Human voice that reminds us that...

It is necessary to achieve regular and rhythmic breathing, with free and easy movements of the thorax; an abdominal peristaltic movement that is neither spastic nor flaccid, with a sense of well-being. It is necessary a well-toned organism; muscles moving from tension to relaxation, neither rigid nor collapsed; normal blood pressure and good circulation in the legs. It is necessary a warm skin, with a good blood supply; lively and mobile face; expressive voice, not mechanical; communicative and bright eyes. It is necessary, in orgasm, an involuntary and gratifying rhythmic pulse and a feeling of love for the partner; sexual and affective feelings experienced conjointly.

It is possible to relate external expressions with internal needs and to function based on primary vital needs, distinguished from secondary habits.

It is possible to make contact with other people, without idealizations, and to know the differences between genuine contacts and substitutes, valuing and nurturing the former. It is possible to contain and express feelings, and to make decisions regarding when to express each of them. It is possible to be free of anxiety, when there is no danger and to stand up for what is believed to be right, even when there is danger.

It is desirable to contact deep personal sources of value which transmit a feeling of movement and meaning; It is desirable to deal with crises without being overcome with despair and to feel the feeling of life as a process of respect for one’s own heart and for the hearts of others in eternal deepening; It is desirable to be free from guilt and available to be accountable for true responsibilities. (10)

Yes, it is possible to sing to our own life as the poet sang to his beloved: "may it be eternal while it lasts." (11)

What if we went beyond?

It would be to know that "God exists even when he doesn’t. But the devil doesn’t need to exist to be - when we know that he doesn’t exist, that’s when he takes control of everything. God comes and guides us for a league, then lets go". We live, I think, really to be -disillusioned and to disentangle" (12). We live, really to be born, and in each death; because -everything passes, nothing stays; to grow attached to ordinary reality is like chasing after our own shadow and what is left, then, is to face each moment and storm the eye of the hurricane, because only in this way will we harvest the seed of transformation" (13).

We live, really to make fun of our own existence and to be made fun of by it. We live, really to encounter an essence, within us, that constantly hides from us. We live, really -a dream from which we awake, after death, relieved that it was just a dream" (14).

We should really just live... And to have to just live is to be able to truly transcend, while listening to the soul, the story that goes:

There was a king who proclaimed all around that he would give the biggest and most beautiful party of his realm. The guests, however, began to realize that the art of the table was not represented anywhere. The party didn’t stop trying to reach its peak, offering a profusion of marvelous musicians and delightful dancers. Gifts were distributed, but none were edible. Finally, the king invited his guests to move to a special room, where the meal awaited them. Everyone ran towards the delicious aroma from a soup in an enormous cauldron placed on the center of the table. The guests tried to serve themselves, but to their great surprise, there were huge metal spoons in the cauldron, each approximately 1 meter long. And no plate, no bowl, no spoon with a more accessible shape. The enormous handles kept the arm from taking the succulent broth to the mouth, because the scorching hot spoons could not be held except for by the small wooden handles on their ends. Desperate, they all tried to eat with no results. Until one guest found the solution: while always holding the spoon by its wooden handle, he/she lifted it to his/her neighbour’s mouth, who ate comfortably. All imitated him/her and satiated their hunger, finally understanding that the only way to eat, in that magnificent palace, was to serve one another. (15)

... And so, who knows, to forever fraternize.

Bibliographic References

1. Bible citation. New Jerusalem Bible - Pocket Edition. New York: Doubleday, 1990, Book of Genesis, chapter 1, verse 2.

2. KELEMAN, Stanley. Emotional Anatomy. Berkeley: Center Press, 1985, chapter 1.

3. FREUD, Sigmund. The Dynamics of Transference (1912a). The Standard Edition Of The Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. London: Hogarth, 1971, vol. XII.

4. REICH, Wilhelm. The Murder of Christ. New York: Touchstone, 1953, chapters 3 and 7.

5. OLIVEIRA, Humbertho. Psicoterapia Corporal: uma abordagem da unidade funcional do organismo humano ( Body Psychotherapy: An Funtional Approach Of The Human Organism). In Revista Eletrônica Artes de Cura (Healing Arts Electronic Magazine), (http:www.ax.apc.org/~bapera/index.html), Bapera Editora, Rio de Janeiro, 1996.

6. LAING, Ronald. D. The Facts of Life - an essay in feelings,facts, and fantasy. New York: Ballantine Books, 1978, 1st edition, chapter 5.

7. GROF, Stanislaf. Cited in Lifestreams - An Introduction to Biosynthesis. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987, chapter 3.

8. SHELDRAKE, Rupert. A New Science of Life - The Hypothesis of Formative Causation, Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1987, chapter 3.

9. LEBOYER, Frederick. Birth Without Violence. Rochester: Healing Arts Press, 1995, part I, chapters 16,17, and 18.

10.BOADELLA, David. -What’s Biosynthesis?", in Energy and Character - The Journal of Biosynthesis. London: Abbotsbury Publications, August 1986, volume 17(2), chapter 2.

11.MORAES, Vinicius. -Soneto da Fidelidade", Poesia Completa e Prosa. Rio de Janeiro: Nova Aguilar, 1983.

12.RAMOS, Graciliano. Taken from the book Grande Sertão-Veredas, cited in Caderno de Idéias do Jornal do Brasil, in the article by Leo Schlafman, Rio de Janeiro, March 9, 1994.

13.HERTELENDY, Susan and OLIVEIRA, Humbertho. Impermanência e Transformação (Impermanence And Transformation). Paper presented at a therapeutic workshop. Rio de Janeiro, February 1994.

14.TULKU, Chagdud: Public lecture, Rio de Janeiro, August 1994.

15.Summary of the story -As Longas Colheres (The Long Spoons)" published in the book Histórias da Tradição Sufi, published by the Grupo Granada de Contadores de Histórias, Rio de Janeiro, edited by Edições Dervish, 1993.

Humbertho Oliveira - Doctor; Somatic Psychotherapist; Founder and Coordinator
For Researches of the Quiron - (Quiron - Center For Research and
Trans-somatic Practices); Director of the Bapera Editora
(Bapera Publishing House) and Editor of the Revista Eletrônica
Artes de Cura (Healing Arts Eletronic Magazine),
Rio de Janeiro.