SOCIETY WITHOUT SOUL
Today, the majority of humanity, at least in the West, is made up of individuals who are empty inside, who lack a deep sense of their existence. They live with a continuous sense of uselessness and alienation, and are without values. Above all, they lack hope. And this makes a big difference. Because everything changes, if what you do, you do it with authenticity, heart and soul, or if you do it with a soul alienated from yourself and others. It’s one thing to live as subjects and protagonists, another to live as objects. This society, instead, confuses everything, or better, it makes its members think they are protagonists, only because they consume things and follow the latest trends and identify with the imposed cultural models. This society does not care at all about the soul. It does not matter that if when you work or walk or eat or are in relation with another person, you put your soul and heart into it. No, in a subliminal way, it makes you believe that the soul doesn’t exist or that it’s only an exotic accessory. The man of today is empty inside.
DISTURBED SEX
Sex is one of the activities and forms of communications most practiced by human beings. It is the most physical, the most intimate, and therefore is space where human beings invest their energy, fantasies, dreams, but above all their ghosts, their neuroses, their perversions. The more a person is neurotic, the more that person will invest in sex! The more perverse a person is the more the he or she is involved in disturbed sexuality. The relationship with the other, through sex, can reach the maximum level of exultation or the maximum level of insult. It can reach the maximum level of union or the maximum level of distance and coldness. It can project you into the sacred, or lower you into the muck, the vulgar, the animal. But the highest, most mysterious and most divine moment that humans can live also exists in the sexual relationship: the creation of new life. For all of these reasons, I believe that sexual activity is sacred and should occur only within a determined context – that of awareness (from the book, “LOVE, how to stay together for life” Valerio Albisetti. Ed. Paoline.)
ETHICS TO GIVE MEANING TO SUFFERING
Only with a profound psycho-spiritual awareness, with an ethical vision of life, can we face adversity and difficulty, without losing vitality, without losing our specificity. Only in this way do we become capable of suffering. In a society such as ours that teaches us to flee suffering and death, that chases after plastic surgery, easy money, organized lies, and sees the body as something to be consumed, my way thinking is kept distant by the powerful and their courtesans, and I am forced to live on the margins of the dominant culture. But I don’t really care. It could not be otherwise. In all of my writings, published by the Paulines, I have tried to teach people not to fear suffering, but to interpret it, to give meaning to it. In the journey of life as I see it – a journey of meaning and sense – we need to know how to enter into suffering and remain there long enough to be able to discover our true and profound personal identities.
LOSE ETHICS
The person who loses a sense of ethics does not live on a psycho-spiritual level and will enter into a delirium of omnipotence. He wants to be powerful because he is impotent and incapable. For this he shows himself to be capable, with a social image, to satisfy his and other people’s needs, knowing that he tells lies. This is because, this person is empty on the inside and that which counts for him is what he gets back for himself – at whatever cost – in order to feel like someone. It’s not a coincidence, in this society, that the politicians who go on television, tell fairytales and sell illusions are popular. The person who does not live psycho-spiritually spends his entire existence denying the fear of losing, of showing others he is in crisis, of being defeated. To make this happen, on the one hand, he tries to tie himself to powerful people, on the other hand he uses power to dominate or tie weak people to him –people with little self esteem or personal dignity. In the end, the person who does not live, on a psycho-spiritual level, exists only by the measure of how much others need him.
RADIO INTERVIEW VIII
On the Rai Radio BEN FATTO archive site you can listen to the Valerio Albisetti interview from Jannuary, the 10th.
IF YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO MAKE MEANING YOU WILL WANT TO LIVE A LONG TIME
The more a person lives without meaning, without being able to pose the right questions to go on his earthly journey, the more that person will want to live longer. Perhaps to find the meaning that he never had or lost. When one has not truly lived, not understanding the spiritual side of things, then that person does not want to die. Death is felt as a punishment. But things are not like that. The world was not created in order to be violated, nor society to be unjust, but rather to be in harmony with human beings, in the same way human beings should be in harmony with God.
LIFE AS A JOURNEY OF MEANING
Essentially, life is in the journey itself, in the act of journeying. It is in seeking the signs coming from inside ourselves and connecting them with the world, with others, to better understand our own journeys. The person who does not go on the journey can never know who he truly is. It’s natural that, as in every journey, we encounter traps, betrayals, defeats. But we also encounter help, friends and victories. And the treasure that we find will be the secret of our soul. Of our hearts.
INCREASE IN HUMANITY, NOT PERFECTION
In my view when an aware person makes a mistake the person knows that it is the moment to recognize his or her limits. This attitude will bring the person to make less and less mistakes, because the person has increased in humanity, not in perfection. For this type of person a mistake becomes an important indication, useful for understanding still deeper his or her own uniqueness and specificity and to become more human and welcoming to those around. (from “Happy Despite Everything. Ed. Paoline. Valerio Albisetti)
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