Valerio Albisetti - Il viaggio della Vita

As a result of continuous scientific advances, especially in the field of biotechnology, the meaning of life and one’s personal identity will inevitably be changing. To think, 50 years from now, at least in the West, most human beings will have had an organ transplant and will be using prostheses, so their feelings and emotions will also have undergone radical change. I predict, in this regard, that blood and family ties will disappear, and that the idea of the family...

Unless we really live the moments we’ve been given to take steps to change ourselves and move into other modes of living, they nag us until we are obliged to live them. There’s a moment given for everything. The human person isn’t so stupid and mediocre that he doesn’t know that. From his birth he continually makes himself over – or at least that’s what he’s called to do. As long as he’s unaware of his call to transformation...

My psychospirituality is partly based on ancient, mystical traditions, by way of the great, Judeo-Christian tradition of Sacred Scripture, ending within the world of Christian, humanistic spirituality. I’m glad that today science, especially modern physics, has begun to take spirituality more seriously. Modern physics tells us that the physical world surrounding us – from rocks to grass, from water to air – is made up of particles of energy, which are in...

I’m convinced that we live in an age when research no longer exists, or, if it does, it’s very superficial, focused on the surface. That indicates a sad loss for humanity – a loss of hope. From the start my job has always been to try to reawaken people’s souls through the magic of the written word as it stirs the imagination. I never wanted to be part of an institutional church because too often those who are part of one end up being prideful and...

The real problem is not the loss of things and persons, but rather the slipping away of one’s own life and especially of deep reflection on the profound meaning of one’s own existence in God’s eyes. In other words, only when we have a deep, personal understanding of our lives can we venture into either the dark woods or the sunny meadows of life, meet dangers and enemies and take risks because the darkly negative or brightly positive ways of looking at...

Personal identity today is usually understood as hinging on the possession of things and persons. It’s almost always based on externals rather than on the inner being, so that’s why we would expect that as soon as we lose things and persons, both of which are external to ourselves, we have identity crises – serious ones that can lead to profound spiritual (I call it psychospiritual) distress, not to mention eventual physical distress. Only when we look...