Valerio Albisetti - Il viaggio della Vita

Democracy is destined to enter into crisis if a humanistic spirit, the search for critical thought, creativity, imagination and above all empathy and understanding for different human experiences are not developed in citizens. In a word, psycho-spiritual awareness, living people as human beings and not as objects. Above all in this world, where we must deal with others despite geographic distance and with people that we have never seen.  Humanistic thought and...

Technology, the true companion of the new globalized powers, has upset even the areas once sacred and mysterious for humanity from immemorial: birth and death.Genetic engineering, not by chance one of the few sectors generously financed by the powerful, is now able to prolong the biological life and health of people.But this progress will not be available to the masses, just to the few.The powerful.By now the people – now just multitudes of individuals, alone and afraid,...

After living for many years in the West, where I was born, I wanted to travel the world, in contact with different cultures and peoples, where I taught in their universities. This has rendered more and more evident how my training draws from the great tradition of myths and symbols. This has made it easier for me to see spirituality in everything, in every encounter. I don’t live God as separate from human beings. For me everything has meaning.

With every hope for changing the course of events gone, the members of this globalized society -that care only about things rather than persons, whose need for affection and intimacy have enormously increased- now look to their own bodies. They purchase creams, enroll in gyms, spas, meditation and psycho-somatic wellness classes, they take pleasure trips, buy genuine foods… in sum there is a return to the individual, to the body. But what’s most serious is the disappearance...

Yesterday, April 21, on my birthday, the Paulines released in their bookstores my new book, “HAPPY despite everything” which opens a new book series that I envisioned for them. This book has a special value for me because it celebrates my 25 years as a writer and 20 years as a book series director.