In Biodanza the concept of transcendence consists of the natural function of human beings to establish essential connections with everything that exists: other human beings, animals, vegetables and mindeerals – in short, with the cosmic whole.
Therefore, we learn to overecome the force of the ego and go beyond our perception of ourself in order to identify with the unity of nature and with the essence of our human companions. (People who cannot leave behind self-consciousness are unable to enter into a transcendent experience.)
The effects of Biodanza in transcendence are to throw much light onto the experience of the whole. A feeling of intimate connection with nature and with another person is a peak experience we rarely have in our lives. To experience it only once enables us to start to change our attitude towards ourselves, and towards other people. To know ‘for sure’ that we are not isolated beings, but that we are participating in the unifying movementof the cosmos, is enough to alter our scale of values. But this knowing for sure is not an intellectual knowing. It is a more moving and transcendent knowing.
The Egyptains in their Book of the Dead refer to a feeling of onto-cosmological unity:’I am a particle of the particle of the Great Incandescent Soul’ Come join us – we can together enter into this experience of ‘Transcendence’ and experience the sublime benefits for our daily lives.
Ricardo Toro was born in Santiago Chile, trained by the Creator of Biodanza Rolando Toro Araneda,his father. Ricardo trained in Psychology at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil he worked in Psychiatric Hospitals in Human Rehabilitation.
He is Director of the Biodanza School Liege, Belgium and travels the world teaching Biodanza.
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