What can Deep Philosophy give us these days, when the world faces an epidemic, uncertainties, fears, and disruption?
Deep Philosophy cannot solve medical problems, but it can give us an inner center to face the situation, and to face life. It is now especially important to return to ourselves and to our inner depth, and become aware of life more fully.
We are now experiencing, what the philosopher and psychiatrist Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) calls BOUNDARY SITUATIONS:
“I must die, I must suffer, I must struggle, I am subject to chance, I am involved in a guilt that cannot be erased. We call these fundamental situations of our existence: BOUNDARY SITUATIONS. These are situations which we cannot escape or change. … In our daily life we often evade them, by closing our eyes and living as if they do not exist. We forget that we must die, we forget our guilt, and we forget that we are at the mercy of chance. … But to Boundary Situations we react either by confusion, or, if we really understand them … we become ourselves through a change in our consciousness of being.” (Jaspers, 1930)
In Deep Philosophy we contemplate in togetherness on our fundamental human situation. Through our philosophical contemplation we connect to our inner resources which we often forget: our inner depth. We enter a new inner dimension of our existence, where we are no longer isolated psychological atoms, no longer helpless mechanisms, but waves in the greater ocean of human reality.
All are invited to our online contemplative sessions. No philosophical or academic background is needed. We open new online groups upon demand.
For more details see: http://dphilo.org/events/
E-mail of the DP Group: dp.italy@yahoo.com