Hello, everybody. It is with great joy that we launch this very inspired, daring, broad-purposed course,
The idea of our course is to work with Integral Maps.
Maps that can account for the multiple dimensions of the person, human being.
So, this course is going to count with several important tools,
the best tools I found during my forty-three-year-old clinic career and jungian psychology studies,
among other themes.
I work with transdisciplinary, transcultural references.
These will help us a lot to deal with the most varied situations and diverse people,
meeting a common ground and elements that can benefit everyone.
Over the past few decades, there has been a wide demand for a map that is capable of covering all human potentials.
Maps that take into account all known systems and models of human development,
from the shamans and ancient sages to the great discoveries of science and modern, cutting-edge psychology,
using the human sciences knowledge, anthropology and other strands of human science in general,
aiming at an integral care of the person, to promote individuation and guide the person into an awakening.
So, what is the advantage of using the Integral Map?
First of all, there is the fact that whatever your occupation area may be
(business, medical, psychotherapy, law, ecology etc)
or simply your way of life, learning process or spiritual search, quest,
this map is an guarantee that you are dealing with all bases.
This approach allows you to use all of your available resources to face any situation with a higher probability of success.
So, this course has been developed in several modules and hence we could ask ourselves:
Why would a psychologist, psychotherapist or even someone who already has good knowledge in Jungian psychology
- which will be one of the bases of our studies -, would want to take a course like this?
In this course, we intend to approach some of the traditional themes such as: what is the unconscious?
Personal unconscious? Collective unconscious?
Let’s take the example of the personal unconscious, the complexes, which were findings developed by Jung.
It was a contribution of several events and Jung was the one who applied and explored the concepts in such a unique way, with great mastery.
So we are going to study some of the complexes.
Let's remind ourselves of the actions of those psychic wounds, their autonomy:
how they take over someone, leading the person into losing control and drifting away completely from their rational, logical side.
We know that the complexes are difficult to work through.
People who deal with psychotherapy know that you don't easily treat and eliminate  a complex.
People that have gone through years of therapy and still could not get a certain control and ascendence over their complexes.
We are going to study a bit of those complexes using new examples, materials for amplification and contributions from other areas,
from other modern authors, so we can then understand and explore the various ways on how to deal with the complexes,
to dilute and ab-react them. We will study all of this.
What is to ab-react?
Sometimes the complex can be, let’s say, reduced from its influence by means of a cathartic or impacting experience.
The complex can also be diluted by means of a relationship that re-educates the person,
like the help-relations do, especially the therapeutic relationships.
So, we are going to propose the study of several ways to work on and deal with these elements
which are some of the most important bases of a successful therapeutic work.
The consciousness, the knowledge of those psychic wounds and how to efficiently deal with them.
So, we have a very broad curriculum here. We are going to study mythology, fairy tales, sufi stories,
where we can find very interesting technologies for helping the person to change their level,
the way of comprehending any given difficult, painful situations a person might be in.
As Jung used to say, “the symbol is an energy transformer”,
hence by means of re-signifying you can change your attitude towards the conflict, difficulty,
and you can then have better conditions to deal with and extract from it any constructive elements that will help
facilitate or favor your internal process of inner development.
So, we have a few new tools to propose.
Another highlight for a psychologist, even for a Jungian one who already knows the terms which will be addressed in an earlier phase of our training course,
is that everything we approach will be treated under a transpersonal perspective,
containing the concepts of Stanislav Grof, a pioneer of the transpersonal psychology,
who amplifies the vision upon the complexes and also provides new tools to deal with it,
tools which often lay aside on the educational courses, graduations on psychology, psychotherapy, etc,
especially those with an academic background.
These revolutionary concepts are not addressed in the psychology formation, graduation.
Another interesting aspect of our course is:
The reason why a therapist from another area, who works with some sort of complementary, integrative, holistic therapy, be interested in taking this course?
Because we are going to work with very wide concepts and tools
that will serve multiple forms of aid relationships, multiple ways of attending and taking care of others.
So, in that aspect, all the knowledge we are going to apply during this period
will be of great benefit, great gain and utility for every approach.
One will be able to get the basic Jungian concepts that are useful for every holistic therapist,
those who work with oracles, and also for professionals from other areas, as we've mentioned before,
people from other areas of knowledge who, by means of using, comprehending
and perceiving the application of the concepts on its respective areas,
can enhance on productivity, enhance on creativity,
enhance on inspiration for work, enhance on the capability to flow, avoiding burnout.
The course also has the purpose to promote mental health.
For many years, decades, I have been dedicating myself to study prevention on the field of mental health,
and we have elements which are not only therapeutic for itself,
but that, by being incorporated and assimilated,
can promote stress prevention, anxiety prevention, prevention of depressive symptoms and several other dysfunctions
that are obstacles for a more complete realization of someone’s work, whatever its job may be.
An example: medical doctors that can greatly benefit by studying the elements of the unconscious,
the psychological wounds, the influences of many factors over the psychological health of the person.
It will also assist the doctor to have a more complete comprehension of their patient,
in such a way to understand the influence of many psychological factors over the body and its physical functioning.
Therefore, this is of great importance for those who wish to know a bit more regarding psychosomatics,
and those who wish to comprehend the individual in an integral aspect.
For people who work with other forms of holistic therapy, for instance,
what we are going to study is very important
because it will help these professionals build better relationships with their clients,
to better understand the unconscious influences that arise both of the client,
as well as the reactions of the person offering care,
that is managing an aid relationship,
and how those reactions, those emotions and everything that blossoms may be used for the benefit of the client
in order to bring more consciousness, more light to the aid relationship.
Those who work with flower essence therapy, homeopathy, acupuncture, ayurvedic therapy,
chinese medicine, bioenergy therapy
all of those kinds of therapies, amongst many others, may be amplified and benefited by the knowledge we will apply during this period.
We got plenty of time to study the basic topics, the most important concepts that are of great value, utility.
The focus of the course is the practical part. We are not going to dwell on a whole lot of theory,
we are going to put more emphasis on the knowledge that can assist people who are in a help-relationship to get more efficient, practical actions.
Why would someone who is not interested to get or to work with any kind of assistance to others be interested in this course?
At first, the course is going to provide deeper self-knowledge regarding the several dimensions of the Being.
The individual will get to know itself much better, and whoever knows themselves deals better with the several factors that influence their life,
that influence their consciousness and that also influences their rationality.
We think that rationality is free, that we are free from our thoughts, our life choices, our fascinations, from that which attracts us or interests us,
or from that which repels us, but actually there are several unconscious factors that determine these patterns.
Therefore, getting to know the factors means to be freer, to be able to get a range of choices,
a way broader horizon for you to decide your life in a much freer, mature way,
conscious of the multiple possibilities that you dispose to set your destiny, your trajectories,
to define the goals and the strategies to reach these goals.
So, the course will assist the individuals to know themselves
and also know better about relationships, to get to know others better.
All of us relate with several people at all times, some of us try to help as friends, as informal clients.
We will have more tools to benefit and help these people to know themselves better
because we are also getting to know ourselves better, and recognizing these patterns.
Some dysfunctional patterns from relationships that are obstacles to establishing good communication,
also obstacles to more fluid, constructive, conscious and mature relationships.
So we got a wide range of reasons to take on the proposed studies within the path of the map I conceived along this long time.
So we have as one of the main goals of the course not only the topic of therapy,
but also the therapeutic actions, and being therapeutic for ourselves and for others
to provide our own blossoming and also the blossoming of others.
We can better get in touch with our potential, the multiple latent potentialities  we carry within ourselves.
By getting to know our unconscious we are able to access it more easily and efficiently,
and also are able to help those that come to us seeking some sort of help, orientation,
to get in touch with their potential for maturation and blossoming.
Hence the course is also very important to spiritualists, for instance.
People who are on a spiritual quest and feel a lot of obstacles within themselves,
challenging obstacles related to the body, sexuality, dysfunctions,
neurotic matters and several other cognitive limitations,
that become barriers to an utmost awakening of the conscience,
an utmost awakening of the deeper Being within ourselves,
which is the source of the self-healing forces that Jung named  “Self”.
So we got several opportunities to access and deal in a more efficient way
with all of the decisive elements for having a better quality of life and health.
There are several aspects that we must consider regarding this training.
As background for the training we are going to take a quote from Ken Wilber,
which is also a great exponent of Transpersonal Psychology, and here is what it states:
"What would happen if we took literally everything that the diverse cultures from around the world have to teach us regarding human potential,
spiritual development, psychological development and social development and put it under the spotlight?
If we tried to find the really indispensable keys for human development that we get nowadays at our disposal and tried, based on wide intercultural studies,
to make use of all the great traditions of the world to create a complex, inclusive map,
the most extensive or integral map that would cover all the best elements of each one?"
This is exactly our foundation.
For instance, educators. Teachers and educators that we often see around in all the educational paths in general, in a broad way,
we see an emphasis and incidence in some specific dimensions of the human personality.
Education gets restricted to the thinking function, to reason and rationality. To memory and the sensorial perceptions.
It gets restricted to a materialist approach, to a material cosmovision of the world,
and leaves aside several highly important dimensions for the good health of the human being, for an integral health.
Intuition and feeling lay aside, the artistic and creative dimensions of the individual lay aside,
the energetic and spiritual dimensions, which are highly important to be considered, lay aside.
Hence, we can note several gaps in the education process of the societies.
In 'Arca da Montanha Azul' (Ark of the Blue Mountain), which is this spiritual, multi-religious,
scientific and therapeutic school that I have been developing already over a few decades
has the goal to seek for an integral education and develop especially those functions which are asleep,
those latent abilities and capabilities that society and the traditional educational institutions do not provide us the opportunity to explore and develop.
Therefore, we must be conscious of the existence of such dimensions, of their importance and how to develop them.
And also how to identify them. Spiritual Intelligence for an example.
We got many elements that lay aside, and must be explored.
There are many continents that remain on the margin of our daily life, at the margin of our common, ordinary conscience.
We need to expand our minds in several ways and the course will assist us to understand how we can do it.
We also get, still in the spiritual field, for instance, many people who work with meditation and practice meditation already for many years.
But a lot of contemporary meditation masters noticed that
there are some dimensions of the psyche that meditation is not capable to reach.
We could also mention the people who have been taking ayahuasca for a long time,
we see that some aspects of their personality haven’t changed so much.
So we need other tools, to work other cores and dimensions of ourselves.
These meditation masters realized the importance of therapy
and began to undergo therapy themselves, and also to work with therapy associated with meditation
where we find very interesting results, wider and more extensive
than the results of those who work with either therapy or meditation alone.
There are psychologists that know very little about the working tools of Transpersonal Psychology:
meditation, the value of Ayahuasca, the importance of several ways to expand consciousness,
Regression Therapy; these can all help to bring up consciousness,
bring up access and perception of where we must search for another tool
in order to complement our spiritual path and spiritual readiness.
Another point, still about the matters regarding limitations of the various educational institutions.
And I will include not only secular educational institutions, from society, such as schools and universities
but also the institutions that work with ancient and sacred traditions
such as buddhism, hinduism, sufism, among others;
to also realize that they too need the knowledge of psychology, and of how useful and productive it is,
absolutely indispensable I'd say, a transdisciplinary and transcultural approach
during these  times of fragmented knowledges we’re living.
The transdisciplinary and transcultural approach will enable us to understand each other,
people who are different from us.
We have friends that are different from us,
the clients that look for us are their own continent themselves,
each one with a particular life story, psychological profile, typology, a particular, diverse astrological chart,
come from different cultures, and we need to be able to help these people.
We must be able to get out of ourselves in order to understand other different psychologies,
to enter people’s worlds and nourish empathy, affectivity, attitudes that make people feel sheltered,
comfortable to open themselves, to bring their difficulties to the table,
their shadows, their most intimate and painful feelings.
It all depends heavily on the therapeutic relationship, on the attitude of who is trying to help,
who is in an aid relationship, looking after close ones.
During those many decades - this work has been going on for a long time - we also have the dreams.
So first of all we'll study the psyche's structure, which is fundamental, the basic concepts of Jung:
shadow, anima and animus, persona, the process of individuation.
We'll study these elements not only in the most traditional ways
of the teaching institutions that exist - that do have their level of excellence
but also we are aiming to bring new elements:
like the shadow of light seekers; which is the reason why we do what we don't want to do
and the reason why we cannot do what we would like to be doing.
Our reactions and attitudes are often incompatible, they are in conflict with that which we would like to bring closer to others, to our loved ones and to ourselves.
More kindness, harmony and affectivity.
Dr. Nise, this great master that I had the opportunity to work with and who was also a personal friend,
she used to talk about the catalyst effect of affection. The importance of affection and patience.
I have made a study - which is on my youtube channel: "Cursos por Philippe Bandeira de Mello" - about patience.
I had the inspiration for that study during the quarantine, the pandemic, as soon as it began,
because patience was somehow forced upon us. We were obliged to nurture patience.
but patience is always important, and now that we were obliged to do it and therefore we realize,
through enforcement, that it is very important to nurture this quality, this ability.
For those taking care of others it is very important to nurture patience.
We'll also talk about dreams during our study. We'll study symbolism, the importance of symbols.
Everything is a symbol, everything that happens in our lives;
our relationships, our dreams, physical and psychological symptoms are all symbolic,
they contain symbols and when we are able to decipher some of its meaning
we discover more resources to deal with these dysfunctional elements of our personality.
During this time I realized the importance of dreams inside the therapeutic work as mappers of the path.
Through dreams we'll learn to extract a diagnostic and a therapeutic indication,
which is absolutely decisive in a well addressed therapeutic work.
Dreams can bring us very rich and useful tips to our lives.
Jung used to say that he enjoyed working with dreams since he didn't want to risk imposing a theory,
a predefined system for a person with answers based on this given system,
he thought it was important to work with dreams since it is a language, a message that comes from within the person,
from their own Self, which is the crafter of dreams, which guides, orients and brings very important information
that will complement the one-sidedness of consciousness.
We are often sick, dysfunctional because our consciousness is unilaterally focused in one direction,
focused on some things that sometimes bring us tension, stress, anxiety.
Therefore we need a complementation from the unconscious.
It's perspective about the positioning we are taking towards life, towards our job, our spiritual path,
our relationships, everything basically.
We notice then the great importance of the study of dreams, the study of symbolism.
In ancient Greece, there was the Aesculapius’ Sanctuary, the God of Medicine.
It's main tool was the dream, the priests that were also doctors put people to dream
and then interpreted their dreams and extracted the diagnostics and therapeutic indications from them.
So this dimension is absolutely important to all kinds caretakers.
Any caretaker that have conditions to understand dreams and work with them,
will be able to have more resources to help its clients or people who come to him.
We’ll see a little bit of the visions, from the sacred traditions, of shamanism.
The shamans also work with dreams, in many sacred traditions the dream is of extreme importance.
In ancient times they had an incredible value.
We see them in the Bible marking very important moments:
The Pharaoh's dream which Joseph deciphers, Jacob’s dream,
Saint Joseph’s dreams that made him take new actions
as was the case of the Man and his Symbols book by Jung, which we’ll discuss later.
Jung was a man that let himself learn and be led by his dreams.
This is an attitude that makes a complete difference in our lives,
in the sense of going towards the direction of our destiny,
of our unique singular, call, which only ourselves have to offer to the world
and to fully accomplish our potential so we can be happier.
Living our processes to the fullest, being complete, whole,
all of this will bring great benefits and lots of healing for us and those around us.
We'll also go through the following studies:
the therapeutic relationship of the unconscious; the contents of the collective unconscious;
the myths, fairy tales and the stories we’re going to study.
All this archetypal material, that also constitutes us, which may be the most essential dimension
that we bring with us and that influences social movements, politics, and history in a broad way.
The comprehension of these elements and symbolisms will equally help those that work with oracles.
Most of the time it isn't enough to be a good reader and interpreter of an oracle,
Often we can say that an oracle doesn't lie, that it doesn't make mistakes.
However, the interpreter, if its mind is molded, polluted by elements of its own unconscious,
he won't be able to make a more transparent reading.
If there's not a good training to make a therapeutic reading,
as if what I have to say to that person is constructive, it'll help them, it'll be therapeutic
or will confuse them, possibly in an harmful way.
I've received in my clinic people that came from the most diverse kinds of oracular readings,
like karmic maps, palmistry and others,
people that got very impressed and stunned by what they've heard
and we had to work and help them to better digest those elements.
So it's very important for the person who works with oracles
to know the elements of psychology, to know themselves as well
and also their own typology, their wounds and projections.
Implacably we always project our own contents unto others,
but when we know ourselves better, we know the origin of these projections,
we become able to retract these projections and have more authentic relationships.
So, it's another benefit then.
Also the study of symbolism is undoubtly very relevant to the Oracle readers
since the oracles speak through symbols and it's an enigmatic language
and we use our intuition, feelings, other channels that don't usually go through reason,
so that's why we need to know how to better deal with them, to awaken and better develop our skills.
And in the last course module we will work with the expanded states of consciousness,
and we'll study some of the transdisciplinar concept of spiritual emergency.
An absolutely revolutionary concept, that surprisingly hasn't found its way yet into the Academy,
post graduation, master's, doctorate, into the therapists formation institutions.
And it's an absolutely useful and fundamental concept for us to work,
specially with enigmatic symptoms which is my specialty.
When I started to work with Transpersonal Psychology and discovered those holotropic states of consciousness and expanded states of consciousness,
I began to realize the new and broad horizons that were unveiled.
Since 1989 I conduct Ayahuasca ceremonies and research Entheogens. I wrote a book on the subject.
The difference between the Entheogens, which are sacred psychoactive plants used in a ritualistic manner,
for the sake of therapy, also to enable one to see specific dimensions of a person
which requires one to access an expanded state of consciousness,
that are also used for pragmatic purposes, as healing, awakening one's spiritual development,
'untie knots', broaden the mind and purify a person.
To raise one's sense of ethics, ecological consciousness and many other benefits, like solidarity
and consequently an immense potential for social transformation.
In light of this lies the difference between Entheogens, those plants that have millenary traditions related to them,
and the drugs that I call "purified substances", the synthetics.
The results are extremely different. We have specific studies about this in my book but I won't go into it now,
but observe the wide background from which we are doing our studies,
going through the most important and useful therapeutic tools for an efficient and well addressed work.
Then, the concept of spiritual emergency is absolutely vital.
For there's another application of our work: there are people that are mediums.
Here in Brazil one of the kinds of spiritual emergency is possession and channeling.
Several people are mediums, especially in Brazil, there are also people in other countries as well,
and one of the factors that can be detrimental during consultations with mediums is exactly the influence of the medium's unconscious,
and this has been a motive for a lot of reflections, polemics, arguments.
I myself have many stories to tell. I've known mediumship since I was 17 years old,
I'm not even sure how long I've had experiences in this field of mediumship.
So it's important for people that deal with this to know how to discern when they're going to offer consultations,
to not let yourself be interfered by your own unconscious,
which also may happen during an oracle reading and other areas of attendance and aid relationships.
For the teachers, for example, it's very important for them to be aware of the value of an integral education.
For them to be able to nurture the various dimensions of their students' psyche's, of their personalities.
This is going to make a huge difference. As this knowledge, those holistic sciences of the sages of old,
were somehow forgotten, and we are in a way rescuing them in modern times.
Therefore, the concept of spiritual emergency will bring out very important and revolutionary data.
The crisis in which Jung went through was a spiritual emergency.
With our current knowledge, we have absolute tranquility to diagnose, that highly productive, evolutionary crisis
that Jung went through when he broke up with Freud for a few years,
as a spiritual emergency that resulted in the Red Book - a new cycle of his life and his work.
The Jung before the spiritual emergency was one, and after it became another.
Jung was responsible for revolutionizing psychology, bringing lots of elements
that up to this day we are still trying to comprehend and become able to apply
in our therapeutic and self-knowledge work.
Also in the interpretation of works of art, of mystical experiences,
and many other dimensions that are very important for the lives of several people.
Therefore, understanding the enigmatic processes people go through as spiritual emergencies.
This concept can help then, at first if you look at them as evolutionary crisis,
and not as symptoms that need to be repressed and suppressed.
The therapist will then act as a midwife.
Observe that abandoning the suppressive approach of the symptoms,
which is an action of putting off the problem, you don't go to its cause.
The therapist then acts as a midwife of that process that comes to deconstruct a previous way of living
and help rebuild the person, its values and life, in a new level, much more conscious, mature and functional.
Therefore, when we follow that approach, we’ll be able to achieve another comprehension,
another way of dealing with people that are going through these processes without 'pathologyzing' them,
without that tendency of psychology in its origins to understand everything in the light of pathologies.
The doctor studies diseases, so he’ll try to perceive diseases in all things.
That was what Freud did. Jung made much criticism towards him for this reason.
For when we have this concept, from then on we’ll see, for example,
the increasing importance of experiential therapies.
Those are therapies that promote a transforming experience instead of lengthy verbal work,
those are therapies that shorten the overall time a person spends doing therapy.
Within those experience-therapies, we’ll find the Holotropic Breathwork as well as the Regression Therapy.
The Regression Therapy, also Past Lives Therapy, made me feel like a veil was being lifted from my eyes.
I’d had 20 years working with Jungian referential when I did my training and met this new therapeutic modality,
and for many symptoms that I didn’t know how to deal with, that I'd feel like there was nothing I could do,
this new hope emerged.
New ways of approach, to work those symptoms. A very complete method
that integrates various schools of psychology (Reich, Psychodrama, Jung, Gestalt, Freud), works with all maps.
Observe that the current maps are inclusive, they don’t exclude any previous school of psychology.
Actually they integrate in a new synthesis all the knowledge we already have.
That's 'The Blind Men and the Elephant'.
The Elephant arrive in a village of blind people, each blind person touches a different part of the elephant.
One touched the trunk and said “Oh it’s like a serpent”.
The other touched the tail and said: “No! It’s like a worm”.
Another touched the ear and said: “No! It’s like a huge butterfly”.
Another touched the leg and said: “No! It’s like a pillar”.
They all touched the elephant, but the totality of the elephant escaped them all.
Therefore, our proposal is exactly to suppress this gap.
Jung used to say that we currently have two theories about the Light,
the Corpuscular Theory and the Wavelike Theory, both valid and provable by mathematical methods.
And he said that many theories are necessary to realize the hyper-complexity of the psyche.
He himself used to work with tools from other great psychotherapists, like Freud's way,
Adler’s psychoanalytic tools, among others. He used to be a boundless man.
So it's this spirit we’ll rescue, and this is the proposal to bring forth to the great public.
Because this is the dream Jung had in Man and his Symbols.
At first he had refused writing the book, for he was too old and nearing his death, his passage.
Never had he tried to popularize his ideas before and then he had a dream that he was in a public square,
talking to people from other fields of work, not psychologists or psychiatrists,
and these people understood what he said.
He then changed his mind and accepted to write the book,
trying to popularize his ideas and bring them to a wider public.
And this is the spirit that moves us
and I am sure this course will benefit many people from different areas and will be rewarding for all.
