Dear Friend,

EUROTAS is a parent organisation for a growing number of associations in the field of the transpersonal movement all over Europe. EUROTAS is open for new members. If you are interested to join EUROTAS with your association please contact us.

I see three priority tasks for EUROTAS:

Task (1)
We are living right now in a very new situation in Europe and the world. The European Union has grown up to 25 members. The constitution of the European Union represents something absolutely new in the history of mankind! The proposal of the constitution refers not to a nation, not to a territory, not to an ethnic group. BUT it refers to the whole mankind and it refers to the planet, we are still living on. So, what is needed to realize this enlarged European Union in thinking, feeling and behaviour – what is needed is the development of a global consciousness.

EUROTAS is our contribution for the development of such a global consciousness!

Task (2)
EUROTAS tries to manifest the meaning of the term TRANSPERSONAL in all its facets to (1) the professional community, (2) to the scientific community and (3) to the public. This threefold job of spreading knowledge is strongly necessary as the term “transpersonal” is in all of these three fields still widely unknown or it is still in danger of destructive misinterpretations.

Task (3)
As transpersonal oriented professionals we are asked to search for answers to all those urgent questions that arise from the accelerated developments in technology, science, economics, politics, and society in general. Sometimes it seems as if – for instance – those technological or economical developments would be enforced so rapidly that men would become antiquated and that the Genesis would be needed in a second manmade edition under the control of economical and technological managers.

As transpersonal oriented professionals we have to deal with this serious situation. I see the following scenario:

We are asked to add the transpersonal perspective to the predominant everyday view that has become the “normal” view of the mainstream and that has acquired predominantly the power for decisions in the fields of politics, economics, science and culture. So, transpersonal professionals will find themselves most often in the role of visionary persons. It is not easy to live this social role of a deviant person who steps aside from the mainroad in a consistent way. To introduce the transpersonal perspective into the public and professional arenas is the role for those persons who are courageous and humble, self-confident and authentic, feeling responsible for a sustainable world and experiencing themselves as tools for a First Reality beyond.

So, EUROTAS is a place and a symbol for people who dare to walk towards the borders of the everyday regulations in a capitalistic and materialistic ruled world. The transpersonal people have to look with very open eyes at all those never ending symptoms of economic crisis, wars, societal anomia, individual breakdowns and so on. And it is for these transpersonal people not allowed to run away in inner worlds of regressive fantasies, dreaming in small social circles for a paradise of milk and honey. But it is this unshakeable experience of the TRANSPERSONAL that empowers the transpersonal people to stand for this very important message:

There is the absolute realistic option for an alternative everyday life as individuals!
There is the absolute realistic option for an alternative organisation of the public and professional life!

EUROTAS has to provide examples of new answers for the public and for all fields of professional acting. EUROTAS stands for the message that constructive alternatives are not in the far future but already now realistic. As EUROTAS members we have to transfer to the public an absolute important message. We have to communicate, that:

The technological and economic mainstream developments are not sufficient for the survival and for the further evolution of mankind. Instead, we need very urgent the development of a culture of consciousness.

I consider it as a very prominent task to illustrate such a culture of consciousness that could be lived in our everyday lives, beginning right now. EUROTAS wants to encourage our enthusiasm and our engagement and wants to provide us with the necessary knowledge and the necessary know how for the realisation and implementation of such a culture of consciousness.

Victor Rodrigues
Eurotas President

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