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Eurotas Expert Committee on Transpersonal Health Care Members
of the Committee: The group agreed that the Transpersonal approach to health and disease was close to what is generally understood by holistic medicine, i.e. an approach that regards the human being as a complex totality consisting of body, mind, emotions and spirit, all of which needs to be taken into account if true healing is to take place. Although this approach is gaining some ground among the most avant-garde sectors of the medical profession, having long been practised in the complementary and alternative fields, modern European medicine is increasingly technology-oriented, with the financial interests of the giant multinational pharmaceutical industry exercising far too much influence on the medical profession. In view of this current situation, we can only hope to promote the Transpersonal approach among health professionals at a grassroots level, through personal contacts and networking, and — last but not least - via the Internet. We need to link up with likeminded health professionals from all over Europe who work towards the creation of integrative medicine, a new attempt to combine what is best in orthodox medicine with holistic, alternative and complementary methods. We undertook to compile a database of holistic and integrative organisations and individuals, in order to set up a free exchange of information and experience. To do this, we need the active help of ALL members of the ECI, in forwarding to us the names and addresses of such bodies and individuals. Once sufficient data have been received, we would produce a short text stating our aims and general ideas, to be sent to potentially interested people. It would be accompanied by a questionnaire to establish what the recipients might find most interesting from our potential future output. This would include Transpersonal workshops, seminars and courses in basic counseling skills for lay people working as carers with cancer patients and other sufferers from chronic degenerative diseases. As a first step, we considered the possibility of setting up a workshop for health professionals some time in 2001, under the working title, "Who Cares for the Carers?" The initiator of the Committee has been running this kind of workshop in several countries and would be happy to merge her material with the input of other members of the Committee. A pilot workshop will probably be run in the UK in 2001. We
have already drafted the text of an invitation to physicians and
other health professionals. A great deal is to be done to turn this
plan into reality, and we hope to receive help from members of the
ECI who share our aims but have not (yet) joined our Committee.
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