Brevde, Gennady (Russia)
Biography:
Ph.D., Professor and supervisor of Russian Professional Psychotherapeutic League (Russian branch of EAP), Professor, trainer and Corresponding Member of Baltic Pedagogical Academy, Chief Expert of Psychological and Psychotherapeutic Center “Orion”, member of the Board of Russian Association of Transpersonal Psychology and Psychotherapy.
Lecture: Terror of oblivion.
One of the greatest poets of Russian underground, Leonid Aronson, once wrote, that earth is inside heavens, and heavens are inside us. These internal (and eternal) heavens are filled with light, love and wisdom.
Are we constantly opened towards them? Are we even remember about them? How and why we loose and forgot them.
The oblivion of heavens is generated by horror: the horror of our powerfulness, noticed by Lacan, the horror of metaphysical essence of being, proclaimed by Heidegger, the horror of the height of non-trivial existence. It is supported by striving for prosperity, continuous hurdling, that give no chance to stop, to think and to recall.
This oblivion is intending to thrive on. It close the way to love and wisdom – and only hate and insanity remain to be achieved. It suppress the light – and darkness comes instead. The oblivion of heavens must be grounded by horror and suppression, thus, the person, captured by it, became to sow them by deeds and relations.
The only weapon against this inner terror, scaring and suppressing – is remembering and reminding our powerfulness and essence, overcoming fear, refusing to be the soil for hate and insanity. This means – to be not as trying to be, but as scheduled to be, to be the single whole with all forgotten necessary things inside, to be integral.