“To make wrong is to teach guilt and perpetuaute the belief that punishment is necessary. To make right is to teach love and demonstrate forgiveness. To put it simply, you are never right to make wrong, or wrong to make right.

You cannot love in an unloving way. You can’t be right and attack what’s wrong.”

The Way of Peace 1999

Mohammed built a simple religion based on acknowledging God and 5 prayers a day, but Islamic Law is highly codified and requires years of study.

Moses was given, and passed on to the Jews, 10 commandments , and again a very complicated religion sprang up.

Jesus reduced the commandments to two, and again Christianity has become very complex.

Diana Cooper wrote that:”Human Intelligence takes the simple and makes it complicated. If it’s complicated, it’s from ego; Spirit is simple.”

At the root of all religions are the same principles: unconditional love for God, self and others, and gratitude and awe for our existence. All else is commentary, often added by the religious leaders to promote and secure the existence of their religion. And the irony is that in adding layer upon layer, they have forgotten those simple core truths.

How many wars have been waged in the name of religion, having forgotten the core requirement to love? It’s an oxymoron to write or speak about a religious war; at least, it should be!

In his well-known hierarchy of needs, he described level 5 – self-actualization, as the final level of psychological development, achieved when all basic and mental needs are fulfilled and the person can develop their full potential. Whilst many organisations and leaders quote Maslow when talking about motivation, they typically express the view that level 5 issues are not the concern of organisations.

At Transpersonal Dynamics we believe otherwise, that in fact the key players in organisations who want to take the lead into the next decade have to identify what really matters to them, where their passion lies and how they can best serve their organisation and humanity as a whole, all Level 5 transpersonal issues.

Organisations, their leaders and managers will have to become comfortable not just talking about these issues, but providing their employees with the opportunities to develop at this level, if the employee wants to.

Our perspective emphasises the importance of personal development in both physical and metaphysical areas, working as individuals on our own and when interacting with others. To quote Roberto Assagioli:

“At this time, it is the right course and our plain duty towards ourselves, towards others and towards God, not only freely to accept Spiritual Joy but intentionally to awaken it within ourselves and to preserve and increase that which we have obtained.”

“Go back to basics… human intelligence takes the simple and makes it complicated… if it’s complicated it’s from Ego, Spirit is simple.” This quote from Diana Cooper says it all; we have a tendency to over complicate things, either tying ourselves in knots worrying about something, or dressing up an issue in a complicated way so we can show our expertise. Have you noticed how real experts can actually explain their subject in very simple terms? Listen to someone like Fred Alan Wolf explain quantum physics – he takes hugely complex issues and explains them in a way that even I can understand!