Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Respetado Gurudeva, pfamhr, TLGASP !!, TLGAHpS !! Estas semanas hemos estado trabajando fuerte con Usted y Miguel Polo para cumplir la meta de hoy 12 de noviembre, día de Govardhana-puja,  publicar la DECLARACION DE PROPOSITO de la revista SOLARIS. Por la misericordia de Srila Prabhupada hemos cumplido. Con esta publicación estamos dando inicio a sus actividades oficiales.

Radha Madhana ki, Jaya !!!, Guiridhari ki, Jaya !!!! NitayGaura Premanande !!!!!

SOLARIS

“The Sun filled with infinite effulgence, the king of all planets and the image of the good soul, is like unto the eye of this world”  (Brahma samhita 5.52)

INTRODUCTION:

The magazine, Solaris, is a multidisciplinary, annual magazine (mainly philosophy, education, religion, psychology and art) aimed at developing the cultivation of the human spirit. We plan to publish the first issue March 2016.

Articles may be written in Spanish or English. For an item to be admitted and then released authors first have to submit an abstract of 150 to 200 words to [email protected], this summary will be evaluated by the Editorial Board for approval.

In addition to magazine articles you can publish notes, poems, short stories, biographies and reviews, as well as drawings and illustrations whose content relates to the theme. All material must not have been published before.

As the Sun, Solaris lives for the benefit of all. We hope for your kind participation. Thank you.

Lima, November 12, 2015

Prof. Hanumatpresaka Swami

Head of the editorial board

Dr. Miguel Ángel Polo Santillán

Director

Prof. Alejandro Salazar R.

Editor

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

The foremost motive that impels us to make this editorial project a reality is the proposition that as human beings we have the capacity to develop a level of higher consciousness than the predominant paradigm which does not address essential topics such as:  Who am I? What is death? What is the purpose of life? What are higher aspirations for human beings?

We hope to address these themes from this forum.

The vast majority of media in circulation inform only about material comfort, and they morbidly emphasize violence, death and individual and social frustration. Through Solaris we will present reflections that may reveal that such unhappiness is not only caused by social, political, economic and cultural problems, but it is also the reflection of the misfortune of a world in which the mind and heart of the majority of people are sustained only in mundane values and spiritual values are depreciated.

WHY THE NAME?

First, because of its iconographic significance. In every culture the sun has predominantly represented or been connected to life, light and wisdom (it has also been related to fundamental cause, motive or reason). Second, for the algorithmic sense that just as the rotation of the sun indicates that one day has passed and another one is beginning, similarly, in Solaris, we propose taking advantage of the wisdom of the past, so as to not live blindly in the present, and thus build universally a better future. This is, our aim is to rediscover ourselves and try to resolve, with honesty and sustained knowledge, the mystery of where we are going?

In summary, Solaris is proposed as a platform for serious, higher, intense, and profound debate with the goal of purifying us, socially and individually, of destructive attitudes.

Join us, everyone is kindly invited

SOLARIS MAGAZINE

Editorial board

• Dimitri Kitsikis / Prof. Emeritus, University of Ottawa, Member Royal Canadian Society.

• Samaresh Bandyopadhyay / Former Head of Ancient Indian History and Culture-University of Calcutta, India

• Héctor Béjar / Professor of Sociology-San Marcos University, Peru

• S.S. Hanumatpresaka Swami (Huber Robinson) / General Secretary-NIOS

• Ramón Mujica Pinilla /Director-National Library, Peru

• Eduardo Gastelumendi / President-Peruvian Society of Psychoanalysis

• Ravi Gupta / Director Department of Theology-Utah University, Logan

Director

Miguel Ángel Polo Santillán / Prof. and Former Head of Department of Philosophy-San Marcos University, Lima, Peru

Editor

Abhiram T.D. (Alejandro Salazar R.)

Editorial team

Hanumatpresaka Swami / USA

Rajesh Kumar – Madu-manjari DD/ Australia

Harsh Pradam / India

Luis Torino / Perú

Ambarisa M.D. (Agustín Haehnel) / Argentina

Rodrigo Hernández P.  / Chile

Asta-saki (Alicia Alburto) / Mexico

Call for Papers

GUIDELINES FOR THE ELABORATION OF THE ARTICLES

Solaris, First Issue

1. CONTENT

Central theme: THE PSYCHOLOGY AND THE SACRED

            Examples of Sub-themes

• MEDITATION AND MENTAL HEALTH.
• CARL JUNG AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF KUNDALINI YOGA.
• RELIGIOUS MENTAL ATTITUDES AS A PRODUCT OF EVOLUTION.
• MODELS OF PSYCHE IN DIFFERENT CULTURES
• PSYCHOLOGISTS OF THE SACRED, BIO-GRAPHICAL NOTES ON SELECTED CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS FIELD.

2.- ARTICLE ABSTRACT: Please submit an Abstract of 150-200 words of your proposed Article to the Editors for approval and/or suggestions by 15 December 2015.

3.- NUMBER OF PAGES AND STYLE OF THE ARTICLES: Articles should be brief essays from 2 to 4 pages, single spaced, Arial 12-point font. Ideally images and illustrations should be included to better communicate your ideas, but text only is also very acceptable. Use APA-6 standard for citations.

4.- DEADLINE: Deadline for approved articles will be 15 February 2016.

Note: All communications may be sent to [email protected]

Solaris

Revista Cultural

“El Sol, lleno de refulgencia infinita, es el rey de todos los planetas y la imagen del alma buena, es como el ojo de este mundo”  (Brahma sanhita. 5.52).

INTRODUCCIÓN:

La Revista Solaris es una revista anual multidisciplinaria (principalmente de filosofía, educación, religión, psicología y arte) cuya finalidad es desarrollar el  cultivo del espíritu humano. Esperamos publicar nuestro primer número para marzo de 2016.

Los artículos pueden ser escritos en español o inglés. Para que un artículo sea admitido y luego publicado primero se tiene que enviar un resumen de 150 o 200 Palabras a [email protected], este resumen será evaluado por el Consejo editorial para su aprobación.

Además de artículos la revista puede publicar notas, poemas, cuentos, biografías y reseñas, así como también dibujos e ilustraciones cuyo contenido guarde relación con el tema central. Todo el material no debe haber sido publicado antes.

Así como el Sol, Solaris sale para el beneficio de todos. Esperamos su bondadosa participación. Muchas gracias.

Lima,  12  de octubre de  2016.

Prof. Hanumatpresaka Swami (Huber Robinson)

Responsable del Consejo Editorial

Dr. Miguel Ángel Polo Santillán

Director

Prof. Alejandro Salazar R.

Editor

DECLARACIÓN DE PROPOSITO

El principal motivo que nos anima a convertir este proyecto editorial en una realidad, es la condición que como seres humanos, nosotros tenemos la capacidad de desarrollar un nivel de conciencia más elevado que el paradigma predominante, el cual no se ocupa de tópicos tan esenciales como: ¿Quién soy?, ¿Qué es la muerte?, ¿Cuál es el propósito de la vida?, ¿Cuáles son las aspiraciones más elevadas que pueden alcanzar los seres humanos? Desde esta tribuna esperamos ayudar a explicar estos temas.

La gran mayoría de medios que circulan solo informan del confort material, y, morbosamente enfatizan la violencia, la muerte y las frustraciones sociales e individuales. A través de Solaris presentaremos reflexiones que nos revelarán que toda esa infelicidad no sólo es causada por problemas políticos, sociales y económicos, sino que también es el reflejo de un mundo en el cual la mente y el corazón de la mayoría de las personas se sustentan solo en valores mundanos, menospreciando los valores espirituales. 

¿POR QUÉ EL NOMBRE?

Primero, debido a su significado iconográfico. En las culturas clásicas, el sol ha sido representado o ha estado conectado con la vida, la luz y la sabiduría (se le relaciona como causa motivo o razón).  Segundo, por el sentido algorítmico ya que de la misma forma que la rotación del sol indica que un día ha concluido y otro está por iniciarse, similarmente, en Solaris proponemos tomar ventaja de la sabiduría del pasado, para no vivir ciegamente en el presente y  construir un futuro mejor, es decir, nuestra finalidad es redescubrirnos y tratar de resolver, con honestidad y conocimiento sustentado, el misterio de: ¿a dónde vamos?                                                                                                                                

En síntesis, Solaris tiene como propósito ser una plataforma para el debate serio, alturado, intenso, profundo, con el objetivo de purificarnos de las actitudes protervas tanto individual como socialmente.

Únete a nosotros, todos están cordialmente invitados.

Solaris

Consejo Editorial

• DIMITRI KITSIKIS / Prof. Emérito, Universidad de Ottawa, Miembro de la Real Sociedad Canadiense.

• SAMARESH BANDYOPADHYAY / Ex decano del departamento de Historia y cultura de la India Antigua -Universidad de Calcuta, India.

• HÉCTOR BÉJAR / Dr. en Sociología, catedrático de la Universidad de San Marcos, Perú.

• S.S. HANUMATPRESAKA SWAMI (HUBER ROBINSON) / Secretario General de NIOS.

• RAMÓN MUJICA PINILLA /Director Nacional de la Biblioteca Nacional del Perú.

• EDUARDO GASTELUMENDI / Presidente de la Sociedad Peruana de Psicoanálisis

• RAVI GUPTA / Ph. D. en Oxford. Director del departamento de Teología de la Universidad de Utah, USA.

Equipo Editorial

Hanumatpresaka Swami / USA

Rajesh Kumar – Madu-manjari DD/ Australia

Harsh Pradam / India

Luis Torino / Perú

Ambarisa M.D. (Agustín Haehnel) / Argentina

Rodrigo Hernández P.  / Chile

Asta-saki (Alicia Alburto) / Mexico

Sananda DD / España

Pautas para la Elaboración de los Artículos de la

Revista Solaris - Primera edición

1.- CONTENIDO

Tema central: La Psicología y lo Sagrado

Ejemplos de Sub-temas (el criterio es que estén vinculados o conectados con el tema central)

- MEDITACION y SALUD MENTAL

- CARL JUNG Y LA PSICOLOGÍA DEL KUNDALINI YOGA

- ACTITUDES MENTALES RELIGIOSAS COMO UN PRODUCTO DE LA EVOLUCIÓN

 -MODELOS DE PSIQUE EN DIFERENTES CULTURAS

 -PSICÓLOGOS DE LO SAGRADO, notas biográficas de personalidades en este campo 

2.- RESUMEN DEL ARTÍCULO: Por favor, enviar un resumen de entre 150-200 palabras de la propuesta de su artículo a los editores para su aprobación y/o sugerencias. Fecha Limite: 15 de Dic del 2015.

3.- ACERCA DEL NÚMERO DE PÁGINAS Y EL ESTILO DE LOS ARTÍCULOS: Los artículos deben ser ensayos breves de 2 a 4 paginas carta americana, espaciado simple, tipo de letra arial 12 puntos. Lo ideal sería incluir imágenes o ilustraciones del mismo, para comunicar mejor sus ideas, pero si solo es texto también es aceptable. Para los que hagan citas usar Apa 6.

4.- La fecha de entrega última de los artículos será el 15 de Febrero del 2016.

Nota: Toda comunicación puede ser enviada  a [email protected]

Jai, Sri Krsna!

Esteemed Professor, Master Harsh et al,

Here we are still in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Our health is still very delicate with need to rest as much as 9-hours in a day now.  Our best medical advice is that we have to continue to adjust our work to live according to our Donkey's age.

In this regard we are basically working to develop a list of priorities and schedule that we can maintain personally and then responding from that perspective to the suggestions of others.

As of now this NIOS work is one of the very topmost priorities for us. We have had a series of discussions on maintaining the functioning of NIOS by shifting its operation to Texas and joining a broader educational corporation there, Goloka Education. This is taking time and energy and we shall be sending you particular notices on this.

Of course we have had our local work with Dr. Ravi and the big Celebrate Nashville Festival this weekend.

I received the final bill from Ma Saraadia press and now we only wait for the general accounting for this one project from your good self.

In this maze of NIOS work two projects seems prominent to us: Distribution of the books we have and the co-operation with the National Library of Peru on the annual journal, "Solaris", and an international conference on "Psychology of the Sacred". Both of these are moving along well with very, very senior scholars and editors. Particularly we have a meeting scheduled by phone tomorrow night with the Director of the Library, who has been beleaguered by hosting the International Monetary Fund, with Presidents and Representatives of 50-nations in Peru. He has written an EXCELLENT paper on the history of religion and psychology and at this point we are looking for someone who wants to go ahead very, very seriously in a dialog between Sri Caitanya's Bhagavata School and Occidental view of nature with this perspective of Jung. Unless we get this the journal and symposium will not have life. Can you help in this?
 

Besides NIOS and its administrative work, there is of course our personal Sadhana, without which we would be dead.  We keep that from 4.30-5.30AM On-Line and are committed to four classes on SB and BG weekly in Spanish and English.

These classes we feel should satisfy our very great debt to our ISKCON disciples and students.

Finally, we have our obligations as members of the Executive Committee of ISKCON'S Ministry of Education but we feel that those are being satisfied by their relationship with the aforementioned Sadhana Bhakti publication and education work.

Of course, there is more work to be done, structuring our strategy, but in-spite of all these challenges we are making tangible progress.

We will try to call both you are Harsh tomorrow and look for any mail from you as soon as possible.

We are anxious to hear about any work you are doing and if Pranava Das has contacted your good self.

HpSwami

NIOS - ASA

[3:21:50 AM] hp swami: Good morning Doctor. How are you? It is 3.15AM here in Tennessee. The last part of our journey back to USA was intense: Chosica, Lima, Mexico City, Houston, Nashville.

Our energy is still not recovered. Honestly speaking we don't know if we will live or die at this point. However, Seneca comments, "If my bark (boat) sinks, it is but to another sea".     In any case, shall we die discussing philosophy? 

We would certainly have the company of such immortal geniuses as Socrates, Descartes, Jung/Freud, Krsna.  We will send copy of this to our esteemed friend Professor Samaresh Bandyopadhyay former head of Ancient Indian History and Culture at the University of Calcutta.

Also, your good friend and our new acquaintance the Venerable Director of the Peruvian National Library might like to join the dialog at times, no?
 

[3:24:06 AM] hp swami: For us we can agree with Socrates in the Phaedo that these discussions about the ultimate nature of the self, its immortality, at this point, the cup of poison in front of us, are not idle speculations. Old or young man, we have to agree with Albert Camus about the primacy of death as an element in our philosophy of life.

Jaya Sri Krsna!

Esteemed Professor Samaresh Bandyopadhyay et al,

We just got back from the jungles of Peru. On the coast, where Lima is, the country is completely dust and desert except for the several rivers coming out of the Andes.

One of the most important aspects that we can see of global help is the development of more agrarian based communities. Tarapoto, where we went is the best option that we have seen so far in Peru area. It is over the Andes, on the skirts of the Amazon jungle, with agriculture of all kinds, a popular tourist spot with several very nice ISKCON devotees living there for many years. It was our first time there and a very rewarding experience. About 15-other devotees and friends also flew there to pass the six day visit with us. The internet connection was one small step above zero so a lot of our work got a little delayed, but it was very refreshing for our beleaguered body.

Now back in Lima we are in our last days here and also preparations for the Janmastami festival.

This afternoon we go from Chosica, about one hour drive, to Lima for a meeting with the heads of the Jungian and Freudian psychology societies, Miguel Polo, our friend from San Marcos University, and Oscar Natars and his wife Anna who are the internationally decorated cinema directors with whom we have been working.

We will camp overnight at our simple center in Lima and then give a morning Bhagavatam class and then visit Dr. Ramon Mujica, Director of the National Library, for breakfast. After that back to Chosica and almost non-stop programs for the Janmastami and Srila Prabhupada avir-bhava mahotsava on Sunday.

Monday off to Mexico for two nights, then one night in Houston, then two in Atlanta and then ... then ... then three months at our base in Tennessee with Dr. Ravi!

Our attitude toward these meetings with this wonderful Peruvian men is that we have reached the limit of our efforts. If they see any use for us then we can contribute but we have no more strength left to push any more programs. What we and they have been suggesting is a bigger program in 2016, inviting yourself and Mrs. Bandyopadhyay to come as guests of the National Library with very strong programs with different historical and cultural societies with adequate advertising to drawn participation from scholarly as well as student population as well as the Indian community and Ambassador here.

We can continue to give them more perspective on such themes as Jung and the Kundalini Lectures, but really within the perspective of our real expertise, the Gandharva Veda of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Srila Rupa Goswami.

1. We sent the letter to Dr. Tapati Mukherjee finally with a copy to your good self. His address and phone number that we have are:

PROF. DR. TAPATI MUKHERJEE
DIRECTOR,RABINDRA BHAVAN, VISWA BHARATI
SHANTI NIKETAN, INDIA,  . . . .

2. We are attaching the link to the writing work that we have been doing. It is very much in the spirit of Prof. C. S. Lewis's "Chronicles of Narnia" or "Peter Pan", juvenile fiction, that is also palatable for adults who have also disliked growing up. We really feel very motivated to write like this and any comments that you can make will certainly be extremely important for us. Jack London said that before we can write anything worth publishing we have to write 100,000 words of trash first, so start writing trash: www.jayarama.us/archives/tpp-cb21.docx

3. We tried to attach our 'Inauguration Address' for the Book Release Ceremony but the e-mail won't do it, so we put it on our web-site at: www.jayarama.us/archives/Book-release-hps-address.docx

4. I think we planned on trying to talk by phone on Sunday and it still seems the most possible. We will try by 9PM your hour at the latest.

5. We have not heard from the Mumbai, Pradhan. We hope that he has also been able to make some progress in assembling the list of possible consumers for Bharatiya-sanskriti and the wonderful Felicitations volume.

We are keeping good health for our age but of course our energy is a little fragile.

Thank you so, so, so much for your association and friendship.

HpSwami

AGTSP!
Paoho.

We just posted the latest and greatest NOI-afterwords at:
www.jayarama.us/archives/tpp-cb21.docx

Your comments and criticisms greatly appreciated.

Hare Krsna, Bwanas and Bwanis!
AGTSP!!!!!  Paoho...    Follows our letter to the Jung, Kundalini Yoga, Peru Symposium, circle:

Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya!

Esteemed Psychologists, Philosophers, Psychiatrists, Historians et al.
We salute you from Monterrey, Mexico. We came here for a traditional boat festival, Jala-yatra, and we are leaving for a mountain excursion with about 45-members in 1-1/2 hours. It is 6.310AM.

We were contemplating Dr. Eduardo's comments after the 1st Jung lecture, about the necessity of not dumping our human habits such as smoking and becoming too spiritual.

Then we did our regulated reading, this 2nd lecture on Kundalini Yoga, and it seems to address very much Dr. Eduardo's concern.

We have to translate some of the terms that Jung uses, such as impersonal consciousness, free from ego, to match our Bhagavata model, but he seems to be talking about the same levels of evolution of consciousness.

Earlier he was talking about sthula, suksma and para bodies, and said the sthula and suksma were understandable to him, but the para was a 'mist'. We would feel that by a little effort in this Bhagavata tradition, yoga, under able guidance we can have some experience of these higher chakras and the mist would begin to disappear. Of course this para plane can be experienced by so many methods.

Who agrees with Dr. Jung's realization of what is happening as described in the evolution of Kundalini to different levels?

As I said above, his realization seems to be pretty much direct experience of what he is describing so far if looked at from the Bhagavata description.

I would try to give a simple response to Dr. Eduardo's comments that seem to be discussed here by Dr. Jung's also, that we should not artificially try to jump up, but experience properly why we smoke at our level, but as we evolve, then the smoking is seen in it's subtle, more pure, more delightful, less contaminating form.

What are contaminations? The first I would say is death. Death is an unnatural thing for us. We should not lose consciousness when we are in the state between bodies, and in the next physical body we should have access to previous projects, knowledge, associates.

I would say that the Kundalini Yoga Sutras that Jung was dealing with, were probably not practical for Europeans at that time and neither now, but it is possible to develop a Yoga or Religion which would allow the Nation of Peru to progressively rise up, for the 'gods' to again become active.

Of course, we write this with a lot of smiles and hope for responses from a lot of people.

We are humbly including Prof. Dr. Samaresh Bandyopadhyay in this dialog. He is our old friend, adviser and very senior professor from Calcutta University. I would also suggest that at some point we can try to get in contact with Shonu Shyamdasani. He has such a ton of Jung's letters, writings etc. like these Kundalini lectures and related documents, that can each be researched and published. Specifically, for us Jung's trip to India seems of the most value for our efforts to create a bridge between the Orient and the Occident, and so I would hope to influence him to turn his considerable academic attention those days rather than many other topics.

Thank you.

See you in a few days.