Symmetry should be preserved and, if possible, increased in order to efficiently counteract the adverse effects caused by the recurrent appearance of entropy. The interaction between order and disorder is the origin of dynamism in the systems we observe in the universe and, especially, in those endowed with life. All change consumes energy and generates needs. As a consequence, dynamism is also responsible for pushing systems to evolve, in other words, for promoting the search for and incorporation of new strategies and learning. Evolution is an intrinsic necessity within the intelligent design of the universe; if it does not occur, or is not carried out correctly, then new problems will appear and old ones will become bigger. In living beings, evolving means finding new solutions through which energy can be converted into information in increasingly efficient ways. As one evolves, the different forms and functions attained become available through their fixation as automatisms within the individual matrix. Favourable changes will be integrated within us at a physical, psychological or transpersonal level. Ideally, our evolution should occur in each and every one of these three domains, if possible, in a synchronized manner. It is then that horizontal evolution can begin to transform into vertical evolution.
In relative terms, we could say that physical evolution predominantly serves the species, psychological evolution serves the individual, and transpersonal evolution serves the Spirit. Since nature has already favoured our biological evolution, endowing us with a human body and an amply-developed brain, so as to be able to comply with the commands of reproduction, nourishment and adaptation to almost all kinds of environments, we are currently facing the challenge of, at the very least, making our psycho-emotional level evolve. This is an inevitable step towards the subsequent energetic-subtle and transpersonal development of consciousness, which could be the key to our collective survival in the future.
The mind is the psyche, the seat of the selfhood and the personality, a screen onto which the interpretation resulting from applying the filter of the explanation of the world to the Abstract is projected, formed by distillations originating from all the sensory and emotional processes that relate and integrate the internal world with the external world and vice versa. The vertical development of the psyche and its by-product, personality, can foster the acquisition of transpersonal mandalic functions and, with it, the emergence of supersymmetric emotional and sensory structures in the individual, which would translate into an increase in consciousness of being and self-knowledge. In order for this to be possible, it is first necessary to integrate the physical, psychological and transpersonal levels as if they were one, synergistically steering them towards the same purpose: the increase of consciousness and perception.
Our educational systems hinder not only transpersonal but also emotional evolution. From the perspective of Emoenergetica, the teaching methods currently used are based almost exclusively on the attempt to generate what are known as spearhead structures in the psyche. These are characterized by being directed towards the attainment of a degree of horizontal development, especially in its form of experiential symmetry (that which concerns social and economic success), which relies on learning sensory, but not emotional, skills. From birth, we are driven to grow through manoeuvres that push us to "stretch" the mental level, in order to generate a prong through which we are able to reach or master a specific area of reality and specialize in it. This is not intrinsically negative; but leaving the emotional structure adrift – as is frequently the case – is. The intellectual aspect is thus fostered, but we do not know what to do with the emotional aspect. As a result, a certain number of individuals are unable to adapt either to the educational model or to the world in which we live. When this is the case, the spearhead is often broken before it has even been developed.
In the case of broken spearheads, the emotional symmetry of each of the six core emotions remains low or very low, often because one was already been born this way; this is compounded by the fact of reaching adulthood without having managed to develop sufficient experiential symmetry. Our society has a good number of broken spearheads. On the other hand, some people are born as emotional spearheads. In this subtype, one or two, or, rarely, three or more of the nuclear emotions, possess relatively high symmetries. Even so, the symmetry of the emotional core as a whole is generally mediocre or low, because emotions that function symmetrically do so without the rest collaborating synergistically with them. Exceptionally, we can find emotional spearheads that have been born with nuclear symmetries above level 7 (later I will explain more about the levels and degrees), although without really having a mandalic configuration. Although the natural occurrences of these highly developed emotional spearheads are exceptionally rare, these types of configurations are easily found in those who are receiving Bioenergetic Resonance sessions. In the right environment, a few of those who were born as emotional spearheads will retain that configuration until adulthood, and then they can become true spearheads because their emotional configuration will have indirectly helped them acquire experiential competencies. Some leaders, executives, successful professionals, artists, exceptional scientists and prominent figures are configured as true spearheads; these are a minority within the population. On the other hand, precisely because of the universalization of education, there are a growing number of people in our world with good or excellent experiential symmetry, even though their emotional core is a disaster. These are the false spearheads, people who are more or less competent in the everyday world, equipped with sufficient skills and resources to manage and to be economically independent.
An exceptionally low portion of the population is born with the emotional core structured in the form of a mandala. This is where the individual has all six of their core emotions in a very high degree of symmetry and synergy with each other, with the so-called eighteen regulatory channels of the emotional core functioning well – something that does not happen at the spearheads, be they emotional, broken, false or true. Another fundamental difference between a psycho-emotional mandalic structure and a spearhead is that mandalas are often fully aware of the mechanism of emotional dependence, whilst at the same time endeavouring to limit its use. Meanwhile, spearheads (whatever their type) promote and seek such dependencies. This is so, even though most mandalas have not attained the realization of the original self, and so they continue to operate through the egoic mind. However, mandalas and, to a lesser extent, true spearheads, may interact with others in the form of gentle dominators. These are people who genuinely try to reduce their emotional dependence, while at the same time consciously and voluntarily serving as leaders, figureheads or role models, realizing their possibilities for personal growth through the promotion of the common good. For the most part, true and false spearheads simply settle into the role of dominator and compete with each other; there are even those who are very skillful at masking their patterns of dependence under the aspect of charisma or using their status, thereby manipulating those around them (all of whom are spearheads, but above all, broken spearheads), using these people to cover up existing fissures in their own personality and even appearing, on some occasions, to be complete and mature when in reality all of them are great emotional dependents. Mandalas, however, work to fix these flaws themselves. In this way, they generally manage to continue to evolve their personality, or at least try to avoid being slaves to it or to insist on enslaving others; they are aware of how limiting these dependent behaviours are from the perspective of their own personal evolution. Mandalas tend to develop social, intellectual and creative skills in a harmonious way, showing, furthermore, an exceptional degree of quality in the essential virtues. Somebody who manages to sustain their emotional core in the mandalic phase, could be the last inhabitant on the face of the earth and yet easily maintain sanity throughout their lives, as well as their ability and motivation to continue to evolve and grow their consciousness. As I have mentioned, it is very rare to be born this way, but Emoenergetica asserts that it is possible to develop the mandala phase throughout life, if the right steps are taken and the necessary commitment is made. Mandalas are the ones who have the greatest amount of opportunities to transcend the ego and reach realization, although they could also waste this opportunity and live comfortably if they manage to attain a high level of social status.
When spearheads fail to sufficiently seal their fissures through the exchange of emotional dependencies, in other words, using or being used by others, this inevitably results in feelings of anguish, anxiety, helplessness, incapacity, uselessness or frustration. Depending on their personal characteristics, they will blame themselves or others for their circumstances, rather than taking responsibility for them.
The process of emotional dependence produces a generalized lack of true self-esteem on an individual and collective level, namely, the lack of a feeling of connection and union with oneself and with one's own life, which must be independent of the place one occupies with respect to others. In the case of broken spearheads, low self-esteem together with a lack of social and professional skills form a perverse feedback cycle, from which it is difficult to get out of, so they must work very hard to achieve it. Low self-esteem also causes some of the spearheads to end up assuming the roles of abusers or victims, whether physical or psychological. Another phenomenon that I have observed is how some false spearheads manage to achieve a certain level of fame and social projection, because they have developed sufficient horizontal skills to appear to be true spearheads. Politics, the world of celebrities, the economic and business circles, university elites and religious hierarchies, all of them are plagued with these kinds of false spearheads, humanly and emotionally empty leaders with no more merit than having managed to climb the ladder in an artificial way.
To sum up, we have:
- Broken spearheads: with a low emotional and experiential symmetry. Only a mandala can truly help to increase the emotional symmetry of broken spearheads, since, for the latter, relationships with peers do not provide real balance or options for the development of their emotional core. At the side of the true or false spearheads, they will become either slaves or servants – many will live comfortably with this option.
- False spearheads: without emotional symmetry, but possessing experiential symmetry. They could evolve a great deal further if they really set out to do so, although this is rarely the case.
- True spearheads: they have developed their experiential symmetry and have some degree of emotional symmetry (usually from birth) in some – typically between one and three – of their emotions, but rarely in all of them. In principle, it should be easier for true spearheads to evolve their emotional core towards the mandala phase. Very few of them will do this on their own account, but most could do so if they agreed to learn from those who already are mandalas. Nonetheless, in practice, their excessive personal importance often leads them to remain locked up in the director's office of their golden prison next to the prisoners that they have enlisted.
- Emotional spearheads: have not developed their experiential symmetry and yet do have a degree of symmetry in some of their emotions and, exceptionally, in all of them. As a rule, if they were born this way, they will become broken spearheads if they do not acquire a minimum of experiential symmetry before entering adulthood. They need to show a great deal of interest and strive to acquire more experiential development in order to become true spearheads; otherwise it will be very difficult for them to reach the mandala phase.
- Mandalas: those born with or who have managed to develop a high degree of emotional symmetry. They are extremely rare (one individual for every several tens of millions). I have not found adults in the mandalic phase who have not cultivated their experiential symmetry, although, in reality, I have only discovered a handful of cases with this type of configuration. It is possible that if one is born in this phase and an appropriate development does not occur, the individual loses the inheritance with which he or she was born on becoming an adult. These individuals are the only ones that are capable of helping any of the spearheads. In any case, you cannot grow without interest and will, regardless of whether life has afforded you the enormous opportunity of learning beside a mandala.
Although I have been talking intensely about emotional symmetry in the last two chapters, we now come to a key point – how is it possible to determine someone's emotional symmetry? The problem is that the answer lies outside the realm of the collective consensus. In the late 1990s, I embarked upon the task of developing an emotional model through which emotions and their properties could be understood. During the decade of the 2000s, I began to mature Emoenergetica, thanks to the discovery of the six core emotions, their generative and controlling cycles and the complementarities of couples, all of which were expressed and organized through the diagram of the emotional core. What at first was going to be a theory about emotions, evolved into a cosmological model, thanks to the understanding of the six foundations of the tonal, of which the emotions are a reflection. Simultaneously, as early as the 90s, I had experimented with different practices to increase my extrasensory perception, since, before beginning to look for an emotional model, I had been developing a new system of subtle therapy. Although I advanced very quickly in the acquisition of skills as an energy therapist, these were years of considerable frustration because, despite my dedication and effort, the results that I obtained when perceiving the aura, the energy of the physical body and other associated phenomena were insufficient. I sought to develop an advanced, stable and replicable extrasensory system of perception that would allow me to accurately access the subtle field and thereby gauge the effect of the different techniques and procedures I was developing as an energy healer. After a number of years of practice and, as I have already said, frustration, my work began to bear fruit and I consolidated what I later called perception by resonance, a type of expanded perception, which I have already spoken about in the chapter dedicated to Bioenergetic Resonance. During the years that I was developing perception by resonance, I also proposed to find a model that would allow me to precisely quantify and measure different magnitudes in the energy field – such as effective performance in a system, its symmetry, the intensity of perverse blockages, symmetry in the emotions and in the emotional core, emotional dependence, the degree of spiritual evolution, and so on. Eventually, thanks to my ability to access and read the energy-information of systems by means of perception by resonance, I succeeded in developing a method of measurement that makes it possible to quantify symmetry through a magnitude, the symmetron, which is geometrically calculated from a graph that I called the Scale of the Arc:
- The Scale of the Arc turns out to be very effective in representing the measurements obtained by studying all phenomena the related to life, perception and consciousness by means of perception by resonance, in comparison with the rest of the scales that I tested. In particular, I found that linear or percentage scales were generally very poor or impractical in this area.
- The Scale of the Arc can be used to quantify the symmetrical or anti-symmetrical functions of the physical body, the psyche-mind, the transpersonal levels, the subtle body, and also of any of their elements, subsystems or functions, via easily understandable magnitudes.
- It is called the Scale of the Arc because it is obtained by using an arc of circumference of 90 degrees enclosed in a square. The zero point of coordinates is the lower left vertex of the square and is also the origin of the arc. The x-axis (horizontal sides of the square) is divided into ten equal parts (x = 1, x = 2, …, x = 10) and lines are projected parallel to the y-axis (vertical sides of the square) that will intersect the arc. At the points of intersection, lines are projected parallel to the x-axis, which will intersect on the y-axis. Thus, for each value of x, a value of y will be obtained. In addition to being able to calculate geometrically, the values of y can be found using the formula y = (10−√(100−x2)). Each of the ten values obtained for y will be used to form ten squares on the y axis. These will be the ten levels of the Scale of the Arc, calculated using the areas of each of the ten squares. The level 1 square has a very small area, approximately 1/39800 of the total area of the base square. The area of the level 1 square serves to define the unit of symmetry: the symmetron. The base square of the Scale of the Arc represents level 10, and with it the scale of degree 1 is defined. Level 10 of the first degree has 39,800 symmetrons (thirty-nine thousand eight hundred). The symmetron is a unit of measurement of symmetry relative to the system being worked with.
- After some time carrying out readings with the Scale of the Arc of degree 1, I discovered that practically all living systems and subsystems exist within a field of probability, the master matrix, which contains in its verticality a set of pre-existing sections of potentially attainable degrees (supersymmetric evolutions). If this is the case, then the universe would evolve in an attempt to concretize solutions that already potentially existed in their abstract form from the very beginning.
- Based on the original Scale of the Arc, I elaborated an extension that could reflect the magnitudes of supersymmetric developments, in other words, those that are possible from degree 2 onwards. The Extended Scale of the Arc consists of the addition of squares (of degrees 2, 3, 4, 5..., n) that increase their sides according to the golden ratio, (a+b)/a=(a/b), with a being greater than b, (for example, taking a 10-sided square as a base, then the values of the length of the sides of the following square-degrees if we wanted to reach degree 12 would be approximately: 16, 26, 42, 68, 111, 180, 290, 470, 760, 1230, 1990). I chose this ratio because of its recurrent presence in the natural world and because, through the bioenergetic readings I conducted, it fit perfectly with the objective of reflecting the different levels and degrees of potential symmetry to which a system could aspire. While the unit of symmetry, the symmetron, is a constant in this system, it is incorrect to think that, for example, three degrees are composed of thirty levels. Each degree always has ten possible levels, so there are degree 1 levels, degree 2 levels, degree 3 levels, and so on. However, a certain degree 2 level has a higher number of symmetrons than the same level of degree 1, and so on. Starting from the 39800 symmetrons of grade 1, we can calculate the symmetrons that we will find in a square of grade 2 by multiplying that number by (φ+1), being φ = (1+√5)/2; φ or phi is the golden number. It is always possible to calculate the number of symmetrons of the next grade, using the number of symmetrons present in the previous grade.
- Surprisingly, almost all physical and subtle systems could function or evolve in two or three supersymmetric stretches ranging from a few degrees of symmetry to several thousand. This means that we are in the infancy of human evolution at all our levels.
- The emotional core and each of the core emotions can develop their symmetry in two stretches, the first can go up to degree 12, and the second up to degree 45.
- On the physical plane, organic, cellular, molecular functions, etc., must generally be kept functioning at least in a level 5 symmetry of degree 1, otherwise one can speak of pathological functions. In general, if any of the essential physical functions is located at level 3, one is in danger, and at level 2 it could mean that the subject is in a situation of imminent death.
- The Scale of the Arc can also be used to measure the perverse performance present in any system. A blockage of up to level 4 (out of 10) is regarded as normal, an effect of the inevitable entropy associated with any structure or function. Perverse performance or blockages at level 5 are considered pathological, and perverse performance from level 7 onward is clearly deemed detrimental. A perverse performance at level 10 in any of the subsystems that are necessary for life would result in immediate death.
- In the realm of emotional symmetry, a symmetron (which is what corresponds to level 1 of degree 1), is the minimum level of symmetrized energy with which a person can make their emotions work. A high level of emotional symmetry is not a prerequisite for survival.
The six core emotions give rise to the whole range of known feelings, however complex they may be, in a similar way to how the combination of just three colours is capable of generating any type of image on the screens of our devices in a wide chromatic gamut, or how any melody can be composed from the seven musical notes.
Any maladjusted emotional energy functions as a psychic toxin and is the expression of a lack of symmetry. The energy-information within each of the core emotions can be symmetrized, blocked, lost or misused. Symmetrized emotional energy is that which fulfills its natural function effectively, expressing itself at the right time and with the right intensity, relating to others through the law of complementarity without dominance. The energy that is blocked in the emotional core is like a weight, it does nothing, but sets limits to positive functioning. The energy that is being lost will cause new needs and problems. Energy that is being misused or diverted will trigger all sorts of perverse functions, which will end up producing new blockages and more losses.
At the time of conception, human beings possess a similar amount of potential emotional energy. I used this initial amount as the basis for establishing degree 1 of the scale of the arc with regards to the emotional core. However, the individual characteristics contained in both genetic and karmic inheritance, as well as the way in which all this is integrated during the event of conception itself, will set significant differences between people from the outset. An emotional core will immediately form in an immature state and this will be consolidated during the rest of the fetal stage, with the constant influence of the external and internal conditions of the mother.
Remember that degree 1 is composed of 10 levels, with a total of 39,800 symmetrons. If the emotional core of any human being developed the first possible stretch up to degree 12, it would reach a total of about 2,550 million symmetrons of symmetrized emotional energy. Mandalas are those who have successfully evolved their emotional core so that their emotional symmetry is within degree 2 at a minimum; meaning that they use their emotions in their supersymmetrized form at a value of 40,000 symmetrons or more. Although, in Emoenergetica, those individuals who have an emotional symmetry higher than level 10 of degree 1 start to be considered as mandalas, they are still immature mandalas. A true mandala must have lived between 10 and 20 years above degree 7 in order for them to be considered mature. Today, the vast majority of babies are born with an emotional symmetry of level 1 or 2 of degree 1.
I can conduct bioenergetic readings on individuals, but also on groups, cities, countries, humankind – and also on their historical information. Although I would have liked to have devoted more time to this, I have carried out some research to understand how emotional symmetry has changed over time. For most of our era, during the last 2000 years, the emotional symmetry of humanity has been situated around level 3 of degree 1 (≈84 symmetrons, compared to 39,800 of level 10), although in some periods it dropped to level 2 (≈16 symmetrons). Throughout the 20th century, humanity has remained around level 4 (≈278 symmetrons). This refers to the human average, highlighting the fact that there have been great differences between countries and even regions. In general, the twentieth century witnessed a correlation between emotional symmetry and combined economic and democratic development. The countries that advanced economically and democratically at the same time were, generally, those with the greatest emotional symmetry, reaching, in some instances at the end of the last century, as high as level 6 (≈1592 symmetrons). It seems that this was part of a cycle in which the advance of democracies and their economy positively influenced collective emotional symmetry, despite the fact that barely half a dozen countries reached level 6, which means that they were symmetrically using only 4% of the emotional potential of degree 1. However, in May 2001 the cycle changed and almost all the countries above level 1 began to descend, with two more abrupt disruptions, one that began in March 2008 and another in February 2011; in the latter, humanity reached the lowest emotional symmetry of our era, level 1, making it impossible to descend further. Being at level 1 means using one sole symmetron, 0.0025% of degree 1; a good part of the emotional energy is still there and is used, but in an anti-symmetric way. In the autumn of 2011 the level of emotional symmetry of our species climbed back up to level 2 and soon after it dropped back down to level 1. Since then it has remained at level 1 almost all the time, alternating in some periods with level 2.
We are strange creatures. We have this incredible potential and yet we squander it. Even when we only dispose of a small amount of emotional symmetry, the group generally has enough individuals endowed with empathy; this, although it is intoxicated by emotional dependence, continues to protect human societies, forming a fundamental part of the social fabric and fostering a certain respect for one another. However, the dramatic recession in emotional symmetry that humanity is currently undergoing is dangerous, as it bears the seed of brutality. We delve deeply into the rules of the beasts, whilst lacking their dignity. There is no evil in animals, however, the bestialized human loses their empathy and becomes psychopathic. Without empathy there is no respect for others, and, as a result, aberrations in individual, interpersonal and social behaviour frequently occur. Unfortunately, even in democratic countries, we are witnessing a growing number of individual and collective behaviours that are increasingly brutalized. States have always resisted change: administrations are conservative by nature. Although many may think otherwise, during the twentieth century, democracies – despite the fact that corruption always seeks power – maintained social balance due to the fact that a good part of the structures of government and state were located a little higher in their emotional symmetry with respect to the average of their citizens. But all this has been changing since the beginning of this century and especially over the last ten years. Now, democracies are only beginning to sustain themselves with difficulty; they are like a crumbling building under pressure, since there are more and more individuals who, if it were up to them, would lead to collective suicide or chaos in society, having fallen into a lack of vital motivation that is truly worrying. Many of these individuals, who champion a low emotional symmetry, a high level of disintegration of personality, a lack of empathy and a growing degree of psychopathy, are already conquering positions of power in the, until now, democratic governments. Of course, states must improve, although the most important thing is that individuals evolve so that their governments also do so.
We must remember that societies are the sum of their individuals. Personal responsibility is urgently needed in today's world, and always begins with small daily actions. The latter is important to understand, but it is key for warriors of conscience, since in this affirmation lies a secret, which has always been hidden in plain sight.
Today, intellectual education, which promotes the acquisition of experiential symmetry, is indispensable but insufficient. We need to develop a true understanding of our emotions, accepting the challenge of truly entering into the human stage to then go on to elevate our emotional symmetry. This is one of the aims of Emoenergetica. Authentic humanism would lead us to true empathy, to the construction of a genuinely better world, or at least an individual life full of consciousness, which would, in turn, exalt us to such an extent as to reach above the human level, to the transpersonal level, where paradoxically there is no longer compassion, only actions directed by the designs of the Spirit.
I do not believe that we can collectively advance towards transcendence, at least in the short term. However, maybe this is the time in human history when the greatest number of individuals can reach this stage. Nevertheless, we cannot do so if we skip the steps. We must first complete the human age before reaching the age of the Spirit.
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