What is Geophilosophy

It is known that the term philosophy, etymologically speaking, comes from the Greek words phileo ‘love’ and sophia ‘wisdom’. Thus, it represents the love of wisdom. The verb phileo, in addition to ‘love’, means ‘to aspire’: to aspire to wisdom.

The introduction of the term philosopher is attributed to Pythagoras (496-580 BC) when Leo, king of Phliasians, asked him what his profession was, and Pythagoras replied that he was not wise –sofos– but simply a philosopher – lover of wisdom, aspiring to it–.

Long before Pythagoras, numerous souls have aspired to wisdom, men and women who eagerly sought to solve the great enigmas of creation: who are we really? For what purpose we came to the world? What is the origin of the universe? Where did life come from? Is there an intelligence behind everything created? Did we exist before birth? Will we exist after death? Does chance bring joys or misfortunes to our life or is there a destiny already written? …

As Jung said: “Reason alone is not enough”, therefore, just as there are many seeds given by the tree and that only few manage to germinate and bear fruit, most of those aspiring to wisdom fell on the road, limited by the knowledge that gives reasoning. And, it is reason that enslaves man in dogmas, prejudices, concepts and theories. With just reason, Goethe affirmed: “Gray is all theory and green is the golden tree of life.”

Only a few, helped by a superior philosophy, managed to free themselves from the changing winds of the intellect so that, through conscious living, they reach the heights of true Wisdom. Among them: Confucius, Buddha, Jesus, Solomon, Homer, Pythagoras, Plato, Socrates, Hermes Trismegistus, Dante Alighieri, etc.

Thus, we are faced with two types of philosophy: one that is here today and not there tomorrow, because what the mind affirms as white today, it classifies as black tomorrow; and another is that it has always been what it is, immutable and eternal, because it does not vary with the passing of the centuries. The first is subjective, it is limited by the cognitive capacity of the aspirants to Sophia. The second is objective and truthful, it is sustained by the awakened Consciousness and capable of responding in a serious and real way to all the questions that man may pose.

It is striking that when we examine all the myths, creeds, legends, symbols, cults, etc., of the great cultures of the past profoundly we can begin to see something more than mere coincidences. The careful study, free of prejudices, allowed us to discover an intense nexus between all of them, a mysterious common denominator that connects them. Without fear of making a mistake, we can affirm that the most eminent sages of antiquity had access to that philosophia perennis et universalis that many sought and few found.

This transcendental philosophy, capable of granting man the keys of the intimate awakening to apprehend the great truths of life and death, is not exclusive to any people, any creed, any culture, since it has been present throughout the centuries in the four cardinal points of our world. This is the universal philosophy of Gaea, the goddess who represents Earth in Greek mythology, and from which the word Geo is derived. This is for us the Geo-Philosophy – as we named it –, the universal philosophy of the Earth because it is present in all corners of this world and is not exclusive to any of its offshoots –the different cultures–.

Geophilosophy opposes the merely speculative philosophy, because it affirms, as we said before, that a power superior to the mind exists that rests in the Consciousness of the human being and that it is possible to awaken it to unimaginable limits. While the mind reasons, the Consciousness comprehends. While the mind speculates, the Consciousness perceives.

Geophilosophy does not identify with any religious ideology, because it recognizes in the creeds and religions of the whole world the sincere search of the truth and the essential elements of eternal philosophy.

Geophilosophy affirms that it is absurd to look outside for what man carries in his interior. Therefore, it agrees with Jung when he says: “He who looks outside, dreams. But, whoever looks inside, awakens.”

Geophilosophy does not intend to teach anyone what to think, because it understands that all dogmatism enslaves the human being. On the contrary, it encourages free will and the innate capacity of man to reflect and discern.

Geophilosophy upholds that there is no cause more noble and just than to find the answer to who we are, where we come from and where we are going. It is a right, and no heresy, to know the arcana of the Creator, so it is and was written: “The glory of God consists in hiding its mysteries and that of man in discovering them” –Proverbs 25, 2–.

Allow us, kind reader, to close this section echoing the words of a distinguished philosopher:

“Wisdom is strong like a thousand-year-old rock and burning like a blazing fire. When man possesses it, he becomes immune to all banalities and acquires firmness before the unexpected changes of human destiny.”

Posside sapientiam, quia auro melior est

«To possess wisdom is better than having gold»

What is Geophilosophy

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