| This book is a map and an escape plan. | | | | world is built: the real planetary killer. |
| Its aim is to show you the path followed by an | | | | The direction indicated to us by the Dreamer is both |
| ordinary man away from a hypnotic view of the | | | | terrible and wonderful, difficult and joyful, but as |
| world, from an accusing and plaintive interpretation of | | | | necessary as journey made by the salmon, returning |
| existence, to escape the rut of a programmed | | | | upstream against the current. |
| destiny. | | | | At first, His philosophy appeared to me to be a |
| This book would never have come to be, nor could I | | | | transgression of the natural laws that govern all of |
| have written a single line, had I not encountered the | | | | mankind; however it showed itself to be envisaged |
| Dreamer and His teachings. | | | | and desired by the universal order of things and |
| I owe my infinite gratitude to the Dreamer for having | | | | represents the highest vision of that order. |
| taken me by the hand into the world of the "dream", | | | | The book is the story of years of study and |
| into the world of courage and flawlessness, where | | | | preparation spent alongside an "extraordinary being". |
| time and death do not exist and where wealth | | | | From Him, I received as a gift the most unbelievable |
| knows neither "thieves nor decay". | | | | task: the creation of a planetary "School", a |
| On this journey back to the Essence, I have had to | | | | University without boundaries. |
| abandon so much dead weight: mediocre thoughts, | | | | I've dreamed of an Individual Revolution |
| negative emotions, second hand beliefs and ideas. I | | | | Capable of overturning the mental paradigms of the |
| have had to "conquer myself". I have had to | | | | old mankind |
| acknowledge and challenge the darkest parts of my | | | | And freeing it for ever from its conflictuality, |
| being. | | | | From doubt, fear, pain. |
| All that we see, touch and feel, reality in all its | | | | I've dreamed of a School that teaches |
| variety, is nothing more than the projection of an | | | | A new generation of leaders |
| invisible universe which exists above our world and | | | | To harmonise the old apparent antagonisms: |
| which is the true origin of it. | | | | Economy and ethics, action and contemplation, |
| With great difficulty, we can be aware of being | | | | Financial power and love. |
| surrounded by invisibility, of living in a world which has | | | | Growing and changing before my eyes, like a being in |
| its source in dreams, where all that counts and is real | | | | gestation, day after day, "The School for Gods" was |
| in a man is invisible. | | | | being built, as I was building myself. To all |
| All our thoughts, feelings and fantasies are invisible. | | | | appearances, I was writing this book, but in fact it |
| Our hopes, ambitions, secrets, fears and doubts and | | | | had always existed. |
| all our sensations, attractions, desires, aversions, | | | | The Dreamer's laws, and His ideas, are always tearing |
| loves and discords belong to the impalpable but very | | | | at me from the inside, and still remain, for the most |
| real world of being. | | | | part, misunderstood. |
| The invisible is not something metaphysical, poetic or | | | | Like Prometheus, I have seized a fragment of the |
| mythical, nor is it mysterious, secret or supernatural; | | | | Dreamer's world and hold it tightly so as to give it |
| it is not a stable part of the world of phenomena and | | | | one day to men and women who, like me, want to |
| events, of categories of elements of reality. In every | | | | abandon the hellish circles of ordinariness. |
| epoch, the change of one period to another, of the | | | | Once I believed that writing, and above all teaching, |
| intellectual climate, the use of increasingly | | | | were the truest form of giving. I know now that |
| sophisticated instruments, constantly alter its confines | | | | teaching is only a stratagem to know oneself, to |
| making even larger parts of what was invisible in the | | | | discover one's own incompleteness and heal it. |
| past the subject of legitimate scientific research | | | | "One can only teach if one doesn't know - said the |
| today. | | | | Dreamer - Those who truly know don't teach!". |
| This book is the story of the "rebirth" of a common | | | | "What we have "learned", what we truly "possess", |
| man who is the epitome of a fallen, defeated | | | | cannot be transferred". |
| mankind. His journey back to the essence is a new | | | | "Happiness, wealth, knowledge, will and love, cannot |
| exodus in search of lost integrity. | | | | be acquired from the outside, cannot be "given" but |
| The first thing one needs to be aware of to make | | | | only... "remembered". They are the inalienable gifts of |
| this journey is one's own condition of enslavement. | | | | being, and therefore, the natural inheritance of every |
| The root, the primary cause of all the world's | | | | man. |
| problems, from the endemic poverty of vast regions | | | | No political, religious or philosophical system can |
| of the planet to criminality and war, is that mankind | | | | change society from the outside. Only an individual |
| thinks and feels negatively. | | | | revolution, a psychological rebirth, a healing of the |
| Negative emotions rule the world we know. They are | | | | being, man by man, cell by cell, will lead us towards |
| unreal and yet they occupy every corner of our life. | | | | planetary well-being, towards a more intelligent, truer, |
| In order to change man's destiny, he needs to | | | | happier civilisation". |
| change his psychology, his system of convictions and | | | | In recounting the lessons I learned from the Dreamer |
| beliefs. He needs to eradicate from deep within | | | | I have deliberately avoided including episodes, events |
| himself the tyranny of his fragile, mortal, conflictual | | | | and revelations which might go beyond the reader's |
| mentality. The planet's most terrible illness is not | | | | acceptance, referring only to those that, while |
| cancer or Aids, but man's conflictual thinking. This is | | | | "revolutionary", seemed to me to be within the grasp |
| the foundation upon which the ordinary vision of the | | | | of humanity in its present state. |