Inspiration for the Retreat

"Experimental heredity gives increased assurance that the genetic evolution of the human species will become one day submissive to control and guidance. But methods of control and guidance of events on the cosmic plane are still (and may be forever) shrouded in mystery. The answer to this difficulty is not easily given; Man needs to be educated; but education means here more than mere intellectual enlightenment, it isn’t an emotional enlightenment; it isn’t a matter of insight only, it is rather a matter of the deficiency of spontaneity to use the available intelligence and to mobilize his enlightened emotions. But such a program of preparedness requires an effort without precedent, the training and retraining of men on a world-wide scale along spontaneity lines, it requires action research and action methods continuously modified and sharpened to meet new inner and outer environments.There is no question that man has to trace his steps back from the secular to the sacred planes of living, from the technological back to the spiritual plane, in order that the growing expansion of the self can find an inner equilibrium... It will be a realization process of, by and through the self, a movement from the lower plane to the superior plane, the time for each movement equaling that of historical epoch."

The Future of Man’s World
J.L. Moreno

"A human being is part of the whole that we call the universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical illusion of his consciousness. This illusion is a prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for only the few people nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living beings and all of nature." 

 Albert Einstein