Exercitia spiritualia
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Transcendental orientation practices
The body of human knowledge is constantly growing, doubling every seven years, and cultural, social and economic structures are becoming increasingly complex. Thus, the increased demand for alternatives - the basic possibilities - and the search for connections requires constant learning, further training, and always greater and more multidisciplinary practice of intellectual abilities from the modern person.. …
At the same time, in this overworked life of man, the most essential area of human existence has come to the periphery of the interest of modern man: the TRANSCENDENTAL RELATIONSHIP. A crisis situation: an unexpected failure, a family tragedy, or a death may make you think, but you’re trying to get over it soon.
If one of the abilities is not exercised, the ability regresses, dwindles, dies. So it is with the transcendental sense: modern man is slowly losing all interest in transcendental relations, and is increasingly getting there without even realizing the need for these relations. Only a feeling of lack remains, the basic dissatisfaction of being. But exactly what is missing cannot be answered by modern person…
Under the influence of such thoughts, I took out the “Spiritual Practice Book” of St. Ignatius of Loyola to see: does this have anything to say to the modern, tortured, exhausted, disappointed, and emptied man? And I am pleased to find that - even after more than 450 years - the essence of the inner content and the message is still relevant to today's people. Of course, the form, the “decoding” of what is being said, needs some change in order for modern man to be able to perceive, interpret, and incorporate it into his consciousness...
