In this section, we present the supports on which the study of 6
dimensions of the human being is based, the curricular axes of
the study programs of the ADH, which facilitate the integral and
holistic growth of the students. These axes display the widening
of the vision as each dimension is covered. Although the human
being should really be seen as a whole and not in a fragmented
way, dividing his study into these dimensions, in ways similar to
those presented in different theories about conscience, allows to
meet the teaching objectives of the Updated Integral Human
Development.
1. Mental Dimension
Development of Intrapersonal Intelligence: Awareness of our
Internal Potential
Part of the multidimensional experience of human existence
corresponds to the psychological dimension. Physicists and
astronomers have indicated that the true nature of the universe
is not material, but it is harmonious and organized. Einstein
professed awe in the face of this harmony. In his astronomy lab,
James Jeans said that the universe is more like a great thought
(plan) than a great machine; and his colleague Arthur Eddington
said, "The material of the universe is mental." On a personal
level, the mind governs through ideas, knowledge, thoughts,
sensations, emotions and in many cases, repetitive reactions that
are determining our present. Our outer world is a collective
mental representation with which we connect through the senses.
This connection generates experience, which can facilitate
evolution or otherwise impede it. Learning experiences that
contribute to the development of personal self-management
capacities, allow us to better use our mental resources, overcome
the mechanical responses generated by cultural programming, think
coherently and focus on our goals, in an ethical and productive
way at the same time. We can have our mind oriented towards the
achievement of objectives, under the direction of the conscience,
instead of allowing it to wander unfocused by routes of
confusion. Thus, we will begin to take charge of our own destiny.
2. Emotional dimension
Emotional intelligence development. Take awareness of our
basic animality to improve our self-management capabilities
The strength of instincts and emotions often turns out to be
irresistible. It can drive the human system. This force is also
part of our nature and therefore to deny or reject it would be a
mistake. Nature includes instincts and emotions in human design
to reinforce the chances of survival. Beyond the field of
survival, conservation and reproduction, the validity of
instincts and emotions has been questioned. Many agree with the
need to learn how to handle these natural forces that can cause
inappropriate or unproductive responses that harm one's
interests, cause discomfort to other people, or that we later
regret.
To better manage the purely emotional reactions that can occur
and to prevent them from leading us along the wrong paths, we can
transform their inherent impulse or energy into something
positive, such as immediate creative action. For this we need to
study, recognize and revalue the biological aspects of our being,
the animal in the human, and at the same time, act as firm
trainers and goodwill to take advantage of this energy
transforming it consciously and rationally preventing it from
becoming destructive.
Acquiring awareness of the manifestation of our impulses of
survival and conservation, understanding their functioning and
the effect on our life, opens space for the activation of the
natural impulse of humanization as well. It is through this
impulse that creative thoughts and actions are generated and
directed, beneficial to us and to those around us.
3. Relational Dimension
Development of Interpersonal Intelligence: Communication and
Leadership
In the search for well-being and comfort, we generally take
refuge in a corner of life where we encounter a minimum of
conflicts, and then we are afraid to leave this refuge. This fear
of life, this fear of struggle and new experiences, kills in us
the spirit of adventure. The ability to create synergies with
family, work teams and other groups begins first with the
strengthening of one's relationship with oneself. The individual
is composed of different facets, and accentuating those
differences and stimulating the development of only one aspect,
can lead to many complications and contradictions. Without
integration, life becomes a series of conflicts and sufferings.
Observing and listening carefully, being aware of all the
considerations involved and adopting broader points of view,
makes our communications more authentic and constructive,
facilitating us to create powerful and uplifting relationships
based on mutual trust.
To relate in a more productive, ethical and harmonious way we
need to develop communication skills. These skills reinforce our
capacity for leadership, a vocation for service, making us more
coherent beings and interested in the common good. Effective
communication is a mixture of greater intelligence, culture,
assertiveness, tact and affectivity in our dealings with others.
4. Community Dimension
Development of Social Intelligence: Building Solidarity
Communities
There is an efficiency inspired by love, which goes much further
and is much larger than the efficiency inspired by the ego; and
without love, which gives us a comprehensive understanding of
life, effectiveness can involve cruelty. If education has to take
us to war, if it teaches us to destroy or be destroyed, has not
it totally failed? Have you managed to integrate socially and
facilitate the sustainable development of our communities? We
have yet to learn to collectively construct areas of
transformation, where new values of solidarity replace selfish,
automatic, and dehumanizing patterns of life. Solidarity, in
these cases, implies building bridges for the eradication of
social disparities and meeting the needs of the majority.
Organizations that respond in solidarity to their environments,
seek to create environments where trust, cooperation, and
collective and individual growth, are the axes that move the
efforts in everyday life. In environments of continuous learning,
the development and expression of potential are encouraged. For
social development, we start with a better understanding of the
risks and challenges of the century. To deepen our vision of
ourselves and to project ourselves in a more realistic way, we
need to learn to see the world from a modern perspective, create
a constructive and solidary conscience, understand the potential
of unions and alliances, and energize the mechanisms that lead to
the social responsibility of all activity.
5. Global Dimension
Development of Ecological Intelligence: Planetary
Awareness
Education is not the simple acquisition of knowledge, nor
collecting and correlating data, but seeing the meaning of life
globally, as a whole. But the whole can not be understood from a
single point of view. The function of education today is to
create intelligent human beings integrated, and therefore,
planetary. Intelligence is the ability to perceive the essential,
what "is". The complementary education programs of ADH seek to
awaken this capacity in ourselves and in others.
We can acquire titles and be efficient in the mechanical aspect
without being intelligent. Intelligence is not just information
or memory; it is not derived from books nor consists of the
capacity to react skillfully in defense of one's own beliefs or
to make offensive oppositions. We measure intelligence in terms
of titles and exams and have developed clever minds that dodge
vital human problems.
The educational or political systems do not change mysteriously;
They are transformed when we fundamentally change. The individual
is of paramount importance, not the system; and as long as the
individual does not understand the total process of his own
existence, there is no system, either right or left, that can
bring order and peace to the world. The development of the global
dimension enables the construction of new levels of thought that
allow us to better understand the relationship of man with nature
and the entire planet and face problems in accordance with our
natural environment. Likewise, it creates a sense of belonging,
inclusion, justice, freedom, participation, co-responsibility and
solidarity action. All this allows achieving greater degrees of
coherence and achieving the necessary environmental
sustainability.
6. Transcendental dimension
Development of Universal Intelligence: Recognition of the
common to all
The individual mind excludes the fact of the unity of all life,
and creates the illusion that we are beings isolated from
everything else by the sketch of our skin, keeping us with the
feeling of being limited and powerless to free ourselves from our
egocentric activities with all their fears and conflicts. The
development of the transcendental dimension does not seek to
transform the individual into something else but to help him to
understand himself to go beyond his limitations imposed by mind
and matter. The true formation has nothing to do with any
ideology, however much it promises a future utopia; nor is it
founded on any system, no matter how well thought; nor is it a
means of conditioning the individual in a special way. The
complementary formation enables the individual to be mature and
free, to flourish abundantly in love and kindness.
Intellectually we can understand the need to take on life in a
positive way, and face the challenge of living with joy despite
any external or internal complexity. However, we need to
transcend our intellectuality to experience states of deep calm
consciously and at will. This experience is equivalent to
recharging the batteries for the natural and orderly deployment
of successive units of higher order until there is only Unity
until all the potential has been realized until the unconscious
field is opened as Consciousness and then as Super Consciousness.
It is what an individual, in the current state of human
evolution, must do to develop and move towards Total
Consciousness, independent of any philosophy or religion.
Universal intelligence clearly identifies the illusions of
existence. With time, meditating regularly, we can transcend and
reach high states of consciousness. With the competent guidance
of someone who has already reached them, we can continue to
develop ever more subtle, more conscious states, until we fully
unite with the Ocean of All Consciousness of which we are drops.
