O Simbolismo dos Contos de Fadas

Good evening, welcome once again. Our proposal today is to talk about this topic, which can be addressed in several ways. You can imagine, evidently, each one will speak within the body, within the formation that has within the angle that corresponds to him. A pedagogue, if he were to talk about the past, he would speak from the point of view of children's education. We will not stop addressing this too, but it is not our focus. A psychologist, from the point of view of individual training, we would also talk about this, but it is not our focus.

We are philosophers, Nova Propria is an international school of philosophy. So we are interested in knowing, as the name of philosophy already says, love is wisdom, in what this structure of fairy tales can help man to walk in this direction, which should be the universal meaning of the human species. The search for wisdom according to the philosophical view. And it is a complex question, because when we say it that way, sometimes people get a little perplexed. How can a fairy tale generate wisdom? We live in an era of so many contradictions, so many dubious concepts,

that there is someone who says in our days that a fairy tale is a negative thing, it is a banal thing. Or sometimes even a lying element that should be abolished in children's education. I have already gone through this experience, when I was talking about this topic, a person raised his finger and said, look, I thought this lecture was a serious lecture, that would say that children should not be told how much fairy tales children know, because this is a way of lying to children, it is an alienating, it moves them away from reality. And

I had never heard anyone think that way, and even more so in an institutionalized way. From then on, I saw that this was a fact. What is this view? That a fairy tale would be unreal, it would be a lie, and it would be alienating. Obviously, our criterion of reality is a little wrong. Because most of the motivations of modern man, we could question their reality. And how alienating they are. So obviously, it is not this focus that we propose to work on. Philosophy has great affection for fairy tales, and considers them fundamental, tremendously formative.

It is important that we realize how they are structured, where they were born, what is the internal objective that each one of them brings, and how important it is to manage these fairy tales. Not only for children, but they are part of the universal imaginary. They are the heritage of humanity. In fact, originally they were not only for children. Today, sometimes they are not even for children. In a little while, even for children, it will no longer compare. Given the materialistic and critical criterion that the human-woman has. In the sense of reality of the district.

Well, where did the fairy tales come from? You will realize that there is a great family that is called the fantastic tales. That involves from fables to tales in general, among them the fairy tales. Which are all related to an even older structure, which are the myths. The myths are the origin of most of these popular tales. Whether fairy tales, whether fables. What we will realize is that the mythical structure is complex for direct understanding. It is very symbolic. In our historical moment, I will give another lecture talking about myths. To understand what a myth

is. Plato himself said, when a civilization declines a lot, the ideal is that you do not tell myths to it. Why? Myths are allegorical, they are symbolic. And when a civilization declines, it declines a lot to a very shallow materialism, very superficial. And tends to take the myths literally. And this makes them too impoverished. Myths are a structure that requires that the man has the ability to see beyond. For example, if I take for you a small parcel of a Greek myth. Which is the myth of Cronus. Cronus is a Greek god who is received

a prophecy. He receives a prophecy that says that one of his children will kill him. He says, he will crown him and kill him. Then what does Cronus begin to do to avoid this danger? He begins to devour all his children. Imagine what a barbarity if we take this literally. A god, and the greatest of all, who devours children. And even his own children. That is, if you are a child killer, a cannibal. If a god is able to do this, what can a human being not do? Taking it literally seems absurd. And even becomes

more deformed than formative when the man faces it superficially. Now if we can stop a little. To analyze a layer, a little internal. Which is still superficial. But a little more internal in this myth. We will realize that Cronus, this prefix, is very present in our language. Related always to what? To time. We are all children of Cronus. He is devouring us daily, since the moment we were born. Isn't that right? The Greeks said that Cronus becomes the cradle of our lives. Since the moment we were conceived. He is devouring us since the moment we

were conceived. We are children of Cronus and we are devoured by him. So you already realize that history changes completely. But what do we need to use as a tool? Symbolic reality. When a man falls into a very materialistic view, very shallow. I usually say this a lot in my lectures. And it is important that you observe this. The current language is very extensive and very shallow. It is spoken a lot and almost nothing is said. It is very difficult to understand the myth. It is short but very deep. The myth contains very deep psychological

realities. It is the language of the soul, as they said in these traditions. So in this historical context it is complicated to have direct access to the myths. What will happen over time? These myths are fragmented. And the main idea, some of the mythical arguments, are placed within the context of a very small story. It is much softer, much lighter. If you take any traditional fairy tale, you will see mythical arguments, diluted inside. But the context is much softer. Easier, more palatable, easier to understand. So we will talk, for example, about a fairy tale that

is one of the most classic. It is the Snow White and the Seven Angels. It has a very rich symbolism behind it. It is full of mythical elements inside. Now, if I don't know any myth, it has no symbolism. The least I understand is the moral content. That is, the girls are happy. I'm already doing well. Because something will happen. So the fairy tale has this characteristic. It makes a moral packaging, morally edifying, so that if the citizen doesn't unwind the package, At least the packaging will give him something. But it has a very great

symbolism inside. There are mythical traces inside the fairy tales. All of them have. They are nothing more than a transmission, a moral perpetuation of fragments of myths within a context that is easier to understand. What will not happen, for example, when you go down one more step, when you get to the fairy tales. The fairy tales have already lost this symbolic heart. It only has moral content. So if you see there the fox and the grapes, sorry, the fox and the grapes, the fox despises the grapes because she can't pick them up. There is no

symbolism for being a fox or a grape. No. That's clear. We despise what we can't have. So there in the fairy tale there is only this moral facade. But the fairy tale that is in the middle of the way, it has traces of the fairy tale. It has a moral element. But if it has a mythical heart, it has a deep symbolism in there. It's an interesting thing that sometimes you will see. Let's take our side as Americans. When there were the conquests of the pre-Columbian peoples who lived here in America, there was a whole

deliberate destruction. For example, in Pizarro, when he arrives in the Inca civilization, a deliberate destruction of culture. Everything that was linked to culture, civilization, was considered demonic and contrary to the principles that Spain brought. So everything that was a religious symbol, Everything that was slightly related to that, is destroyed. Now, one thing that was not very important, was the children's stories. The songs of the rogues, the parlentas. Why? They considered that this was banal. No, that leaves. That doesn't matter. And much of what we have today, as a residue, as a relic of the cultures

of these peoples, comes from these things. That the people didn't destroy because they took it as innocent. It wasn't innocent. There were very important elements, formative, that were transmitted, sometimes from generation to generation. Both in the civilizations here in South America, and in Central America. Exactly the same element. So, fairy tale. Some preconceptions that we would need to banish. First, it is not of popular creation. It is of popular transmission. But it is born, at first, of a myth. And myths are not of popular creations. These myths were usually codified, created within large schools of

philosophy of the past. As a way of veiling certain knowledge. Remember that biblical passage that says, I speak directly to the voice, but to others I speak through parables, so that seeing, they do not see. Hearing, they do not hear. So, within these ancient schools, where masters and disciples transmitted their knowledge, There was a very great concern that knowledge fell into inadequate hands. When a man carries knowledge without moral support for him, ends up using it in his own harm. It's like a very sharp knife in the hand of a baby. And Plato was very

reiterative in saying that. It is preferable absolute ignorance to knowledge in inadequate hands. So, these ancient schools, which had knowledge that you can analyze, contain deep toxicology, contain deep knowledge of human life, They veiled this knowledge, so that it was not manipulated against humanity itself. And veiled, putting in the context, deeply symbolic stories, which for the common man did not say anything, but for those who had eyes or ears, would see and would hear. It is evident that if we have a little bit of nothing of symbolic language, symbolic perception, that eyes and ears are

these that Christ was talking about. Is that it? Does everyone have this? What he was talking about there was a symbolic perception, but deep. So, the fables, in the first place, they are born from these fragmented myths. They are perpetuated through the medieval tradition. They are preserved, generation after generation, creating, of course, several derivations, several editions. You will see that when the Green brothers will collect, in popular use, several fable tales, they go crazy and have to choose one edition, Because each tale has variants for each side. Now, a curiosity that you will notice is

that these variants, the way they existed at the beginning of the modern age, or even in the Middle Ages, none of them have the elements that our current variants have. There were variations, yes, cultural adaptations, versions of the same fairy tale, according to the locality, but there was no introduction of morbid elements. Our versions are all morbid. We distort fairy tales. All of them are a bit of an exaggeration, but we often do it. So, a second point to be emphasized in fairy tales, they are of destination. They are universal. They were not exclusively for

children. It is a very interesting thing. Who remembers those conversations? At least my grandmother used to tell me a lot about it. But two generations ago, in general, we knew this. And, in her time, The chair was placed on the balcony and stories were told, mainly in the countryside. If you go today, right to the countryside, to a certain place, you will find this. So, it gets dark, everyone goes, everyone puts their chair on the sidewalk and tells a story, tells stories. And stories of terror, and fairy tales, this and that. And people gathered around

it. There was an art that was lost today, which is the art of storytelling. The good storyteller was something fantastic, because he was able to evoke imagination, and the whole community gathered around him. They were not just children. Because it was intended for everyone. So, the housewife would come, bring some cookies, the neighborhood would support her, and everyone would gather there and tell their stories. And this was transmitted from generation to generation. Each one would take from him a content that he said about, sign certain values, realize that he did a little more, but he

was useful to everyone. Destination was not exclusively for children. We will see later why, in our days, it was summarized to the children's public. When is the children's public summarized? Because sometimes, not even children are so alienated to our rationalist and materialist culture, that sometimes they don't even want to hear more. Because we choose a single form of perception of reality as omnipotent and absolute, which is reason. And fairy tales are intuitive. And when you don't know how to work with intuition, you close the door of fairy tales. And sometimes even children Are already starting

to close this door early. Which is absurd. Because children are, by nature, very intuitive. So this was an educational element. If you want to see, for those who have read, for example, Plato's banquet, what was the banquet? It was people gathering in joint meals, singing, telling their stories. Nothing more than that. Platonic banquets were considered an element of fundamental education. People gathered for meals in conjunction. The choirs sang and the stories of that society were told. So this is a tradition that comes very good. We will see that the story of fairy tales comes from

millennia. We will talk about some of the oldest. You will see that it comes from Egypt, From Babylon, from very ancient civilizations. The destination of these fairy tales, we told you that they were not exclusively for children. They had as their destination to make people realize the meaning of life. The fairy tale symbolically puts the human drama. The human being in front of repetitive tests, realizing the meaning of these tests, Fighting against his difficulties, reaching a final reconciliation. Therefore, the themes of fairy tales are very recurrent. You always have a hero facing repetitive tests, realizing

the meaning of all of them, reaching a overcoming of these tests and a final reconciliation, when he or she is no longer happy. But in reality the hero is happy, because the heroes were happy. So, every fairy tale, in fact it is an element applied not only to fairy tales, but also to myths. Aristóteles talks about this in his Poetic Art. The main character is the human being. Only the main one, each one of us here, is the human being. It is only the main character. The others do not take as other characters. They are

tests, They are factors of testing, both internal as external, who are attracted to the sphere of action of man, to allow him to fulfill his destiny, to allow him to grow. So the hero is the human being, and all the witches, and the sick, and the princesses, and everything that arises from him, are the events of his life, that allow him, realizing the meaning of all this, to reach the overcoming of the tests, and to this final harmonization, this ennoblification that implies in the marriage with the prince or with the princess. And the harmony of

all the factors that made her happy for him. So who is the character of the fairy tales? It is the man. In the struggle for life, in the struggle for the conquest of oneself, in the struggle for the conquest of the meaning of human life. This is the drama that goes on behind every fairy tale. Right? Well, let's talk a little about the codification. We will realize that these fairy tales, as I said, most of the time were dispersed by popular use. There are some authors who are very famous for this codification. We know a

lot of Grimm, Anderson and Charles Perrault. And it's very late, that's it. Charles Perrault, who is the first to compile these Western tales that we know, because there are fairy tales that are all over the place. One day you will be giving a lecture at the North Shore School about a classic book of fairy tales, which is the Pantyatantra, which is a very ancient millennial art. What we know best in terms of fairy tales is this set of Western fairy tales that crossed the Middle Ages and that were compiled, especially by Perrault, the Grimm brothers

and Hans Christian Andersen. It's a very interesting story. Perrault is the pioneer, he will do it for you to see how late it is. In 1867. The 19th century. For the first time, a compilation of these fairy tales is published, which are called the Tales of the Mamma Gansa, which were recently re-edited. Then comes the Grimm brothers. The Grimm brothers were two philosophers, scholars of traditions. They walk around the countryside collecting a thousand versions. This story is even interesting because they know, In the interior of Germany, they recommend to them a lady, an old lady,

who was a great woman. She was a storyteller. At the time, this was rare. She said they would go there and this lady would tell them all the stories she knew. With one condition. She loved to have tea with buns. They would go there every afternoon to have the blessed tea with buns. They would go, I think she was feeling a little lonely, tell a couple or three stories and that's it. Only the next day. And that's what she kept the Andersen brothers, Drinking tea with buns, for more than two years. And it is said

that from then on they became a great part of their stories. Even in the original edition of the first volume of the Fairytale of the Angels, of the Grimm brothers, they have a dedication to this lady. But at that time it was already rare that they knew many versions, that they knew many new things. And this lady, for them, was a preciousness. They took all the tea and all the buns that were necessary to take all the information from her. Then comes Andersen, who also makes a very interesting compilation. You will see that of Andersen

and Grimm, Mainly of these two, there are all the versions, for example, that are Disney-like. Where he takes his little boys. There are these two writers, especially, most of the stories, by the way, today, we already know more the Disney version than the Grimm version. We no longer know which is the Grimm version. Recently they were re-edited, the volumes of the Fairytale of the Angels by Grimm and also Andersen. It is worth knowing. Because, normally, it is not that it is bad, I particularly like the fairy tales of Disney, but it always gives a little

change to make the thing more pleasant. It's not a soft change, but it always removes elements that are important. It does not replace reading these books, which is really very interesting. And where else did they have older ones, just as a curiosity for you to know? Until a short time ago, it was considered that the oldest manuscript dealing with a theme of a fairy tale that was known was the Papyrus-Orbinei, from 1210 BC. Egypt, which tells the famous story of the two brothers, that one is good and the other is bad. It is a argument

more than a reiterative in fairy tales. This Papyrus-Orbinei today has already been surpassed, do you know why? By Cinderella. It was discovered the story of Cinderella in Egypt. And as it is said, this has not yet been correctly dated, as far as I know, but it is believed that it must have been around two millennia before Christ, Our Cinderella, the one who loses her shoe. Do you know how soon she lost it, today? The fact is that it dates at least around the second millennium before Christ. You have an idea of ​​how these things have

precious content so that humanity keeps it alive and transmits it with so much fidelity, generation after generation. Who else? Esopo. Esopo is best known for his fables. In 6 BC, Esopo was a Greek lawyer who, to defend his clients, he told fables. It is curious because he never wrote anything. He told these fables in court. He invented the fables to defend his clients. And then it was edited and formed most of the fables we know are of Esopo, which are of Lacombe. It is curious, it is said that on one occasion Esopo was called to

defend a corrupt politician. A citizen who had become illicitly enraged. And then he will tell a fable. There was no way to say that the citizen was not corrupt, because it was widely proven. Then he will tell a fable to defend his client. See how useful this Esopo would be in the present days. He tells the following story. The fox and the hedgehog. He wrote a fox that was full of fleas. And it was very, very uncomfortable. And in this, the hedgehog, Who is that guy in all high heels, was very moved by the situation.

He said, my friend fox, come here, I'll help you catch these fleas. Poor you, you are suffering so much. The fox looked at him with a look in his eye and said, look, if this citizen comes to help me, he will scare me so much that it will be worse than the fleas. But he is being so kind, I can't say that to him. What am I going to say? To be kind and delicate, I will also refuse. She says the following, look, my friend fox, thank you very much for your good will, but if

you observe the matter well, these fleas that are in me have already sucked me a lot. So, getting fat should already be without appetite. If you take these chubby ones out, what will happen? They will go up other, lean, More bloodthirsty than they will suck me even more. It is preferable that I stay with these ones. And then what does he say? Well, this citizen is corrupt, it is already largely proven, but in a society like ours, people all tend to corruption. Everyone has at least one predisposition to corruption. But this one has already gotten

rich, the others are poor. That is, they are few with an empty belly. If you take him out and condemn him, The others who will come to his place will be much more wise. And who in this society can guarantee that they do not have a predisposition to suck? Because he was raised and educated for that, as fleas were? And he can then raise this politician based on this speech. This is one of the stories that tell about Esau. So, Esau was a lawyer who used this method to defend his clients. He was the first

great fabulist known in history. He lived in 6 BC. In the 16th century, there is the so-called Magesta Romanorum, which is the first time it is written in Latin. It is the first compilation attempt of some fairy tales that went through Europe at the time. 1500 and something. The few, the first initiative in this context. A handful, a compilation in Latin. Another thing that is very interesting are the 1001 Nights, which were written in the 14th or 16th century, but which are set up in the kingdom of Arun al-Masjid, who is the great king of

the Abbasid dynasty, Caliph of Baghdad, and would have occurred around the 18th century. This story is beautiful. Who doesn't know the story of Sherazade, who spends a thousand and one nights telling stories to his alleged husband so as not to be executed? This passage is beautiful, because what it shows, it preserves the idea of the fairy tale as an educational element. I will tell you this story very quickly. There was a caliph Who was betrayed by his brother. He considers this a great disgrace. And to avoid this happening to him, he takes as a principle

the following. Every night he would unite with a virgin and the next morning he would order her to execute her. So he would never be betrayed. And so it goes on. The daughter of the caliph, sorry, the daughter of the vizier, who was Sherazade, Was a beautiful young woman, asks her father to let her unite with the caliph. The father is very afraid. But the daughter says, you will die. No, you can let her die. I know what to do. So every night Sherazade began to tell a story to the caliph. A beautiful story. She

was a great storyteller. And this would seduce the imagination of the caliph. But when she got in the middle of the story, What a dream! I will not sleep now, tomorrow I will continue. Be famous, strategy of the global network. I will not be seen in the next chapters. And the citizen? And now? I kill her and I will never know how this story ends. So I will wait for another day. The next day, she very cleverly finished that story and amended another. Better still. Fantastic. And then came Ali Babá, Simba, Marujo, a lot of

stories that we do not know. Embedded and told by Sherazade. One after the other. After a thousand and one nights, the heart of the caliph, had already been sharpened, had been educated by the stories of Sherazade. He has developed a very deep feeling for her. And marries her. And abides in that terrible law of the immoble. He is educated by the stories of Sherazade. Which is the same idea, I told you about the stories of Indian fairies, the so-called Panchatantra, he was born exactly like that too. It is said that there was a king, a

Rajah, a Duk, who had three children, who were three little princes, terrible, terrible, terrible. There was no one who could educate the little animals. Totally averse to school. Averse to any kind of teaching. But the three would be heirs to the king. One of them would have to assume the crown. How do you educate those wonderful little things? The king in despair, because he could not do that. Then he calls all the wise men of the kingdom, gathers all of them and says, I would like to know which of you, which of the venerable kings,

The wise men present here, consider it appropriate, the noble task of trying to educate those beautiful children that I have, because no one is doing it. And the wise men all look at each other, in a constrainor situation, one of them, who is dressed in a charmer, raises his finger and says, you can leave it, I will educate you. Where are they? The brave citizen, only those there. Their princes were there, under a tree, sitting, and the charmer goes, with who does not want anything, he already makes up a story, and tells the first story.

And all the princes, he is an excellent storyteller, he gets excited. And then he already makes up a second, and makes up a third. For three years, the charmer tells the stories to these princes. After three years, they are educated And able to become a church. And this is, let's say, a book, a compilation, according to these teachings of the wise men of the charmer, which he composes, called Pantacantra. It would be a set of stories, destined to educate the man. Right? Well, then, these are the elements, and there is, as I told you, Not

within the field of fairy tales, but of fables, the second greatest fable in history, already in 1668. Well, but let's talk about how these fairy tales work, how they are constituted, how they are written, and how they are written. The fairy tales, all of them, have what they call recurring themes. What are these recurring themes? They are arguments that, in general, all of them work. The first recurring theme is what we call the logical paradox. What is a logical paradox? All of them have something very absurd from a rational point of view. Why? Because they

never seem to be coincided with reason, But with intuition. So, all of them generate a rock of a leap to reason, right at the entrance gate. Just like the reason is already going to be like this, in a loop. Imagine, stop to think about anyone. A little red hat, a wolf-like forest. The mother takes the little red hat, puts it on the girl's head And sends her to the forest. What madness! The wolf devours the grandmother and the girl is still twirling inside the belly. What does reason say before that? No, I don't joke like

that. It's crazy. Reason just jumps and falls right at the entrance gate. And if you continue? You will have to continue with other themes, Because reason will not enter. If you continue, you will have intuitive interactions, deeper things that, when reason waits, the intuition can wake up and start to perceive. So, in general, all the fairy tales have logical paradoxes. It's a curious thing that I was telling you, because our current society considers reason as universal. So, if reason falls, you will understand with what? With what tool? It is said that man has two possibilities

of perception. One is to perceive things directly, while reason perceives through the logical process. The intuition sees things in the plane of ideas, the plane of being, while reason sees the plane of appearance. Intuition works with the world of unity, While reason works with the world of multiplicity. It is said, for example, that when Troy is destroyed, Prince Aeneas, for those who saw the movie and saw this story, Prince Aeneas leaves Troy, leaving the territory to found a new city. But he was young and strong, but he had no wisdom to know what was the

ideal place, Nor how to establish this city. Who had this wisdom was his father. So what does he do? He puts his father on his back and walks towards the lair. So you will see that you, in order to build something, need the legs of Aeneas, and needs the eyes of your father. It is said that man, to act in the world, needs the legs of reason And the eyes of intuition. That would be able to see in the plane of ideas. It is the same idea of another story that I also tell a lot

throughout my course, if we stop to analyze symbolically the birth of Christ himself. This is a controversial thing, because when we say to analyze symbolically, sometimes people think, well, but then you are denying it as a historical fact. No, I'm not denying it, Because history and myth live in parallel, but in all this there is also a symbolic perception that we can draw. Well, imagine that we were to analyze Joseph, Mary and the birth of the boy Jesus, from a symbolic point of view. Joseph, the masculine part, is universally associated, myths in general, with the

rational aspect. Mary, the feminine, with the intuitive. Imagine that we all have inside us, Both Joseph and Mary, both rational and intuitive. And we are all in the same place. But reason, as I told you, acts in this world, in the material world, in the world of Enneas, and not in the spiritual world of Ancestors. So reason is not apt to perceive the divine. For a very simple reason, the divine, by definition, Is the world, it is in all things. It cannot be divided, because otherwise it would cease to be. The mind does not work

with things that cannot be divided. To understand it, it has to adjective, to be able to understand something, it has to say it is square, white, it is resistant. And this, implicitly, I am saying it is not round, it is not black, it is not soft. I am excluding things to understand. The mind works like this. So think with me. If the only attribute of the divine that we can perceive is that it is one, if I come to you and say, look, the divine is white, what are you going to say? If it is

not red, it is not red, it has stopped being one, because the red is out of it, it has two, it and the red. It lost its unity. If you told me it is round, I would say it is not square. It is not one anymore, because it has two. Any attribute you give to it, it loses its condition of unity. So how is the mind going to work in these conditions without giving any adjective, without giving any attribute? The mind cannot conceive something that has all the attributes simultaneously. For this is the intuition. It

is able to work in this world of unity. It is like an ankyzist, it does not understand anything about the terrestrial world. Phaenaeus does not understand anything about this world of ideas, this divine world. So the man, in order to be able to create valid things in the world, he would have to have a vision of this world of unity. And then be able to grasp it through reason. If you go to see most of the great scientists in history, they talk concretely about this. They saw something, And then through reason, they came to the

conclusion that they explained the reason. It is the intuition of that activity that the master had, it is the intuition of the eternal return that Nietzsche had. They all saw something, they intuited something, and then through reason they worked to communicate it, to explain it. So the man, when in our modern time he becomes very shallow, very superficial, He does not understand that intuition is a form of perception of reality. And then he becomes absolutely insensitive to the ways of the Father. Right? So the logical paradox is exactly that reason stops and you can enter

this world using the correct tool, which is intuition. And you begin to perceive relationships, you can begin to perceive symbolism, you can begin to see yourself within the world of the Father. So it is the first element that we can perceive, the logical paradoxes. The second element, very common, very recurring within the Fara points, is the so-called absence of a chronological time. Right? It is the time of the birth. How long did the birth last? It was once. It was once when? Imagine a rationalist analyzing the business. Wait a minute, order question here. It was

once what day? What year? What month? Where did this little red hat live? In the forest of what? What country was that? What was the name of this mother's irresponsible? A rationalist would never accept this story of the era once. Obviously, for you to Enter this world, there is also a blockage to this rational aspect. It is what the Romans called in illo tempore, a fable, it does not belong to a time and space encroachment. It is a recurring reality that belongs, could happen to the man of the past, it can happen to the man

of the present, and it can happen to the man of the future, because it speaks of the human drama, Speaks of the human condition, therefore, it is not located in a blockage of time and space. And children, in general, understand this. I always tell in this lecture, on an occasion when I was passing with my daughter, near that eucalyptus forest, when you enter in Brasília, coming from Belo Horizonte, and passing by, she looked, put her head through the window and said, Mom, is the little red hat going now to grandma's house? Is that forest there?

It is possible, but for her, whenever she passes by that forest, her little hat will be there at that moment. Can you imagine yourself telling a fairy tale to a child, a fairy tale, and she starts to ask you this kind of question? What is the business? Snowy Plants? What is her last name? What is the name of her father, mother, Where she lived, address, century and a half? There is no such thing. The child does not have this need, she takes this mythical dimension of the thing, and knows that this is in illo tempore,

the logic of eternity. This is a dimension of eternity, it is a symbol, it belongs to humanity, regardless of time and space. She does not feel this need to root things in matter. This is this intuitive purity that children keep. As I told you at the beginning, All humanity was like that. Today, this is reduced to children, and look there, it is no longer all children. The child is being so invaded, the child becomes a desperate compass of hope for youth, because youth is really good. Today we live a modern myth, in a bad way,

that only youth is worth it. So, childhood is a desperate compass of hope to reach youth, And old age is a terrible saudism for those who have already passed, in general. Because only youth has value. That is, we fight against logic, against the laws of life, we think that life is random, that the only smart people here are us. So we will fix this bullshit that nature has done. And we will become a great youth. So the child matures early and forces the maintenance of a young appearance In a person who is no longer biologically

young. Because only youth has value. So this second element of the once was is fundamental for us to understand the mentality of the young people. Another very interesting factor, the presence of the donor and the magic helper. Before that, it is important for us to realize The purpose of the hero. Have you ever seen, imagine a fairy tale that happens as follows, the prince arrives mounted on his horse, then the king comes to him, oh, please, save my daughter, the princess, because the dragon took her, the witch took her, imprisoned her, I don't know where.

Then the prince turns to him and says, what am I going to gain with this? What do I have to gain? What is the reward? Well, you don't even want to read the rest of the fairy tale, do you? The prince is a mercenary, but the hero doesn't pay. The prince always acts for the hero's motivation. The hero always acts for the hero's motivation. There are no interests in the game. And it's a curious thing, because the fairy tale usually puts a mission for the protagonist, Which is, in principle, far above his possibilities. When he

defeats a dragon, a powerful witch, he is only a human being, mounted on a horse, and he has no possibilities. But once he realizes the justice of this goal, once he realizes that this is a worthy mission for him, and he aspires to fulfill it, To perceive it as fair, noble and good, when he comes and says, I will, I don't even want to know, I will save this princess. From the moment he imposes his will, his decision, he commits himself to this cause and starts to walk, the elements that will enable him to succeed

in his mission. So he is there in the middle of the way, and a bird appears, and starts to tell him a lot of things, The hot stuff about how to knock down a ghost. Or he gives water to an old man, and this old man also gives him some precious tips. Or, sometimes, indicated by this same bird or by this same old man, he starts to find magic weapons, puts a ring on his finger, becomes invisible, finds a sword stuck in the stone That has magic powers. That is, the element of the donor and

the magic helper. I told you that these fairy tales are born as a derivation of the rites that were normally born in ancient philosophical schools, where knowledge was transmitted from master to disciple. This donor, the bird, the cagarela, the little bird, creating the information, this symbolically resembles this master. Once the disciple had committed himself, had committed himself to justice, to a noble mission of life, this master guided him on how to overcome difficulties. And the magic tools are the latent powers that exist within each human being, that come to light when he commits himself to

life. We think that in order to remember things that happened to us in the past, To develop the virtues that we need, we have to keep looking back. What do these tales say? That nature works in favor of those who work for it. This is what Jung called synchronicity. When a man commits himself to life, these tools, which are his own virtues, his latent powers, Begin to flourish. These magic weapons represent the protagonist's virtue, the powers that he had and that he did not know, that came to light because he committed himself to life, committed

himself to an altruistic mission, without personal interests, above his possibilities, but nature itself appears so that he is capable of it. His commitment To principles makes him grow in the process. This is the process of conquering the nobility of this principle. Then, in the end, he will become a prince. The final reconciliation will come, which is with his own princess soul. It is always associated with this. If you notice, for example, the medieval cavalry codes, the medieval cavalry codes, they always went to war with a canvas tied to a lady, In their lances, wherever they

went. It is very interesting because this cavalry love there was no physical contact between this knight and this lady. They represented for them an element of inspiration, it was the soul itself. It is the same thing in the myth of King Arthur. Gwynevere, who was the king's lady, was the inspiration of all knights, and represented symbolically his own soul. So, the fact that he had overcome all these antifunctional duties of nobility And of a conscious conquest, he was the prince of his own soul, the princess with whom he was reconciled. The idea of final harmonization

was happy forever. Right? Well, let's talk a little bit about the great cycles in which these fairy tales are gathered. I told you that there are very reiterative arguments, and there are indeed. Brothers who fight, heritages that are given in an unequal way, princesses who are imprisoned, princesses who are aborted. So, there is a group of scholars, especially from Scandinavia, who divided these mythical themes into categories. And they are divided into three great cycles. And there are a series of tales, a series of stories related to these arguments Of each of the cycles. The first

cycle is the archaic cycle, which are the themes of the fairy tales that are usually found in the oldest traditions. The archaic cycle involves stories with abandoned children, normally in the forest, children who will pay at the ogre's house, which is one of those giant, ugly and evil, sometimes with one eye, sometimes with two. Spirit in a bottle, a lot of stories of the spirit gets into the bottle and gets a lot of favors from whoever gives it. The king and his children, which is that story I told you about, the two of them, the

one who is good, the other is evil, this drama, and the animal that recovers the human form, That frog that loves to win some big games. All of these are arguments of the so-called archaic cycle. What is related to each of these arguments is not a joke. The second, the so-called cycle of the asleep, always has a sleeping dog prince or princess, victims of a spell or spell, Who will always be awakened by that love kiss of his perfect partner. Normally, in most houses, it is the mature princess who awakens by the prince's kiss. And

the heroic cycle, which involves a series of tests that are given to the citizen to show his speed to conquer some nobility, some privilege, Fight against the dragon, tests that lead to marriage, that is, princes or princesses who present themselves as candidates for marriage and are submitted to a series of tests to prove worthy. We are going to tell a very typical story of each one of these. Each one of these cycles, I took a little story for you so that we can analyze. Obviously, it is important that you know That when we refer to

symbolic elements, there is no way to change the last word. Obviously I will not throw these stories away. I am simply trying not to push you so that you begin to use your imagination and realize that things are more than they appear. You begin to awaken a healthy curiosity for wanting to know what is behind the appearance of the physical elements. So I selected for you three, two of them well known and the third not so much, Each one belonging to one of these great cycles that I have just mentioned. So the archaic cycle, I

took a story that is among the most important of the three. And I will tell you a little story of the most archaic, which is the Black White. Of the cycle of the sleeping, obviously, the Sleeping Beauty. And of the heroic cycle, the Princess and the Herb. Does anyone know this little story? I know this one. They put a herb under many costumes, and the herbarium is very sensitive. It is one of my favorites, this one. But let's talk about these three stories, just so that you understand how much symbolism, how much these things are

not casual, what is behind these stories. Let's start with the archaic cycle, the Black White, which is a very old story with a lot of versions. But what main elements are preserved in all of them? Let's take the version that you know more, the one that Disney used. By the way, Disney cut a fundamental piece from the beginning of the story, which is the mother's prophecy. The mother who pierces her finger In a hole, she was poking in the window, pierces her finger and a drop of blood falls on the window, covered with ice, snow.

She sees that red blood and the black ebony of the window, the white of the snow and the red of her blood. And she looks and sees, wow, what a beautiful combination! How I would like to have a daughter who has black hair like this window, White skin like the snow and red eyes like the blood. And this mother, in fact, this placement of her is prophetic, because immediately she gets pregnant, right after, and the child who is born exactly the way she had dreamed. With these three elements, the white skin, the red lips and

the totally black hair. But this mother, Shortly after the birth of the daughter, dies. And the king, a widow, worried about the daughter still very small, a mother, joins the mother-in-law. And this is a terrible thing in this case. It never goes right. The mother-in-law never goes right. So the mother-in-law assumes the maternity of this black and white. That is, the house of the white of the snow is no longer commanded by her legitimate mother. But she is a mother-in-law who is vain, superficial and falls in love with her image in the mirror. And she

wants to be eternally the most beautiful among all of them. So if we were to analyze the history of the symbols of humanity, we can make a thousand associations in this and other stories. There are three colors That were present in the most part of the symbolism of humanity, exactly white, black and red. The medieval alchemists constantly said that the evolution of the human being in the world was given through three stages. That is, the black work, the white work and the red work. And the black work is the first to be created. They called

it the Nigredo, Albedo and Congredo. The evolution of the human being from absolute ignorance to wisdom necessarily had to go through these three stages. The Nigredo. What is the Nigredo? The descent to hell. The confrontation, the observation with what you really are. The return to your fantasies. The descent to the porons and to perceive all the domestic animals that you cultivate within yourself. The confrontation, the awareness, the observation with what we are. Once the human being has passed through this stage of the Nigredo, the descent to hell within himself, the realization of all that he

is at this moment, comes the albedo, which is purification. Purification does not consist in killing, exterminating, detetizing your porons and killing everything. Obviously not, because we need These forces that live in us. It consists in educating them and putting them at our service. And not us at their service. It is said that the human being has only two possibilities. What lives in you and you are not aware of, will dominate you. What lives in you and you are aware of, you can dominate. It is a type of energy, a tendency, a passion. You can sublimate

it and use this passion to build Great things. You can use your fury against your own weaknesses. If you are aware, this becomes a propulsion motor. Because it works for you and not against you. Purification is to domesticate all your little animals. And what comes to be the work in red? The ascension, the contact with the divine. Once the human is purified, basically he begins to realize In the middle of this water, which is now reasonably clean and transparent, that there is something divine inside him. And he begins to ascend towards the divine. And basically

the life story of all the great masters of history has been the ascension, the purification and the ascension towards the divine work. And this is the stage of growth of the human being. The realization, purification and the search for God in all things. And what is this mother predicting for the Snow White? She is predicting that this being that would come would fulfill these three stages. This being that would come to the world, which is the human being, would be destined to fulfill these three stages. This is a prophecy that is destined not only to

the Snow White, but to humanity as a whole. But as for the Snow White, which is closely associated with this human soul that descends to the world, that will inhabit the castle, when she arrives there, who is ruling and dominating the castle is no longer her mother, wise and good. She is a midwife, who is our personality, totally guided by vanity, by personal interests, and who does not want to surrender To the interests of her own soul. Very similar to that Gwynevere who does not want to obey Arthur, but returns totally to Lancelot. She is

a mirror, who is a mirror, who is a reflection of herself. Who remembers a citizen who also looks at his reflection and sees the stone? Narciso. But it was not a mirror, they were waters, but it is the same symbolism. A mirror or a sheet of water, when you see a character who mirrors himself and falls in love with his reflection, represents the human soul that looks at this here, which is his reflection in the material world, which brings his virtues, his principles, everything by his reflection in the mirror, to preserve the most beautiful of

the two. So the same symbolism that Gwynevere brings to Arthur. We have here with the midwife, who brings her own soul, Snow White, throwing her in the forest, abandoning her. And this Snow White, this human soul lost in the forest, is also associated with this confused, chaotic, bestialized world, so that she returns to reign, she has to reconquer her role. She will have to go through a series of missions. How will she go through these missions? The first thing she does is walk through the forest and finds the house of the seven dwarves. Those terrible

banners, in some versions they are not dwarves, they are seven princes, seven knights, but whatever it is, they are always seven and are always terribly rich. The house is chaos. And she comes in harmonizing this house. We will realize that one of the most Traditional things in the history of humanity is to consider that the structure of the human being is septenary. The human being is composed of seven vehicles. They would be the vehicles material, energetic, psychological, a lower mind, a superior mind, intuition and the will of Linus. That would be a lecture that we

would talk about. The three would be the union of the triad, trinity, the four, because they are the four elements, earth, water, air and fire, the material part, the mortal part. Therefore, the human being, the structure of the human being would be septenary. But when the human being is not commanding this structure, it is chaotic, a mess. Where each one wants to command alternatively, there is no possibility of growth in this way. It is as if you imagined the structure Of each one of you. Imagine a person who was simultaneously lazy, greedy and in love.

Only these three problems. Have you ever imagined what a difficulty it is? A lazy person in her body wants to do what? Stay stretched in bed all day. But the greedy person wants to be where? All day. In the fridge. And the passionate? Running all day after the loved one. But running tires. The physical body does not want that. If you run too much, you do not have time to eat. Your energetic body does not want that. But your passions do not want to stay in bed because they are far from being loved, they do

not even want to eat. How do you reconcile all this? How do you reconcile? Do you realize the chaos it is when you do not have a purposeful unit within you? Each one of those who live inside us is pulling you aside. And internally, if you could look at us, wouldn't we be very different from this house of seven lovers? Each one wanting to command alternatively without any logic, without any law. What does the Snow White, who represents the human soul, do when she comes in? She puts order in the house. She is creating a

harmonious unity. This is what the human soul does When it lives within the human being. It takes power, it takes command. It harmonizes all vehicles, it makes everything work for a single cause, for a single purpose. So these seven miner dwarves who were there in the depths of the earth, inside the cave, living chaotically, now live civilizedly. It was the thing in its place. It happens that this soul, the human consciousness, The Snow White, had already achieved a very big test, which was to get the house of the Anuj. But there was still another test

left. The midwife, who is not a fool, who did not want to deliver the game so easily, knows that. So she disguises herself in the form of an old woman, of an old woman, and takes the Snow White an apple. She offers the Snow White, After a whole story, she offers the Snow White an apple. At first she refuses, says, but then the old woman gives a fatal blow. This apple is magical, my dear, it will fulfill your desires. Do you have any desire? I had. Then the thing went into space. This is an interesting

thing that you will notice. It is very common to see the apple figure In various traditions associated with temptation. It is the myth of the Garden of Eden. Why is the apple always chosen for this role? Because the apple is symbolically associated with the idea of the heart, it is very similar to the heart. So when the Snow White accepts to bite this apple to fulfill her desires, what is indicated there? That in her heart there were desires. Therefore she was not yet prepared for that final union with the spiritual, which represented her own prince.

There were still desires. So it makes her fall again possessed in matter. Something that helps us a lot to understand this is an old story, which is not a fairy tale, but is part of Egyptian theology. It is said that the fate of the dead Was decided when they left the earth. According to the Egyptians, there would be three possibilities. A physical world, a spiritual world, which was the mind, the land of Amon, and in the middle of the path, a place they called the Duat, where Maatia, the goddess of justice, was. When the men

arrived there, Maatia had a feather on her head. She was in front of a balance of two Feathers. When the soldier arrived, she would take the heart of the dead and put it on a plate on the tray, and on the other she would put that feather that was on her head. If the heart of the dead weighed less than the feather, it would go up to the mind, to the land of Amon. If it weighed more, it would fall into the world again. Why? Because she was evil? No. Why? What can there be in

the heart To make it lighter than a feather? Spiritual things or material things? A man who loves justice and wants a brotherhood, wants to move these things without weight, therefore he goes to the world where these things come from? Now, if a man who loves the new car, the three-story house, the holidays I don't know where, and the bank account with so many digits, these things weigh. He goes to the world where these things come from. It doesn't go because Maatia is evil And has a condemnation. It goes because everything he loves is there. So

what makes the man sleep in the matter? The desires. This fall in matter, this sleepiness, we will see in the beautiful dream, the idea, the sleepiness would mean the nation in matter. The man who is asleep is the one who is totally insensitive to reality. What does this spiritual world mean? This world of essences? He is living a dream, which is the material world. And as they say, it's not over. For those who know the myth of the cave of Plato, it says explicitly that the material world is not over with a dream. So he

is asleep, he is alienated in matter. And why does she sleep? Because there are still desires in her heart. She has to live another cycle. Until, after this cycle, the prince who is looking for her for the seven years of the world Can find her. She had already slept enough. She is able to wake up again. And then comes the kiss, the prince's touch, which is the awakening and the final conciliation. They get married and are happy forever. Isn't that so? Remember that famous painting by Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam? The Sistine Chapel, Where God

comes flying from above and Adam is down there. This subtle touch that is about to happen, this touch of the spiritual that makes Adam fall asleep, starts to get up, to wake up, is like the prince's kiss. It is the divine that touches and awakens the man of the wood. This touch that makes the man remember who he is and unites to his own spiritual essence. It is the final union of the human soul with his spiritual essence. And the work is completed. The work is done in red. So this would be, in general terms,

the White of Neve. Of course, this would give a lot of history. But basically so you understand that nothing is by chance. And then if we go to the circle of the asleep. A big novelty. In the circle of the asleep, the fundamental element is always the same story. So, in the case of the beautiful asleep, the king and the queen really wanted to have a child or a daughter. They were eagerly waiting for it. And nothing. Until one day, they generate a beautiful child, a beautiful princess. And they call it, this is a crucial

difference that exists between the original and the story of Disney, that they reduce the fairy tales to three. And the seven fairies are called to each of them to give a gift to the princess who has just been born. Each one of them gives a gift. It would be exactly awakening this being who has just been born, in those seven dimensions That we talked about earlier. The seven dimensions of human expression. Each one of them goes. Only there is a witch, who penetrates, who had not been invited to the story, and she appears there very

angry with it. She invades the party. And to get rid of the amount of discontent that the king and queen have, she gives her gift to the princess. Which is the gift of sleep. What did this blessed witch give to the princess? The desire for experience and material comfort. And now she will have to fall asleep. There is no way. The king and queen command to do everything they can. Burn all the rocks, all the fuses. But this princess will find a way to find a rock and a fuse, because she needs these things. She

needs this sleep, this sleepiness in the matter. And in fact, she will fall asleep. According to the legend, She will live 100 years asleep. And the palace sleeps with her. A dense forest closes. And this human soul is asleep, alienated in the middle of this dense forest of material experience. This material world of the post. Until some time has passed, the prince, intuiting that in the middle of that forest there should be something to be discovered, taken by his spirit of adventure, Goes winning, winning, winning, all the difficulties. And after this 100-year cycle, which is

10 times 10, it would be another story that we would have to tell. The Pythagorean Decade. Pythagoras says that this cycle of the decade would also represent all the human experience in the material world. After this cycle, he meets his princess, wins all the difficulties, Defeats the witch, meets her princess and dispels her again. And enters into the kingdom of hell. And also something that all traditions say. The spiritual essence that is hunting us, and not us, it is her. We are trying to hide from her as much as possible. The spiritual essence is hunting

us. Trying to send us indications, messages, trying to see if it wakes us up. Unfortunately, we have a sleep usually heavier than the one she promised. But constantly this prince, this spiritual essence that exists in the human, is trying to wake him up, sending messages so that he realizes that he exists. That he needs his attention. And then they marry. And they have two beautiful children. Aurora and Sun. And it would represent exactly the symbol of light, Of the illumination associated with this beauty. When the human soul awakens, unites its spiritual essence. Gives the light.

Aurora and Sun. It represents this beauty. Well, in general, the cycle of the asleep is always this. Then we will move on to the third cycle. Which is the heroic. That little story I told you about. I always liked her a lot. I found it interesting when I started to research and found out that she was so good. Because I always thought that she had something. It is the story of the princess of Evília. Which is typically a story where there are tests for the protagonist to reach the goal. The main character is not the

prince, it is the princess. It is told that there was a prince whose father, the king, was already an ancient man. A person already quite old. And that kingdom, like any other, there was a law. The prince can only marry a princess. To continue the journey of the throne. As the princess was not something that walked so easily in the market, what did the princes have to do? Mount on their horse garbly and go out walking through the kingdoms of the neighbors. Participating in tournaments and things like that To bring home a princess. Because otherwise

they would not. It happens that the king, because he is very old, feels insecure about the son leaving and leaves him alone. Imagine, my son, you are young, you are angry, a king. If I stay here alone, this kingdom will be invaded and soon there will be no more kingdom for you to reign over him. He asks, my son, I think it's better that instead of you going out looking for princess, you stay quiet here. But the prince says, but father, don't worry, do what you must do, because what is yours will come to you.

The prince, well, the father is saying, let's do it. That's what he is saying, let's trust. And he stays by his father's side. And he leads the kingdom to his father's side. He gives all the support to his father and to the other. And time goes by. At first the prince didn't give much importance, he thought something would happen. But years come and go. One year, two years, three years, four years, seven years. And there is no princess of any kind. That is, again, number seven, fifth, seventh, he says, There is no princess of any

kind. And he says, my father is a caducco, I am a story, I will not marry him, what are you going to do? And one day, some time passed, the two were inside the castle and a terrible storm begins to fall. And this storm, suddenly, in the middle of the rain, they hear someone knocking on the door. They run to open the door And see, it is not their surprise, a very beautiful young woman comes, very well dressed, soaked in rain, coming from the middle of the storm. And she says to them, I am a

princess of a neighboring kingdom, I won a horse as a gift from my father, I went out riding through the forest, I got lost, it started to rain at night, I would like you to give me shelter for one night, because tomorrow morning I can go to the castle. And I will find my way home. Imagine the anxiety of this prince. Seven years old! And a princess appears like this. When the father realizes the story, he pulls the son to the other side and says, wait a minute, calm down, it is not for you to

fall in love with this young woman. Let's be prudent, We all know that you must marry a princess. This is a widely known story within the kingdom. Then suddenly a young woman appears, she does not know what she is doing, and in the middle of the night, in the middle of a storm, alone, saying that she is a princess, that this can be a fraud. And if it is a fraud, you cannot betray her. You will have to first demonstrate your nobility. I thought, my father, How is she going to do that? You can let

me know how to do it, because he had the solution to everything. You can let me know how I'm going to do it. And then he asks the princess to wait and tells her to prepare her room. He tells her to put seven pillows on that pillow, and then he puts a little pea seed under it. Under the last one, he asks her to put a little pea seed. A little pea seed. They make it up, put a ladder on it, and say, your hostesses are ready. She is very grateful when I go to bed,

because it is strange to have to go to bed with a ladder. I am a guest, and a guest has no right to complain. This must be the customs of the place. And the next morning, the king and the prince In that anxiety, what happened? The princess appears. Yellow, pale, with that three-eyed face. The king looks at her and says, but princess, what happened? You were not well received. Oh, your majesty, you were very well received. You were not well welcomed. Your hostesses were not happy. They were wonderful. But what happened? It seems that you

did not sleep well. Oh, your majesty, in fact, I have to tell you the truth, I did not sleep well. There was something under those pillows, so terrible, so uncomfortable, that it did not let me sleep all night. Then the king said, that is the proof I was waiting for, it is a princess. Only a princess would have the sensitivity To perceive a grain of honey under the pillow. The fire is the symbol of the spirit, the cross of the world, the material spirit. Notice, this princess is coming from what? From the waters. She comes

from the middle of a storm, she is leaving the material world. And knocking on the door of her prince's house, which is her spiritual principle. But for her to be able to marry this prince, She needs to demonstrate her nobility. And how is she going to demonstrate her nobility? The king makes her sleep. All humanity is sleeping. She is sleeping on top of her seven vehicles, her seven pillows. And she does not realize that there is something tiny underneath everything. That is the question of wanting to know who we are, where we came from, where

we are going, what is the meaning of our presence on earth. The question of wanting to understand the meaning of our life. A tiny thing. It is terribly uncomfortable for those who can perceive it. Any human being would lie on top of these seven pillows and resonate. But this princess has to be able to feel a restlessness that keeps her awake in the middle of the night. When everyone sleeps, She remains awake. She does not become alien to matter. She remains awake because she feels something tiny behind all that. That she does not know what

it is. And that no one would perceive it. But that it bothers her tremendously. This tiny thing that she is able to perceive. It is the clue of what we call philosophy. What is philosophy? What is philosophy? A human being who has everything according to the current standards of society to be mature in matter. Material goods, physical health, good appearance, everything that society considers as more than necessary to be happy. That is how you ask yourself, but what is the meaning of all this? Where do I come from? Where do I go? What is waiting

for me? Is life just that? One day I read a strip of that Snoopy, and I found it very interesting. Charlie Brown was talking to Snoopy and he was studying, and Snoopy was lying on his little house. And Charlie Brown started telling him the following, Snoopy, I have to study for this test. I have to study for this test because I have to get excellent grades. I have to get excellent grades because I have to grow and have an excellent job. I have to have an excellent job because I have to earn an excellent salary.

Because I have to have an excellent family. I have to have excellent children who will have to do excellent tests to have excellent jobs, an excellent job, an excellent family. And then the dog looks at him and falls, Disanimate. Where? Where? Why? It's just that. It has to be. The philosopher is the one who feels the need for something more, besides mere survival, as you said. Everyone would sleep peacefully if there were these things that Charlie Brown said. The philosopher doesn't. Something that makes him stay awake. And this something is tiny. But see how the

king decodes this something. As a sign of nobility. It is a sign of nobility that allows him to unite to his spiritual principle. If he didn't have this sensitivity, he wouldn't be prepared to live his spiritual principle. Only and exclusively because he was able to remain awake where everyone slept. Only and exclusively this was an indication of nobility that it was necessary. And philosophy, according to these traditions, Was an indication of nobility. And not of madness, as we see it today. Right? So this story is very interesting because it almost, in a symbolic way, sums

up the position of the philosopher in front of the people. Well, this is an experience that you can do. I gave you some elements so that you can make your own experiences. Stop to think about these stories That you heard all your life. Stop to think about the little boy. Stop to think about the ugly duck that only found happiness when, fortunately, he recognized himself in the other. Stop to think about all these reiterative elements that we see in many fairy tales. Take a risk to believe that a fairy tale is more than a mere

story to amuse innocent and silly children. Take a risk to realize That behind a fairy tale there are truths, there is a mystery, which is the mystery of the human condition itself. And that the fairy tale can be an educational element that can be explained. Well, this is basically what I had to bring to you. I would like to open to questions if there is anything that I can clarify, any doubt that can be clarified. Give a tip, Dinah. No one ever stopped to think about what he would say at some point in time, if

there is any position that you would like to put. In the case of the seven dwarfs, for example, each one has a name called or a social identity. Each one of them has a profile, a virtue and a defect. Each one of them is a vehicle. This is a very interesting observation. Stop me from observing those dwarfs. Each one of them looks like something. Each one of them. The sluggish, the typically emotional, the sonnet, the physical. Each one of them has that characteristic of a dwarf. If you stop to analyze, you will see that little

trick. You can even try to see which one dominates the animal, which is the majority of the animals. Right? Well... In the area of psychology, I have always associated the forest with the unconscious, that thing that, in the case of the character, the character would have to pass to be able to meet himself, to dominate himself. It's the same fear. Does that make sense? As I said at the beginning, we are dealing with a talk of philosophical knowledge. The meaning of unconscious for philosophy is different from that of psychology. Because for psychology, in general, it's

about the personal unconscious. Except in certain cases, like the Jungian tradition, that works with the collective unconscious. But in general, it works with the individual unconscious, which is the rest of the experience that cannot be incorporated healthily. For philosophy, it's all that interferes in your action and that you don't have control over. So the fact of having a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn is interfering in our behavior? Probably. Because it interferes in all the behavior of all living beings on the planet, In the system as a whole, and we are in this environment. But we

are not aware of that? No. So the interference of Jupiter and Saturn is part of our cosmic unconscious. We have the social unconscious, we have the planetary unconscious, we have the biological unconscious, all the processes that are inside our body that interfere with our mood, and we don't even know what it is. So the total domain of the unconscious For philosophy is to know the domain, the final objective. To perceive everything that interferes with our action, and to have the boundaries of that. Anything else, guys? Well, I invite you to my talk that we will

have on Saturday, talking about how to deal with loneliness. It is a very interesting topic, I think that today it is a very common problem within society. And also for the class of the Philosophy course, on this Friday, at 7.30 pm, everyone will receive our booklet, if you are interested, put a very easy access, right in front of the sugar cane, that enters the lake, taking the first return, in front of the sugar cane, on the other side, you will see the sign that indicates that you are in a state of consciousness. What we do

is the unconscious. From the moment you start to understand this unconscious as conscious, philosophy explains this, how to do this, because you are always paying attention, it is a bigger eye, that you see your unconscious, more conscious. This is also an interesting question, because the method of expansion of consciousness that philosophy talks about, Has a lot to do with what we talked about inside the fairy tale. It is a commitment to life. This is a characteristic that is very typical of philosophy. It says that the expansion of consciousness does not necessarily occur through an analytical

process aimed at the past. It also occurs through a synthetic process committed to the future. That is, what does philosophy say? There are several doors of entry To the future, but the exit is only one, which is will, determination, power. It doesn't matter how you enter, you will only go out channeling the opposite. If you don't channel this will, don't channel this power, the fact that you simply know how a problem started, may not help you to get out. It may simply help you to stay closer to the problem. Imagine that you have no determination,

no will to get out of a problem, and I tell you how it started. You found the culprit, and you get in his way. Imagine that on this pretty wall there is a low wall of a turned paint bucket. What would be necessary to fix this? You would have to clean it and paint it again. Then the person comes and says but I want to know who did this. And then I say, well, it was a thief, he was going down the stairs, he spilled paint and it got dirty. The fact that he knew this

made the wall get dirty. And if someone is inert and doesn't want to react? Will he be bothered by the dirty wall? That time someone comes in and says what a bad thing, he will say, but it was the fault of the thief. The philosophical speaks Of the expansion of consciousness as a commitment to life. A synthetic projection to the future. He says that when you commit to life, nature, which is cosmic, which is not chaos, there is an order, an intelligence in nature, it will bring you the magic weapons that you need to reach

the perception of the world. That is, you will heal healthily in the conscience what you need. Why? Because you are strongly committed to the world. This creates support and brings you to the surface and knows how to reach it. Ok? Well, any more questions? If there is no question, I thank you very much for your presence and I hope to see you again. Thank you.