Ante a intempérie existencial: vertical ou horizontal?

Our vocation as existentialists possibly comes, just as Perls, from a disillusion before the existing psychotherapeutic systems. Gestalt and its proposal responds to a growth of what possibly was the conscience state prevailing during 99% of our existence as a species on earth, in which time we were nomad hunters-collectors until the late Paleolithic of almost 35 thousand years which M. Berman calls the “paradox” and characterizes it by an alert animal state, a phenomenological perception of ground, an absolute respect by the natural world and its processes, an existential and horizontal conception of life, always in movement, without the search of salvation, neither the possession of the truth, nor a vertical aim. On the contrary, the actual civilization, arises from the sedentarism and the agriculture with the appearance of the “Holy Authority Complex” and bases itself on a vertical and hierarchical aim where predominant uneven relationships, political, religious and economical power is concentrated in a few hands, offering salvation truths in another life, besides the illusion of the existence of one and several Gods.