This comparative study of western and eastern 'spirituality' or 'psychology' (whatever you may call it) centers around such FORMULA-WORDs which are quite similar to Sanskrit mantras. They each bear several meanings in one formulation and correspond to the scientific term 'unconscious' as well as to the exercises in Laya Yoga. This study culminates in an independent and new method which can connect the East and the West in an ideal way.
Of course, this new method needs a new name (neither is it strictly yoga nor psychoanalysis). The expression that seems most fitting is: Analytic Psychocatharsis. The Greek word 'kathairo' (καθαiρο) means as much as: to wash clean, or cleanse. An important effect results from this method in that it develops a directly noticeable liberation, or cleansing, something that is a slightly affective experience (such as Moksha, or Samadhi in yoga). Another aspect is the psychoanalytic cognizance that is included, something more intellectual. Thus, the adjective 'Analytic'.
ARE - VID - EOR is such a FORMULA-WORD. It does not originate in Sanskrit. As Kirpal Singh always said: "Sanskrit is not the lingua franca of spirituality...", thereby stressing that the meaning of his Sanskrit names did not only lie in the old Indian language. ARE - VID - EOR originates in Latin. Sanskrit as well as Latin are both very well suited to be a basis for formulations, mantras and FORMULA - WORDS in meditation. ARE - VID - EOR, namely, is a SHINES / SPEAKS - formulation of the first degree, since significantly more words, imaginations, meanings and pictures are hidden therein than in this one image of a word (or, word of an image). Were you to read it starting from a different letter, each in turn, then a variety of versions would result:
A RE VIDEOR I am seen by something
REVIDE ORA Look again, pray!
EVIDE ORAR Recognise therefrom: I am spoken!
VIDE ORA RE Look, speak, in truth!
VI DEORARE Fully speaking with power.
VIDEO RARE I perceive unusually.
DE ORARE VI On speaking with persuasion.
EO RARE VID(E) Seldomly look there!
As strange and alien as these formulations may sound, this is just what it takes to establish calmness and concentration in the conscious, just as Sanskrit formulations do. But, the latter are - as just mentioned - based on traditional beliefs (a guru's power lies within them) that might continue to be suitable for ordinary people. The new method, though, is prone to attract scientifically oriented people in the East as well as in the West due to linguistics and geometrical aspects being in the foreground. Based on these fundamental manifestations the book covers aspects of reincarnation and precognition, the significance of repetitive processes and many other comparable phenomena in yoga and psychoanalysis. The author, Dr. Günter von Hummel, is a psychoanalyst and was a devotee of Kirpal Singh for over thirty years
