Video & Transcript of Norma Alge,
WTM Bregenz Centre

 

(To learn more about Norma Alge, see www.wtmbregenz.com)

 

 

Hi everyone, my name is Norma and I’m very happy to be opening another World Transformation Movement Centre here in Austria.

Please allow me to use my notes, to read from my notes, since I’m not a native speaker [of English] I might get lost in switching languages or the video would otherwise turn out to be too long.

So just to let you know a little bit about myself and how I came across the information or how I came to this information, and how it all connects for me, let me introduce myself so you get the idea and the bigger picture.

I have a master’s degree in psychology from the University of Vienna, and a postgraduate degree in clinical and health psychology. I’ve always worked in the social field, in the social sector, with people facing very different life and personal challenges and having very different backgrounds also. Right now I’m working in the field of school social work with children, juveniles, their parents and teachers.

I’m the daughter of a Mexican mother and an Austrian father, and I grew up in a three-generational household, together with my sister, my parents and my grandparents. On a regular basis, we traveled to Mexico and visited the other part of my family. So growing up in between cultures, switching languages, experiencing the realities of very different economical and life situations among the different members of my family, I always wondered and wanted to understand what everything was all about and where the turmoil and problems, the suffering of the grown-ups was coming from, and how we could end it because, and as a child that was my conclusion, if they are happy, I am happy. And if they are good, I am good. I remember how I so deeply wished that somehow we humans, I mean all humans, could find a way to live happily ever after.

Also growing up by this beautiful lush environment here at Lake Constance, I enjoyed spending my time outside very, very much. Being very connected to nature and animals, I could never understand how we as humans often could be so cruel towards them.

So I had a lot of questions, and so my interest in psychology and the path of my career is not astounding. I’ve always wanted to look at things from different perspectives and bridge the gap. Then over the past years, and especially since I became a mother, my efforts to find deeper understanding, useful and ever more holistic concepts explaining our human behaviour, as well as techniques to provide effective relief and healing, grew. So I searched for differing scientific and intellectual approaches. I listened to thinkers of the left, right, middle and the margins. I dipped my feet into aspects of yoga and learned about mindfulness and meditation. I developed a growing interest in the mind-body connection and especially of developmental trauma. And until recently I also attended a very inspiring local wilderness school. And over the past years since I’m back in my hometown of Höchst (near Bregenz), I participated in a local political party and worked for an intercultural women’s project. And all this to learn from different perspectives and try to add something positive to it all, to society.

So wherever I look, people are making such an effort and they dedicate their life into bringing relief and healing into this world with, for example, ever more evolved scientific, sophisticated, traditional, ancient or everything in combination, ways of coping and personal healing.

There is such a lot of truly wonderful people, teachers, healers out there, to whom I’m truly grateful. And I could see good things resulting, good things within me and others, resulting from all the efforts we make, but still I could never see a light at the end of the tunnel of our perpetuating way of destructive behaviour. And I had this uneasy feeling that, well, sort of like an uneasy feeling when thinking about us humans, as being the only species that has to make such an effort to come to an inner place of easy being and calmness, until I came across Jeremy Griffith and his synthesis, his biological and scientific macro explanation of our human condition and our human journey here on this planet. I found a totally sound and resonating and scientific, mind-blowing and mind-soothing explanation for our capacity for good and evil, for the very ways in which we display love and anger, and for our capacity to do such great things, but then also to be so destructive. An explanation for our growing detachment from our true selves, from our true loving selves, and from our home: nature. So basically, all the questions I have ever had concerning our human behaviour and emotion, they are being answered by the explanations in this book, FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition!

In spite of my university studies and reading scientific literature, I always had wondered whether science and religion or our need for spirituality could ever come together, whether there was a kind of purpose and meaning to plain existence, and thus our existence, in the way I felt it, rather than only stemming from chaos.

I always wanted to find answers with regard to the differences and struggles between men and women. And also, for example, why my boys would play or like games and behave in such ‘boyish’ ways, motivated from well, seemingly motivated from in themselves. [The reconciliation of men and women is explained in Freedom Essay 26: Men and women reconciled.]

And also, since I bear the heritage of two very different worlds within me, I always wondered how humans could be so different, as for example with regard to my experiences concerning aspects of modern Europe, in contrast to indigenous ways of living in Mexico. Why has the modern world been behaving in such a blind and cruel way towards people living in indigenous or traditional ways? How can the aggressor and the victim within me come to peace and understanding of each other? I’d never had an answer to these questions, but I found them now in the book! It’s incredible! [The reconciliation of different cultures and races is explained in F. Essay 28: The end of racism.]

What else? I’m so happy I found this information because it provides a truthful understanding about music and the arts of which as a child, and until my early 20s, I had been so fond of but at a certain point, I had to let go of. [See F. Essay 45: Prophetic songs, and F. Essay 44: Art makes the invisible visble.] I think the content of FREEDOM really got hold of me when the book The Catcher in the Rye was mentioned with regard to what goes on within us in our teens, by explaining the most important psychological event in a human life, namely, Resignation. [The psychological event of adolescents ‘resigning’ to the imperfection of the human-condition-stricken is explained in F. Essay 30: Resignation and chapter 2:2 of FREEDOM.] Back in grammar school, we read The Catcher in the Rye in my English classes. It was a book that made me want to enhance my English because I could understand that what was being said in that book was the reality of being a teenager and that there was something so profound, crazy, painful, lonely and truthful to it, that grown-ups or resigned human fellows weren’t able to grasp anymore. Wherever I have moved, I always take that piece of truth with me; I could never throw that book away.

 

 

As a mother and with the things I had come to feel and think regarding motherhood and love, I was so relieved to find out about our loving, nurturing origins; about the true power of love. And as a psychologist, I was fascinated to find a biological explanation of love; and excited by the explanation given with regard to the emergence of conscious thought and its implication concerning our human development. [The nurturing origins of humans’ moral conscience is explained in F. Essay 21, and the origin of consciousness in F. Essay 24.]

So the information in this book is based on first principle science, it integrates pre-scientific and philosophical thinking, as well as our most inner truth is brought to life by music and the arts. It touches on all relevant aspects of our human life and behaviour, and for the first time gives us a tool of consciously understanding other people, ourselves, nature and our role and place in it. It’s all explained! It’s all good! These understandings bridge the gaps and put everything into place.

The thing is, the knowledge presented in the book FREEDOM unleashes a massive paradigm shift concerning our perception and way of thinking, as soon as one understands and welcomes the honesty of the provided content. There’s no one there to tell you what to do or how to behave. And even though that might be unbelievable or even scary to some, that’s how it is, and it’s incredibly great! Just by understanding the information provided, everything falls into place. We can transform from within and feel calmer and compassionate. We can now come from a place of true understanding. It’s incredible how people from all over the world with different cultural, religious, educational, whatever, backgrounds, are coming together through understanding this information. There’s something absolutely real to it.

I hope you feel inspired and that you want to learn more about FREEDOM and its content. If you have any questions, or wish to leave a comment, please feel welcome to contact me or other supporters of the World Transformation Movement. As you may have learned already, this is a not-for-profit organisation and all the material, the information, is free on the internet.

So, the tunnel has come to its end, and there’s a light of conscious understanding and reconciliation waiting for us! I wish everyone could learn about it and come to this place of understanding. This brings healing to our thinking minds. I wish for future generations, for future children to live with their loving souls and thinking minds in sync, to feel calm and secure and happy within themselves and to be able to pass it on from generation to generation to generation. I know and I feel that with these understandings, it’s possible. So that’s why I’m supporting the World Transformation Movement. Bye and thank you very much for listening to me.