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Reference Materials

These are the recommended Reference Materials. These include the books Silo Speaks, Guided Experiences, Psychological Notes and Collected Works (volumes I and II) that of course includes the previous books as well as several others.

Silo's Message: This is the fundamental document for the Message launched by Silo.
Silo in Punta de Vacas: The complete collection of Silo's addresses in Punta de Vacas.
Collected Works: Collected Works, in two volumes, contains most of what Silo wrote or said between 1969 and 2007.
Humanize the Earth: Three writings in poetic prose: The Inner Look, The Internal Landscape and The Human Landscape. They address human existence from its most profound interiority to everyday life in the world.
Guided Experiences: It is divided into two parts: Tales and Playing with Images. These are, at first glance, short stories with happy endings. At the same time, they may be appreciated as psychological practices based on an original literary form.
Contributions To Thought: Includes two essays of philosophical reflection: Psychology of the Image and Historiological Discussions.
Universal Root Myths: Was written with the interest of comparing the basic systems of tension in which the peoples who formed the great myths of humankind lived.
The Day of the Winged Lion: This is a collection of stories in the fantastic genre that, rather than carrying readers into the worlds of dreams, subtly brings them face to face with the central issues of life.
Letters to My Friends: This is a collection of ten open letters expressing Silo's sociopolitical philosophy in a form that is both critique and proposal for change — and has provoked a wide spectrum of sometimes conflicting opinions.
Silo Speaks: Contains a broad range of the author's spoken words spanning three decades.
Psychological Notes: This is a summary made by attendees to conferences given by Silo in 1975 in Corfu and in 2006 in Argentina, including an appendix on the physiological basis of the psychism. The development presents the psychism as a function of life, develops the psychology of impulses, outlines techiques of of transformation and ends with a description of inspired states of consciousness.
Notes: Includes two brief essays: Reverie and Action is a series of reflections inspired in Plaza de Colon in Madrid, Bomarzo Park dilucidates the meanings of a Mannerist Renaissance garden connecting them with the alegories and symbols that originate in Alexandria in the III century.
Dictionary of New Humanism: A collection of definitions predominantly connected with political science and sociology, compiled with the contributions of multiple collaborators.