Member Groups of WSI- Southern Europe

Banner of Peace Association, Rome, ItalyCommunity of Living Ethics, Citta’della Pieve, ItalyCultural Association of Triangles and World Goodwill, Rome, ItalyGEM Group, Lisbon, PortugalMerry Human Life Society, Barcelona, SpainSpace INEH Italy, Turin, ItalySun Group, Fuengirola, SpainSunhealing Group, Fuengirola, SpainUrusvati Research Institute, Turin, Italy

Banner of Peace Association, Rome, Italy
E-mail: bandiera.pace@tiscali.it
Contact person: Valentina Ganz, e-mail: valjaganz@libero.it
Website: www.associazionebandieradellapace.org

The Association “Banner of Peace”, was created in Italy in 1995, among its main purposes is to spread the idea of Culture as instrument of peace for human beings and construction of Peace through a planet-wide network of Good Will people and groups.

The ideas developed and spread by the Roerich family during the last century- and today supported by a large number of groups worldwide as the foundation for a new vision of human life- are the reference point of all initiatives promoted by the Association.

The Association promotes events, group meetings, conferences, seminars and exhibitions. All initiatives are directed to the awakening of the latent resources of individuals through the contact with the many and diversified treasures of Culture, so that their psychodynamic potential may trigger a process of expansion and transformation of consciousness.

Community of Living Ethics, Citta’della Pieve, Italy
E-mail (english): light.net@comunitadieticavivente.org
E-mail (italian): info@comunitadieticavivente.org
Website: http://www.comunitadieticavivente.org

The Community of Living Ethics is located near Città' della Pieve, a small medieval hill town on the border of Tuscany and Umbria. It was founded in 1982 by Sergio Bartoli and a group of co-workers as a Centre for Creative Meditation. Over the years it has developed and grown through the creative and practical skills contributed by an ever increasing number of members and friends.

Programs in psycho-spiritual education have fostered the emergence of an integrated and harmonious group willing to experiment in daily life with new models intuited through meditation and inspiration.

As a result of many years of intense and qualified group activity the Community has now become a cell of new life. All activities are vivified by the study and application of the principles of Living Ethics. This vitality is reflected in various fields: economics, education, culture and art, healing, relations with the kingdoms of nature. The Community operates as a living organism, working through several Centers - each with a specific function and purpose.

At present a large proportion of members and co-workers live locally. Others come from all over Italy and other countries. Many of them take part as participants in the schools and/or as collaborators in the community life. At the times of the full and new moon every month meditation activities are held.
Study, Meditation and Service are the three cardinal points around which all Community work is based.

Various schools and training courses are offered, on themes that are central to the development of consciousness: Basic schools for integration of the personality (Psychosynthesis and Psychoenergetics)Psycho-spiritual courses (including: Creative Meditation, 7 Rays Typologies, Service, Group Focalising; Esoteric Healing; Astrology)In depth courses (Education, Art, Architecture, Economics, Naturopathy).

Seminars for each of the Schools and Courses are offered during the weekends from October to June, and for one week stays in the summer.

Cultural Association of Triangles and World Goodwill, Rome, Italy
Phone&fax: +39-06-5091 7326
Email: s.tripi@tiscali.it
Website: www.goodnewsagency.org 

The Association is an educational charity established in 1979. Since 2002 it is associated with the UN Department of Public Information. The Association participates in study group activities on philosophic and spiritual themes. Its activities have always concentrated on spreading the ideals of brotherhood, unity in diversity and responsibility for the common good.

All the activities have always been planned and conducted by the administrative body and by its members on a voluntary basis and have been offered to the public at no charge. The Association has always been financed exclusively by the voluntary contributions of its members and supporters.

Since 1996, the Association has intensified its work in the school education field. From 1996 to 2001 jointly with the UN-endorsed University for Peace and working in Italian academic circles, significant academic objectives were reached and seminars held on the theme: the United Nations and Peace Education. This activity is presently being carried on in schools and colleges by the Association on its own basis.

As from the year 2000, a new initiative was launched intent on contributing to awake public opinion: Good News Agency, a weekly e-bulletin published in Italian and in English, which carries news from the UN, NGOs, service associations and volunteer groups. It is sent free to 10,000 media in 54 countries, as well as 3,000 NGOs and 1,600 high schools, colleges and universities.

In February 2001, Good News Agency launched the Ethical Code of the Media, that stresses publishers’ responsibilities to give voice also to the positive events which indicate the response of humanity to the greatest problems of our time. The Code has been endorsed so far by over 140 service organizations and eminent persons in the field of culture around the world, as well as by several academic bodies and peace research institutes.

GEM Group, Lisbon, Portugal
Email: lux@gem.org.pt
Website: www.gem.org.pt

GEM is based in Lisboa, Portugal. It was founded in March 1981 as GEM and later we decided for Grupo de Estudos Maitreya to stand for GEM. In June 1982, we decided to definitely approach Agni Yoga Teaching. Today, GEM is a Portuguese voluntary non-profit organization that provides training in spiritual development and selfless service. Our main goals and activities are linked to the cooperation for the reappearance of Maitreya and the externalisation of the spiritual Hierarchy, which includes the call for the service of advancing right human relations.

We are a Unit of Service of World Goodwill, member of Agni Yoga Society and member of Corona Mundi. Since 2006, we started with Psychosynthesis and Creative Meditation as a tool for individual and group preparation and group service, and we are now adjusting our lives to the Principles and Laws of the New Age.

We always supported intergroup cooperation, and we were co-founders in the past of some of these associations. Since 2006, we participate in an intergroup association of five spiritual groups in Portugal, which promotes an annual Festival of Humanity and some other events.

With a lending library, we promote different courses and meetings or study group activities in order to prepare new servers for the Common Good. We host regular meditation meetings too, such as group full moon service. Using mainly Raja Yoga techniques, our philosophical basis is rooted in the Ageless Wisdom of East and West and we prepare the approach to the fiery ground of discipleship. Our works and studies are based on the teachings of Alice A. Bailey, of Helena and Nicholas Roerich and now on Roberto Assagioli's Creative Meditation too. GEM is engaged with the distribution of documents in Portuguese language and we also publish 500 copies of the quarterly World Goodwill Newsletter.

Merry Human Life Society, Barcelona, Spain
Contact:Xavier Subirats
Email:xsubirats@economistes.com

Space INEH Italy, Turin, Italy
Email i.fonta@libero.it 
Telephone: 0039 011 9313576

We are a synthesis group using INEH healing technique and DK teachings, combined with the teaching of Enzio Savoini and the work of Istituto Urusvati- Italy.

Geometry in space is our work, our understanding is that geometry is the way to express inner and dynamic thinking with the group objective that is group fusion. Geometry is about ordering substance in space and in so doing, directing energy in harmonious patterns. Creating geometrical patterns in a coordinated group formation is the role of initiated humanity, that is what we call Planetary Healing.

In our work, using the Science of Triangles we are creating geometrical patterns as a ladder allowing the precipitation of ideas to prepare planetary consciousness for the New Civilization.

Sun Group, Fuengirola, Spain
Contact: Jorun Bjerkestrand
E-mail:jorun-bj@hotmail.com

We are a meditation-group consisting of 12 Scandinavian people living in Spain.

Having studied the esoteric wisdom for a number of years under the guidance of Niels and Mads Brønsted from the Center of the inner dimensions of life( Denmark), we decided ,we wanted to participate in sharing this knowledge.

Our work consists of daily meditations, linking up with the spirit of the group. In these meditations we are focusing to anchor the energy of synthesis in the south of Spain. Twice a week the meditation takes place at a fixed time to maximize the energy of the group.

We conduct full-moon meditations and universal- healing meditations around the year, where everybody Interested are more than welcome.

Three to four week-ends during the year we hold open week-end workshops with international speakers

Sunhealing Group, Fuengirola, Spain
Contact: Jorun Bjerkestrand
E.mail.:jorun-bj@hotmail.com
Telephone.:0034-619644685 --0034-856818284

Urusvati Research Institute, Turin, Italy
Contact person: Antonella Nobilio
Email: antonella.nobilio@urusvati.org and/or urusvati@urusvati.org

The Istituto Urusvati has been operating since 1979 and adopted its current structure in 1987. It will, therefore, celebrate the 4th year of the 4th septennium in 2011. It is comprised of approximately 100 people and has its headquarters near the city of Turin in Northern Italy.

The group has no head or leader. It works on a round table basis and is sustained by a subjective hierarchy of consciousnesses; an inner recognition of place and duty. Within the group there is total freedom regarding the individual choice of tasks, functions, study, meditation and service. Nothing is imposed.

The work is mostly subjective and new members are attracted to it through resonance. The group meets for two days on eight occasions during the year. During four major meetings it celebrates the Equinoxes and Solstices - the four discontinuities of the heliocentric and geocentric astrological cycles. During four intermediate meetings it gathers on the ‘Fixed Cross’ to share study, research and experimentation.

It is engaged in various studies that attempt to creatively unfold the teachings of the Tibetan Master and of Agni Yoga. At present the group operates as seven ‘Centres’ in which essentially the subjective work is carried out and five ‘Workshops’ dedicated mostly to research and experimentation.

Its primary objective is to perceive and to live the Plan, and this is done largely through the study and the reading of the heavens.

Its most important characteristic is that of working in six-pointed star/lambdoma formation in imitation of a higher model reflecting, in particular, the seven major ashrams and the forty-two secondary ashrams of our planetary Hierarchy. As may be gleaned from the logo, the six-pointed star (7²) and the lambdoma are really just different geometrical representations of the same structure or ‘system’. This system is one; it is universal; and does not ‘belong’ to the Istituto Urusvati. The members of the Istituto Urusvati have simply ‘acknowledged its existence and taken their place within it’. It is there for all those dedicated disciples everywhere in the world who, by way of the heart, are able to recognise the existing model (or system or order) and to assume responsibility by working within it. This they may do as individuals or as groups; subjectively; since it is always the silent, inner commitment that counts.