PA - Anandayana

version 2.0

www.anandayana.org

The Anandayana manuscript is freely available online for all.

Serenity is a universal right of every individual; institutions should see it as a duty to provide methods and environments that promote serenity in the community.

The Anandayana project aims to spread inner serenity to all of the earth's inhabitants, providing everyone with the basic tools to construct their own serenity.

The Anandayana concepts are based on cutting-edge research and knowledge.
As our knowledge continues to expand, the methods used by the Anandayana research are constantly being refined. It follows, then, that the Anandayana tenets themselves will always be gradually evolving as new frontiers open up.

We are living in a world whose religions and laws were established for societies, people, and cultures vastly different from today's, rendering them inadequate for the modern individual. In contrast, the Anandayana advices will always move with the times. The needs of individuals change from generation to generation; the Anandayana recommendations will adapt to these changes, becoming an up-to-date and modern tool for achieving individual serenity.

The Anandayana project will always be ready to re-evaluate its research methods when new methods arise or current methods become obsolete, and by extension its theories will always be open to re-evaluation as new horizons reveal themselves in the future.
Despite this, we would discourage anyone from taking a liberal interpretation of any part of this text: this manuscript has been passed down to the reader free from any hidden meanings between the lines.

New versions of this manuscript will always be freely available online at www.anandayana.org (donations are welcomed).

With the birth of the Anandayana project, a new Web community is born.

The main aim of this community is to spread the Anandayana teachings.

Within the community, which is based on volunteer work, many objectives will present themselves over time, such as the translation of this text and its subsequent updates into other languages, the establishment of a representative body, and the construction of meeting centres and Sanctuaries, where spiritual experiences can be tried, promoted, practised, and shared.

We highly recommend joining our Anandayana online community to avoid missing new versions of this text and updates from the community itself. Registration is free and your personal data will never be disclosed to any entity for any reason, neither for advertising nor statistical purposes.

An environmentalist note:

We try to respect the environment: please do not print this text if you can read it in electronic form, or use recycled paper if you absolutely must print it. Please do not throw away printouts of old editions; give them to friends.

We try our best to encourage an environmentalist outlook!

The Anandayana project takes inspiration from Pragnil: it is his teaching, his way of seeing, interpreting, and living life, always serene, no matter the situation in which he finds himself.
Pragnil is the messenger and the Anandayana's mission is to spread his message.

I send heartfelt thanks to the shamans with whom I worked, and in particular my spiritual guide, "abuelo" J. R., who never claimed to be a master or even to teach anything, but who with his simplicity of being, his modesty, and his remarkable shamanic abilities rooted in the noble traditions of the true Shipibo shamanism, illuminated my pathway.

I thank all of the friends who submitted themselves as patient volunteers for my first attempts at altered-consciousness NLP treatment (A.P. Methodology), and I also thank all of the patients who have benefited from subsequent treatments.

A special acknowledgement, along with an encouragement, goes to anyone making the effort to improve their own Individual Consciousness, creating a path of serenity; whatever path they follow, they are subconsciously contributing to the improvement of humanity.

This text is not a quick read; it requires continuous reflection on even the basic concepts. Although it will not come naturally, it will be necessary to dwell on various passages in order to understand and absorb them.

You are strongly advised not to ignore parts that you do not fully understand out of impatience or a desire to get to the next part.
If you encounter momentary difficulties in fully assimilating a concept, or even just an example, you are advised to stop reading, set aside some time to reflect on the concept in question, and resume reading after a few hours, or the next day.

Similarly, when reference is made to a passage which has previously been understood but has since been forgotten, the reader is advised to return to that passage. You should not resume reading until the previous concepts have once again been assimilated or remembered.

This text has been written in the simplest manner possible. It avoids unnecessary jargon, instead using basic terminology, and seeks to provide simplifying examples.
We wanted to create a text that is accessible to any reader, of any creed or cultural background. Simple, banal illustrative examples have also been used, to the extent that they may seem coarse or downright crude.

To compensate for the difficulty of some of the materials, the topics themselves have also been addressed in a simple and simplified manner. At times, scientific correlations and corollaries are minimised, if not excluded altogether, at the risk of irritating scholars and experts in the field. Highly-educated people or those from a STEM background may turn their noses up at the simplistic manner in which scientific topics have been treated.

We offer our sincere apologies to those who feel that their sophistication and intelligence has been offended by the text's "simplicity". We invite such people to consider that for every one person who has been offended by the simplicity of this text, there is at least one other person for whom this simplicity has permitted a full comprehension of the subject matter.

The scope of this text is not to convince the reader of its writer's technical and scientific prowess, or even to vie for the approval of the scientific community, although this may not be to the liking of scientific researchers. The scope of this text is to enable as wide an audience as possible to understand the concepts within.

Some readers will find concepts that are new, provocative, and perhaps even contrary to their own culture or religious beliefs.
Other readers will rediscover concepts that they had read about in other scientific, religious, metaphysical, or psychological texts. Nothing here has been invented; rather, beliefs based on superstitions and stories have been demystified. This text does nothing more than assembling a collection of logical links between hidden truths, ancestral cultures, and truths which have always been out in the open.

Although the readers may find in this text concepts that they have already read about elsewhere, they must not let themselves become convinced of the erroneous idea that this is one of many books born from a potpourri of ideas; this text is not a syncretism of New Age, religious, and other miscellaneous beliefs.