The Sociedade Panteísta Ayahuasca, headquartered in the municipality of Paudalho (PE, Brazil), was officially founded in 2001.
Régis Alain Barbier
Born in Besançon, France. Established in Recife, PE, Brazil, since 1972. Studied ancient philosophy under the supervision of Keith Seddon, The Stoic Foundation, London, Great Britain. Graduated in Philosophy from Faculdade de Filosofia São Miguel Arcanjo, Anápolis (GO), in agreement with the Packter Institute, Porto Alegre; postgraduate specialist in Clinical Philosophy from the Packter Institute. Studied at L'École des Beaux-Arts de Besançon, France. Physician graduated from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), specialist titled by the Brazilian College of Acupuncture; specialist titled by the Brazilian Society of Endocrinology and Metabology and the Brazilian Medical Association; he held the position of assistant professor of Kinesiology and Kinesiotherapy at the Department of Rehabilitation of UFPE. Lecturer, author of articles and books in the medical and philosophical fields. Founding president of the Sociedade Panteísta Ayahuasca, the first official Pantheist religious entity in South America, created in January 2001. Initiator of the 'Essentialist Philosophical Movement' detailed at www.essencialismo.org.br. Student of psychological methods such as the Person-Centered Approach, Ericksonian and Classical Hypnosis, and philosophical forms of spiritualism: Taoism, Buddhism and Pantheism.
Régis Alain Barbier has published the works: "From Habilis to Sapiens, the anamnesis of a crisis", "Pantheism – the religiosity of the present", and "Anthropology – existential science and art". Other books are under revision, such as: Cosmo-existential Psychodynamics; Ethics and Aesthetics; Politics versus Civics; and Visionary Experiences.
The work From Habilis to Sapiens seeks to demonstrate how phenomenal structure determines the totality of existential manifestation and experience, attempting to define a more sensible and productive modus operandi in light of what is given to be. The book covers the totality of human experience, including religious, political and economic aspects. It is a compelling dissertation, providing a systemic and comprehensive view of the creative dialogue between the imaginary and the real. The book represents a source, the primordial discourse, from which the writer's later works and extensions are rooted — taking up the ideas, rewriting them at other levels, foci and precisions.
In Pantheism – the religiosity of the present, with a precise metaphysical definition, the 'cosmo-existential metaphysical axis', challenging the 'transcendent' and 'transcendental' metaphysical positions of Kantianism and neo-Kantianism (called terminative by culturalists like Miguel Reale — 1910–2006), the author demonstrates how a deep sense of unity served as the cradle and foundation for our civilization, being broken in subsequent episodes of political super-stratification, but resurging from the sixties onward, and today configuring a new naturalist religious form, pantheism destined to overcome all forms of salvationist theism.
In Anthropology – existential science and art, Régis Barbier establishes a dialogue with the South African anthropologist Adam Kuper, offering a critique, a new reading of the book "The Reinvention of Primitive Society, Transformations of a Myth", in which A. Kuper deconstructs anthropological theories, reducing searches to simple games of interest, denying the weight and political value of myths. Anthropology cannot be neutral: the anthropologist exists as a situated state-of-being, marked by baptismal impressions, inscribed in a culture. To be worthy, the anthropological study must report to what is universal, linked to what is inherent and specific to Homo sapiens sapiens: the capacity to see oneself as a state-of-being suspended in the eternal, apt to consider the philosophical consequences pertaining to such a realization: a new epic.