Biography
Dr. Ramón P. Muñoz Soler (Moldes, Córdoba, June 19, 1919 – Buenos Aires, November 25, 1999) was an Argentine psychiatrist, writer, professor and researcher.
He graduated in medicine in 1953 from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina. Hethen specialized as adoctor of psychiatry, earning his qualifications fromthe Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1958.
Dr. Muñoz Soler founded the Centre for the Study of Psychosomatic Medicine at the Hospital Nacional del Centenario in Rosario in 1946. He founded several psychopathology services and psychosomatic clinics atgeneral hospitals in Buenos Aires. He was Head of the Mental Health Unit of the General Department of School Health of the Argentine Ministry of Education.
He taught medical psychology in training courses for doctors. He delivered a number of public lectures about sociological, educational, anthropological and spiritual topics. He also presented several papers at scientific conferences and contributed to books and journals.
From an early age, before studying medicine, Dr. Muñoz became interested in history and the science of the soul. At the age of eleven, he wrote his first (unpublished) book, “Grandezadel Alma” (Greatness of the Soul.)He explored different spiritual journeys, trying to find the connection between the mystic tradition and scientific theory.
After graduating as a physician, he had the opportunity to meet distinguished figures endowed with extrasensory abilities. He was motivated to conduct a scientific investigation into parapsychological phenomena, which at that time had beenstudied only empiricallyin Argentina. Thus, he and Dr. Orlando Canavesio founded the AsociaciónMédica de Metapsíquica Argentina (Argentine Metapsychics Medical Association) on October 27, 1946. TheAssociationpublished two issues of the journal RevistaMédica de Metapsíquica (Medical Journal of Metapsychics) with correspondents around the world.
His future research would lie beyond the phenomenal perspective. He explored other areas of knowledge, such asphilosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, biology, comparative religions, philosophy of history, physics, and physical chemistry. He soon realized that the path towards the Tree of Knowledgelay before him in multiple branches, from the sciences of nature to the sciences of the spirit. This was the outer face of an original trend of knowledge which grew from the roots of the Tree of Life. He came to realize that enlightened intelligence could not provide answers for the questions of the soul nor the questions of the meaning of life. This was hisfirst existential crisis, culminating in the first night of the spirit.
In the 1950s, after walking a long roadand facingup to the mistakes of the time, the mysterious providential force that knows the ways of men and the doors of historytook him by the hand and led him to an enigmatic crossroads. There, where light and sound meet, a meaningful encounter took place: he silenced his thinking, andfound his true language.
The word became silent, but from silence came testimony: he had to put the impulse of his soul into words. He firstbore witness in his writing in 1966: Gérmenes de Futuro en el Hombre (Seeds of the Future in Humanity.) Science could no longer account for the human being, but rather the human being had to explain himself through the language of science. Later works includedEl Camino de la Egoencia: de la angustiaexistencial a la mística del corazón (The Way of Egoence: from existential anguish to the mysticism of the heart, 1969), Antropología de Síntesis: signos, ritmos y funciones del hombre planetario (Anthropology of Synthesis: signs, rhythms, and functions ofthe planetary human, 1980), Universidad de Síntesis: modeloargentino para el año 2000(University of Synthesis: Argentine model for the year 2000, 1984.) These are testimonial works, forms of knowledgethat seek to give sound, words, philosophical, scientific and social content to the current ofenergy and teaching, leavingitssilent mark inside the molecules of life.
After completing his first cycle in the development of synthetic thought, his soul retreated into itself, just as the earth shelters the seed of what has been created, awaiting a new birth. Time for reflection, meditation and assimilation;a genetic transposition of the values of the spirit to the chemistry of life.
At the First Ibero-American Congresson Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy in Mendoza, Argentina, in October 1986, Dr. Muñoz Soler presented his paper “EgoenciadelSer” (“Egoence of the Human Being.”) He had outlined this idea in his first books and he now developed a broader theoretical framework in “From the Physiology of the Earthly Human to the Physioecology of the Cosmic Human.”
In short, “what is written in the stars is also engraved on the invisible keyboard of the molecules of human life.” He ended his appearance at the congresswith a television interview onthe local Canal 7 of Mendoza, where he spoke about seeds of the future in the human being and planetary civilization in the third millennium.
There are a number of works located high on the mountain top and othersin the depths of the underworld.
A new phase began: ten years of seclusion, inwardness, the transmutation of the energies of life; the dark nightof a substance darker than the dark night of the soul. From this new state (De Profundis) emergedReversibilidad de Valores (Reversibility of Values), a guiding ideathatunfolded into mystical dimensions (“RevelationRevealed”), cosmogonic dimensions (“Human Galaxy Imploding”), social dimensions (“Social Genetics”, “Heralding signs”), and finally the “Social Transfiguration of the Word”: a synthesis of divine-human values which foresaw the symbolic geometry of the new sign of the times and foreshadowed the historic framework of a “Prophetic Argentina” in the symbolic geography of a unified Earth.
His work closed with a final chord, going back to the starting point, to “Egoence”, a turning point of reversibility of human and divine values in the human heart and the interior/expansive drive (liberation of radiant energy) to uphold the providential economy of the world to come.