of the doctor Silvana De Mari
We have thrown away our place as a child of God to become a child in an orphanage… Let's start again from the rosary

Ha mirror Konrad Lorenz, in The Eight Deadly Sins of Our Civilization, that a civilization is like an ecosystem. When you suppress something in an ecosystem, something that seemed useless or irrational or harmful, absolutely unexpected catastrophes can result, completely involuntary and delightfully irreversible. A civilization is like a tapestry: a thread is cut in one place and half the tapestry falls apart.
As Chesterton's good soul said, before pulling down a fence, ask yourself the question of why it was built. Maybe it's true that it's useless now, but it might not be, so ask yourself this question, and start telling yourself right away that if the only answer that comes to mind is that you are certainly much more intelligent than your ancestors who were idiots, that answer is wrong.
A civilization has formed over centuries and all the pieces make sense.
With this I do not mean that societies must remain immobile and always identical to themselves, otherwise we have terrifying circular civilizations where everyone always does the same things. The operation, but, made with the Enlightenment first and then with '68 – that is, to denigrate and deny religiosity, the myth, the ritual, without even wondering why they were born, what were all their meanings and advantages, without even having a doubt that there was a meaning and an advantage somewhere – it was suicide. I'm making an absolutely secular statement, which has value even for non-believers.
A RANDOM EXAMPLE
We lost, disavowed as nonsense, as boorish subjection to authority, repeating prayers by heart. These prayers were repeated partly in Italian, and he was a tall Italian, partly even in Latin, even by people from lower social strata. Speaking from a purely secular point of view, the advantages were: memory training, use of high language: if fifty years ago, in the less wealthy neighborhoods of Naples, I happened to ask for information, they answered me in decorous Italian.
An Italian who had some Neapolitanisms, which in turn are Spanishisms, the use of the auxiliary have where in Italian we use the auxiliary, the preposition «a» before the direct object in some constructions, but he was still a very understandable Italian. The fact of using high Italian for prayers at least a quarter of an hour a day prevented the complete barbarization of the language, just like taking at least fifteen minutes of walking a day prevents muscle atrophy. When you learn two different languages ​​at an early age, learning is facilitated. The fact of hearing phonemes even in Latin increases the cognitive abilities of the brain areas intended for language.
Repetition of a prayer has enormous effects on mental balance. If you say it out loud, the prolonged exhalation allows the heart to go into a very beneficial state called cardiac coherence.. Having lost the use of Western prayers, many people have to resort to repeating Indian mantras, Japanese, Tibetans or Hawaiians. The effectiveness of mantras has been studied using electroencephalograms.
In the normal state, brain waves have a rhythm of thirteen cycles per second and are called beta waves. When the mind reaches a state of alert calm, Instead, brain waves slow down at a rate of eight cycles per second and are called alpha waves. During repetition, alpha waves slow down to four cycles per second, transforming into theta waves. With continuous repetition, concentrated, the waves slow down further, generating delta waves which have a rhythm of one cycle per second.
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE ROSARY
“The mantra” it is much more effective if pronounced in a language that belongs to us and if it is the same one that our ancestors pronounced. Saying the rosary was pleasant, a pleasure based on the balance of brain waves and the production of endorphins while the heart beats in cardiac coherence. The rosary is a series of prayers where the words father and mother alternate, often recited in chorus, by several people who prayed in a group.
Endorphins and serotonin together. Once I no longer have endorphins and serotonin, I have to replace them with heroin and ecstasy. Without prayers, without shared ritual, without any of this we are left with only anxiolytics and antidepressants, sold on the internet below cost and administered to increasingly younger people.
Our philosophy is very sad and desperate. When every morning the Monatti cart passed by to collect the deceased, philosophers were less desperate than today's philosophers, dispersed in shopping centers and horrifying postmodern art exhibitions.
Contemporary art is a very sad and desperate art, and as bad as it ever was: almost always some type of graphic expression that expresses the political idea of ​​the author is passed off as art.
And we are full of terrible narratives made of death and deaths.
There has never been another era where there has been so much talk about suicide and where suicide is so practiced. Of all kinds: spontaneous and assisted.
There has never been another era that was afraid that life could be destroyed and end.
The word apocalypse, which actually means revelation, not catastrophe, accompanies and marks our daily life,
Becoming post-Christian means that we have destroyed our neurotransmitters and multiplied depression: actually increased by 1200% in the last ones 60 years: this is if we are non-believers. If we are believers, however, it means that we have thrown away our role as a child of God to become a more complete child’ orphanage. We have time to go back.