Comment on the book "A Guide to find Peace" of María Cristina Azcona
By Ernesto Kahan*, Israel 2008
María Cristina Azcona is a careful, immaculate, serious author in the use of the language, deeply intellectual and bilingual. She is the director of the Argentine section of IFLAC – International Forum for the Literature and Culture of Peace, and IFLAC in Spanish, and also the creator of the web page: Bilingual MCA, Bilingual Poets & Writers for Peace. Since these and other places, Azcona promotes tolerance in the world and arrives at all the corners on Earth and to the hearts of the writers that contribute to such culture of peace.
I repeat what I wrote a year ago on the author: María Cristina Azcona is a leader and universal ambassador for peace; is a flag of IFLAC in
It is not then coincidental that have given birth the book "A Guide to find Peace". This is a text that covers the theme of peace since practically all the angles: Individual, family, neighborhood, national and universal. That it is why since it was published about one or two months, we already have received positive reactions from all the continents.
The author understands that peace is a healthy state inside the interior and outside of the individuals, and in their relation with the surrounding world. Her proposals in this book are fruit of her own social and professional experience. She wrote about herself:
"I have thirty-two long years working professionally. During the first twenty years I attended behavioral and learning problems in children. During the innumerable sessions of family that I carried out, to diagnose emotionally and then to orient the parents on the ways in which they should treat their children, I discovered the imperceptible threads that connect these problems with parents¨ attitudes and emotional factors, in a clear relation of cause and effect. Subsequently I could go detecting the processes that carry to the construction of a solid conjugal, familiar and personal happiness, through the cultivation of the human virtues and the education in values. Finally I get interest into the reach of peace through the cultivation of literature and especially through the cultivation of poetry.
Since the beginning, the reading of the book is done with great increasing interest. Then, when the reader is more involved and familiar with the text, become highly motivated and identified with it and always learn.
The author begins analyzing the individual aspects of the problematic, like displeasure and its causes. Among the diverse psychosomatic states includes a wide collection of symptoms and signs, discusses the methodology for the diagnosis and presents strategies (such as innovative thinking) to confront them. Then the author focuses on the educational aspects, to which dedicates a lot of attention. Her thoughts are directed toward the education for peace and toward the resolution of conflicts by the use of arts and literature. In the process of the reading the reader gradually arrives to the general aspects of the society and to the global community.
As a touch of gold, Azcona finalizes the text with the role of the poetry, which is her beloved matter, and offers her poems that impact every anxious intellect. Those poems are various and many of them complain about the inhuman world situation and ask, as a dream, for a change that will arrive though the heart illuminated by the supreme force of the celestial spirit. In her poem "World without Brain" she said:
Humanity has lost the route to love
Because is like a brainless little dove
[…]
Each poem is a pray for those who suffer and pain. It is enough to take a look at the titles of the poems, to understand what the principal subjects of them are: Window to Heaven, Sounds of the Angel, Sapience Tree, The Unemployed's Prayer, The Carton Picker's Prayer, Launderer's Prayer, Planet Earth's Prayer, Peace Goes On, Hope, Brainless Earth, Humanity, and many other, that it necessary to read in order to perform, as she says, "better flights"
It is impossible to comment this book without go step by step by each one of the elements that they compose it. It is preferably to suggest to the readers to read it with care. It is a book that people must read it repeated times to discover everything that has been exposed and hidden. The place for archive it, should be always next to the hand and the spirit.
Is accurate to say, as it is written in the magnificent foreword of Dr. Stephen Gill, of Canada: "A Guide to Find Peace" cannot be ignored by parents, teachers, librarians and anyone who is engaged in building a better future for the humankind.
My gratitude to María Cristina Azcona who has published this exceptional book, and from my personal view, for her impressive literary criticism she included in "A Guide to Find Peace" about my book entitled "Genocide" that I wrote in collaboration with the Japanese author Taki Yuriko.
* Prof. Ernesto Kahan MD MPH. Tel Aviv University, Israel
Vice President- World Academy of Arts and Culture (Approved by UNESCO)
President-Israel Physicians for Peace and Preservation of the Environment & Former Vice President of IPPNW (Organization awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1985)
Vice President-IFLAC (Intl Forum for Literature and Culture of Peace)
Ambassador in Israel of the movement Poets of the World
Ambassador, Universal Circle of Peace Ambassadors - Geneva – Switzerland
President of AIELC - Israeli Association of Writers. Spanish Branch
Comentario sobre el libro "Una Guía para encontrar
Por Ernesto Kahan*, Israel 2008
María Cristina Azcona es una escritora seria, pulcra, cuidadosa en el uso del lenguaje, profundamente intelectual y bilingüe. Es la directora de la sección Argentina de IFLAC – Foro Internacional por la Literatura y
Repito lo que escribí hace un año sobre la autora:
María Cristina Azcona es una líder y embajadora universal para la paz; es un baluarte de IFLAC en Argentina y el mundo, trabajadora incansable, genio humanista y generadora de estética literaria. Si la humanidad le tomara de ejemplo el mundo sería mucho mejor.
No es entonces casual que haya dado a luz el libro "Una Guía para encontrar
La autora entiende que la paz es un estado saludable al interior y exterior de las personas y en su relación con el mundo circundante. Sus propuestas en este libro son fruto de su propia experiencia profesional y social.
Ella misma escribió:
"Tengo treinta y dos años largos trabajando profesionalmente. Durante los primeros veinte años me dediqué a los problemas de aprendizaje en niños. Durante las sesiones innumerables de familia que llevé a cabo, para diagnosticar emocionalmente y entonces orientar a los padres en las maneras en las que ellos deben tratar a sus niños, yo descubrí los hilos imperceptibles que conectan estos problemas con las actitudes parentales y los factores emocionales, en una relación clara de causa y efecto. Subsiguientemente pude ir discerniendo los procesos que llevan a la construcción de una felicidad sólida, conyugal, familiar y personal, por el cultivo de las virtudes humanas y la educación en valores. Finalmente concebí interés en el alcance de la paz por el cultivo de la literatura y especialmente por el cultivo de la poesía.
Desde el comienzo la lectura del libro se hace con interés, y a medida que se avanza en ella, aumenta la motivación del lector que se identifica y aprende. La temática empieza analizando los aspectos individuales, como el desagrado y sus causas. Entre los diversos estados sicosomáticos incluye una variadísima colección de síntomas y signos, discute la metodología para el diagnóstico y presenta estrategias (tales como el pensamiento innovativo) para enfrentarlos. Llega a la educación, a la que le dedica mucha atención. Sus pensamientos son dirigidos hacia la educación para la paz, y hacia la resolución de conflictos por el uso de artes y literatura. En la evolución de la lectura se llega paulatinamente a los aspectos generales y a la sociedad global.
Como broche de oro finaliza la obra con el rol de la poesía, que es su amada, y ofrece sus poemas que llegan al intelecto inquieto. Esos poemas son variados y muchos de ellos se quejan de la inhumana situación mundial y sueñan con un cambio, que llegará desde el corazón iluminado por la suprema fuerza del espíritu celestial. En su poema "Mundo sin Cerebro" dice:
El hombre perdió la ruta hacia el amor
Es como un ave sin cerebro
[…]
Cada poema es una oración para el que sufre y pena. Basta con echarle una mirada al título de los poemas, para entender que se trata de ello: Ventana al Cielo, Los sonidos del Ángel, El árbol de la sabiduría, Oración del desocupado, Oración del Cartonero, Oración de
Es imposible comentar este libro sin ir paso a paso por cada uno de los elementos que lo componen. Es preferible sugerir que cada lector lo lea con detenimiento. Es un libro que debe ser leído repetidas veces para descubrir todo lo que tiene expuesto y escondido. Su lugar de descanso es estar siempre al lado de la mano y el espíritu.
Tal lo expuesto en el magnífico prólogo escrito por el Dr. Stephen Gill, de Canadá: "Una Guía para Encontrar
Mi agradecimiento a María Cristina Azcona por habernos traído este texto excepcional, y desde mi posición personal, por haber incluido en "Una Guía para Encontrar
*Prof. Ernesto Kahan MD MPH. Universidad de Tel Aviv. Israel
Vicepresidente de
Presidente de AIELC. Asociación de Escritores en Lengua Castellana en Israel (Federación de Escritores de Israel)
Presidente de Médicos por
Ex Vicepresidente – Internacional de Médicos para
Embajador Universal de
Vicepresidente-IFLAC – Foro Internacional para
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