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{{Three pages on presence|The '''integrated state''' is the physiological category to which the three planes of presence converge in the teaching of the School:

# '''[[Presenza Integrale|Integral Presence™]]''' — the '''neurological-bodily protocol''' (Charges, Reference Point, Stop, Hara and Verticality) that teaches how to recognize and inhabit the integrated state in the body. It is the operational version of this same configuration.
# '''[[La Presenza (tradizione ermetica)|Presence (Hermetic tradition)]]''' — the '''hermetic-initiatic foundation''': presence as "command-presence" of the [[Il Gruppo di UR-KRUR|UR-KRUR Group]], threshold of true magical work.
# '''[[Il Risveglio|The Awakening]]''' — the '''fulfillment''' (Evola, ''The Doctrine of Awakening'' 1943): the integrated state stabilized as a permanent way of being.

The three paths mutually certify each other: '''the same configuration is described in three vocabularies''' — neurophysiological, hermetic, sapiential — which cannot be reduced to one another.}}

The '''integrated state''' is the '''target systemic configuration''' of the practice of the '''[[Paret Method]]''' and, more generally, of a broad family of contemplative, magnetic, and psychotherapeutic traditions. On a physiological level, it is the condition in which the '''ventral vagus''' organizes sympathetic mobilization and dorsal immobilization in fluid coordination as '''resources''' rather than as alternative states; on a cortical level, it is the precise modulation — and not the ''en bloc'' shutdown — of the '''[[Default Mode Network]]''', accompanied by efficient transit through the salience network and lean recruitment of fronto-parietal control systems.

The School of the Paret Method describes its operational access on the page '''[[Presenza Integrale|Integral Presence]]''' — the original mindfulness protocol of the Paret Method™, developed from didactic and clinical practice and subject to a proposal for official recognition at '''Federmindfulness''' in 2026. The integrated state is therefore '''the physiological category''' and Integral Presence™ '''the practice that accesses it''': two sides of the same configuration, one described in the language of polyvagal theory and contemporary neuroscience, the other in the operational language of the School.

The same configuration has been recognized by independent historical traditions under different names: '''[[Mercurio Filosofico|Philosophical Mercury]]''' in Paracelsian alchemy, '''Quintessence''' in hermetic synthesis, '''''sattvic samādhi''''' in classical yoga, '''''apatheia''''' in Hesychast patristics, '''superior allostatic homeostasis''' in contemporary neurophysiology. These denominations '''cannot be reduced''' to one another: they describe the same phenomenological phenomenon in the vocabularies of their respective eras.

== I. The physiological definition ==

The integrated state manifests as a configuration in which the autonomic, interoceptive, and cortical control networks '''synchronize around safety signals''', producing flexible, goal-oriented behavior without defensive rigidity.

On the autonomic level, it reflects a high ventral-vagal ''set point'': robust vagal tone, pronounced respiratory sinus arrhythmia, high heart rate variability (HRV). This regulated base allows for the '''co-activation''' — and not the alternation — of sympathetic resources for action with parasympathetic braking for stillness. The person can ascend toward precise mobilization or descend toward receptive quiet while maintaining postural tone, prosody, and social engagement.

On the cortical level, it is marked by a '''precise modulation''' of the Default Mode Network — the brain network of rumination and self-referential inner speech. The DMN does not shut down: its activity reorganizes with greater accuracy, and during sustained tasks it yields space to lean transit through the salience network (anterior insula, dorsal anterior cingulate cortex) and fronto-parietal control systems.

In terms of predictive processing, the integrated state corresponds to the establishment of a '''''high-safety prior''''' that optimizes the precision weight assigned to incoming sensory and interoceptive information. Suggestions — hypnotic, contemplative, magnetic — are then implemented as '''low-friction policy updates''', minimizing free energy without triggering threat models.

== II. The integrated state in the School's polyvagal map ==

In the polyvagal-typological map of the Paret Method, described on the page '''[[I sei tipi caratteriali nella mappa polivagale|The six character types in the polyvagal map]]''', the basic autonomic configurations are '''six''' — three pure (Sulfur, Mercury, Salt) and three mixed (Sulfur+Mercury, Mercury+Salt, Sulfur+Salt). The integrated state is the '''seventh configuration''': not a seventh stable character combination, but the result of practice.

The difference is structural. In the six types, one configuration prevails and organizes the habitual way of being in relation, feeling, and acting — what tradition calls '''character''' and what the School recognizes as a '''habitual trance'''. In the integrated state, the three basic configurations become '''mobile''': they are available as moment-to-moment tools, not as fixed identities. The ventral vagus is the organizing principle that allows transit.

For this reason, the School classifies '''to liberate''', not to fix. Recognizing the prevailing type serves to recognize one's own habitual trance in order to move through it; the goal of practice is not to remain in any one of the six types but to '''recurrently access''' the integrated state that includes them all without being possessed by them.

== III. Equivalents in historical traditions ==

The integrated state as a goal of practice is described in many independent traditions with different vocabularies. Convergence is not reduction: each tradition has its own grammar, its own epistemology, its own path of access. The School recognizes them as '''convergent descriptions of the same phenomenological phenomenon'''.

=== Paracelsian alchemy ===

In the tradition of Paracelsus and Wirth, the integrated state is '''[[Mercurio Filosofico|Philosophical Mercury]]''' — the mercurial principle which, after being separated and purified through the ''Magnum Opus'', '''contains''' within itself Sulfur and Salt in a superior unity. It is the '''Quintessence''' of which Hermeticism speaks: not a fourth principle added to the three, but their conscious recomposition. Paracelsus writes: ''"From the Unity draw the Ternary number and bring the Ternary back to Unity."''

The continuity with the polyvagal map is here literal: Paracelsian Mercury corresponds to the ventral vagus as a principle of coordination; Sulfur to the sympathetic; Salt to the dorsal vagus. The integrated state is the configuration in which Mercury — the ventral — coordinates the two poles instead of allowing one of the three to rigidly prevail.

=== Yoga and Sāṃkhya ===

In the Indian tradition, the integrated state corresponds to the balance of the three ''[[Guna|guṇa]]'' under the primacy of '''''sattva''''' — not the absence of ''rajas'' and ''tamas'', but their '''lucid coordination'''. The theme is presented on the page '''[[Guna e Tria Prima|Guṇa and Tria Prima]]'''. The ''Bhagavadgītā'' in chapters XIV and XVIII describes the ''sthitaprajña'' — one who is stabilized in wisdom — as the person in whom the three guṇa are not absent but reorganized under sattvic clarity. The technical term for the state obtained through yogic practice is '''''sattvic samādhi''''': meditative composure organized by the quality ''sattva''.

=== Christian Hesychasm ===

The Hesychast tradition of the Desert Fathers, and in particular the work of '''Evagrius Ponticus''' (4th century) and his Byzantine successors, describes the state as '''''apatheia''''' — a term often translated as "impassibility" but more correctly rendered as '''freedom from logismoi''', i.e., from the eight passionate fixations (see '''[[Logismoi]]'''). Apatheia is not the absence of affections: it is the organization of affections under the guidance of the purified ''nous'' and the ''prière du cœur''. The Hesychast practice — unceasing prayer, breath coordinated with the name of Christ, control of logismoi — is a path of access to a configuration phenomenologically overlapping with what the polyvagal map describes in terms of stable ventral tone.

=== Contemporary neurophysiology ===

Contemporary science describes the integrated state in terms of '''superior allostatic homeostasis''' (Sterling, Eyer 1988; McEwen 2007): a lower metabolic cost for a given task, faster transitions between autonomic modes, a neurovegetative flexibility that translates into high vagal tone and low chronic allostatic load. On the cognitive level, studies on expert meditation document a precise modulation of the DMN (Brewer ''et al.'' 2011), increased interoceptive accuracy (Farb ''et al.'' 2013), and lean attentional regulation (Lutz ''et al.'' 2008).

== IV. How to access the integrated state ==

The integrated state is not reached once and for all: it is '''re-accessed''' recurrently through practice. The School identifies in '''[[Presenza Integrale|Integral Presence]]''' the operational protocol proper to the Paret Method and describes its articulation in four elements: the '''Charges''' (breath as awareness of the body), the '''Reference Point''' (anchor of attention), the '''Stop''' (conscious interruption of automatism), and '''Hara and verticality''' (axis of posture and grounding).

Serious hypnotic practice, magnetic work in the tradition of '''[[Donato — Il Padre della Fascinazione|Donato]]''', '''[[Maestro Dante Caravelli|Caravelli]]''' and '''[[Prof. Erminio Di Pisa — Ipnosi con lo Sguardo|Di Pisa]]''', Christian Hesychast contemplative practices, the yoga of the ''guṇa'', contemporary mindfulness meditations — all these paths converge on the same goal through different tools. What they have in common is a recurring architecture:

* the '''staging of safety''' (predictable rhythm, soft gaze, stable posture, welcoming prosody);
* the '''refinement of interoceptive accuracy''' (attention to the body as an instrument of knowledge);
* '''brief cycles''' of mobilize-under-protection → land-in-quiet, which train fluid transition between autonomic configurations;
* '''accompanied repetition''' over time, which stabilizes the ''set point'' without forcing.

The result of continued practice is what physiology calls superior homeostasis and the School recognizes as a '''basic competence''' that amplifies all techniques of the non-verbal tradition.

== V. Integrated state and liberation crisis ==

The integrated state is not a tranquil island reached once and for all. The transit toward the integrated state often passes through episodes of '''somatic discharge''' — tremors, spontaneous movements, micro-explosions of sympathetic action that remain protected by ventral engagement. Read in a polyvagal key, these episodes are not pathology: they are the '''completion of interrupted defensive responses''' that the system can finally carry out in a field of relational safety.

The '''[[Crisi Mesmerica|mesmeric crisis]]''' described in the modern Mesmerism of the School is the exemplary case of this passage, experienced and accompanied within the magnetic field between operator and client. The complete sequence is described on the page '''[[Ipnosi, Teoria Polivagale e Liberazione Somatica|Hypnosis, Polyvagal Theory and Somatic Liberation]]''', section X.

== VI. The integrated state is not the negation of the six types ==

A recurring misunderstanding, both in popular applications of yoga (''"be sattvic"'') and in simplifications of wellness-market alchemy (''"find your Mercury"''), is to consider the integrated state as a '''superior configuration that annuls''' the six types. The School of the Paret Method, like the serious alchemical tradition and the Sāṃkhya philosophy, maintains the '''opposite''':

* Sulfur (''rajas'', sympathetic) '''remains necessary''' for action, initiative, boundary defense;
* Salt (''tamas'', dorsal vagus) '''remains necessary''' for grounding, conservation, deep rest;
* Mercury (''sattva'', ventral vagus) does not '''replace''' the other two — it '''organizes''' them.

The integrated state is therefore '''dynamic''': it is the ability to ''move through'' all six configurations without getting stuck in any. The fully integrated person, faced with a real threat, '''activates Sulfur''' (mobilization for defense) — and then fluidly returns to Mercury when the threat ceases. Faced with a loss, '''activates Salt''' (protective immobilization) — and then fluidly returns to Mercury when the pain has been integrated.

== VII. The problem of pathological stabilization ==

When one of the six configurations '''fixes''' itself as a permanent state, the organism loses the capacity for transition and falls into what the School calls '''[[Trance ordinarie|ordinary trances]]''' or, in patristics, '''[[Logismoi|logismoi]]''':

* Fixed Sulfur → chronic hyperergia, habitual anger, burnout (pathological martial-saturnine configuration);
* Fixed Salt → chronic hypoergia, depression, withdrawal (pathological melancholic configuration);
* Fixed Mercury without Sulfur or Salt → dispersion, social over-adaptation, loss of center;
* Sulfur + Salt without Mercury → '''blocked hyperergia''' (held-back anger, clenched jaw, action that freezes — the classic picture of traumatic incompleteness).

The work of the School — clinical, didactic, initiatic — is to '''dissolve these fixations''' to restore the fluidity of transit. The person is not asked to '''become''' someone else; they are asked to '''recover''' the mobility that rigid configurations had taken away. The '''[[Crisi Mesmerica|mesmeric crisis]]''' is one of the most powerful tools for this work in cases of blocked fixation.

== VIII. Convergence and non-reduction ==

The School maintains that historical traditions and contemporary neuroscience '''recognize the same phenomenon''' by describing it in the vocabularies of their respective eras. This recognition '''does not reduce''' one tradition to another: Philosophical Mercury is not ''the same thing'' as the ventral vagus, and ''apatheia'' is not ''the same thing'' as ''sattvic samādhi''. They are '''different maps''' of a shared experience, each with its own internal coherence, its own path of access, its own criterion of verification.

The compatibility of the maps is the sign of their phenomenological convergence. The presence of a physiological grammar available today — '''[[Teoria polivagale|Polyvagal Theory]]''' by [[Stephen Porges]], the neuroscience of interoception, the study of DMN modulation — does not replace the traditions: it shows their precise observation of the human body and offers a common path of translation. The traditions continue to speak each in their own language, and they mutually certify each other in recognizing the same ''topos'' of experience.

== The integrated state as a bridge between magnetic and hermetic tradition ==

The School's pages dedicated to the '''magnetic tradition''' (from [[Franz Anton Mesmer|Mesmer]] to Paret's modern Mesmerism) and those dedicated to the '''hermetic tradition''' ([[Il Gruppo di UR-KRUR|UR-KRUR]], Reghini, Evola, Giudicelli) describe '''the same phenomenological configuration''' that this page calls, in the contemporary polyvagal vocabulary, the '''integrated state'''.

In the '''magnetic tradition''' the integrated state is what the magnetizer '''is''' when operating: the source of the fluid, the quality of presence that induces the corresponding configuration in the subject. The [[Crisi Mesmerica|mesmeric crisis]] is not the end but the '''passage''' toward this state; the techniques of '''[[Allineamento Magnetico (mano nuca-sacro)|magnetic alignment]]''', '''[[Caduceo ermetico|hermetic caduceus]]''' and '''[[Tummo]]''' are so many practical paths of access. The axis-page '''[[Alchimia e Magnetismo|Alchemy and Magnetism]]''' documents how the entire European magnetic tradition — from Mesmer through [[Marquis de Puységur|Puységur]], [[Charles Lafontaine|Lafontaine]], [[Donato — Il Padre della Fascinazione|Donato]], [[Maestro Dante Caravelli|Caravelli]], [[Prof. Erminio Di Pisa — Ipnosi con lo Sguardo|Di Pisa]] — has in fact pursued '''a single target configuration''', that which today we can describe as a stable ventral-vagal ''set point''.

In the '''hermetic tradition''' the integrated state is what the page '''[[La Presenza (tradizione ermetica)|Presence (Hermetic tradition)]]''' describes as "command-presence" — the '''quality of being''' that is the preliminary condition of every authentic initiatic operation and its fruit. Reghini bears witness to it in '''[[Sub Specie Interioritatis|Sub Specie Interioritatis]]''' (Palazzo Strozzi 1913): ''"Powerful, overwhelming, overwhelming, positive, original impression. […] hieratic solemnity, calm and silent power, Stellar hardness."'' The techniques of '''[[Apathanatismos]]''', '''[[Magia dellImmagine|magic of the image]]''', '''[[Operazioni Magiche a Due Vasi — Sdoppiamento|operations with two vessels]]''', and the '''[[La Doctrine du Corps Immortel|doctrine of the immortal body]]''' are hermetic paths of access to the same configuration. The page '''[[Il Risveglio|The Awakening]]''' (Evola 1943) describes its stabilized fulfillment.

The School of the Paret Method '''does not reduce''' one tradition to another: it recognizes that '''the same phenomenon''' has been described in independent vocabularies (alchemical, Hesychast, yogic, magnetic, neurophysiological) because '''it is indeed the same''', and that each vocabulary adds an angle to the others. The integrated state is the '''transversal node''' where these descriptions converge. The practice of the School — through '''[[Presenza Integrale|Integral Presence™]]''' as operational access — stands where the accesses meet.

== See also ==

=== The three pages of presence ===

* [[Presenza Integrale|Integral Presence™]] — the operational access to the integrated state
* [[La Presenza (tradizione ermetica)|Presence (Hermetic tradition)]] — the hermetic-initiatic foundation
* [[Il Risveglio|The Awakening]] — the fulfillment (Evola 1943)

=== Neurological part ===

* [[Paret Method]]
* [[Ipnosi, Teoria Polivagale e Liberazione Somatica|Hypnosis, Polyvagal Theory and Somatic Liberation]]
* [[I sei tipi caratteriali nella mappa polivagale|The six character types in the polyvagal map]]
* [[Movimento autonomo della crisi|Autonomous movement of the crisis]]
* [[Teoria polivagale|Polyvagal theory]]
* [[Default Mode Network]]
* [[Logismoi]]
* [[Wolinsky e la deconcettualizzazione|Wolinsky and deconceptualization]]
* [[Mercurio Filosofico|Philosophical Mercury]]
* [[Guna e Tria Prima|Guṇa and Tria Prima]]
* [[Tria Prima]]

=== Magnetic and hermetic part ===

* [[Crisi Mesmerica|Mesmeric crisis]]
* [[Allineamento Magnetico (mano nuca-sacro)|Magnetic alignment (hand nape-sacrum)]]
* [[Caduceo ermetico|Hermetic caduceus]]
* [[Tummo]]
* [[Alchimia e Magnetismo|Alchemy and Magnetism]] — axis-page of the cluster
* [[Il Gruppo di UR-KRUR|The UR-KRUR Group]]
* [[Sub Specie Interioritatis]]
* [[Apathanatismos]]
* [[Franz Anton Mesmer]]

== Sources ==

=== Publications of the School ===

* Marco Paret, ''Paret Method™ — Integral Presence™. Proposal for recognition'', Federmindfulness, 2026.
* Marco Paret, ''Hypnosis, Polyvagal Theory, and Somatic Liberation — A Non-Verbal Approach to Healing'' (Springer chapter, in preparation).
* Marco Paret, ''Le Flux Magnétique et les Savoirs Anciens'' (2017).
* Marco Paret, ''L'Energia Segreta della Mente'', Edizioni L'Età dell'Acquario / Lindau, 2009.

=== Alchemical-hermetic tradition ===

* Paracelsus, ''Opus Paramirum'' (16th century); ''De Natura Rerum''.
* Oswald Wirth, ''Le Symbolisme hermétique dans ses rapports avec l'alchimie et la franc-maçonnerie'', Dervy, 1909/2009.

=== Indian tradition ===

* Sankhya-karika of Īśvarakr̥ṣṇa (4th-5th century CE).
* ''Bhagavadgītā'', chapters XIV «''Guṇatraya-vibhāga-yoga''» and XVIII.
* Patañjali, ''Yogasūtra'', with commentaries.

=== Hesychast tradition ===

* Evagrius Ponticus, ''Praktikos'' (4th century).
* Jean-Yves Leloup, ''Écrits sur l'Hésychasme'', Albin Michel, 1990.

=== Polyvagal theory and neuroscience ===

* Stephen W. Porges, ''The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-Regulation'', Norton, 2011.
* Sullivan, M. B., Erb, M., Schmalzl, L., Moonaz, S., Noggle Taylor, J., Porges, S. W., «Yoga Therapy and Polyvagal Theory: The Convergence of Traditional Wisdom and Contemporary Neuroscience for Self-Regulation and Resilience», ''Frontiers in Human Neuroscience'', 12:67, 2018.
* Brewer, J. A. ''et al.'', «Meditation experience is associated with differences in default mode network activity and connectivity», ''PNAS'', 108(50), 2011, pp. 20254-20259.
* Farb, N. ''et al.'', «Interoception, contemplative practice, and health», ''Frontiers in Psychology'', 4, 2013, art. 541.
* Lutz, A. ''et al.'', «Attention regulation and monitoring in meditation», ''Trends in Cognitive Sciences'', 12(4), 2008, pp. 163-169.
* Sterling, P., Eyer, J., «Allostasis: A new paradigm to explain arousal pathology», in S. Fisher, J. Reason (eds.), ''Handbook of Life Stress, Cognition and Health'', Wiley, 1988.
* McEwen, B. S., «Physiology and neurobiology of stress and adaptation», ''Physiological Reviews'', 87, 2007, pp. 873-904.

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