What is the source of that sense of dissatisfaction that is also felt in well-being? Why do we seek satisfaction that goes far beyond our needs ?

How come we are able to abstract concepts beyond perceived realities? What other force sustains us besides our physical energies? How to detect it? Can this energy get sick and can it heal?

The uniformity of “common thought” on which the humanities and sciences are fed today has sidelined the spiritual dimension of human beings with the consequent downfall of life and values, and the moral degradation that pollutes everything.

The IRIS-3 Foundation wants to fill this void that is present in culture and life by exploring in every direction the spiritual reality that constitutes the human being, understood as the created spiritual soul, the foundation of human life.

The IRIS-3 Foundation, therefore, aims to deepen, develop and popularize theoretical and experimental research of the spiritual reality that constitutes the human being, in order to offer new points of reference to today’s man and face the challenges of tomorrow’s society.

PRESENTATION

The reality of the existence of the created soul as a reality present in each human being grounds its greatest dignity and beauty, and its right to freedom, not least religious freedom and freedom of conscience.

Such human reality of the spiritual soul or spirit(pneuma),

• is revealed in man in his need for transcendence — going beyond the immanence of his condition — in his search for the Absolute and in his dialogue with God, as well as in his need for truth and happiness;
• expresses itself in the free creativity of the will, in the higher capacity of human thought and authentic human love, to the point of seeking in consciousness the meaning of human living and procreation, the authenticity of values and the awareness of limits, and at the same time responsibility about rights and duties;
• is manifested in the expression of art, music and culture, and in the human capacity for value-relationality as well as functional-relationality, in the intelligence of scientific research and its useful technological applications, as well as in the tension of development and innovation, the employment of resources with respect for creation, and the advancement of the good of life and all humanity.

Given the extraordinary importance of this spiritual reality present in the human being, which is like its driving force and the mysterious energy of its life, it became desirable and necessary to create this Scientific Research Institute to investigate its existence and its scientific demonstrability, overcoming, through the new knowledge born from the development of the various Disciplines the many obstacles and dangers of a materialistic and technological drift of human reality. This is the primary purpose of the Foundation for the International Human Soul Research Institute, called IRIS-3. The number 3 stands for the human soul, created by the Triune God in His “image and likeness”-and therefore immortal-to become God’s “glory” and eternal bliss, as revealed in the Bible’s Old and New Testaments.

THE PURPOSE OF THE RESEARCH

Is the reality of the spirit in man a cultural belief distant in time or a true and good reality? Does it appear covered up and made to be forgotten perhaps for purposes of economic and political interest?

The reality of the spirit in man, as a spiritual soul created by God in His image (Cf. Genesis 1:27; 2:7. Qohelet 3:11), constitutes the human being as such. Two brief references may be helpful in framing our research.

In other words, the human being without the spirit would not really be the same. What scientific evidence do we have for this very important fact?

If man loses himself what world would he claim to build? What material and economic progress could save man and his “human” existence?

Do we have hope that we can scientifically recapture the reality of the spirit in human life? Can the humanities help reconstruct “the reality of the spiritual dimension” in our humanity? This is the aim of the IRIS-3 Research Institute.

WHAT DRIVES US

Therefore, our purpose is to investigate the reality of the spirit in the human being, his spiritual soul, and scientifically prove its existence.” Why? To save our humanity by overcoming materialist, economist, atheist as well as spiritualist and spiritualist tendencies, which deface the essence of the soul and manipulate it for other degenerative ends! The BEAUTY of the human and the Universe is entrusted to man’s spirit and responsibility, to his spiritual soul gift from God the creator.

The beauty of the Universe

From the knowledge of the microcosm to that of the stars and the countless galaxies everything in the universe lives and moves with immense energy and extraordinary order and wisdom, such that it can be studied and understood in its laws, which as the human mind gradually discovers with growing amazement.

An immense harmony and beauty that we cannot but admire and respect, praising Those who willed it as it is. It speaks to us.

The beauty of the HUMAN

In the human person there are capacities that qualify him or her, and these are intelligence, goodness, freedom, love for truth, love as the ability to give oneself, the search for meaning, and the desire to harmonize in unity. All these seven human virtues are expressions of the spirit, the image of God, which is in ‘human being and constitutes him, and, together, expresses his beauty. Any claim to “build a different human,” as in transhumanism, can only be something insane, realizing an inferior being.

In human Love, which is the deepest and most involving reality of the person, how is it explained without the presence of the spirit, the ability to overcome the forces of survival, inherent in nature, to give one’s life? What deep energy does a human being have, such that it can overcome the biological and sexual energies suitable for survival? What is “beyond” biological life, where does human love go?