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The Humanist Movement began in 1966 in Mendoza, Argentina as a small group of people who gathered together to find a new response to the crisis of dehumanization and violence experienced by peoples worldwide. The global crisis was felt in all areas of human activity in the personal, social, economic, political and religious fields. By 1969, this small initial group had expanded into numerous groups in Argentina and Chile and their presence began to be noticed by the military regime of Argentina then in power. In the early years, the Humanist Movement was known as "Siloism", coined from the penname "Silo" of its founder Mario Rodriguez Cobos. The military regimes of Argentina and Chile began to censor and persecute the members during its meetings, gatherings, public acts and demonstrations. On May 4, 1969, the "siloists" gathered in Punta de Vacas, Mendoza, Argentina and the speech "The Healing of Suffering" was given by Silo. This marks the foundation day for the Humanist Movement. The systematic persecution of members in Chile and Argentina propelled the expansion of the movement to other countries. These countries included those in North America and Europe (i.e., Spain, Italy, Portugal and France) and the Asian countries of Philippines, South Korea, India and China. ==Philippine beginnings (1970-1979)== In March 1973, four Chilean movement members arrived in the Philippines. On September of the previous year, Martial Law had been declared and the Philippines was experiencing the violence and suppression of the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship. The press was controlled, the leftist and opposition groups had been neutralized or gone underground, curfews were enforced and fear permeated the political and university scenario. The Chilean humanists initially made contact with the students of the University of the Philippines Diliman. In 1974, “soloist” books “Transcendental Meditation” and “Silo and the Liberation” (Vol. II) were printed locally. In 1975 the Chileans left and in the next years were followed by Argentinian members. who continued the tasks of organizing and transmitting the studies underlying the Humanist Movement. The Humanist Movement in the following years briefly went through internal stages at different moments and was then referred to as the School. The Synthesis Institute and Center of Inner Religion were launched in order to carry forward its studies but these were later discontinued. By 1979, there was a core group of Filipinos who took on the challenge of organizing the movement in the Philippines. In December 1980, "Silo" or Mario Rodriguez Cobos visited the Philippines for a working seminar with Filipino members held at the AIT in the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of the Humanist Movement in the Philippines」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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