Master Del Pe: I used to work as a businessman and engineer in the earlier years of my life. I worked in the Middle Eastern oil companies with ten years in Saudi Arabia. After that I went back to Asia -- I was born in the Philippines -- and met several sages and experts on metaphysics and healing. I had direct training from two masters of the East. Then I taught yoga and spiritual meditation and healing in India in '91-'92. There I met one of my spiritual mentors who is also a Master of Sciences and Arts, and I had extensive training with him in the Himalayas. In 1995 or '96, I met another sage from the Himalayas who is said to be an immortal. He is one of the yogis who can stay naked in the mountains, in the snow. So I had these four spiritual mentors who had trained in different lineages. Then I went off to teach the aspects that I had learned. Basically, that is how I came into this area.

I established three organizations that can fulfill this purpose. One is Glocen, which deals with executive professionals in corporate settings. I teach a lot of transformation and workshops including stress management and courses for corporate leadership. Then I have another school which is Esocen. Its responsibility is to teach spiritual groups and spiritual thinkers, meditators, yogis and healing groups.

TMA: And the third organization?

MDP: It’s MDP Global Resources, a multi-media company that produces videos, CDs, books and booklets.

TMA: Which of the organizations did you begin first?

MDP: They were put up simultaneously in 1999. Earlier, I put up several foundations and organizations in various countries that manifested my earlier vision, which is about healing and meditation and transformation workshops. This is kind of a new thing lately, but earlier, I taught for 15 years, including martial arts.

TMA: So you have put together your own system, based on the teachings you've received?

MDP: Yes, it's a synthesis of different lineages, presented in a modern approach that can be digested by the Western mind.

TMA: Were do you start a person and where do you take them?

MDP: Well, it depends. If it is a corporate setting, I would take them into what they need. For example, if they express crisis problems, then I give them workshops on stress and crisis management. If they are into decision making and problem solving, I give them the workshop on leadership in action. Women's groups also have special workshops like Harmonizing the Light, and Love and Power for Women. Different backgrounds have different workshops. If it is an esoteric or metaphysical group, I have eight or nine workshops for them, starting from the Science of Meditation and the Science of Energy Centers. I also give them an advanced workshop on esoteric healing and The Science of Alchemy and Sacred Fires. As they progress, I admit them to my special program which is called The Science of Initiates, which deals with more esoteric training.

TMA: There are so many ways to meditate. What kinds of meditation do you start people out with?

MDP: There are at least seven types of meditation, as there are seven types of yoga. "Meditation" has been jargon now in the Western world, which was misconstrued as the normal relaxation type. But in the real sense of the word, meditation is a process that is both uplifting and an upgrading of consciousness from the more gross to the subtle. There are three levels of that . . . the first is more a meditation by concentration level. A lot of groups use this. The second is more of a meditation proper, which is more of an awareness meditation like in Zen; they are going for desirelessness and thoughtlessness. The third type is more of a contemplation wherein the meditator becomes one with the object of meditation; they call it Samadhi in Sanskrit. Any meditation that fulfills the three different levels will satisfy the stages of meditational awareness. In yoga, there are different levels also that will satisfy the seven types of human behavior. These are called The Seven Rays.

TMA: This sounds like the work of Alice Bailey.

MDP: I have been a proponent of these teachings. It has also been preceded by Madame Blavatsky. Almost all of the metaphysical books in the West were derived from those two authors.

I quote Mahatma Ghandi: Start by being the change you want for the world. I like that because a lot of people talk about transformation and his method. It really has to start from oneself, synchronizing the inward and outward life. I deal a lot with that information in transformation workshops.

A lot of teachers are focusing on metaphysical groups but my emphasis is on the business sector and scientists and politicians and other types of people. There are not many teachers who deal with their transformation, yet these groups are the decision makers who affect everybody. So I specialize in managing stress for maximum success as a tool to reach people, whatever kind they are. Stress, whether at work or in a relationship, is more an inner condition. It's necessary to determine the blockages that externalize in a person's life. That's one of my workshops for all people.

Another one is about leadership. People talk about leadership only in regard to the workplace, but there is leadership in a family or in social groups as well. People don't emphasize that as much, so I designed a workshop that deals with all seven to eight types of leaders.

TMA: You’re able to reach the corporate world by calling it stress management, but then you go into much deeper things.

MDP: For example, I deal with the primary prevention of Christmas stress, but I deal also with long term aggressions and stresses, which is more the behavior of change. I do a lot on the Golden Rule, what is meant by the universal laws such as the Law of Karma, the law of cause and effect, which gives a lot of traumas and mishaps to people because they violate it. It has a boomerang effect -- it comes back in any area, for instance in business or expenditures or in health. I deal a lot with the universal laws and I synthesize them in such a way that material life is not separate from spiritual life.

TMA: A lot of people would say that the term "business ethics" is an oxymoron, or that it would be the title of a very short book. But I think it's very important for those in positions of leadership in business and government and such to understand metaphysical principles for their own success as well as for the good of everybody who is affected by their actions.

MDP: I quote the statement, "Knowledge brings success, wisdom brings fulfillment." What I'm trying to develop in workshops is that it's good to have success but there's something higher than that, which is fulfillment. My equation is that people are still into knowledge, which brings a lot of success to most people, but they have to work on transmuting or transforming knowledge into wisdom which can bring fulfillment into a person's life.

TMA: At the same time, I think it's important for people who are spiritually oriented to think in terms of becoming successful themselves. To approach it from the other end. For a lot of reasons . . . to provide an example for other people if for no other reason. But also to bring more spirituality into that world. I think in the past it's been seen as too much of a dichotomy where you were spiritual or you were material -- whereas in our time, it's become necessary to blend the two.

MDP: Yes, correct. In a Leadership in Action workshop, for example, I emphasize for people to design not only a work mission, a corporate mission plan, but that they should have a personal mission and mission plan as well. Most people can define a very good mission and mission plan for a corporate organization, but when it comes to the personal, they just don't design it. I'm surprised that when I ask people from my classes, "What is your personal mission for your life?" they don't know. But you ask them about their business and they know about that. I tell them, in order for them to help create fulfillment, you have to design it in such a way that there is an overlapping common denominator between your personal vision mission and plan and your corporate work.

TMA: There needs to be much less of a division between the two.

MDP: Yes, like people should work because that's part of their mission as a person rather than the reverse. So they can enjoy working not because of the salary but because it is part of their vision mission as a person.

TMA: What do you say to somebody who isn't doing what they're happy doing in life? They may have a high powered job where they have a lot of power and responsibility and big salary, but they don't like what they're doing.

MDP: It's because they have not seen their own personal purpose. Work is not really just work but is more a fulfillment of service towards other people. Secondly, if they cannot find it in their current work, they have to create an avocation to satisfy their personal vision and mission so they will be inspired to do things. To look at work as an expression of business, but to look for another avenue to express their personal mission and purpose as a human being.

TMA: On the other side of it, a person may have attained a great deal of knowledge and spirituality and yet be suffering financially, materially.

MDP: Yes, that is the problem of the spiritual group at this time . . . having come from a Piscean origin in which people feel guilty about money and success and don't associate it with spirituality. This is one of the common causes of suffering in spiritual groups and people . . . that they have been so guilty about money and success and power. That should be analogous to an eagle having two wings: one wing is the spiritual wing and one is the material wing. They need both to fly. I see a lot of spiritual people having less and less money because they denounce it, maybe not physically but subconsciously. In my workshops, I emphasize that money is very important and is a very sacred thing if it's used properly. So is power, so is position, so is influence.

TMA: In this country, money is really just green prana.

MDP: Yes, it's just energy crystallized in terms of work. Money's just a sequential energy produced by work, work by accomplishment.

TMA: What is close to the essence of your teachings?

MDP: For some groups, I go very deeply into the science of creation, cosmogenesis. I discuss the purpose of different kingdoms, the purpose of the different planes of existence, and I emphasize also the life after death. I define alchemy and the sacred fires of kundalini and the chakras, and energetic manipulation for healing. In the other workshops I don't talk a lot about this because business people get shocked when you tell them about the invisible worlds. Some of the best graduates from the business groups tend to search for more esoteric clients, so they go to my esoteric classes afterwards.