"Death does not exist, only the transformation of consciousness."

Professor Sándor was always averse to any form of exaltation of his personality. In his extremely simple lifestyle and deprived of any ostentation, he was also zealous of his privacy. Nevertheless, the trajectory of his life inspired interest and admiration in all those who met him.

Sándor was born in 1916, in Gyertyamos, which was part of Hungary at the time, but is currently in Yugoslavia. Sandor was raised in Also Gad, a city of intense intellectual movements and cultural events. It was probably from these life experiences that an interest in the arts and especially music arose.He studied lyric song one point thought of becoming a tenor. Sandor grew in this stable and refined atmosphere, and later graduated from the Medical University of Budapest as a doctor, “Paz Many Peter,” in 1943 specializing in Gynecology and Obstetrics. The beginning of the war brought a sequence of painful events that disrupted his, until then, tranquil life.

The advance of Russians troops forced the family to leave Hungary in April of 1945, in search of safety. During this voyage by train, Sándor disembarked the train in search of water for his family, which remained aboard. During this time the wagon was mistaken for a military train, and was intensely fired upon.

As the only doctor present, Sándor began attending to the numerous injured persons. Ironically the first two victims that were brought to him for first aid were his own father and mother. In light of the severity of their injuries Sándor said: “I can do nothing for them.Bring me the next ones.” After having helped all the others, he returned to look for his parents, only to find that they had died.During the following winter his wife Marieta, fell ill and also passed away.Within less than a year, Sándor lost his home, his country, his parents and his wife, and was left alone to care for two children aged two and three years.

At the time, Sándor was working with the Red Cross in the refugee camps of Germany. There he met the family of Irene and Jozseph Buydoso, both astrologers and educated in esoteric arts. Sándor already interested in Profound Psychology, began to study with them these subjects.

In the refugee camps, Sándor began his observations about the procedures that would give origin to Calatonia. While attending to the female infirmaries as an obstetrician, he encountered many cases of circulatory problems. With no conventional resources, due to the scarcity created by the war, he began to experiment with touches and gentle manipulations to the extremities of his patients' body, with the goal of alleviating some of the symptoms and pain. This was how he initiated his observations of the “effects of therapeutic soft touches.”

The same approach was utilized with people that presented the widest range of complaints: “...from phantom limbs and nervous imbalance to depression and compulsive reactions..”

Sándor was solicited many times by the German soldiers, that requested the “doctor that new how to remove pain with his hands.” On these occasions, Sándor attended to the request under the specific condition that he remain alone with the patient, in order to preserve his technique and the possibility of receiving the most precious payment at the time: food, which he could distribute among the other refugees.

For the next three years, while he worked in German hospitals that admitted refugees, he treated polytraumatized patients. “We applied the same technique to those who were dislocated and that prepared themselves for immigration and in the mixed-up, constricted German populations, but this time not on the sick from surgical clinics, but on patients in the areas of psychology or neuropsychiatry.

It was from these experiences that Sándor initiated the “multilateral foundation”(sic) of his work, further amplified in Brazil:

“.. where there was the possibility to study the most recent research about reticular formation, the vegetative representations on the cortex and regarding peripheral proprioceptives. At the same time much psychological material was accumulated, reinforced in Brazil by those colleagues that adopted the method, especially in psychology.”

>In the mid ‘50’s, Sándor taught “Jungian Psychology” at the Faculdade de Psicologia da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. He also maintained study groups for correlated themes from basic techniques of relaxation (Shultz, Jacobson, Reich, and Calatonia) to various Jungian Psychology texts, astrology and esoteric themes. Sándor was also a remarkable homeopathic doctor.

He did not accept payment from the astrology groups and esoteric studies, but only from the groups that opted for strictly academic themes.He would explain that he could not charge for education that he received gratuitously.

In the 70’s, he began teaching the techniques of Body Therapy within the academic circles, in the course titled “Psychophysiological Integration” at the Faculdade de Psicologia, at PUC - in Sao Paulo. During the first part of the ‘80’s, Sándor began the Course of Specialization at the Instituto Sedes Sapientiae of Sao Paulo, which he conducted until 1992, when he died.

At the end of the ‘80’s he also began annual seminars conducted at the Sedes Sapientiae. Most of the students attending these seminars had documented their practices and research in reports that were made available in a series called Hermes Publications (Portuguese only).

Married since 1985 to Maria Luiza Simoes, also a psychologist and collaborator, Sándor divided his time among the classes at Sedes, study groups and his private patients. His sacred rest were the weekends spent at his vacation home in Pocinhos do Rio Verde (close to Pocos de Caldas) where he recharged through contact with nature.

It was in this home during the summer vacation where he came to die during his sleep on January 28, 1992.