Dr Maria Sagi

Mária Sági holds Ph.D. in psychology at the Eötvös Lóránd Science University of Budapest, and following seven years of research she was awarded the C.Sc. degree of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She is a former Research Associate and Scientific Secretary of Institute for Culture and Sociological Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. A founding member of the Club of Budapest since its inception in 1993, Dr. Sági currently serves as Science Director of the Club. 

 

Mária Sági is the author and co-author of twelve books and some hundred and fifty articles and research papers on topics as varied as social and personality psychology, the psychology of music and art and information medicine, some published in English, French, German, Italian and Japanese. 

 

Sági has done extensive research on the psychology of art – in her researches she focused on the psychological factors of artistic creativity. As a student of Ferenc Mérei, using projective tests such as the Rorschach test, she studied how music influences artistic creativity and how the effect of music is reflected in painting. She summarized her results in two books Esztétika és személyiség [Aesthetics and Personality] and Művelődés és személyiség [Education and Personality]. In her music sociological research, she investigated the roots of generative ability present in 10 different social strata in Hungary. Mária Sági published the results in a 2-volume-work, entitled Kreativitás és zene [Creativity and Music], co-authored with Iván Vitányi. 

 

Dr. Sági’s professional experience includes co-directing the sociological survey of Hungarian families for the International Sociological Association, directing the European Perspectives Research on European Identity Project of United Nations University as well as research on the Transition to Global Society of the same University and serving as the Hungarian coordinator of EUROCIRCON, the European Culture Impact Research Consortium. 

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Mária Sági is a member of the General Evolution Research Group and is the former Managing Editor of World Futures, The Journal of General Evolution (now World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research). She has been a close collaborator of Ervin László in his work on the new paradigm in science and society, and has overseen the publication of the Hungarian edition of László’s books. She has worked with Laszlo in developing the theory of the Akashic field, providing examples of healing through that field and elaborating its implications for the new science paradigm developed by Laszlo.

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Since the 1980s, Sági has specialized in macrobiotics and information medicine - some eighty of her papers have been published in Hungarian, German and English, in Hungarian and foreign journals. A follower of macrobiotics for about 40 years, she has been a student of Michio Kushi. As an expert on macrobiotics, she edited the Hungarian edition of Kushi’s book A rákmegelőző és gyógyító diéta [Cancer Prevention and Healing Diet]. Co-authored with István Sági, she also published a booklet Macrobiotikával egészségesen, 2009; [Macrobiotics for Health].

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Between 1990 and 1994, she worked with Erich Körbler, the Viennese scientist who pioneered the method of New Homeopathy. Since then Sági has been the Hungarian representative of New Homeopathy, teaching the method in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Japan and in Hungary.

From 1994 to 2003, as an associate, she worked with research physician Gordon Flint at The Laurence Society of Holistic Medicine.

The Society has granted her honorary membership.

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