Claudio Naranjo

Entrevistas

“Esta educación le 

está robando a la 

gente su conciencia,

 su tiempo y su

 vida”

“La crisis de la educación no es una crisis más entre las muchas crisis que tenemos, sino que la educación está en el centro del problema. El mundo está en una crisis profunda porque no tenemos una educación para la conciencia.”

Cuando uno escucha a este psiquiatra chileno de 75 años da la sensación de estar frente al Jean-Jacques Rousseau de nuestro tiempo.

Cuenta que estaba bastante dormido hasta que en los años 60 se fue a vivir a EE.UU., allí fue discípulo de Fritz Perls, uno de los grandes terapeutas del siglo XX y formó parte del equipo del Instituto Esalen en California. Allí tuvo grandes experiencias en el mundo terapéutico y en el mundo espiritual. Contactó con el sufismo y se convirtió en uno de los introductores de Eneagrama en Occidente. También bebió del budismo tibetano y el zen.

Claudio Naranjo ha dedicado su vida a la investigación y a la docencia en Universidades como Hardvard y Berkeley. Ha fundado el programa SAT, una integración de la terapia Gestalt, el Eneagrama y la Meditación para enriquecer la formación de profesores. En este momento está lanzando un aviso muy contundente: o cambiamos la educación o este mundo se va a pique.

Dices que para cambiar el mundo hay que cambiar la educación ¿cuál es la problemática de la educación y cuál es tu propuesta?

La problemática en la educación no es de ninguna manera la que a los educadores les parece que es. Creen que los estudiantes ya no quieren lo que se les ofrece. A la gente se le quiere forzar a una educación irrelevante y se defiende con trastornos de la atención, con desmotivación. Yo pienso que la educación no está al servicio de la evolución humana sino de la producción o más bien de la socialización. Esta educación sirve para domesticar a la gente de generación en generación para que sigan siendo unos corderitos manipulables por los medios de comunicación. Esto es socialmente un gran daño. Se quiere usar la educación como una manera de meter en la cabeza de la gente una manera de ver las cosas que le conviene al sistema, a la burocracia. Nuestra mayor necesidad es la de una educación para evolucionar, para que la gente sea lo que podría ser.

La crisis de la educación no es una crisis más entre las muchas crisis que tenemos, sino que la educación está en el centro del problema. El mundo está en una crisis profunda porque no tenemos una educación para la conciencia. Tenemos una educación que en cierto modo le está robando a la gente su conciencia, su tiempo y su vida.

El modelo de desarrollo económico de hoy ha eclipsado el desarrollo de la persona.

“A la gente se le quiere forzar a una educación irrelevante y se defiende con trastornos de la atención, con desmotivación.”

¿Cómo sería una educación para que seamos seres completos?

La educación enseña a la gente a pasar exámenes, no a pensar por sí misma. En un examen no se mide la comprensión, se mide la capacidad de repetir. ¡Es ridículo, se pierde una cantidad tan grande de energía! En lugar de una educación para la información, se necesitaría una educación que se ocupe del aspecto emocional y una educación de la mente profunda. A mí me parece que estamos presos entre una alternativa idiota, que es la educación laica y una educación autoritaria que es la educación religiosa tradicional. Está bien separar Estado e Iglesia pero, por ejemplo en España, han echado por la borda el espíritu como si religión y espíritu fueran la misma cosa. Necesitamos que la educación atienda también a la mente profunda.

¿Cuándo hablas de espiritualidad y de mente profunda a qué te refieres exactamente?

Tiene que ver con la conciencia misma. Tiene que ver con aquella parte de la mente de la que depende el sentido de la vida. Se está educando a la gente sin ese sentido. Tampoco es la educación de valores porque la educación de valores es demasiado retórica e intelectual. Los valores deberían ser cultivados a través de un proceso de transformación de la persona y esta transformación está muy lejos de la educación actual.

La educación también tiene que incluir un aspecto terapéutico. Desarrollarse como persona no se puede separar del crecimiento emocional. Los jóvenes están muy dañados afectiva y emocionalmente por el hecho de que el mercado laboral se traga a los padres y ya no tienen disponibilidad para los hijos. Hay mucha carencia amorosa y muchos desequilibrios en los niños. No puede aprender intelectualmente una persona que está dañada emocionalmente.

Lo terapéutico tiene mucho que ver con devolverle a la persona la libertad, la espontaneidad y la capacidad de conocer sus propios deseos. El mundo civilizado es un mundo domesticado y la enseñanza y la crianza son instrumentos de esa domesticación. Tenemos una civilización enferma, los artistas se dieron cuenta hace mucho tiempo y ahora cada vez más los pensadores.

A la educación parece solo interesarle desarrollar la parte racional de la gente ¿Qué otras cosas podrían desarrollarse?

Yo pongo énfasis en que somos seres con tres cerebros: tenemos cabeza (cerebro intelectual), corazón (cerebro emocional) y tripas (cerebro visceral o instintivo). La civilización está íntimamente ligada por la toma de poder por el cerebro racional. Con el momento en que los hombres predominaron en el dominio político, unos 6.000 años atrás, se instaura esto que llamamos civilización. Y no es solamente el dominio masculino ni el dominio de la razón sino también de la razón instrumental y práctica, que se asocia con la tecnología; es este predominio de la razón instrumental sobre el afecto y sobre la sabiduría instintiva lo que nos tiene tan empobrecidos. La plenitud la puede vivir sólo una persona que tiene sus tres cerebros en orden y coordinados. Desde mi punto de vista necesitamos una educación para seres tri-cerebrados. Una educación que se podría llamar holística o integral. Si vamos a educar a toda la persona, hemos de tener en cuenta que la persona no es solo razón.

Al sistema le conviene que uno no esté tanto en contacto consigo mismo ni que piense por sí mismo. Por mucho que se levante la bandera de la democracia, se le tiene mucho miedo a que la gente tenga voz y tenga conciencia.

La clase política no está dispuesta a apostar por la educación.

La educación nos sumerge en un mar de conceptos que nos separan de la realidad y nos aprisiona en nuestra propia mente ¿Cómo se puede salir de esa prisión?

Es una gran pregunta y es una pregunta necesaria en el mundo educacional. La idea de que lo conceptual sea una prisión requiere una cierta experiencia de que la vida es más que eso. Para uno que ya tiene el interés en salir de la prisión de lo intelectual, es muy importante la disciplina de detener la mente, la disciplina del silencio, como se practica en todas las tradiciones espirituales: cristianismo, budismo, yoga, chamanismo… Parar los diálogos internos en todas las tradiciones de desarrollo humano ha sido visto como algo muy importante. La persona necesita alimentarse de otra cosa que conceptos. La educación quiere encerrar a la persona en un lugar donde se la somete a una educación conceptual forzada, como si no hubiera otra cosa en la vida. Es muy importante, por ejemplo, la belleza. La capacidad de reverencia, de asombro, de veneración, de devoción. No tiene que ver necesariamente con una religión o con un sistema de creencias. Es una parte importante de la vida interior que se está perdiendo de la misma manera en que se están perdiendo los espacios bellos de la superficie de la Tierra, a medida que se construye y se urbaniza.

Precisamente quería preguntarte tu opinión sobre la crisis ecológica que vivimos.

Es una crisis muy evidente, es la amenaza más tangible de todas. Se puede prever fácilmente que con el calentamiento de la Tierra, con el envenenamiento de los océanos y otros desastres que están pasando, no vamos a poder sobrevivir tantas personas como las que somos ahora.

Estamos viviendo gracias al petróleo y consumimos más recursos de los que la tierra produce. Es una cuenta atrás. Cuando se nos acabe el combustible será un desastre para el mundo tecnológico que tenemos.

La gente a la que llamamos más primitiva como los indígenas tienen una forma de tratar a la naturaleza que no viene del sentido utilitario. En la ecología como en la economía y otras cosas, hemos querido prescindir de la conciencia y funcionar sólo con argumentos racionales y eso nos está llevando al desastre. La crisis ecológica sólo puede pararse con un cambio de corazón, verdadera transformación, que sólo la puede dar un proceso educativo. Por eso no tengo mucha fe ni en las terapias ni en las religiones. Solo una educación holística podría prevenir el deterioro de la mente y del planeta.

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Fuente: Revista Namaste

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Esther Bejarano

La acordeonista de Auschwitz: a 70 años del Holocausto

Por Eva Usi, especial para La Jornada

lun, 26 ene 2015 17:03

Esther, que sabía tocar el piano, solía cantar obras de Schubert, Bach y Mozart en Auschwitz para ganarse una ración extra de pan. Foto Eva Usi

Bitácora de fotos: "Los sobrevivientes de Auschwitz, a 70 años"

Berlín. La música ha sido el hilo conductor en la vida de Esther Bejarano, y lo que le salvó la vida en el campo de concentración de Auschwitz. En el mayor campo de exterminio nazi fueron asesinados más de un millón de prisioneros, la mayoría judíos. La acordeonista es una de las pocas sobrevivientes del Holocausto, que a sus 90 años recuerda vívidamente el horror que fue aquel infierno. Logró emigrar a Palestina en 1945, en donde se casó con Nassim Bejarano, pero volvió a Alemania con su marido y sus hijos porque no estaba de acuerdo con la política de agresión israelí. “Que se discriminara de esa manera a los palestinos, eso no lo podía yo aceptar, no después de haber sufrido la misma discriminación nazi”.

Mirando en retrospectiva, Bejarano, que reside en Hamburgo desde los años 60, afirma que tuvo una suerte inmensa. Pequeñita y jovial, sigue teniendo una vida muy activa; con su banda “Microphone Mafia”, en donde también toca su hijo, y dos músicos más, un italiano católico y un turco musulmán, recorre Alemania haciendo campaña contra la extrema derecha, el racismo y la intolerancia.

Esther Loewy, nacida en el Sarre en el seno de una familia acomodada judía, tenía 18 años cuando llegó al portón de Auschwitz un 20 de abril de 1943. “Nos recibieron hombres vestidos de civil, que muy amablemente nos ayudaron a bajar de aquellos vagones para ganado en los que habíamos llegado. Nos dijeron que había a nuestra disposición transporte para los que no pudieran caminar. Nosotros pensamos que si se tomaban esa molestia, no podía ser tan malo el lugar”. Lo que los recién llegados no sabían era que los discapacitados eran enviados directamente a las cámaras de gas.

Los sanos caminaron un largo trayecto hasta llegar al portón. “Ahí hombres y mujeres en uniforme nos recibieron con gritos, nos decían “cerdos judíos”, ahora les vamos a enseñar lo que significa la palabra trabajo”. Ese mismo día Esther, junto con cientos de mujeres y hombres fueron separados. Las prisioneras fueron llevadas a un pabellón en donde fueron obligadas a desnudarse. En ese estado las raparon, las obligaron a ducharse bajo agua fría y les tatuaron un número en el brazo izquierdo. Esther se convirtió en el número 41948.

“En Auschwitz me obligaron a hacer trabajos pesados. Tenía que cargar piedras de un lado del campo al otro. Los nazis tenían la divisa exterminio a través del trabajo”. Esther, que sabía tocar el piano, solía cantar obras de Schubert, Bach y Mozart ante algún capo (como se llamaba a los vigilantes, también prisioneros), para ganarse una ración extra de pan.

Casi todos los campos de concentración nazis tenían su propia orquesta que tenía el objetivo de amenizar la vida de los oficiales de las SS. En 1943, las SS ordenaron a la maestra polaca Sofia Czjkowska, conformar una orquesta femenil. “Das Mädchenorchester von Auschwitz” se convirtió en la única formación musical femenina existente en la red de campos de concentración nazis. Debido a la escasez de mujeres con formación musical se permitió a las judías formar parte de la orquesta, lo que las salvaba de ser enviadas a las cámaras de gas.

“Un día uno de los capos buscaba a mujeres que supieran tocar algún un instrumento. Me propuso a mí y a otras dos prisioneras. Nos llevaron a una barraca para presentar un examen, yo dije que sabía tocar el piano. Czjkowska me dijo que eso no había, que si podía tocar el acordeón me podía quedar en la orquesta. Nunca antes lo había tocado, pero logré sacar los acordes de Bel Ami, y fue como un milagro porque me aceptaron igual que a mis amigas”, recuerda.

Ser miembro de la orquesta les permitió tener algunos privilegios, como dormir en una cama con colchón, cobija y hasta sábanas. También podían comprar productos de higiene y ropa a cambio de raciones de pan. El repertorio musical de la orquesta era limitado, así como los instrumentos que tenían. Interpretaban marchas alemanas, canciones folclóricas y piezas militares polacas.

“Nuestra función en esa orquesta era acompañar musicalmente el paso de las caravanas de trabajadoras cuando salían a trabajar y recibirlas cuando volvían en la noche. También teníamos que tocar cuando llegaban trenes de transporte con nuevos prisioneros”, recuerda Bejarano.

“Esos trenes que llegaban a través de vías especiales provenientes de numerosos países de Europa, pasaban a un lado de donde nosotras estábamos y se detenían delante de las cámaras de gas y los hornos crematorios. Nosotras tocábamos y los recién llegados nos saludaban con la mano. Pensarían que en donde se toca música las cosas no pueden estar tan mal, yo sentía una profunda tristeza”.

Hasta que grado llegaba la melomanía nazi, lo muestra una anécdota que salvó la vida a la joven. Otto Moll, comandante en jefe de las SS en Auschwitz y director del crematorio, era temido por su crueldad y sadismo. Sin embargo, cuando la joven acordeonista enfermó, Moll, que se sentía responsable de la orquesta, llegó a amenazar a la médica checa con fusilarla si no lograba que la acordeonista recobrara su salud. Bejarano que estuvo al borde de la muerte con una fiebre muy alta se enteró por la enfermera que la cuidó. Regresó a su puesto de acordeonista después de cuatro semanas, aunque siguió padeciendo enfermedades.

El médico nazi Josef Mengele, que hacía sus experimentos con gemelos y esterilizaba a las mujeres judías en Auschwitz, acudía regularmente a la plaza central del campo cuando se pasaba lista a las prisioneras. Con un gesto de mano decidía a quien le tocaba morir y con otro a quien quería en su barraca de experimentos. Esther Bejarano, que enfermaba a menudo, le tenía pavor. Después de siete meses en Auschwitz fue trasladada al campo de concentración para mujeres de Ravensbrück, en Alemania, una consideración, tal vez por iniciativa del mismo Moll, por tener una abuela católica. La joven logró huir poco antes de que el campo fuera liberado por el Ejército Rojo.

http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2015/01/26/la-acordeonista-de-auschwitz-8293.html

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Mark Schultz

EXCLUSIVE: 'I could have easily snapped his neck': Olympic wrestler Mark Schultz reveals he once plotted to kill John du Pont, but now feels sorry for the millionaire who killed his brother - as he details real story behind movie Foxcatcher

• Olympic champion Mark Schultz was left devastated by his brother Dave's 1996 murder at the hands of their eccentric benefactor John du Pont
• He says his brother was his 'savior' and that he followed in his footsteps to become a wrestler, leading them both to win gold at 1984 Olympics
• Their story is now the subject of the movie Foxcatcher and Mark has written a memoir about his 'extreme' life
• Mark says:  'Now the movie has come out, I’m starting to learn more about John and his life before I met him and he had some really hard things to deal with' 
• Steve Carell plays du Pont in movie - and Mark says: 'For a fraction of a second, I thought du Pont had come back to life' 

By SARA NATHAN FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 19:02 GMT, 21 November 2014 | UPDATED: 19:45 GMT, 21 November 2014

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Their faces are ruddy and aglow, their heads each crowned with a wreath.

Wrestler Mark Schultz beams at the camera, his eyes crinkled up, while his brother Dave, another talented wrestler, stares down, smiling at the gold medals the pair have just won at the 1984 Olympics.

Now, it’s just Mark, a two-time World Champion, who is left to tell their story. His brother Dave was murdered on January 26, 1996, by the very benefactor who came forward to pay their bills and provide training facilities on his sprawling Pennsylvania estate  - millionaire John du Pont.

In the new movie Foxcatcher, slated for Oscar success, Steve Carell makes an astonishing turn as the eccentric du Pont, while Channing Tatum plays Mark and Mark Ruffalo takes on the role of Dave. 

Mark too, has written his own book, also called Foxcatcher, which details his humble beginnings to the Olympics and the tragedy that was to befall his family.

In an exclusive interview, Mark tells MailOnline that he thinks about his brother every day, and how, while he may not ever forgive du Pont - and, in fact, admits there were moments he plotted to kill him (‘I could have easily snapped his neck at the trial’) - he now realizes just what a sad life the reclusive millionaire had. 

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World class: Dave Schultz (left) beams as he looks at the gold medals he and younger brother Mark (right) won for wrestling at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984

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Today: Former wrestler Mark Schultz is now a life coach and motivational speaker. He is an associate producer on the movie, Foxcatcher, and has written a book about his brother Dave's murder at the hands of eccentric millionaire John du Pont in 1996

Mark, now 54 and about to become a grandfather for the first time, first wrote down his life story in 1997 so his three children would know what he did, saying: ‘I’ve had a very extreme life with so many highs and lows, I’ve been carrying all this stuff in my head so I thought we should put it down on paper. I thought ‘well, I really need to tell my kids at least if no-one else’.

‘I think about Dave every day – I have a huge picture of him in my house, so I can’t escape him! There have been a lot of stories about my life, but this book is 100 percent from my perspective.' 

 ‘Du Pont was absolutely on drugs when I first met him. He looked like someone who had given in to the pleasures of the flesh, ate too much, took too many drugs, drank too much and didn’t work out'

 -  Mark Schultz on John du Pont

Mark’s parents divorced when he was three. There was just 17 months between Dave and Mark and the Schultz brothers spent their childhoods shuttling between California, where their dad Phillip lived, and Oregon, where they lived with their mom Dorothy.

‘Dave was kind of a savior to me in a way’, Mark says: ‘We came from a broken home and Dave was the only constant in my life. He was older than me and much bigger, he protected me from the bullies in the playground and taught me what it takes to be a man.

‘He was real hard on me, but that was a blessing.’

Having followed his brother into wrestling in high school, Dave known as a master technician and Mark full of strength, heft and vigour, the pair both won gold at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.

It was then that du Pont, a scion of the munitions dynasty, came calling.

The philanthropist called when Mark, despite his Olympic win, was living in a humble apartment that he rented within his dad’s house. His brother Dave and sister-in-law Nancy also lived in the house.

Near broke and still in training, the wrestling champion was flown first class and then by helicopter to his 800-acre estate, called Foxcatcher Farm, in Philadelphia. It was there that du Pont, a frustrated sportsman irked by his failure to ever be good enough to compete in the Olympics, offered Mark the chance to build a wrestling program at Villanova University in Philadelphia and be the assistant coach. 

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Tragic: Dave Schultz wraps his arms around his benefactor, troubled millionaire John du Pont, who would shoot him dead on January 26, 1996, at his Foxcatcher estate in Pennsylvania

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'I thought he had come back to life': Mark Schultz says he was stunned to see actor Steve Carell's transformation into his brother's killer, John du Pont (left), with the real du Pont pictured right

Du Pont wanted to breed a stable of US wrestling champions he nicknamed Team Foxcatcher – after his father’s thoroughbreds - recruiting pentathaletes, swimmers, triathaletes to the farm.

Taking the job for $24,000 a year, Mark moved in. His brother Dave, who had been approached by du Pont previously – refused the job, staying on at Stanford University as a coach.

Mark soon discovered he had made a mistake, telling MailOnline that when he first met Du Pont, he was a bloated, eerie figure in his late 40s.

‘He was absolutely on drugs when I first met him’ Mark says: ‘He looked like someone who had given in to the pleasures of the flesh, ate too much, took too many drugs, drank too much and didn’t work out. 

‘He had dandruff caked on his head, there was food caked on his teeth.’

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Du Pont, looked ‘as if he had borrowed Ronald McDonald’s bottle of hair dye, but hadn’t maintained it. Grey roots extended about an inch from his scalp before the bright red took over,' Mark noted.

As Mark tells MailOnline: ‘I thought, ‘If this guy has so much money why hasn’t he paid people to take care of him?’

‘We went on to Villenova and he showed me the wrestling room. And I thought ‘man, this guy’s got so much money, we can do anything - we can build a dynasty at Villenova, we can dominate.’ It just seemed like a dream come true…

‘Du Pont told me ‘America has not honored you and we need to remedy that’ and so he got work to find wrestling partners for me.’

But the relationship between du Pont and Mark was troubled. Ahead of the 1987 World Championships, Mark said he had to knuckle down and work, no matter how much he hated du Pont or the job. 

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Brothers in arms: Mark Schultz (right) says his brother Dave (left) was his 'savior' and says: 'I think about him every day'

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Sports heroes: Mark and Dave Schultz were feted by President Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy after their gold wins at the 1984 Olympics 

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Legendary: Dave Schultz (in red) in action against Joe Pantaleo during the United States National Wrestling competition in Las Vegas, Nevada, in May 1995. He is considered a hero to many wrestlers around the world

‘It was real financial desperation,’ he says: ‘I couldn’t have a job and compete with the Eastern Bloc wrestlers. I had to figure out how to survive somehow and at the time du Pont was the only person who was paying us to compete….one of the things he liked to say was ‘I’m moving obstacles out of the way so you can focus’, but for me, he was the one giant obstacle.’

I bought a miniature crossbow and placed a plastic milk jug on a stick and imagined the jug was du Pont’s head. I practiced enough to where I was good at hitting the jug from fifty feet, which I knew was the distance from a group of bushes at his mansion to a person walking up the steps from the driveway. 

 - Mark Schulz in his new book, Foxcatcher

With du Pont snorting lines of cocaine in front of Mark – once even taking the drug from a police bag clearly marked ‘evidence’ (the millionaire was a benefactor of the local police) , his mind became more addled.

‘There was never a period when I was around John that he was not on something, whether it was alcohol, prescription meds, or cocaine’, Mark writes in his book.

Mark then lost out on gold at the 1988 Olympics, and with that his wrestling career was over.

He tells MailOnline: ‘After I lost I realized I didn’t care about wrestling any more, so I left Villanova and du Pont.

‘Du Pont was angry, I brought Dave to help me move my stuff out of storage, and he said ‘So you’re going to gang up on me, huh?’ He threatened me and I threatened him back. He said ‘thanks for teaching me a lesson’.

‘I really regretted my decision to go there, I just couldn’t believe all the stuff that happened. I was left penniless and my wrestling career ruined, I was really depressed for about eight years.’

Switching on a documentary on the Discovery Channel that du Pont had paid to have made about himself, Mark writes in his book: ‘My contempt for du Pont ran so deep within me that partly because of that documentary, I thought about killing him in 1989. ..I couldn’t have felt lower than when I saw his name appear over my image on the documentary he had paid to have made and aired. That served as the final reminder than he had taken advantage of all my pain and suffering to gain prestige and power, and then ruined my career. I wanted revenge. 

‘I bought a miniature crossbow and placed a plastic milk jug on a stick and imagined the jug was du Pont’s head. I practiced enough to where I was good at hitting the jug from fifty feet, which I knew was the distance from a group of bushes at his mansion to a person walking up the steps from the driveway.’

Mark even planned the crime in such detail he said he planned to sell everything he owned, drop out of society, sleep in his car and wait for du Pont to leave his mansion before killing him.

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True life is stranger than fiction: Channing Tatum, left, plays Mark Schultz, while Mark Ruffalo, right, plays his Dave Schultz in Foxcatcher. Mark even wears Dave's own glasses in the movie 

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Winner: Mark Schultz on the podium wearing the gold medal after the Men's 82 kilogram Freestyle Wrestling at the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, California, USA on August 12, 1984

Channing Tatum and Steve Carrell in Foxcatcher trailer

He said he would then move to Brazil and have a child with a Brazilian woman so he could avoid deportation.

He ultimately decided against the plan.

That’s when Dave called Mark to say he was taking du Pont up on a job offer at Foxcatcher.

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Life story: Mark Schultz has written his own memoir, Foxcatcher, which is out now

Dave moved on to the estate with his wife Nancy and their young children, Danielle and Alexander and things went well for him – because he had his family with him and other great wrestlers were at Foxcatcher on the back of Mark’s success.

Mark moved to Utah, where he married his ex-wife Kristy and took a job as a coach at Brigham Young University. He spent 11 years there and his children, son Mark David – named for his brother – now 21 and a personal trainer, and daughters Kelli, now 19, married and pregnant, and Sarah Jessica, now 15, were born there.

He also converted into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

But as Mark’s life got back on track, Dave was left at Foxcatcher, where du Pont wandered around the property clutching guns, fearing spirits and Nazi spies he thought were at the estate.

It was on January 26, 1996, that du Pont pulled up outside Dave’s house and when greeted by his coach, said ‘You got a problem with me?’ Dave wasn’t given a chance to answer as du Pont pumped him with three bullets, including one in the back as he tried to get away. 

As Dave's wife Nancy ran outside, du Pont drove off, prompting a 48-hour standoff with police as he barricaded himself in the property.

Devastated after being told of the news of his brother's death by his father, Mark was banned by cops from going to the estate.

He then went through the ordeal or facing du Pont every day at a trial . Du Pont pleaded ‘not guilty by reason of insanity’, but this was thrown out by the court and on February 25, 1997, a jury found him guilty of third degree murder but mentally ill. He was sentenced to 13-30 years in jail.

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In love: Dave Schultz was a devoted family man. He's pictured with his wife Nancy in 1982

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Dedicated: Nancy Schultz launched a charity to provide financial aid for wrestlers after her husband's death

Mark tells MailOnline: ‘It was hard sitting there 20 feet away from him, with just a 3ft wooden bench between me and him. I could have easily jumped over the barrier and snapped his neck, but Dave’s kids needed to be taken care of in a settlement.’

And he muses: ‘Would I have gone through with it?…..it would be a very big step to commit a capital crime.’

Following the guilty verdict, Nancy Schultz, Dave's widow, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against du Pont. She reportedly won a $35 million settlement and brought up her children in California.

But still, this did not stop du Pont from trying to reach out to the family whose lives he had shattered.

Mark says: ‘Du Pont sent a private investigator to my house and I opened the door with a video camera and when I asked what he wanted he said he wanted me to tell him anything I could do to help du Pont…he wanted to get out of prison and he was willing to do anything at that point.

‘I closed the door and sent the tape to the prosecutor’s office.’ 

Du Pont died aged 72 on December 9, 2010 at Laurel Highlands jail in Somerset, Pennsylvania, and Mark says: ‘Du Pont died the day he killed my brother in my mind, so for him to actually die was just a formality to me.’

Oscar-nominated director Bennett Miller then started developing what would become Foxcatcher in 2006.

Mark is an associate producer on the film and was on set to see not only his brother bought back to life – but also his brother’s killer.

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Beloved: Dave Schultz's children today - daughter Danielle (left) and his lookalike son Alex (right)

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Tribute: Danielle Schultz posted a gorgeous picture of her riding a pony as a little girl, led by her dad Dave

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Some things never change: Danielle Schultz all grown up and still a keen horse rider

He says: ‘I had no doubts the film would honor the memory of my brother and treat him fairly and it does. I love the film.

‘Mark Ruffalo’s portrayal of Dave is incredibly accurate, the hard thing is to watch the end of the movie, of course.

‘Mark even got the unique way that Dave held himself, and he’s actually wearing Dave’s glasses in the movie.’

Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo went through grueling wrestling training for seven months, while Carell undergoes an incredible transformation as du Pont. Mark admits: ‘I hate to say that I had contempt, but initially, I kind of ignored Steve. I knew it was Steve dressed up – but for a fraction of a second I thought du Pont had come back to life.

‘Then I spoke with Steve for quite a while, he’s a real nice guy, but I didn’t want to bother him. He was focused on staying in character, so I kind of left him alone. But he really got du Pont's mannerisms and speech pattern.’

Mark adds: ‘It’s a beautiful movie. The last time I saw it, I kind of let the past go.The movie is not based on my book – it’s based on the darkest parts of my life story.’ 

Interestingly, Mark says: ‘Now the movie has come out, I’m starting to learn more about John and his life before I met him and he had some really hard things to deal with.

‘You think having a lot of money is a blessing, I don’t think it was – if you’re the heir to a fortune that you didn’t earn, It can be a corrupting influence. He didn’t have a father and I feel bad for him….all these years later, I see the potential he had to really help a lot of people and he did, when he put money into a trauma center, helped USA wrestling and sponsored athletes. 

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Foxcatcher farm: The mansion that John du Pont called home, set within an 800 acre estate in Pennsylvania

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Convicted: John du Pont is wheeled out of the courthouse on February 24, 1997 during deliberations in his trial where he was found 'guilty but mentally ill' of third degree murder in the shooting of Dave Schultz. He died in prison in December 2010

‘Yesterday, I watched a video John had made, a documentary about me when I first came to Foxcatcher and there was a side to him that wasn’t all bad, he really was a lonely person, he didn’t have any friends. He was lonely and isolated and that can have a detrimental effect on anybody.’

Having become the first Olympic Gold medalist to enter Mixed Martial Arts under the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship helped Mark conquer his past, he says, adding: ‘I won and that was the way I always wanted to go out and be remembered. I got my happiness back and wrote my story.’

He is now a life coach, speaking at universities and corporations, using the very skills he learned in sports, and says: ‘It’s funny because when I was younger I thought that being Dave’s brother was a curse and now looking back, it was the greatest blessing.

‘He was real hard on me, but when it came to defending me against the rest of the world, he was my staunchest ally.’

If the film does win awards, Mark says: ‘It will be an honor because more people will know what a great man Dave was.’

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