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Silo  a spiritual path

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Events unfolded one after another

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without an itinerary of any kind.

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"We should consecrate this day

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as the Day of Testimony,

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which gives priority to the human attitude..."

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Peace, force and joy!

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I met him many years ago

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and shared moments of great joy with him.

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I was a girl at the time

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and got involved enthusiastically

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in the activities my parents participated in.

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"Once we had built the hermitage,

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a few friends came to visit,

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we all got together in one moment, 

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and I had the opportunity to write 
a few things there.

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Starting from there we began to develop

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other places where we could meet and study.

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There things started.

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To make things worse,

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military dictatorships were in power
throughout Latin America.

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So we were quite uncomfortable 
with the situation,

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and we decided to move.

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We leftand landed up by the Aegean Sea.

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With that Center of Work in Corfu, 
people could come

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from all over Europe, and we were 
able to progress

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until we finished our work 
and went to other places.

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And like that we kept moving,

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jumping like fleas from place to place,

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because there was no other way.

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And then we began with 
more permanent constructions

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in different parts of the world.

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We began building what weve called 
Parks, Halls,

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little halls, meeting places of 
the Communities of The Message.

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Little by little, those more lasting constructions

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were erected in different places."

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I was impatient and wanted to discover 
what had led Silo,

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who as a child had played like 
any other in this square,

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to become a spiritual master and guide

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with thousands of followers worldwide.

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What had happened within him?

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Why was it that those who remember him today

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saw him as a leader, as special,
even back when they were kids?

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The trip arose spontaneously

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although it was connected to questions
that I had begun thinking about.

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While Siloism had been a way 
for me to understand the world,

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I also felt the need to forge my own path.

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On many walls in Buenos Aires, we read, 
"follow Silo", "see Silo", "read Silo".

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We are with him now.

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Master Silo, the coetaneans, 
as your followers are called,

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say that you are a man of flesh and blood
with supernatural powers,

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and that you represent Christ reincarnated,

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or the latest Buddha.

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Indeed, I am a man of flesh and blood,

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but this thing of supernatural powers

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should be understood as 
the management of certain forces

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which in any case are inscribed 
in the book of Nature.

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I do not embody any movement,

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nor do I lead one.

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This is simply about a man who speaks 
from the mountains,

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which some people follow, to different degrees.

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Gradually, I began to delve into 
the memories of those who knew him.

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He moved to this neighborhood when 
he was about 10-12 years old.

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And at first he wasn't someone special.

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He was not the head of a little gang, 
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there were others who fulfilled that role.

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But he got involved more and more, 
and he had a very special quality.

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He was always proposing 
new and interesting things.

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He'd get up in the morning, 
and eat breakfast,

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and he'd sit on a raft in the pool.

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He and his cousins had made a raft.

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And he'd sit there for hours on end.

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Every day, I don't know for how long.

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It was a very strange thing.

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Such a small kid, on that raft for hours. 
He was as dark as coal from the sun.

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His relationship with his mother 
was a bit strange.

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He'd listen to her but he'd get bored.

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So he'd bother her.

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Mom would push him away, but he'd continue.

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One thing I'll always remember 
I was about 15 years old.

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I met up with Negro who was reading 
in the largest public library in Mendoza,

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a block away from the plaza.

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He was on a balcony overlooking the street.

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When he saw me he said, "Gato, come here."

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He shows me a book and says:

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"You have 30 seconds to memorize this image."

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He keeps time on his watch, 
closes the book and asks me,

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"Does the man have his leg crossed 
left over right or right over left?"

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I think about it and say: Left over right.

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"Are you sure?" - Sure. 
"Completely sure?" - Completely sure.

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He opens the book and the man had no legs.

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The picture ended where the legs began.

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And I said, okay, so what?

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And he said something like, "the consciousness 
infers more than it perceives."

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Negro was a very friendly child, 
everyone loved him.

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When he was very little and we lived 
on San Lorenzo, in the city,

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he was four years old and he disappeared.

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We looked everywhere for him 
and couldn't find him.

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The whole neighborhood was looking for him.

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And then he suddenly turned up.

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"I went to sell newspapers," he said.

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So there was everyone worried about him,

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and the little rascal had taken off.

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We told him, "You're going to get lost."

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-"No, I won't get lost."

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And like that he weaved a kind of aura.

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If Negro was in on a project, it was a guarantee

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that things would work and that 
it would also be fun.

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But he was very particular about 
being the best student.

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He wasn't the prototypical skinny kid
with glasses.

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He developed in several areas.

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He was a good student, 
a good gymnast, he walked a lot.

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He did a lot of gymnastics on the bars.

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He was Argentine champion.

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He once had a terrible accident.
I am surprised he did not get killed.

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He was spinning on the bar, and the
stand got detached from its anchors.

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He flew through the air and crashed
against a wall, far away.

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But he kept at it, of course.

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He must have been 15, 16 years old.

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It was 1955, 1956 or so.

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I met him through the student protests.

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At the time of the fall of Persn, 
students began to protest

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against religion in schools.

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Two federations formed,

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one of secondary students 
in favor, and the other against.

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In 1962, Silo began working 
with a small group of friends

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in what were called crypts 
an underground, private space

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where group work was done on themes 
related to autobiography and psychophysics.

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I met with Negro around 1963-64.

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It was a substantial meeting.

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We met around 5 pm and ended 
our little chat at 7 am the next day.

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We had a lot to talk about.

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He was saying that in general 
we lived outside of history,

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that each person's history was 
a false collection of snapshots,

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without clear relationships or coherence,

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all put together with a story.

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So the proposal was not, 
"We are going to change Man."

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Or, "First we change ourselves, then..."

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But rather, "Simultaneous Change."

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There were no materials at that time,

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no movement, no super-organized structure.

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There was just what was called, 
"being in the thing."

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And "to be in the thing" was to be in the theme.

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It wasn't an object.

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The theme was, how could one begin 
to develop a deeper look,

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an inner look, a way of observing,

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and prepare to make a leap in level.

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That coincided with other things of the time,

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like the idea of the New Man, 
which was around then.

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"This new attitude of an American continent

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is captured and summarized in the cry

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that the masses proclaim every day

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as the irrefutable expression 
of their decision to fight,

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paralyzing the armed hand of the invader.

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That cry has the understanding and support

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of all the peoples of the world.

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Especially of the socialist camp,

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headed by the Soviet Union."

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At that point there were 
systematized works called Cycles.

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There was a first cycle, a second, third and fourth.

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And the goal of this progressive training

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was to gain in self-knowledge.

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To think was a matter of 
knowing how thinking works.

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To know how the emotions work.

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How motricity works, how the somatic works.

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The cycles were organized as 
a series of exercises

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to become aware of how one was put together.

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And as much as possible you tried

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to integrate and correct.

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It was like a system of little exercises

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that put you in contact with how your memory,

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your imagination and your passions worked.

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That is, it touched everything in you 
in that systematic and organized way

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that he managed so well, and so brilliantly.

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At this time, Ana Luisa Cremaschi,

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prima ballerina of the theater 
of the University of Chile,

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got involved in this work.

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Eight years later, the couple were 
married him in the city of Mendoza.

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I worked in a bank and an employee told me

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that "the Spider" was waiting for me.

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They also called him, "the Spider".

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That was around 1962.

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He spoke to me, asking me how I was,

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how things were at the bank,

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and then came the million-dollar question:

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"Do you want to change the world?"

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You think we can change the world?

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"If you want to, yes."

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Okay, let's change it.

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"Okay, tonight at 9 pm 
in that place over there,

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I'll wait for you and others that you will bring."

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And that's how we started.

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Meeting Negro made a strong impact on me,

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because you could talk to him 
about so many things,

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and he knew a lot.

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I always learned things with him.

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He always had something new, 
a way of seeing things

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and of showing you very subtly 
how you could search more deeply.

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He always had new projects.

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The things he proposed were different

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than what everyone else proposed.

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Negro had meetings with us,

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and the way in which he presented 
and said things really moved you.

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Seeing it from here,

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I think that he woke up very deep things in us.

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He woke you up!

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Back then, you dropped everything.

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And I think that was what drove me the most.

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To break with everything
and find something totally new.

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That made me feel like I was doing
something for the human being.

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Raising consciousness, trying to wake it up

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from that slumber we saw.

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And in fact that was in the first things I read:

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the human being is asleep, 
we have to wake him up.

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And we were going to do that.

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And really, you didn't ask why,

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because everything was moving in the direction

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that waking up was possible.

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Well, the responses were  it depends.

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From parents, terrible!

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Their children were leaving 
their studies, jobs, family,

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and we'd go off for six months.

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And they didn't know where, or to do what.

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Brainwashing was in at the time, 
and so their poor little kids

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were getting brainwashed.

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Quite right!

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Because if we had continued 
with the brains of the '60s,

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this planet would have been a disaster!

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"Dear friends,

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We have failed but we keep insisting!

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We have failed but keep insisting

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with our project of humanizing the world.

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We have failed and we will continue to fail

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not just once but a thousand times again.

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Because we ride on the wings 
of a bird named Intent,

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that soars above frustration, 
weakness and pettiness.

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The force that gives life to our flight

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is faith in our destiny, 
faith in the justice of our action,

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faith in ourselves,

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and faith in the human being.

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The Vietnam War was on, the Cold War, 
the Cultural Revolution.

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It was a very turbulent time.

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I was 15, and at that age we were 
starting parties, political movements.

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The group I was in  that would later form

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the Revolutionary Vanguard and the MIR 

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named me,
'Commander of Transport and Sabotage'.

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I was 15 years old.

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The ones who gave me that post, 
my older friends and brother,

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are just 20 years old.

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That tells you what was happening at the time.

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So the political and social turmoil created
by the young generations

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pressuring the older ones was very strong.

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That was reflected in society, 
it was reflected in philosophy.

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The whole Hippie movement 
was also happening then.

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It was the time when certain 
mystical movements appeared.

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That was the context in which 
I connected with Silo.

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And his message was quite different

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from everything that was happening.

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It was the message of nonviolence.

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"When did all this start?"

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This started barely six months ago, 
on May 4, in Punta de Vacas,

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when I called for peace and nonviolence.

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And in reply to that teaching, I was mocked.

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"This world is on the verge of exploding 
with no way to end the violence.

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Do not choose false doors.

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There are no politics that can solve
this mad urge for violence.

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There is no political party or movement 
on the planet

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that can end the violence."

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"I don't consider myself a master, 
a messiah, or anything like that."

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"My teaching is not for the triumphant,

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but for those who carry failure in their heart."

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These are the words of Mario Rodriguez, Silo.

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Silo, do you consider yourself a failure?

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To a large degree, yes.

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Why?

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Among other things, because I cannot 
carry out the teaching

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I would like to carry out,

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due to the public prohibitions 
that we all know about.

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What are the objectives of your teaching?

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Pacification, nonviolence, love, peace,

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and the explanation of 
the possibilities of awakening.

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In general, all Marxist-Leninist 
movements propose taking power

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through violence, through armed struggle.

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And there are also right-wing reactions
to that path of armed struggle.

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And the left, the socialists 
not just the communists or the MIR

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talked so much about taking power by force

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that in the end it was the army
that took power by force.

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I met Negro in 1971, in Yala.

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But then there was a break because 
the imprisonments and detentions started.

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The military regime in Argentina,
under Onganma, banned Silo's talks.

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First in the Plaza Once, then in Casa Suiza,

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in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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There, they took about 500 of us 
prisoner, in buses,

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and held us overnight in various police stations.

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From then on, the regime banned all his talks.

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It was July 1973.

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I was in the army, doing my military service,

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but I was also searching,

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trying to find answers about 
the meaning of my life.

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Why am I alive? What is the universe?

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All these questions came out of a big depression,

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a situation where my life's aspirations 
and illusions had collapsed.

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It was a moment in which 
I was like an act seeking an object.

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Like someone who wants to be in love 
and then they find their loved one.

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In that moment, it fit.

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I had never heard of Silo.

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But I was referred to a bookstore 
where perhaps I could find his work.

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It was the time of the Franco dictatorship,

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and there was a lot of repression 
of ideas and everything.

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I went to the store and asked, 
"Do you have a book of Siloism?"

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They guy looks around to see 
if anyone is listening,

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tells me to wait a minute,

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goes into a backroom, 
and then returns with a little book.

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He says, "Is this what you're looking for?"

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I say I do not know, 
but it has something to do with Silo.

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So I bought it and went home.

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When I opened the book, I started reading:

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'Universal Laws, the Method, the origin of 
the Universe, of Life, and of the Human Being'.

319 
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"After an immense period of time had passed,

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human life began to flower on this planet.

321 
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But with the passage of millennia,

322 
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the peoples and nations began 
to grow separate and distinct.

323 
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There was a time to be born, a time to laugh,

324 
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a time to suffer, and a time to die.

325 
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Individuals, peoples, and nations, 
building and growing,

326 
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succeeding one another until at last
they inherited the Earth.

327 
00:33:45,533 --> 00:33:51,633
They ruled the waters of the oceans 
and flew faster than the wind,

328 
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and they crossed the mountains.

329 
00:33:56,800 --> 00:34:01,500
And in voices of the storm and 
with light brighter than the sun,

330 
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they demonstrated their power.

331 
00:34:06,900 --> 00:34:14,300
Then they looked back and saw 
in the distance their blue planet,

332 
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their gentle protector, veiled by clouds.

333 
00:34:19,700 --> 00:34:22,833
What energy has moved all this?

334 
00:34:24,300 --> 00:34:29,533
What motor has propelled 
the human being through history,

335 
00:34:30,533 --> 00:34:33,933
if not rebellion against death?

336 
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:40,500
From earliest times, death has dogged 
humankinds footsteps

337 
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like a shadow.

338 
00:34:44,633 --> 00:34:47,700
And since ancient times, death entered

339 
00:34:48,100 --> 00:34:53,100
the human heart and tried to conquer it.

340 
00:34:56,033 --> 00:35:00,300
What was at first an unrelenting struggle

341 
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:04,500
driven by the necessities of life

342 
00:35:06,533 --> 00:35:12,133
became a struggle driven by fear and desire.

343 
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:18,200
And two roads opened:

344 
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the road of Yes and the road of No."

345 
00:35:25,833 --> 00:35:28,333
The themes he spoke on, 
about the School of Liberation,

346 
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:33,000
reveries and action, levels of consciousness,

347 
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:35,533
essence and personality;

348 
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,800
the talk, "The Healing of Suffering" from 1969,

349 
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:41,800
when Silo spoke in Punta de Vacas,

350 
00:35:42,300 --> 00:35:44,900
revealed him as a mythical character.

351 
00:35:46,300 --> 00:35:48,700
He doesn't talk about God, or spirits.

352 
00:35:49,100 --> 00:35:51,100
He talks about something as simple

353 
00:35:51,100 --> 00:35:53,433
and as complicated as overcoming suffering.

354 
00:35:53,933 --> 00:35:59,533
Imagine for example an experience of peace,

355 
00:36:00,700 --> 00:36:02,700
an experience of happiness,

356 
00:36:03,633 --> 00:36:09,833
a valid experience, where you feel good.

357 
00:36:11,033 --> 00:36:15,600
But you also recall that if you could repeat it,

358 
00:36:16,700 --> 00:36:18,300
something would grow within you.

359 
00:36:18,933 --> 00:36:20,800
You feel very good, as if you were floating.

360 
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:22,633
Sometimes we have these experiences.

361 
00:36:23,133 --> 00:36:27,100
Different from being upset, or feeling irritated.

362 
00:36:27,633 --> 00:36:30,100
That is experienced as denser, heavier.

363 
00:36:31,300 --> 00:36:33,600
That different "materiality",

364 
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is an indicator of different kinds of registers,

365 
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:39,333
of experience.

366 
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:42,500
If you repeat experiences of peace,

367 
00:36:42,900 --> 00:36:48,800
experiences of reconciliation 
with yourself, of well-being,

368 
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:54,300
you are creating an atmosphere, 
a diffuse kind of thing

369 
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:58,100
that grows within you and accompanies you.

370 
00:36:58,700 --> 00:37:00,900
It's a process, something that you create.

371 
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:06,533
This third principle or spirit is something 
that can be developed

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over time and that is created through actions.

373 
00:37:17,833 --> 00:37:25,933
The last works that Silo taught 
are what we call, "Works of School".

374 
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:35,433
Basically, they are four paths
of mystical development,

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00:37:37,100 --> 00:37:41,733
four Disciplines that Silo developed.

376 
00:37:43,500 --> 00:37:50,500
They are Disciplines related to
Energy, Matter, Form and Mind.

377 
00:38:14,100 --> 00:38:18,300
"Our Community is a tolerant 
and nonviolent moral force

378 
00:38:18,533 --> 00:38:20,300
that teaches that the highest value is

379 
00:38:20,500 --> 00:38:23,333
to treat others as you want them to treat you.

380 
00:38:23,633 --> 00:38:26,200
This is the moral impulse that must give direction

381 
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:29,733
to the new generations and 
be put into practice by everyone

382 
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,133
who truly wants to begin to Humanize our Earth.

383 
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:37,900
And what do we say today from India, 
the throbbing heart of the world,

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00:38:38,733 --> 00:38:41,600
whose spiritual reserve 
has been a teaching

385 
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:45,200
and an answer for a world whose mind is sick?

386 
00:38:46,900 --> 00:38:50,200
We say: 'Treat others as you want
them to treat you.'

387 
00:38:51,433 --> 00:38:53,100
There is no human act superior to this;

388 
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:55,500
there is no moral law higher than this.

389 
00:38:55,900 --> 00:38:58,300
When human beings understand this 
and carry it out

390 
00:38:58,700 --> 00:39:01,400
in practice every day and in every hour,

391 
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:04,633
they progress and help others 
progress with them."

392 
00:39:50,100 --> 00:39:56,733
"The work of a teacher, 
of an instructor is important.

393 
00:40:00,300 --> 00:40:09,700
But in times of crisis, the work of a guide 
is the most important.

394 
00:40:12,900 --> 00:40:15,800
We will not talk about what is happening
in the world today.

395 
00:40:17,433 --> 00:40:23,733
We all know that we are 
fast approaching a universal crisis.

396 
00:40:25,900 --> 00:40:30,133
We also know that all references are being lost.

397 
00:40:30,700 --> 00:40:40,733
In such a situation, teachers and instructors
must become guides."

398 
00:40:49,233 --> 00:40:53,100
Silo resembled the mountain 
that is never still but is alive,

399 
00:40:53,500 --> 00:40:55,800
one way today and another tomorrow;

400 
00:40:56,300 --> 00:40:59,033
like the consciousness that is always changing.

401 
00:40:59,833 --> 00:41:02,800
He knew that experts who work 
with maps and books

402 
00:41:03,233 --> 00:41:06,100
and who pretend to know how things are,
end up lost.

403 
00:41:07,100 --> 00:41:10,633
He understood that, like the mountain guides 
who cross the mountains

404 
00:41:11,033 --> 00:41:14,100
where everything is changing and unpredictable,

405 
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:18,700
human beings can also configure
a kind of inner guide.

406 
00:41:19,033 --> 00:41:22,600
And lost in the maze of their own consciousness,

407 
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:26,400
they can see the light and reach a safe haven.

408 
00:42:05,333 --> 00:42:08,100
That talk was very intense.

409 
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:11,733
It was the first time I had heard the talk on Fire,

410 
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:15,933
covering the entire process from 
the conservation and production of fire,

411 
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:20,133
the whole history of humanity linked to

412 
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:22,900
the transformation of materials through fire.

413 
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:27,233
This work had a playful part to it.

414 
00:42:28,333 --> 00:42:33,200
It helped me to make connections
and get inspired,

415 
00:42:33,533 --> 00:42:36,400
and no doubt others too, and him too, why not?

416 
00:42:37,433 --> 00:42:40,600
Somehow through those works,

417 
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:44,333
I felt like I was being shown a world 
that I would not have found,

418 
00:42:44,500 --> 00:42:47,300
even if I'd worked with materials for years.

419 
00:42:47,733 --> 00:42:50,800
Somehow I discovered what was
behind the material.

420 
00:42:51,700 --> 00:42:57,433
Somehow I discovered the possibility 
of an absolutely transcendent

421 
00:42:57,433 --> 00:42:59,600
and transformative experience,

422 
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:03,900
accessible to anyone, but which is not easy 
without a certain direction.

423 
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:11,333
And in this case I had the luck to be with someone 
who really knew about these themes.

424 
00:43:59,900 --> 00:44:06,266
His proposal had to do with 
enabling the human being to grow

425 
00:44:06,500 --> 00:44:08,533
and to become more free.

426 
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:14,233
The essence of the human being is his liberty

427 
00:44:14,733 --> 00:44:19,333
and we live in a society that was built 
with totally other values,

428 
00:44:19,333 --> 00:44:21,333
with other interests.

429 
00:44:21,700 --> 00:44:23,866
And it is not that the people are free.

430 
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:29,933
And so this doctrine, as it moves in the world is always 
going to create problems, everywhere that it goes.

431 
00:44:30,366 --> 00:44:31,866
The Message of Silo

432 
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:43,366
has to do with helping people become in contact 
and opening an internal contact with the 
profound inside oneself.

433 
00:44:43,833 --> 00:44:47,233
And the Message is very strange. It starts from failure.

434 
00:44:48,066 --> 00:44:51,533
I have to realize that I failed in my life. 

435 
00:44:52,433 --> 00:44:59,933
And then I began to search, I began to really search 
for something that goes beyond my daily experience.

436 
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:03,700
But when people really have failed

437 
00:45:04,833 --> 00:45:10,866
and then they recognize that, you know I need to grow, 
I need to change. And then they begin to look.

438 
00:45:11,866 --> 00:45:14,166
And some of those people find the Message.

439 
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:19,200
So this Message of Silo is going around the world 
and people are taking it 

440 
00:45:19,533 --> 00:45:27,500
and as volunteers they go opening the Message 
for their people, and their families and their friends. 

441 
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:31,700
And so that, that says a lot.

442 
00:45:32,366 --> 00:45:39,866
And also they dont want leaders, they want their
own organization, and the Message is like that.

443 
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:46,000
There is no leaders, there is no organization. 
It's a spirituality that is very free,

444 
00:45:47,100 --> 00:45:52,300
and very simple, and has a tremendous internal potential.

445 
00:45:52,966 --> 00:45:59,033
The Message has to do with a connection amongst others.

446 
00:45:59,433 --> 00:46:06,766
And in the Message we ask for others, we thank, 
we make contact with our loved ones who are not here;

447 
00:46:06,766 --> 00:46:08,533
you think about them, you integrate them. 

448 
00:46:08,866 --> 00:46:12,666
His way of treating others, his tremendous kindness,

449 
00:46:12,666 --> 00:46:19,066
his detachment about particular 
things that were happening,

450 
00:46:19,300 --> 00:46:21,566
his tremendous interest about processes, 

451 
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:30,966
his capacity to find what is funny about so much of 
the stuff that we do. We take ourselves so seriously,

452 
00:46:31,433 --> 00:46:33,466
he never took things very seriously. 

453 
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:36,466
So its another way of being in the world.

454 
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:47,900
And here you have someone whos life is dedicated to
what contribution am I making so that the human being 
suffers less, the human being can grow.

455 
00:46:51,100 --> 00:46:55,600
And all that I feel is probably what we
will became in the future.

456 
00:46:56,233 --> 00:47:01,466
We know that we are in a moment of cultural 
disintegration, total cultural disintegration.

457 
00:47:03,100 --> 00:47:05,933
So we have this Message that doesnt talk about God, 

458 
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:10,533
that respects any culture,

459 
00:47:10,733 --> 00:47:12,766
people can take this Message 
and do what they want,

460 
00:47:12,766 --> 00:47:18,800
and its a way of opening internal experience 
in a moment where internal experience is closed.

461 
00:47:20,233 --> 00:47:24,000
And when I was working with Silo, 
accompanying him in certain projects,

462 
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:29,700
he worked with maximum liberty.

463 
00:47:29,700 --> 00:47:33,666
You have a proposal and you put things into action.

464 
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:39,033
And if things arent working you have to always 
have the internal liberty to through it out of the window. 

465 
00:47:39,966 --> 00:47:46,233
So much of the Message, so much of the doctrine 
has to do with ones relationship with the world,

466 
00:47:46,233 --> 00:47:48,400
ones relationship with other people.

467 
00:47:48,900 --> 00:47:54,633
And what I can support, what I can give to other people. 
Not what they are going to give to me.

468 
00:47:55,200 --> 00:48:02,200
I dont know, it's something rather Tao,  
I can go forward here, but I have to go backwards

469 
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:06,100
because this isnt working, here I can go forward.

470 
00:48:06,100 --> 00:48:11,766
Always looking where can this project advance. 

471 
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:19,166
Its not always where you want it to advance, but 
there is always somewhere where you can go forward.

472 
00:48:30,100 --> 00:48:35,433
From my point of view, Silo incorporates 
something very important

473 
00:48:36,333 --> 00:48:38,800
into modern psychology:

474 
00:48:39,233 --> 00:48:42,200
the transformation of the impulses of the body,

475 
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:44,700
which are translated as images.

476 
00:48:45,100 --> 00:48:51,133
This set of images forms what is called 
a "space of representation".

477 
00:48:51,333 --> 00:48:55,600
This thing of the space of representation 
is unprecedented,

478 
00:48:56,100 --> 00:48:59,100
and Silo expresses it very clearly and simply.

479 
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:06,033
Husserl had mentioned its existence 
in a very complex and unclear way,

480 
00:49:07,433 --> 00:49:14,233
Silo takes up this idea from phenomenology 
and expresses it extremely clearly,

481 
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:18,333
and makes a contribution to the field of 
the psychology of the image,

482 
00:49:19,900 --> 00:49:22,333
which leads to the creation of a new psychology.

483 
00:49:22,933 --> 00:49:28,033
A psychology based on the description of 
the phenomena of consciousness.

484 
00:50:38,733 --> 00:50:42,600
Silo immediately made a 
very special impression on me,

485 
00:50:43,133 --> 00:50:46,500
his appearance, his smile,

486 
00:50:47,300 --> 00:50:51,066
his sharp and subtle mind.

487 
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:57,533
And I was also greatly impressed

488 
00:50:57,633 --> 00:51:01,200
by a certain aristocratic touch he had.

489 
00:51:03,700 --> 00:51:09,700
His way of gesturing, his bearing, 
the tone of his voice,

490 
00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:12,600
and the speed at which he spoke.

491 
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:17,000
He immediately stood out from the others.

492 
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:20,833
And you could feel that he had a special talent

493 
00:51:21,900 --> 00:51:26,500
as a thinker, the talent of a master.

494 
00:51:27,433 --> 00:51:31,600
Almost without noticing, he immediately 
attracted your attention

495 
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:34,133
and you wanted to hear him, speak with him.

496 
00:51:37,233 --> 00:51:40,000
We started to collaborate with him

497 
00:51:40,433 --> 00:51:45,900
when there were difficulties in the Soviet Union.

498 
00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:51,100
It was the time of Perestroika, 
the country was led by Gorbachev

499 
00:51:51,433 --> 00:51:54,700
and we were all looking for a change.

500 
00:51:57,400 --> 00:52:02,400
I and many others had become disillusioned

501 
00:52:02,833 --> 00:52:05,100
with the idea of communism and socialism,

502 
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:09,500
and we began to review our convictions.

503 
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:13,100
For many years I was a member of the Party.

504 
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:15,400
Naturally, I defended Marxist positions.

505 
00:52:16,100 --> 00:52:19,700
And then came the moment of transformation,

506 
00:52:19,700 --> 00:52:22,800
a kind of mental, psychological Perestroika.

507 
00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:27,800
I experienced a moment of transformation,

508 
00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:29,833
a perestroika of the brain itself.

509 
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:34,800
Because religious consciousness 
is also extremely significant.

510 
00:52:35,033 --> 00:52:37,600
Materialism is excellent, communism is excellent,

511 
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:40,133
socialism is excellent, humanism is excellent,

512 
00:52:40,700 --> 00:52:42,600
but how do you combine all of this?

513 
00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:45,133
For a long time they have been at odds.

514 
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:50,900
At the time I was the Director of 
the Institute of Latin America,

515 
00:52:51,500 --> 00:52:57,633
and deputy Vice-President of the
Russian Academy of Sciences.

516 
00:52:58,500 --> 00:53:03,833
Silo made a strong impression and 
so I proposed the possibility

517 
00:53:05,100 --> 00:53:13,700
of granting him the distinction of 
Doctor Honoris Causa.

518 
00:53:29,033 --> 00:53:34,433
"My first contact with the movement
was in June 1973.

519 
00:53:35,733 --> 00:53:41,100
I was sitting under the statue of Giordano Bruno
in Campo dei Fiori, in Rome.

520 
00:53:43,100 --> 00:53:49,000
The statue stands in the same spot 
where, in January 1600,

521 
00:53:49,900 --> 00:53:55,800
the great humanist was burned at the stake
by the Inquisition for saying,

522 
00:53:56,500 --> 00:54:02,233
with extraordinary foresight, that not only did
the earth revolve around the sun,

523 
00:54:03,233 --> 00:54:06,000
but also that the universe is as infinite

524 
00:54:06,500 --> 00:54:09,700
as the worlds that give it life.

525 
00:54:14,700 --> 00:54:21,100
I was having a discussion on 
revolutionary strategy with an anarchist friend.

526 
00:54:23,100 --> 00:54:26,400
A young man sat next to us listening,

527 
00:54:26,733 --> 00:54:29,433
but did not get involved.

528 
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:33,100
When my friend and his group left,

529 
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:40,433
the young man asked me if
I had ever heard of global revolution.

530 
00:54:41,433 --> 00:54:44,700
He spoke to me about active nonviolence,
about the healing of suffering,

531 
00:54:45,933 --> 00:54:50,000
and about working on yourself 
in order to transform internally.

532 
00:54:50,633 --> 00:54:55,533
He said he was Chilean and 
in the Siloist Movement,

533 
00:54:56,500 --> 00:55:02,500
the movement founded by a 
Latin American thinker they called, Silo.

534 
00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:07,833
I saw him for the first time in a bar 
where he had agreed to meet us.

535 
00:55:09,100 --> 00:55:12,800
He was standing at the counter 
talking to some people.

536 
00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:18,000
I sat at a table waiting for him to finish,

537 
00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:20,600
and I began to study him.

538 
00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:33,100
He wore a beige suit, a tie with 
a geometric pattern,

539 
00:55:33,500 --> 00:55:34,833
and polished shoes.

540 
00:55:39,033 --> 00:55:42,400
He couldn't have been more bourgeois!

541 
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:58,933
It couldn't be  a revolutionary, 
a master with a tie!

542 
00:56:00,500 --> 00:56:02,200
It was all wrong!

543 
00:56:03,733 --> 00:56:06,400
I expected a hybrid between Che Guevara,

544 
00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:10,800
a Hindu guru and a Mexican healer.

545 
00:56:14,933 --> 00:56:19,200
One of the things I most appreciate about Silo

546 
00:56:19,700 --> 00:56:21,400
is his sense of humor.

547 
00:56:27,833 --> 00:56:32,933
Silo is constantly able to marvel 
at the great human comedy.

548 
00:56:35,900 --> 00:56:38,333
But his laughter is not distant,

549 
00:56:38,700 --> 00:56:44,733
one of superiority over 
the endless stupidities with which

550 
00:56:44,933 --> 00:56:49,700
the life of all people, great and small is woven.

551 
00:56:50,900 --> 00:56:55,500
Like two sides of a coin, 
on the other side of his laughter

552 
00:56:56,200 --> 00:57:00,933
there is patience and compassion
in how he looks at

553 
00:57:00,933 --> 00:57:04,300
the misery and the greatness
of the human condition."

554 
00:57:25,600 --> 00:57:30,200
For me, Silo was like a messenger  
I'm not sure from where 

555 
00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:32,000
who suddenly appeared in my life.

556 
00:57:33,100 --> 00:57:36,400
And at that moment I felt a great connection.

557 
00:57:37,100 --> 00:57:39,000
So for me Silo is a guide.

558 
00:57:39,833 --> 00:57:43,800
A guide who leads to the spaces of inspiration,

559 
00:57:44,800 --> 00:57:46,633
to the spaces of the spirit.

560 
00:57:48,400 --> 00:57:49,900
Silo is the one

561 
00:57:49,933 --> 00:57:53,433
who opens the door to the transcendental.

562 
00:57:54,533 --> 00:57:58,833
Silo is a master, in the true sense of the word.

563 
00:58:01,500 --> 00:58:05,400
He was my master, but also 
my friend and companion.

564 
00:58:07,733 --> 00:58:09,200
But basically a master.

565 
00:58:09,533 --> 00:58:14,800
And a master is different than a professor, 
a teacher, a scholar.

566 
00:58:15,700 --> 00:58:19,533
A master is someone who reveals,
someone who shows.

567 
00:58:19,933 --> 00:58:22,833
And that's what Silo did all the time.

568 
00:58:23,200 --> 00:58:27,800
Silo put you in front of things, 
so that you would do something.

569 
00:58:28,733 --> 00:58:36,000
I declare myself a Siloist, 
and from personal experience

570 
00:58:37,133 --> 00:58:43,000
after all these years, I want to say that within me,

571 
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:50,933
the fears of old age, of illness, loneliness,

572 
00:58:50,933 --> 00:58:53,000
and death are being overcome.

573 
00:58:53,700 --> 00:58:58,900
For me, Silo was first a friend, then a guide,

574 
00:58:59,433 --> 00:59:01,933
and he ended up being a master.

575 
00:59:05,400 --> 00:59:13,333
He gave me my first things of self-knowledge,

576 
00:59:16,500 --> 00:59:20,300
the first tools to go exploring

577 
00:59:20,700 --> 00:59:25,033
those things that you come across
in your search.

578 
00:59:26,133 --> 00:59:30,200
Silo for me was a great friend and master.

579 
00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:45,500
Someone brilliant, clear, very funny,

580 
00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:55,100
who could handle every topic.

581 
00:59:56,300 --> 00:59:58,300
A master unlike any other.

582 
01:00:03,100 --> 01:00:10,433
As a friend said, he had hardware that 
was much more powerful

583 
01:00:10,700 --> 01:00:13,300
than any of us had.

584 
01:00:13,400 --> 01:00:16,100
Someone very out of the ordinary.

585 
01:00:26,800 --> 01:00:29,500
The more I searched among those 
who had known him

586 
01:00:29,833 --> 01:00:32,433
and got immersed in the atmosphere 
of that generation,

587 
01:00:32,700 --> 01:00:36,200
the more I wondered about 
the similarities with the events

588 
01:00:36,533 --> 01:00:39,133
and demonstrations of my generation.

589 
01:00:40,400 --> 01:00:44,500
I related to the Humanist Movement 
my parents were members of it.

590 
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:49,800
In our family, we lived those themes
in our daily life.

591 
01:00:50,600 --> 01:00:53,900
But I am also part of a generation that is now

592 
01:00:54,300 --> 01:00:58,433
demonstrating its discontent 
just like they did 30 years ago.

593 
01:01:00,300 --> 01:01:03,233
"Though today we find ourselves
located in different places,

594 
01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:06,000
we are filled with joy at this celebration.

595 
01:01:08,800 --> 01:01:14,700
We are joyful because we do not need to thank

596 
01:01:15,933 --> 01:01:19,633
either governments or corporations,

597 
01:01:20,233 --> 01:01:22,900
none of the powerful or any of the mass media.

598 
01:01:27,700 --> 01:01:32,200
How can people decide about 
the direction of their lives

599 
01:01:33,800 --> 01:01:38,300
when they are very far from being 
in control of their daily situations?

600 
01:01:39,733 --> 01:01:43,900
How can people decide freely 
about the meaning of their lives

601 
01:01:44,400 --> 01:01:48,500
if they are subject to needs
imposed by their own bodies?

602 
01:01:51,233 --> 01:01:55,633
How can they freely choose, 
enchained as they are

603 
01:01:56,100 --> 01:01:58,933
to a system of economic urgencies 

604 
01:02:00,900 --> 01:02:05,333
a system of family relationships, 
work, and friendship

605 
01:02:05,800 --> 01:02:10,200
that at times becomes a system of 
unemployment, despair,

606 
01:02:10,733 --> 01:02:15,300
loneliness, helplessness, and failed hopes?

607 
01:02:17,900 --> 01:02:23,000
How can people freely decide 
on the basis of manipulated information

608 
01:02:24,200 --> 01:02:28,633
and the mass media-induced exaltation 
of antivalues that holds up

609 
01:02:29,233 --> 01:02:32,433
the powerful as the ultimate model of behavior?

610 
01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:37,000
The powerfulwho shamelessly 
exhibit their violence,

611 
01:02:38,333 --> 01:02:43,200
threats, abuse, arbitrariness, and lack of reason.

612 
01:02:45,033 --> 01:02:48,800
How can people decide freely 
when the moral leaders

613 
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:52,400
of the great religions either offer justifications

614 
01:02:53,033 --> 01:02:57,200
or remain silent in the face 
of genocide, holy wars,

615 
01:02:57,500 --> 01:03:01,100
defensive wars, and preventive wars?

616 
01:03:07,233 --> 01:03:09,000
What is this?

617 
01:03:18,400 --> 01:03:23,800
The social atmosphere is 
so poisoned by cruelty

618 
01:03:27,100 --> 01:03:33,100
that day by day our personal relations 
become more cruel,

619 
01:03:34,833 --> 01:03:42,833
and day by day we treat ourselves
with greater cruelty.

620 
01:03:47,600 --> 01:03:51,100
It is the human beings' great fears
that stop them

621 
01:03:51,500 --> 01:03:55,000
from giving life the direction 
and meaning longed for.

622 
01:03:56,900 --> 01:04:05,000
Fear of poverty, of loneliness, 
of illness, and of death combine

623 
01:04:05,400 --> 01:04:11,800
and become stronger in society, 
in human groups, and in individuals.

624 
01:04:13,900 --> 01:04:17,233
But in spite of everything...

625 
01:04:22,400 --> 01:04:25,233
in spite of these unfortunate constraints,

626 
01:04:28,300 --> 01:04:34,700
something soft as a far off sound,

627 
01:04:40,500 --> 01:04:44,433
something light as a dawn breeze,

628 
01:04:47,000 --> 01:04:49,733
something that begins gently

629 
01:04:50,033 --> 01:04:53,633
is opening its way in the interior 
of the human being.

630 
01:05:59,933 --> 01:06:03,000
English translation: Roberto Verdecchia