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Per i tuoi bei occhi ho perso il senno, non quello dipoi ma quello di adesso. If everything is one, who are we? An emanation

reaching back to its origin?Engaged in attaining the ori-gin, more than in knowing itsinconceivable nature, we swiftlymove forward: backwards tothe source, to the beginning oftime and before. Anábasis andkatabasis, contraction andexpansion, the synchronic pul-sation of reality is gainingpace, when time is no longerthe frame of reference neitherof the two actions comesbefore the other, they really aresimultaneous, both inhalation(inspiration?) and exhalation: asuspension of breath. Reachingback to the origin always impliesan inner journey, a change ofdirection, an energy conversion.At a given point of this process,the inner transmutes into theouter and all polarities relin-quish. Now there is only one,not two or three, even God,Allah, YHWH, K.r.s.na, Maria,Giovanna e Giuseppe are allone – only the methodologiesand techniques leading back to

the origin differentiate them. There is no exclusiveway to the origin, no copyright holders; religethem all together and you will have again just one.No further recognition or personification is inneed: the inner human collective plane takes hold

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separate entities, a soul can be deep-seatedin the consciousness and eternally dwellthere in a state akin topeace. When we are

able to freely shar our time, pas-sion, enthusiasm, determina-tion, insight and love with norefrain and expectation of anyreturn, then we are softly pavingthe path to growth. Whichprosperity does not increase invalue? It is not you or I thatmatters, we are both mere polar-ities, in unity, you and I are one.Never bargain for a ‘thank you’for what you do or have done, asyou did it for me not for you.Discovery takes place deepwithin our selfhood where innerand outer are no longer two, butone, solely one. The deeper wesink into ourselves, the furtherswe reach out into the world.The essence of the cognition ofunity, by which creator, creationand creature are one, is the ini-tial impulse unfolding itself intothe space-time dimension. Thetime is ripe, but there is notime, actually.

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The sword is for the one whose proud neck is held high;no blow falls on the shadow thrown flat

upon the ground.RU M I , Mathnawi, IV: 2759

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– the final reality for which this universe wa[i]sconceived. Poeti, vati e cantori, santi e intronauti.The cosmic dance, its energy and power, neitherends nor dies: it rebounds in itself, in its stillnessresilience. Beware, the aboriginal wave is anew, noone could ever stem its tide, this plane of the mani-festation has already transmuted onto the next onewhere one and one makes zero, where only undif-ferentiated unity holds true.At re-birth there is light, light upon light: enérgeia,érgon, physical, not meta-physical, the active andexpressive power of an entity, of an organism, ofan órganon coming into existence. Before you and

me were differentiated by birth, before the big-bang of this current universe, or the fiat lux of thismanifestation (non ho sentito un grazie, ma non ven’era bisogno) there was turya, the still undifferenti-ated subtle energetic plan preceding creation:timeless, nameless, without attributions, in still-ness, acting at rest. All of a sudden light into dark-ness (love?) with a longing to give. The restlessentelécheia is at work again: a rûh, a pneuma, asoul, a jiwa takes off from the first manifestation.Then, subtle energies flourishing all over and round,consciousness shifts towards its own primacy, devel-opment, inner and outer, in-out: the creative ener-gy sets its play. Keep quite, “go placidly among thewinds.” Neither fear nor hesitate, just follow it,recall it, remember it, and act.The world of reality is a world of acts, not of still-ness, nirvana is a gateway to reality not the finaldestination. If we only abode in this time-space

dimension we are bound to death. Expand, devel-op yourself and give back to the world what youreceived so far. Released from lila’s joyful play,consciously take part in the virtuous cycle: fromabove to below, from below to the world, from theworld to above, back and forth. Once united within,the border in-between gradually fades, ‘giving’ is aresult of growth. Philanthropos, don’t stop the flow!Build on what unites, not on what divides. Furtherto history lay meta-history with its hierohistorywhere everything is in the present – past and futureare declinations of time. The past is past: learn, for-get and forgive, and move on. Action springs from

the encounter of spirit and matter in the soul, fromquality and quantity, supported by a sincere, pureand unconditioned impulse to give, freed from self-interest, egoism or profit: the time of secrets is over:spirit and matter are one. When spirit has spiritu-alised matter and matter has materialized the spirit(anábasis katabasis) then a pure act is possible, an actthat doesn’t generate karma but concurs to its ownpurification, to laundry the actor’s individual historyand, in more general terms, to lessen human pain. Inother words, actions performed in purity alleviatepoverty – and not merely the material poverty ofgoods and monies. Energy & Development is an overview of certainphysical aspects of some renewable energies andtheir use in our ‘times’, and an invitation to con-stantly re-new ourselves, and our views. ©

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