Filmé à L’ÉCHAPPÉE, le 28 mai 2016. Plus d’informations sur http://www.lechappeevolee.com

Santiago Siri est le fondateur et président de Democracy Earth, une organisation à but non lucratif, accélérée par Y Combinator, qui développe une solution open-source pour le vote en ligne. Il est également membre fondateur du « Partido de la Red » (le parti du Net), un parti politique argentin qui vise à améliorer la représentation de candidats engagés via des requêtes citoyennes en ligne. Défenseur du bitcoin depuis 2011, il aide certaines startups et organisations à adopter ce système de transactions révolutionnaires. Élu « Global Shaper » par le Forum Économique Mondial, il publie son premier livre « Hacktivismo » en 2015.

Edward Carpenter (August 29, 1844 – June 28, 1929) was an English socialist poet, philosopher, anthologist, and early LGBT activist. A poet and writer, he was a close friend of Rabindranath Tagore, and a friend of Walt Whitman.  Wikipedia

Jon Bellion’s debut album ‘The Human Condition’ is available now: http://smarturl.it/TheHumanCondition

“Human (Acoustic)” was shot and recorded in the legendary Capitol Studios

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Music video by Jon Bellion performing Human. (C) 2016 Capitol Records

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Man, the Unknown has planted deep in the hearts of thousands of readers new hope, new courage, stronger belief in a better day and in a fuller life for mankind. This renowned scientist, a Nobel Prize winner and member of the Rockefeller Institute, has drawn on his human experiences and his vast scientific knowledge for this astonishing discussion of the body and soul of man. Listen to him explain the realms of the spiritual and unattainable! Don’t miss his extraordinary pages on prayer and miracles, the human mind, the conquest of disease! Read it, discuss it, and apply the message to your own life!  (Amazon.com)

Alexis Carrel (June 28, 1873 – November 5, 1944) was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques. Wikipedia

Sufism is a school for the actualization of divine ethics. It involves an enlightened inner being, not intellectual proof; revelation and witnessing, not logic. By divine ethics, we are referring to ethics that transcend mere social convention, a way of being that is the actualization of the attributes of God.

To explain the Truth is indeed a difficult task. Words, being limited, can never really express the perfection of the Absolute, the Unbound. Thus, for those who are imperfect, words create doubt and misunderstanding. Yet:

If one cannot drink up the entire ocean,
one can drink to one’s limit.

Philosophers have written volumes and spoken endlessly of the Truth, but somehow their efforts have always fallen short. For the sufi, philosophers are those who view the Perfection of the Absolute from a limited perspective; so all they see is part of the Absolute, not the Infinite in its entirety. It is indeed true that what philosophers see is correct; nevertheless, it is only a part of the whole.

One is reminded of Rumi’s well-known story of a group of men in India who had never seen an elephant. One day they came to a place where an elephant was. In complete darkness they approached the animal, each man feeling it. Afterwards, they described what they thought they had perceived. Of course their descriptions were different. The one who felt a leg, imagined the elephant to be a pillar. The one who felt the animal’s ear, described the elephant as a fan, and so on. Each one of their descriptions with respect to the various parts they had experienced was true. However, as far as accurately describing the whole, their conceptions had all fallen short. If they had had a candle, the difference of opinions would not have come about. The candle’s light would have revealed the elephant as a whole.

Only by the light of the Spiritual Path and the mystic way can the Truth be discovered. In order for one to truly witness the Perfection of the Absolute, one must see with one’s inner being, which perceives the whole of Reality. This witnessing happens when one becomes perfect, losing one’s (partial) existence in the Whole. If the Whole is likened to the Ocean, and the part to a drop, the sufi says that witnessing the Ocean with the eye of a drop is impossible. However, when the drop becomes one with the Ocean, it sees the Ocean with the eye of the Ocean.

Contributed by Brian Wallenstein, H.W., d.

THE HEAVENS—Maintaining that He was overall very pleased with the creation of all things, God Almighty, Our Lord and Heavenly Father, admitted Tuesday that His biggest regret was never making a two-headed snake creature. “I always wanted to create some kind of super-poisonous snake thing with a head at either end, and maybe some freaky pitch-black eyes,” said God, adding that back when He was creating them, He spent far too much time tinkering with snakes’ “wicked” fangs and was ultimately forced to hurriedly “slap a tail on them” and move on to making lizards. “Leathery wings would be pretty cool, too. And maybe the heads would try to eat each other—damn, that would be so sweet. Know what? Fuck it—I’m whipping up one of those things.” The Lord then confirmed that in order to start on the two-headed snake initiative, He would have to sideline His current project of creating an even dumber-looking alpaca.

Live performance at HawaiiSlam’s First Thursdays, held at Fresh Cafe on April 1st, 2010. Zoom Out takes an existential look at the way we live our lives.

Inspired by Ricky Thomas, H.W., m.