The flexor tendons, between bones and muscles, enter the hand through the carpal tunnel where they form three layers. In the wrist and the palm of the hand all the flexors of the long fingers are included in a single synovial sheath that allows the three layers to move. In the fingers, the tendons move along the bone and fibre channels with a very complex organization.
The first question is: how can such a gross individual, thick-headed and primitive, have such a sophisticated mechanical system?
A hand that makes an apparently simple movement such as picking up a glass, starts a series of functions much more complex than the ones just described.
So you realize that a hand, for example, belongs to someone you hate or love?
Knowing that the speed of sound propagates itself faster in water instead of air or that a sound is the vibration of something oscillating… Knowing the frequency-intensity-tone… Do all these things change something while you listen to or write music? Can scientific or technical knowledge weaken or delete the incredible feelings that we experience while listening to real musical masterpieces?
I follow with passion and enthusiasm, just to underline from where the sermon is coming, scientific and technological progress. But, “from time to time”, when I read that a scientist at the prestigious… in… that teaches at the famous… in… during one of those congresses-festivals in… (which can compete with Sanremo, the most famous Italian music contest), states that matter is the only reality, maybe exchanging the effect with the cause, without even doubting, as every researcher should do, then I start thinking. I start thinking that maybe there are beings which are slightly different from humans, that I call just for stylistic convenience mimics. These infiltrators use the pars destruens (poor Bacon), as their strategy, it doesn’t matter if consciously or not, to defeat resistance and the moral qualities of those who can hear.
But the most dangerous ones are, alas, the fake believers, the ones that kill or order to kill in the name of God. To this category of mimics belong those powerful mediocre people who for “personal interests” would be capable of destroying without pity an entire nation. Pitiless, with a suit but looking like cowboys, apparently democratic and altruist, these professional liars, through their propaganda, excite ignorant and enthusiastic electors. But when they say that they cry on God’s shoulder, then this honky-tonk blasphemy acquires a comical tone.
An acceleration without breaks that is leading materialistic societies to the end of their run. And the crash will be inevitable.
A project for a new social structure could be possible. So I come to the theme I was given, i.e. young people, dreams, ideals and myths.
Dreams (with your eyes open) hardly ever reach ideals, and illusion is not a good thing.
Ideals, sometimes preceded by intuitive flashes, can and must become true.
Myths are a human need.
The neoplatonic philosopher Sallustius (On the Gods and the World), wrote: “One may call the world a myth, in which bodies and things are visible, but souls and minds are hidden”.
A new “society” should invest in “existential research”. Open prestigious public schools for the education of children. Institutes where the high potential of children finally finds its right evolution. Where you can teach, with the same discipline of famous schools of music. And then dance, languages, meditation and yoga. This is one of the possible ways in order to see in future individuals on the level of the extraordinary Intelligence of life.
Sacred within reach.
When I am calm and still inside myself, everything becomes still while moving. How wonderful!
Translated by Chiara Nunnari from John Milton Institute
