Good evening to all.
I thank the organizers for the invitation very much.
I suspect they called me
to raise the average age of the speakers.
(Laughs)
It is perhaps the absolute populism,
to start a speech flattering his audience.
But with such youthful craftsmanship a little earlier here
and with such youthful humor,
I think that my hope for the future of humankind is being revived,
which I will not have control of for many years.
In any case, the title sounds strange
almost the Siberian: “The weight of lightness”
others behind him I want to tell you something very simple.
Have your sensitivity to music,
but be more cautious about words.
In fact, we became people thanks to the words,
was also said in the second speech earlier than Mr. Athanasopoulos,
that we owe it to our formation as Homo sapiens.
We are people because we can communicate
for things that are not our direct supervision.
Bring the steak here, go there to sit down,
give this woman to continue it,
or I do not know what else.
(Laughs)
We can say about things that have not yet been done,
which we hope will be,
for things that could otherwise have been done but were done as they were,
for fantastic beings,
for half men half horses, we told them centaurs,
for strange monsters with nine necks, which we said loosely.
So we can say about things that do not exist,
for situations that we expect and that will never happen,
and this situation, this possibility, this condition makes us people.
Another condition that makes us people,
and from monkeys we became Homo sapiens,
can also return us to the state of the beast.
When theories also build on theories
which justify the cruelties of ISIS,
or the atrocities of the Nazis 70-75 years ago,
or other horrors and atrocities, of which, alas,
human history is full.
Again through words, those excuses are made,
those excuse,
which just allow these atrocities to work.
Hence the reservation for the words.
In any case, what matters,
is that when we first started Homo sapiens,
some 30,000 years ago, and we started making theories,
from the first theories,
after the burial rituals that are evolving
in Ancient Egypt and the Bible of the Dead,
until the homeric descriptions of Hades,
essentially a whole theory is being created
for the post-mortem career of each one of us,
and thanks to – or because of – the transformation of the butterfly from wormwood to lepidoptera,
or the transformation of ground wheat into bread,
or grape broth in wine,
essentially a theory is created,
which until the Middle Ages that excelled in various philosophical anthologies,
it just claims that man is the same way
and just death is no more than a pass
from one situation to another.
It’s no coincidence for those you still know about Sundays.
I have stopped it around 8-9. (Laughs)
What they give you is wine and bread crumbs.
And no, I know, orange juice with almonds,
or jeans with a tonic that would be more interesting.
(Laughs)
In any case, this is the reason why the soul has just become.
And the verb “psycho” meaning spirit, which means breathing,
combined with the coldness of the last breath,
gave us the term soul.
While various situations of petunia transformations,
wines and beans, and is not allied,
gave us the image of the functioning of the soul.
However, as if science meant to substantiate superstitions,
not too much in 1901, at the beginning of the 20th century,
a century with great technological achievements,
a doctor named Duncan McDonald in Massachusetts,
-a good doctor-he did the rather horrible experiment
to have some dirty scales on beds
-scales of precision,
and managed to find, according to his measurements,
that immediately after the last breath of the moribund,
their bodies weighed 21 grams less.
Hence the perception after much news,
that the weight of the soul is exactly 21 grams.
In our time it continues – various gentlemen such as Robert Lanzha,
in various reputable laboratories with various bio-centric theories and others,
they still support
that somewhere there is the end of human life,
removing an amount of 21 grams,
a little heavier than a feather
and of course inspiring various Hollywood,
or less Hollywood successes.
Some will have seen the movie just “21 Grams”
or the other would say a perfect film with Patrick Suezi,
some weeks after his death
continues to chase his killer,
and at the end he finds him, of course, and quiet.
Well, the nice thing is that in the century of romance – in the 19th century –
various personalities such as Ms. Elena Blavatsky,
a Russian who ate the world’s money in America, cheating a few,
or various theosophical companies
which had been created in the century of romance, I repeat,
insisted on this attempt to communicate with the dead
and the nice thing is that well-known psychologists like Carl Jung, let’s say,
– it is no accident, of course, that he came into conflict with the materialist Freud later on,
argued that communication,
not exactly with the soul of a loved one,
but with the massive unconscious, so with the most ancient spirit of race.
And extremely genius anxious,
I would say to stamp you with a strange word, inventors,
such as Thomas Edison, was looking at radio frequencies,
that frequency that allows communication with the dead,
essentially continuing the most ancient perception of life recycling,
that the end of life is a passage to another life,
which was symbolized by the Pythagoreans
to the medieval philosophical aetologists, to the famous uroboro poi.
Uroboro, not in the sense of a uraganic perversion,
but the snake that eats his tail is repressed.
As if it had not passed a day since 4,500 years ago,
when in the pyramids, in the Heap Pyramid
some manufacturers of Lebanese cedarwood
they made this ship of Cheops, 45 feet long 6 wide,
to pick up her post-mortem journey
the 21 grams of the lightest soul – of all things – of Cheops.
In this sense, I am talking about the weight of lightness
and yet another perhaps more typical example,
is what happened in 1917 at the time of the Soviet revolution,
where two little girls, two cousins from a central English village
they made these photos,
which even dragged Conan Doyle
to believe there are fairies in the gardens,
and they did all of the British society,
the two little girls you see, Francis and Elsi are there,
made these figures, took their father’s camera,
put it in the garden, pulled
and convinced the British society of the time please,
that virtually circulating fairies in gardens.
And a number of Englishmen came out
to look for fairies in gardens and have had many gardens.
Not at all, I would say, from what is happening in our time,
where instead of the Cinggly fairies,
many are essentially looking for poker on their mobile phones.
This gives us the opportunity to characterize romance
as a period of search for ghost communication,
modernity, another stream of the 20th century,
like that time when people decide
that there is no communication with ghosts,
and postmodernism of our time,
as an acceptance of the fact that there is no communication with the ghosts,
but nevertheless we try to have it.
So what tried to convince Magrit in 1928 that it was not a pipe,
it does not catch up too much.
People tend to believe in pipes,
various pipes like the hope comes, we unravel with the old,
we will beat the daouli and the markets will dance,
which many people believe,
as they believe in poker with such results.
In the poker world the accidents are obvious,
but in the other case you have a whole unfortunate country
just from this appeal, the credulity towards pipework.
So what I have to offer to you all is:
to have your sensitivity to music,
but to be cautious about the words.
Thanks.
(Clap)
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