~ THE EYE OF CHANGE (technolyrical chant)

~ Dedicated to Enigma, a musical group of the 80s who dared citing the Sufi poet Jalaluddin Rumi in their beautifully strange songs.

I do not believe changes
Are due to technological conquests,
On the contrary,
I believe that these voices
Respond to instances
Of deep change that come
From the very body of humanity.

The eye is a pre-eminent part
Of the body of any animal;
The reiterated mirror of the soul
It is the window through which
The interior leans toward the exterior
And vice-versa,
It is the point of encounter
Between the microcosm
Ad the macrocosm,
Between the ego and nature;
And it is the pre-eminent symbol
Of knowledge.

My windowsill leans out
Onto the scenario of nature,
There every scenario is projected,
Like in a fantasy movie.
In this combination of waves
Which go and come in constant flux,
My vision will come about,
I assure you:
Action and measure
Are appraised.

My ego is also a symbol,
It becomes social,
Since it is from the eye
That the ego speeds
Towards the other
Into the Other,
Against the other,
Towards the other,
Towards the world
Thus becoming the world.

My Eye,
Is the sign of an anouncing vision.

It is the eye of my inner witness
Which nothing escapes.
It is the eye of my inner child
Which never abdicates
To its own human dignity.
It is also and above all
The evidence that
'the gaze through which
we contemplate God
and the gaze through which
God contemplates me
is one and the same' *

The Eye, the I,
Is my symbolic cipher
And the three-dimensional icon
Of my soul,
Wherever it poses
Its fluttering wings.
My 'I' is an extraordinary instrument
For celebrating the immesurable beauty
Of the merciful universe.

My inner Eye
Is the mirror of how
I am inside:
That you must comprehend
And then survive.
It is the most alive part of myself
Where the sky and the infinite
Are reflected.
It is the place where
Two infinities meet,
You and 'I',
Or the conscience and the cosmos:
Unsettling, attractive, tremendous.

It is above all
Through the Eye
That love flows and changes our world,
Before the other senses.
In ancient Greece
Seeing was believed the result of rays
Departing from the Eye
And emanating towards the world
And so they knew it: or rather,
Created it and continually recreated it.

Thus, the eye,
Which sees the capacity of projecting
The world and the firmament,
Has been symbolically assigned
With a creative will of its own,
Desirous of joy,
Of the transmutation of all negativity
Into positivity.

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If I look at the disconcerting depth of the signals that arrive from society's different ways of living and behaving, from a world tending increasingly towards globality, I feel the importance of concentrating the idea-creating forces in order to respond to these signals, to these inalienable voices.
How do you respond?

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* quote is from Meister Eckhart.