A Tale for Tomorrow

offer to it and open to it all one is and learn to rely more and more upon its presence, physically a nd materially as well…”

Listen to Dia now: “Always in my childhood and my teens I applied myself to do whatever was expected of me; I would see my near ones and all my hard- working kin trudge away and do their utmost so that I could get a good education and enough chances to succeed in the world, a little in their name, and I used to tell myself that they were obeying a sort of collective wisdom which I must try to respect and honor. Yet the feeling of an absurdity was there, all the time, till one day I was sitting on the open stairs of the University, stunned, an explosion above my head: what is all this? And the very next day I was invited to join an organism of research in the field of cognitive sciences. At the very same moment I experienced, I clearly felt two impulses, two urges: one was to accept the offer and the other to henceforth and for all my choices, without calculation or mixture, refer to this sole vibrant presence above – that from then on It would be the sole authority…” Presently, listen to Tocsin : “When I was very small, my fami ly tells me I was rather silent, but constantly observing, watching and, growing up, I realized I was curious of everything, how and why this or that happened, by which mechanism or process, and I would ask questions on everything, why and how does it work, till I saw that my queries were too often embarrassing for the grown-ups and then I began to explore on my own

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