Translator: Theresa Ranft Reviewer: Leonardo Silva
(Video) He's a musician, astrologer, writer,
but I would describe him as someone with an inner light.
I think he's really someone from the New Age,
from a generation that experienced everything,
that lived and incorporated everything;
somebody deeply spiritualized.
I recently got to know a side of him which I found very moving,
which is his extreme affection and pride toward his children.
He's a very cherished person in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the world.
Waldemar Falcão, flutist of Merlin, come here and tell us your stories.
(Video ends)
Waldemar Falcão: Wow, that’s some responsibility!
A few days ago a friend of mine published on social network
a photo that had a humorous intent,
but which gave me an idea for my talk.
It was of a young man sitting on a park bench,
wearing a coat and hood, and a very sad, dispirited face.
Below it was written: "If you’re feeling alone,
remember that there are trillions of bacteria inside your body,
and that you represent the world to them."
We're unaware of this.
We don't see the life that's going on around us,
because we only capture life through our five usual senses.
But it’s much more than this - much, much more.
One example we have of this
are the sayings by some of the greatest visionaries
our world has ever known.
William Shakespeare once said:
"There are more things in heaven and earth
than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Another great person, William Blake,
poet, visionary, graphic artist, illustrator,
and most of all a great visionary,
once said, "If the doors of perception were cleansed,
everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."
And he wrote a beautiful poem,
that I'm fortunate enough to have the translation of,
done by a great friend of mine, here in São Paulo, Alberto Marsicano,
who recently transitioned to the higher realms.
He did an admirable translation
of one of the most beautiful verses by William Blake:
"To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower,
hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour."
I then went in search of another level of information, not so poetic,
- though I'll still have the help of some poets here -
which is the illustration of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Look how much we can see
of the electromagnetic spectrum.
It's a microscopic fraction.
Before it we have the radio and microwave frequencies,
after it comes the X-rays, the ultraviolet, the gamma rays.
None of this can be seen by us.
Right at this moment, there are all these waves passing by us;
electromagnetic and neutrino waves,
which we're not aware of.
So it’s important for us to understand
that life is going on around us, and we need to pay attention to it.
There's no way that we can't see what's going on.
So, besides those citations, how did I get to this conclusion?
During my life I've had the privilege of knowing...
and I still have this privilege, though not with the same ones,
of knowing people who are considered "paranormal",
people who see beyond what we see.
One of them was a surgeon who never studied medicine,
who operated people using any sharp instrument he could get hold of.
And what did he do so that people wouldn’t feel pain?
He used music.
He always had a musician playing during the sessions,
and Lourival opened, closed, sewed up the person;
opened with a razor blade, with a kitchen knife or nail scissors.
The person was wide awake and felt nothing.
Another one who died about six years ago,
with whom I had the privilege to know for 25 years,
received messages from people who had already gone to another dimension.
He received those messages with an absurd level of precision,
giving their addresses, phone numbers, license plates, or other numbers.
Through this acquaintanceship, without any clairvoyant ability of my own,
I was able to see all this, though not necessarily with my eyes.
The Kabbalistic tradition, for example, says that we only see 1% of reality,
and that if we could see 2% we'd go crazy.
I'm not suggesting here that anyone should go crazy.
(Laughter)
Eastern traditions, especially Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism,
say that we live behind a veil that they call "Maya",
the veil of illusion of material life.
We have to tear that veil off.
We have to try to see beyond what we sense in our daily lives,
because then our everyday problems, our difficulties,
the problem with a sick relative, or with money,
takes on another dimension, another proportion.
You might say: "Wow, you're proposing a kind of utopia."
And I say, "Yes I am."
Utopias keep us alive,
and I'll use the words of a great gaucho poet, Mario Quintana,
who wrote a little poem called "Das Utopias"
in which he said:
"If things are unattainable, that is no reason not to want them.
How sad the paths would be
were it not for the magical presence of the stars."
So what I'm suggesting here
is that we open up the windows to our perception,
and that we always make the effort.
There's nothing paranormal about this, it's an existential matter.
Let's look at life from a broader perspective.
Let's go and open those windows.
I'm going to cite another great poet,
the greatest Portuguese language poet, Fernando Pessoa,
in the writings of his heteronym Alberto Caeiro;
the first of his "Selected Poems" where he says:
"It’s not enough to open the window to see the fields and the river.
It’s not enough to not be blind to see the trees and the flowers.
It's also necessary to have no philosophy.
With philosophy there are no trees, there are only ideas.
There is only each one of us, like a cave.
There is only a closed window, and the whole world outside,
and a dream of what could be seen if the window is open,
which is never what you see when you open the window."
Thank you very much.
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