Hello
friends,
Yesterday
there was no report because the bookstore was closed and we took the day off to
rest a little bit.
Today, June
11th, was again an intense day full of interesting and inspiring
chain reactions.
We started
at 12:15, setting up materials and billboards, distributing invitation flyers.
We talked to many people and 14 people left their personal contacts to stay in
touch. We invited all of them to ceremonies at 20:30. But we still didn’t have
a place since the hotel didn’t want Turkish persons coming who weren’t living
there. So we asked Talat for some help, a young boy who had come to the hotel
and whom we knew already and whose family owns some shops close to the
bookstore. Very amiably he found us a space in one of the shops with some free
space. So we were happy and we indicate the place to all who want to attend.
But it seems that, almost at the end of the day, Çagri, a nephew of Talat who
had participated in the meeting Saturday, came to tell us he had found a better
and bigger space, belonging to his uncle close by. So we went to see it. It is
a magnificent space, full of Turkish, Persian and other carpets, a very
inspiring space. Furthermore, because Eduardo told us that once Silo had told
him “and when you go to Izmir, surely you will be in a place of carpets.” So also somewhat mysterious.
We asked Çagri
to call the persons who only speak Turkish to indicate to them the new place.
During the
day, Alvaro filmed 4 short interviews. 3 were testimonies of two new friends,
Hakan and Talat, talking about their experiences with the Book and the
ceremonies, and Carmen, and her testimony of the experience of the tour. The
fourth interview was of Çaner, our friend of the World March.
There were
also some very intense conversations who expressed their internal needs and
their need to find a way out. One of them went to the internet, after having
received the flyer to download the Healing of Suffering in Turkish from the
internet and came with the printed text. His name is Sükrü, he is a notary and
he explained that he was looking for a long time and had read many things of
Mevlana Rumi, he thought it had helped but it wasn’t enough because he didn’t
know how to advance. So we talked a lot, about the Book of the Message and the
ceremonies. He was more and more animated and asked if he could record the
ceremonies of Service and Well Being and after listen and follow them and we
said, of course. He went on to say that maybe his wife could read the text
while he concentrated on the experience or the other way around, and we said of
course, and so on, entering more and more. It was an experience of reciprocity
and giving the best of one’s self, him and us. At the end he bought the book,
left his contacts and we gave him our calling cards and he left happily. The
other person was another one of Çagri’s nephews, a lot older than him,
introduced to us by Çagri, who explained his nephew had a mental illness. The
man talked English pretty well and so we could chat. He explained that his
illness was depression and he had to take lots of medicine. He wanted to know
if the book of the Message could help and we said yes. That there are lots of
people suffering from depression and that, if he made an effort to meditate on
what was in the book, the book would help to understand many things and have
liberating experiences. We also invited him to participate in the ceremonies.
He also bought the book and we saw him sitting down in a small café close by,
reading the book and highlighting phrases.
Other than
these two very intense experiences, we had very good experiences with a good
number of persons. The good thing was that the kids in the area come over ever
so often from their jobs in the shops close by. Hakan also came in the
afternoon and stayed until the end for the ceremonies.
Even though
only 3 persons bought the book today, between today and Saturday, 15 copies
were sold. There were also many persons who didn’t have the money today but
wanted to come back tomorrow to buy the book. So we are very happy.
Eduardo
talked a lot to Çaner who wanted to know about the calendar of the Eastern
tour.
At around
20h we all went to the place of the carpets. Talat, Çagri, his nephew, Altug,
Hakan, a very amiable lady who speaks English well, in total 7 Turks and us
12.
We started
by explaining in English, minimally, how the ceremonies work and they
translated into Turkish for Hakan who only speaks Turkish. We did the 2
ceremonies in Spanish and Turkish. Well Being with Eduardo and Hakan
officiating and the Service with Eduardo and Çagri officiating. It was again a
very strong and intense experience and everyone was fine and thankful.
We told
them we would be back if they invited us to continue with the Message. It seems
that there is a desire that we come back.
We think
there is a very good possibility that something can continue in Izmir. All very
beautiful and smooth persons, open in the relationship.
In the
meanwhile, during the 2nd ceremony, a friend of Altug’s came who he
had announced in the afternoon. His name is Memet. Memet wanted to meet us and talk. Another person came and invited us
to go to his office who was close to our hotel. At the same time the amiable lady
invited us to go to her house, also close to the sea, to meet her husband and
sons. So we divided into 2 groups. Judit, Aurora, Zoë and Alvaro went with the lady
and the rest of us went with Memet and his friend.
In the case
of the lady, our friends had a very good experience as narrated by the pictures
and ended up doing a ceremony with the lady, her sons and a friend of her sons.
All went very well.
In the case
of Memet, who has a language academy and who speaks Spanish very well, it wasn’t
very clear to us what he wanted. In any case it was a kind of comparison
between a wise Turk of another time who is very inspiring to them and Silo,
somehow insisting that there is a higher power who fixes everything. So after a
while, we said it was late and we still had things to do, but if they want, we
can come back in another moment with more time to continue the interchange.
Again,
friends, it is difficult to summarize in a report everything that happened
today. But it was a very luminous day and we were surely accompanied by the
intention of the Message.
Tomorrow at
9:00 we are leaving for Antalya, where we will arrive at around 17h.
A big
hug,
Eduardo, Judit, Carmen, Aurora, Nacho, Alvaro, Zoë, Ariane, Ismael, Salva, Isabel y Peter
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