CREDO PERCHE’ E’ ASSURDO SEMBRA n 88 Settimanale- Ottobre 2022 Deluxe Magazine for your SCARAMANZIA“La fortuna non esiste, esiste il momento in cui il talento incontra l’opportunità”
DAMIAN LAZARUS
The Eternal Alchemist
SOHO HOUSE ARRIVES IN TEL AVIV
A first look inside the Jaffa’s membership club
ANGOSTURA
The Made-in-Italy Amuletos
THE INNER GARDEN
The story of Camus and his soul
BOHEMIAN REVOLUTION
Worldwide Communities
STAGING THE SUBLIME
Into Burning Man Roots
TAROT READING RITE Major Arcana Hidden Meaning
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Music, the power of evocation
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The idea of portal travel has long been stir ring the imagination of humankind. It da tes back to at least the first century BCE, as found in the Buddhist suttas that promise all sorts of supernormal achievements through meditation, yoga, the use of herbs, and incantations – reducing one’s body to a single atom or expanding it infinitely to encom pass the whole universe; becoming weight less, thinner than air, or impenetrably dense and heavy as a brick… Among all the other spectacular transformations listed in the sut tas, there is one’s ability to be anywhere in an instant – by an act of one’s will and the will alone. And if one so wills, to be in many different places at once It is for a reason that we are advised to abstain from high-in tensity music behind the wheel – the type of music that is characterized by the com plexity of its rhythmical elements, excessive volume, fast tempo, and intelligible lyrics..
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Music can alter the spirit of a place in a split second. It can elate, suppress, and shake the mind into thinking differently. What makes organized sound so powerful in transforming and transporting us as humans?
Damian Lazarus: the eternal alchemist
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Crosstown Rebels, Day Zero, Get Lost, Wild Is Love, his own DJ and production ca reer, the discovery of a wealth of influential talents... all of these achievements and more make Damian Lazarus not only one of the most respected exponents of the contemporary house and te chno scene, but also one of its key tastemakers and path finders.
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The Sorcery of
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About
A true storyteller, Damian often holds court at those special times of the day when only his kind of DJ sets are required.
Dates
Founder & Resident of the party “Wild Is Love”
@Hi Ibiza, Platja d’en Bossa
Day Zero
A convergence of mysticism, music, natural wonder and apocalyptic sentiment spawned Day Zero on the final day of the Ancient Mayan Calendar in 2012.
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Get Lost
Get Lost is a musical odyssey that draws followers of underground electronic music from all four corners of the globe to the dancefloors of Miami and New York .
Crosstown rebels
For almost 20 years Crosstown Rebels has forged a path as one of the world’s leading electronic music labels.
Podcast
From his basement, so mewhere in the heart of the universe’s underbelly, Damian Lazarus brings you LAZPOD - an excursion into weird and wonderful sound...
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Soho House new
Tel Aviv-Jaffa member’s club
Drenched in desert sun and Mediterranean moxie, the city of Tel Aviv, Jaffa sits at the top of ‘best of’ lists for its young, buzzy creative soul that permeates everything from the no-rules, avant-garde fashion and Bauhaus architecture, to the booming gastronomy and indulgent nightlife..
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The magic of Tel Aviv
Along its coast sits Jaffa, the beating heart of the city – and there, tucked away quietly, you’ll find our first Middle Eastern outpost. Soho House Tel Aviv sits within a former convent, built for a French order of nuns, which packs oodles of charm and history. These days, slightly different clientele walk throu gh the castellated building’s doors, with the House now serving as a hub for the city’s like-minded community. With 24 bedrooms, timber parquet flooring and furnishings inspired by the Bauhaus movement, it also features a main garden, pool, and courtyard.
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the amuletos makerAngostuof Made in Itlay
A way to give jewels that bitter touch fundamental to truly enjoy life’s real taste and style.
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anGostura stems from the desire to evoke tribe and ancient eras. The jewels are talismans, amulets, inspired by dreams of an indigenous culture from an unidenti fied past. They are sculptural findings that reemerge from the past; they were ow ned and forgotten in deep waters and far away sands by ancient misterious gods.
Angostura is a concentrated bit ter obtained by the infusion of cloves, gentian root, cardamom, extract of bitter oranges and cinchona in a 44.7% alcoholic mixture. Its invention is due to doctor Johann Siegert, a Prus sian military physician enrolled in Simon Bolivar’s Liberation Army. After years of research on tropical plants, in 1824 he developed his “bitters” medical use. Angostura became known all over the world thanks to the sailors that, leaving from the homonymous city, brought the bitters with them as a reme dy to the illnesses of the long journeys. Over the years the use of Angostura took different paths, landing behind the bat counters where it became a key ingredients of many famous cocktails.
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Every small imperfection is precious and characteristic of the piece; every flaw adds to the jewel’s value.
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From Miley Cyrus to Erika Badu Customised
Plus que de simples bijoux, anGostura signe de véritables pièces statement à l’aura bohème qui enveloppent le corps tels des habits mystiques.
Jewels new collection
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The collection is entirely inspired by the culture, the women of Morocco and the muse and friend of the designer Erykah Badu. Hence the name Maerykah. Both love and are fascinated by this nation and with this collection there is the desire to celebrate this friendship with jewels that commemorate their first meeting. They were on their way home after Erykah’s show and she made her a henna-style drawing with red wine. The best spiritual journey. Some jewels are made with pieces taken from his last trip to Morocco and reinvested and mixed with different materials. All stones are natural and semi-precious.
Symbiosis is any kind of long-term closure and interaction between two biological ly different organisms. It is necessary for one or both organisms to survive. This is what the collection wants to represent: jewels are not just ornaments but part of the human body and without them we cannot really feel ourselves and we cannot fulfill our true nature. The collection consists of two mini collections (one darker and the other more fashion), and also includes a collaboration with the designer of hats and wigs, Ilaria Soncini.
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The Legacy of an
Inner Garden
VOLTAIRE’S GARDEN OF EARTHLY AND SPIRITUAL DELI GHTS IS THE INSPIRATION FOR DISCOVERING THE ORIGINS OF VOLTAIRE’S PHILOSOPHY: HOW CULTIVATING THE EAR TH PROVIDES NOURISHMENT FOR THE SOUL AND ENHAN CES OUR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH.
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The Altar Of The Sanctuary Embraces Those Seeking A Refuge For The Soul. As You Float In This Universe, You Can Feel The Divinity Of Life Flowing As You Float In This Universe, You Can Feel The Divinity Of Life flowing Towards the other, elsewhere, the beyond. A constant exploration of mind-body wisdom, creative expression and positive transformation through movement, meditation, listening and learning from nature in different forms e species - this is the inner garden goal.
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The riotously rapid plot of Candide mirrors in some ways the turbulent and dizzying life of its author, who wrote this chef-d’oeuvre of classic world literature in barely three days – a rather productive and rewarding half-week. Voltaire’s young and hopelessly naive protagonist is schooled to hold the view that he lives in “the best of all possible worlds.” It is with this rosy outlook that one day Candide is “given a good kick up the backside and chased out of a beautiful cast le”, his edenic home in Westphalia.
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The rest of the story runs through a seemingly inexhaustible catalogue of atrocities and disasters that the wide-eyed Candide and his companions encounter as vagabonds, roaming their allegedly wonderful world on a quest to find me aning and happiness. While trying to figure out what matters most in life, they are pummeled and slapped by fate in every direction, always going from bad to worse: the monstrosities of wars, brutalities, rape, fiendish tortures, har rowing diseases, earthquakes, shipwrecks, treachery, slavery, cannibalism ...
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The wanderers suffer all kinds of diabolical nastiness and face all sorts of nonsense while desperately clinging to their pet doctrine that all this doom, gloom and degradation must have a solid good reason; therefore, all their pain is ultimately for the best. To some incorrigible, dimwitted op timist, this may very well appear to be the case, as this epic horror story culminates on a positive note, indeed. Candide and his fellow travelers bump into a kindly old man one day. The man is happy growing fruits and vegetables, tending to a small patch of land. This patch is all he cares about. He cares for it a lot.
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It suddenly strikes Candide that to live in “the best of all possible worlds”, partaking in its gran diose affairs and trying to legislate for the whole of humanity, is to exist in the ceaseless convul sions of anxiety which leads only to a miserable end. The world at large can never be rendered perfect. Those involved with it all too much –ambitious political intrigants, self-important busybodies, idle quidnuncs, trolls and blabs – well deserve such a finale.
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Having seen on their travels enough of “the he ads duly stuffed with straw being taken for display before the Sublime Porte”, Candide and his com panions follow the wise greybeard’s example, re tiring to a simple and wholesome life on a farm. They conclude that the only worthwhile preoccupation for people is to cultivate their own gardens; for this is the only way to make life meaningful, with the possibility of at least a tolerable modus vivendi, if not sheer happiness.
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The famous line at the end of the book suggests we should focus our attention and concentrate our effort on simple things within our immedia te reach, commit ourselves to private pursuits, attending to the situations in our full control, wherein we actually have a chance of doing good. Gardening – carving out a tiny corner of the world and tending to it with love – is a way of saving our souls from all the noise and chaos of the world outside. Our garden is a version of Paradise here on earth.
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As Francis Bacon would have it in his essay “Of Gardens”, which in 1625 jump-started a trend for garden design across Europe: “God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures... It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man.” Alain de Botton, a philosopher of our times, drives the point home: the garden is “where one gets to after one has been hopeful, after one has tried love, after one has been tempted by fame, after one has despaired, after one has gone mad, after one has considered ending it – and after one has decided conclusively to keep going.”
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The Priestess wisdom not old age
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The Boho Manifesto may you never leave uninspired
Welcome to the bohemian re volution. Worldwide, a growing community of unconventional thinkers, spiritual seekers, purpose-driven entrepreneurs, and nomadic travelers are changing the cultural landscape, and redefining the aspirations of 21st-century life. You can find them microdosing psychedelics in the Silicon Valley tech world while spearheading activist ini tiatives to protect the oceans.
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The Boho Manifesto is part cultural investigation, part personal travelogue and part tongue in cheek guidebook to the stereotypes that run rife in these circles. Julia charts scientific research on the benefits of meditation and describes the evolution of new nomadic working culture. She also details the pros and cons of dating your shaman, the difference between his and hers caftans, how to do interior design that “signals to any visitor that they’re not your average normie Tinder catch.”
Bohemian to the core, gypsetters are a group of trust-funded artists, broke charismatics, office-averse entrepreneurs, globe-trot ting environmentalists, and spiritual seekers who lead semi-nomadic, unconventional lives.
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“During the last major bohemian movement in the1960s, they opted out. They dropped out of college, they moved to communes in the countryside—their protest statement was, ‘We don’t want to be part of this society,’”
The bohemian revolution is only beginning—thanks to digital connectivity, the continued blurring betwe en work and play, and the upswell of activism around the global climate emergen cy—the bohemian move ment is championing a new path forward, be it through consciousness expanding festivals, sustainability-driven ideas festivals or introspective illumination.“
This bohemian movement is on the ascent, it’s just going to get bigger—it’s by no means at criti cal mass. Yes, in certain circles it’s known and commonplace, but a lot of these ideas are just gaining traction. It’s going to be a while until it reaches its full stride. Easily a decade or more.
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“We are all here from different parts of the planet, but at the essence we come together. Music brings the people together and all those labels melt away, whether old or young, Muslim, Christian or Turkish.”
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Staging the
In a saturated celebratory landscape, which gatherings carry real value?
It all started with the words, “Let’s burn a man.” On a summer solstice evening 30 years ago, a bohemian dri fter named Larry Harvey spoke those words to a dozen friends, torched an effigy of a man, and watched it go up in flames on San Francisco’s Baker Beach. The rest, as they say, is history. In 2018, Burning Man attracted almost 70,000 participants, some of whom camp out and live in complete freedom for more than a week in the Nevada desert. The only rules are based on the festival’s 10 Principles, including “radical self-reliance,“radical inclusion,” and “leaving no trace.”
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“We experience magic and love and the divine con-
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Festivals are no longer just about listening to live music and celebrating the seasons. The influence of Burning Man and other alternative festivals has helped spawn an almost spiritual movement of ideas and culture across the globe. It also taps into a growing community of lifestyle travelers who, in a time of increased mobility and digital connectivity, increasingly embrace a nomadic lifestyle that blurs the lines between life, work, and play.
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The burning obsession with transfor mative festivals has created a new ni che in the world of travel. Like surfers chasing the ultimate wave, techno music lovers follow DJs around the globe, flying from Ibiza to Las Vegas. For those pursuing that next big idea, events like TED and Summit will lure them wherever the latest guru of innovation might be. For these travelers, the journey is less about the destination and more about the content and the crowd. At the same time, it’s often the destination that ma kes the festival. The more dramatic the setting the better. As Spaile said, “Natu re is the stage.
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“That’s why people are spending more money on experiences rather than material objects.””
What is it about Burning Man and like-minded fe stivals that inspires a nearly religious fervor? When asked to describe what Burning Man is, Larry Har vey often defined it as an experience that is about “transcendence and connecting with something big ger than you are.” Brett Leve, one of the five foun ders of Summit, a series of festival-like conferen ces about ideas, which have taken place in Tulum, in Utah, and on a ship en route from Miami to the Bahamas, says that most of us in the Western world have “lost all our rites of passage. My bar mitzvah was not a rite of passage. There is no related understanding of self or adversity or pilgrimage invol ved.” He points to Burning Man, or the Camino de Santiago, a network of ancient pilgrim routes across Europe that come together at the tomb of St. James in Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain, as a communal ritual that fills the void. “Burning Man is like a modern rite of passage. You travel to a remote place, set yourself in a harsh climate and then have to be self reliant for at least 36 hours.”
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“Nature is the stage. We found that the major star of our festival is the landscape and then it’s about how
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The Taste of Alchemy
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Global food culture is undergoing a radical shift towards hyper-local, sustainable food, nurturing a connection to the land and empowering communities. Leading the vanguard are visionaries incorporating indigenous healing cultures, plant-based elixirs, and communal rituals into this culinary transformation. “On one side you have this nightlife where you go out from 2 a.m. until 8 a.m.,” says Thomas Heyne, the owner of Scorpios. “On the other side, we have our meditation groups and tea ceremonies. Now all of these things are coming together more holistically. People are looking for balance. We saw this happening around the world, and wanted to bring this new musical influence and these alternative healing methods from Mexico, Peru, and Colombia, to Mykonos — a place that needed a new direction.”
A focus on indigenous food cultures is a vital component in this wider shift. Peruvian star chef Virgilio Martinez and his wife, Pía León, run their kitchen turned food lab Mil, high in the Andes (11500 feet above sea level) as a place to collaborate with botanists, anthropologists, and artists to reinterpret indigenous ingredients. In a similar vein, leading Latin American-based female chef Kamilla Seidler’s work with Gustu in La Paz has ignited a new interest in previously ignored indigenous food cultures. Elements within this growing movement are also taking inspiration from ancient peoples’ relationship with the land, hosting traditional rituals and ceremonies that sustained communities spiri tually and physically.
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Food and drinks culture is evolving in a new direction, as the nature of communal gatherings changes. He is helping usher in a move towards restorative plant-based natural elixirs. “This new direction is a move away from alcohol and drugs, to instead get a high from natural pro ducts,” he says, adding, “the most interesting people I’ve met in the last couple years have all stopped drinking alcohol.”
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”People are looking for new ways to reach altered states naturally. They want to do something for their body and mind — and food and drinks are part of that.”
“We are what we eat”
As hyper-local, communal food rituals bring in traditional indigenous healing tonics, food culture is evolving into a new direction. The beliefe is that the end of the day, it’s about connection. “This is a gateway to having people feel more open and trusting, These elixirs and plants truly bring about deeper, more connected friendships, and more creative relationships.”
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Biodiversity is also crucial in the healing elixirs. The plants are wildcrafted, so they have those energetics without the stress of being cultivated. It’s possible to structure the water with certain frequencies to add an energetic aspect, so it has the highest frequency.
Ancient detox practices have long relied on botanical wisdom—Ayurvedic traditions, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Native American cultures all use herbs, food, and elixirs to cleanse the body and its energetic fields.
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Vegetarian cuisine satisfies an innate need for empathy with creation, its creatures and their Creator. Nature is the first source of inspiration. Joia celebrating her in colors and shapes, season after season. All ingredients are organic. A scrupulous research leads to a cuisine lightened by excesses of fats, gluten and sugars, yet rich in taste - a real viaticum for good health.
Food is nourishment for the body, for the mind, for the conscience and for the soul.
By helping the body to stay healthy, the mind will also function better, consequently we will achieve greater balance. At the same time, if our mind and consciousness are supported by good activities, our body will also be better.
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It has happened to all, after a meal that is too abundant, insufficient or badly cooked, to feel tired, depressed, irritable. The same happens, after eating in a state of anxiety, anger or nervousness, not digesting at all, having headaches and other ailments.
It is interesting through food, and how to notice through our state, our mental attitude, our feelings, our predisposition to more or less elevated thoughts.
With a targeted diet we are better and we do not get sick. We can program it according to a desired result: physical, mental or spiritual.
It is not enough for the athlete to eat, he also needs to train, like the scientist to study. The results are exponentially more effective if you add mystical practice to your activities.
The dietary models of Ayurveda, Chinese dietetics and Steiner then explain in detail the processes that adapt to the constitution of each individual.
It should also be noted that physical illnesses, unrelated to the passing of time and to our constitution, are most often of a psychological nature.
With a healthy diet, with the right activity and a balanced psyche we can be able to lengthen the duration of life by getting sick less, with the possibility of avoiding obstacles to our constitution and our karma, the predisposition of every being linked to the forces activity accomplished .
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Tarots reading rite
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THE MOON
When we encounter the Moon, we see a path that leads off into the distance. On either side of the path stand a wolf and a dog, representing our animalistic na ture - one is civilized, and the other wild and feral. There is a crawfish that is crawling out of the pond from which the path stems from. In the distance, we can see two towers flanking the central path, once again allu ding to the doubles visible in this card. Everything in this card seems to echo the other, as if to allude to two possibilities. When we walk down the path, we walk the fine line between conscious and unconscious, between the tamed side of civilization of the dog, and the forces of nature re presented by the wolf.
The Magician is one tarot card that is filled with symbolism. The central figure depicts so meone with one hand poin ted to the sky, while the other hand points to the ground, as if to say “as above, so below”. This is a rather complicated phrase, but its summarization is that earth reflects heaven, the outer world reflects within, the microcosm reflects the ma crocosm, earth reflects God. It can also be interpreted here that the magician symbolizes the ability to act as a go-betwe en between the world above and the contemporary, human world.
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WHEEL OF FORTUNE
The Wheel of Fortune is one of the most highly symbolic cards in the deck, filled with signs that each have its own meaning. At the center of the card, lies a giant wheel, covered in eso teric symbols. There are diffe rent creatures that surround the wheel; the angel, the eagle, the bull and the lion. They are re lated to four fixed signs in the zodiac - leo, taurus, scorpio and aquarius. These four animals are also representatives for the four evangelists in Christian tra ditions, which is perhaps the re ason that they are all adorned with wings.
THE TOWER
The Tower card depicts a high spire nestled on top of the mountain. A lightning bolt strikes the tower which sets it ablaze. Flames are bursting in the windows and people are jumping out of the windows as an act of desperation. They perhaps signal the same figu res we see chained in the Devil card earlier. They want to esca pe the turmoil and destruction within. The Tower is a symbol for the ambition that is con structed on faulty premises. The destruction of the tower must happen in order to clear out the old ways and welcome something new. Its revelations can come in a flash of truth or inspiration.
THE WORLD
The World card in the tarot deck has a dancing figure at the center. The dancing figure on the card has one leg crossed over the other and holds a wand in either hand. She symbo lizes balance and evolution in movement. The fulfil lment and unity that she represents is not one that is static, but ever-changing, dynamic and eternal.
