{"id":2,"date":"2024-03-06T18:29:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T18:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eastery.org\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2024-10-02T15:45:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T15:45:11","slug":"chi-siamo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eastery.org\/en\/chi-siamo\/","title":{"rendered":"How the foundation was born"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"height:34px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:30%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-style-rounded is-style-rounded--1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/eastery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Pask-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eastery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Pask-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/eastery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Pask-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/eastery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Pask-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/eastery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Pask-1536x1024.png 1536w, https:\/\/eastery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Pask.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:70%\">\n<p>In my early fifty years I studied a lot of philosophy, religion and many holistic techniques and schools of thought and all of them seemed to lead in different directions even though they retained some fundamental principles that were shared and rationally valid. I had never found a common thread that led me towards the truth until, one day, a Pastor (director of a humanitarian organization where I work) asked me to make a documentary about the activities carried out in Greece by their foundation. It would have been a free job and, hurt in my pride, I was ready to say no. In fact my intention was to say no but\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-system-serif-font-family has-large-font-size\">Just when I go to say the word \u201cNO\u201d a \u201cYES\u201d comes out of my mouth.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Oddly enough, at that moment, \u201cYes\u201d became the correct answer for me. I felt as if I had just overcome an obstacle, a danger.<br>I leave for Athens and spend three truly unforgettable days: we documented situations that I didn&#039;t think could exist. Every now and then I had to leave the scene because my eyes were shining and I couldn&#039;t hold back the emotion. The documentary is called &quot;Inclusion&quot; and I would like you to watch it before continuing with the reading:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Inclusion\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UOJx5gbZ8zw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Back, I start editing the video: there were over 370 clips. I select and cut the best clips, bring the slow motion clips to normal speed and simply throw them into the \u201ctimeline\u201d or the space where the video is edited in the editing software. I press the space bar to see the clips again and edit them in sequence but something had happened:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-system-serif-font-family has-large-font-size\">the video was already edited and was almost ready as it was: <br>the words of the soundtrack matched the scenes shot, <br>the clips were in time, <br>even the jumps and claps were already in time!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This was not possible. It would have been easier to win a national lottery than to get the positions of the clips, the rhythm, the timed cuts and so on. The emotion pervades me, my heart beats fast, there is something that &quot;isn&#039;t right&quot; that is extremely pleasant and miraculous.<br>I call the Pastor who commissioned the video and explain to him what happened and he makes the situation much worse by telling me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-system-serif-font-family has-large-font-size\">See?! When you work for God, <br>these things happen!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I start to cry and sob and I stay on the couch for an hour crying in a strangled and disorderly but joyful way. I feel a strong heat in my chest that will last for about forty days\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From that day on I knew what to do: to step out of the box and work to help others rediscover God, Themselves, the Truth. Each in their own way, each as they want, restoring dignity and power to People of Good Will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-container-core-quote-is-layout-8a368f38 wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-system-serif-font-family has-large-font-size\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\">This Foundation is not an initiative:<br>it&#039;s a necessity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Not sharing my discoveries and not pursuing my ideals would have cost me too much: it would have been an act of selfishness that would have regressed me to ignorance, to self-absorption and to death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote has-system-serif-font-family has-x-large-font-size\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\"><blockquote><p>This was the thing to do\u2026 and I did it.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-system-serif-font-family has-small-font-size\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\">Pasquale Mazzone,<br>Founder and Director of the Eastery Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\"><strong>For those who speak Italian, in this video I explain the origins and principles of the Foundation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eastery: The Why and How of this Channel\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nch9RJudXHU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nei miei primi cinquant&#8217;anni ho studiato molto filosofia, religione e molte tecniche e scuole di pensiero olistiche e tutte sembravano portare in direzioni diverse seppur conservassero dei principi fondamentali condivisibili e razionalmente validi. Non avevo mai trovato una vena comune che mi portasse verso la verit\u00e0 finch\u00e9, un giorno, un Pastore (direttore di un&#8217;organizzazione umanitaria [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastery.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastery.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastery.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastery.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastery.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eastery.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/eastery.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastery.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}