The Text
The web site, www.silo.net contains the original text of the Message as well as accurate translations into different languages all of which are freely available.
This site is not meant to serve the dissemination of the Message nor the interchange about it on a large scale but to permanently guarantee the authenticity of the text.
The Author
Silo is the pseudonym of Mario Luis Rodríguez Cobos. He was born in 1938 near Mendoza, in Argentina near the border with Chile.
His writings have been translated into numerous languages and his Complete Works have been published in two volumes available from bookshops and freely downloadable in electronic format from the above website.
The book Silo Speaks is recommended in order to understand the antecedents of the Message. Also freely downloadable from the above website.
The Communities of the Message, Freedom of Interpretation, Freedom of Association
Any group of people that shares the ideas and sentiments implicit in the Message can be considered to be a Community of the Message. This community will be based on two pillars: freedom of interpretation of the Message and freedom of association around the Message.
From the free interpretation of the Message, different and sometimes even opposing positions may arise, which should be fully recognized with complete freedom of thought. This will clearly exclude any given position or interpretation from being considered as the only correct one.
The freedom of association around the Message will give rise to different forms of organization that will enable the experiences and studies proposed in the Book, the Experience and the Path to be developed in many different ways. Whatever the form of organization a community adopts, it is suggested that decisions affecting the whole should be made by consensus or by direct vote if consensus is not possible.
There is no central organisation of the Message. Each Community remains autonomous and is solely responsible for its own organisation and activities. According to interest different Communities may get together for social, study or other activities but the forms and methodologies are always specific to the interests and needs of those autonomous communities involved.
Difficult Points: Immortality and the Sacred
The Message proclaims the freedom of all human beings to believe, or not to believe, in immortality and the sacred and gives the utmost importance to these themes because depending on how a person places herself or himself with respect to these themes, so will be her or his orientation in life. The Message takes on the difficulties of openly examining our fundamental beliefs, and how they clash with the censorship and self-censorship that inhibit freedom of thought and good conscience.
Within the context of freedom of interpretation, immortality for some refers to the actions performed in life continuing in the world despite physical death. For others, the memory that continues in loved ones, or even in societies, guarantees their persistence after physical death. For still others, immortality is accepted as personal persistence in another level of existence.
Continuing with freedom of interpretation, some feel the sacred as one's deepest affection. For them, their children or other loved ones represent the sacred and possess an utmost value that should not be defiled for any reason. There are some others who consider the human being and its universal rights as sacred. Still others experience a divinity as the essence of the sacred.
The different positions taken with respect to the themes of immortality and the sacred should not be simply “tolerated,” but rather genuinely respected. This is the basic attitude taken in the communities that are formed around the Message.
Different forms of implementing the Message
The Message will reach all corners of the world if it touches those hearts in need of meaning, affection and hope.
The people who presently are touched by the Message meet more or less regularly, often once a week, in order to carry out the ceremonies and participate in comforting and heart-felt experiences. Some of them take the propagation of the Message into their own hands and for this reason meet on other occasions in which they study the Book, the Experience and the Path. Sometimes a complementary material such as Silo Speaks or Guided Experiences is used. Using the Manual for Messengers, with formative themes and practices, available from bookshops and freely downloadable from the above site, occasional seminars and retreats can be organised taking advantage also of the special ambits available in the various Parks of Study and Reflection which are developing in many places around the world. (see... ...).
Those who feel a calling to propagate the Message coordinate among themselves so as to spread it through any means at their disposal. They become true Messengers after having publicly declared their intentions in the ceremony of Recognition that is performed in front of the full community.
Meetings of experience
In the regular meetings of experience, as a minimum, the ceremony of the Service is carried out. It is a meeting to make contact with and experience the Force. The more people that participate in relation with the Force, the better the experiences will be. All other ceremonies are performed upon request, so if they're not requested, they're not performed. Ceremonies have a modular structure, so they may be combined in different ways according to the needs of the community.
The ceremonies of experience are: the Service, the Laying on of Hands and Recognition. Assistance can also be included in this group. There are others that have a social character: Marriage, Protection, Well-Being and Death.
It is interesting when people attending the ceremonies actively participate. When someone gives a personal testimony, the meaning of the ceremony is reinforced. In the ceremonies of Protection, Death and Well-Being, people often give their testimonies before, during or after the ceremony, according to the circumstances. Likewise during a Service, when reflecting upon a passage from the Book, someone may want to express themselves on that subject and speak to the community at large.
Study meetings
These meetings are for those who wish to study the Message in greater depth. In these meetings, the Message is studied, reading and discussing the Book or other complementary materials. Materials for personal use or for the mass media may also be prepared and produced in these meetings as well as organising activities of social solidarity.
The Practice of Inner Religiosity
If you try to live your life according to the declaration made in the ceremony of Recognition…
If in appropriate moments you appeal to the inspiration of your Inner Guide…
If on a regular basis you participate in the ceremonies and the meditations on The Book, The Path and the related materials…
If on a regular basis you reflect about your internal growth in relation to life's difficulties…
Then, you are on a path to spiritual enlightenment.
This site is not meant to serve the dissemination of the Message nor the interchange about it on a large scale but to permanently guarantee the authenticity of the text.
The Author
Silo is the pseudonym of Mario Luis Rodríguez Cobos. He was born in 1938 near Mendoza, in Argentina near the border with Chile.
His writings have been translated into numerous languages and his Complete Works have been published in two volumes available from bookshops and freely downloadable in electronic format from the above website.
The book Silo Speaks is recommended in order to understand the antecedents of the Message. Also freely downloadable from the above website.
The Communities of the Message, Freedom of Interpretation, Freedom of Association
Any group of people that shares the ideas and sentiments implicit in the Message can be considered to be a Community of the Message. This community will be based on two pillars: freedom of interpretation of the Message and freedom of association around the Message.
From the free interpretation of the Message, different and sometimes even opposing positions may arise, which should be fully recognized with complete freedom of thought. This will clearly exclude any given position or interpretation from being considered as the only correct one.
The freedom of association around the Message will give rise to different forms of organization that will enable the experiences and studies proposed in the Book, the Experience and the Path to be developed in many different ways. Whatever the form of organization a community adopts, it is suggested that decisions affecting the whole should be made by consensus or by direct vote if consensus is not possible.
There is no central organisation of the Message. Each Community remains autonomous and is solely responsible for its own organisation and activities. According to interest different Communities may get together for social, study or other activities but the forms and methodologies are always specific to the interests and needs of those autonomous communities involved.
Difficult Points: Immortality and the Sacred
The Message proclaims the freedom of all human beings to believe, or not to believe, in immortality and the sacred and gives the utmost importance to these themes because depending on how a person places herself or himself with respect to these themes, so will be her or his orientation in life. The Message takes on the difficulties of openly examining our fundamental beliefs, and how they clash with the censorship and self-censorship that inhibit freedom of thought and good conscience.
Within the context of freedom of interpretation, immortality for some refers to the actions performed in life continuing in the world despite physical death. For others, the memory that continues in loved ones, or even in societies, guarantees their persistence after physical death. For still others, immortality is accepted as personal persistence in another level of existence.
Continuing with freedom of interpretation, some feel the sacred as one's deepest affection. For them, their children or other loved ones represent the sacred and possess an utmost value that should not be defiled for any reason. There are some others who consider the human being and its universal rights as sacred. Still others experience a divinity as the essence of the sacred.
The different positions taken with respect to the themes of immortality and the sacred should not be simply “tolerated,” but rather genuinely respected. This is the basic attitude taken in the communities that are formed around the Message.
Different forms of implementing the Message
The Message will reach all corners of the world if it touches those hearts in need of meaning, affection and hope.
The people who presently are touched by the Message meet more or less regularly, often once a week, in order to carry out the ceremonies and participate in comforting and heart-felt experiences. Some of them take the propagation of the Message into their own hands and for this reason meet on other occasions in which they study the Book, the Experience and the Path. Sometimes a complementary material such as Silo Speaks or Guided Experiences is used. Using the Manual for Messengers, with formative themes and practices, available from bookshops and freely downloadable from the above site, occasional seminars and retreats can be organised taking advantage also of the special ambits available in the various Parks of Study and Reflection which are developing in many places around the world. (see... ...).
Those who feel a calling to propagate the Message coordinate among themselves so as to spread it through any means at their disposal. They become true Messengers after having publicly declared their intentions in the ceremony of Recognition that is performed in front of the full community.
Meetings of experience
In the regular meetings of experience, as a minimum, the ceremony of the Service is carried out. It is a meeting to make contact with and experience the Force. The more people that participate in relation with the Force, the better the experiences will be. All other ceremonies are performed upon request, so if they're not requested, they're not performed. Ceremonies have a modular structure, so they may be combined in different ways according to the needs of the community.
The ceremonies of experience are: the Service, the Laying on of Hands and Recognition. Assistance can also be included in this group. There are others that have a social character: Marriage, Protection, Well-Being and Death.
It is interesting when people attending the ceremonies actively participate. When someone gives a personal testimony, the meaning of the ceremony is reinforced. In the ceremonies of Protection, Death and Well-Being, people often give their testimonies before, during or after the ceremony, according to the circumstances. Likewise during a Service, when reflecting upon a passage from the Book, someone may want to express themselves on that subject and speak to the community at large.
Study meetings
These meetings are for those who wish to study the Message in greater depth. In these meetings, the Message is studied, reading and discussing the Book or other complementary materials. Materials for personal use or for the mass media may also be prepared and produced in these meetings as well as organising activities of social solidarity.
The Practice of Inner Religiosity
If you try to live your life according to the declaration made in the ceremony of Recognition…
If in appropriate moments you appeal to the inspiration of your Inner Guide…
If on a regular basis you participate in the ceremonies and the meditations on The Book, The Path and the related materials…
If on a regular basis you reflect about your internal growth in relation to life's difficulties…
Then, you are on a path to spiritual enlightenment.
