Mario Rodríguez Cobos

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Mario Rodríguez Cobos

Mario Rodríguez Cobos ((pseudonym: Silo ); born January 6, 1938 in Mendoza ; † September 16, 2010 ibid) was an Argentine author as well as the founder and leader of the humanist movement .

Life

Silo was born the youngest of three children to a middle-class family of Spanish descent. His father Don Rafael Rodriguez was a wine producer, his Basque mother Doña Maria Luisa Cobos was a music teacher. He completed elementary and middle school in the Marist School , where he graduated with excellent grades. At the same time he practiced intensive apparatus gymnastics , where he specialized in pommel horse and occupied the top ranks of the regional classifications and won the championship in Cuyo. He was also involved in various youth organizations, including the Catholic Action . At that time he also completed language courses (Italian and French) as well as courses in philosophy and wrote articles for cultural magazines.

After dropping out of law studies at the National University of Córdoba , at the age of 22, he traveled six months to Latin America ( Chile , Peru , Ecuador and Colombia ), where he came across the so-called Nadaistas there , who opposed the established ones Institutions with the slogan "We leave no faith intact, no idol in its place" protested. After returning to his hometown, he studied for three semesters at the Faculty of Political and Social Science of the National University of Cuyo .

In 1962 he traveled to Europe . After his return he made a living from various jobs, including an alcohol business. At the same time he founded the Kronos group together with other former classmates of the Marist School . The group spent six months in El Arenal, Jujuy , in 1966 , where they were arrested and detained for two weeks as suspected guerrillas . The group later met in garages and apartments.

In 1967 he began to present his proposals and to devote himself to the establishment of further study groups in Argentina and Chile.

In September 1968 he gave away his shares, which he owned as a manager of an alcohol company, to his friends. He was arrested again in January 1969, again without charge, but simply on the pretext of investigating. He later traveled to Chile again, only to retreat to a small hermit's hut made of stones in Punta de Vacas , near the Aconcaguas , on his return.

When he wanted to present his ideas and suggestions publicly, all meetings in the cities were banned by the administration of the government of Juan Carlos Onganía and he was advised to "speak to the stones". Silo gave the first public address on May 4, 1969 in Punta de Vacas in front of an audience of around 200. In this address, entitled The Cure from Suffering (La curacion del sufrimiento), Silo presented his fundamental ideas on overcoming pain and suffering , violence and its causes, and the meaning of life . In 1999, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary, a steel monolith and later the study and reflection park Punta de Vacas was built on the site of this first public address.

In 1972 he wrote the book Der Innere Blick , which would later be published in more than 20 languages ​​and which is now part of the book Silo's Message . During that decade, meetings between Silo and his followers were repeatedly banned and the participants, sometimes including Silo, were arrested by the tens and hundreds, and some were imprisoned for months. On July 23, 1975, two followers were shot dead by Triple A detachments after leaving a gathering on the street . In this climate of violence, the study groups gathered around Silo in Corfu and on the Canary Islands (1975, 1976 and 1978).

In 1980 he wrote the essay Psychology of the Image , in which he presented his theory of imaginary space and which later appeared as part of Contributions to Thought (1990). In 1981 he gave speeches at public events in Madrid , Paris , Rome , Berlin , Bombay , Colombo , San Francisco and Mexico, advocating the position of nonviolence , calling on his listeners to seek internal reconciliation and advising against looking for the guilty party. Some of these talks were later published in the book Shiloh Speaks . At that time the first organism of the Humanist Movement arose : the Community for Human Development , which spread Silo's ideas.

On 6 October 1993, he was by the Russian Academy of Sciences , the honorary doctorate awarded.

In 1997 his book The Day of the Winged Lion received the Literature and Poetry Prize in Italy .

In early 2002, Silo announced his retirement from the Humanist Movement , which he had led for 32 years. In the summer of the same year he published the book Silo's Message (El Mensaje de Silo), which consists of three parts: the book (The Inner View), the Experience (8 ceremonies) and the Path (a collection of reflections and recommendations), which is the most important spiritual teaching text for its followers. From then on, Silo contributed to the creation of a number of so-called study and reflection parks, which now exist in North and South America , Europe , Asia and Africa . He returned to Punta de Vacas several times to address his supporters in public addresses. In addition to a sharp criticism of the violence of the prevailing social , economic and political system, Silo repeatedly dealt with the issues of reconciliation and access to the depths of the human mind , from which, according to Silo, all human inspiration comes. In recent years he has also accepted invitations from various parts of the world, whether to open a study and reflection park, to give lectures, to take part in humanistic forums ( Lisbon , Santiago de Chile , Quito ) or to meet with supporters meet in small groups.

On November 11, 2009, Silo gave his last public address at the 10th World Meeting of Nobel Peace Prize Winners in Berlin , where he presented the World March for Peace and Nonviolence and its demands and, on behalf of the World March, the Nobel Peace Prize winners' charter for a world without violence for the purpose of spreading it accepted.

Mario Rodriguez was married to Ana Luisa Cremaschi, whom he had known since his youth, until his death. The two sons Alejandro and Federico emerged from the marriage. He died on September 16, 2010 as a result of a kidney disease in close circles in his home in Mendoza .

controversy

Silo has been a controversial figure since he began his public appearance. In South America he was called a fascist by left groups in the 1970s and a Marxist by the Catholic Church . A study by Patrick Barr-Melej of Iowa State University on the influence of siloism in Chile in the 1960s and 1970s came to the conclusion that the organization was viewed as a danger by both the left and right-wing camps.

Fonts

• La mirada interna. (1972, 1979) - The Inner Look. First German edition under the title Vom Inner Looking. Ansata: Paul A. Zemp, Schwarzenburg 1980, ISBN 3-7157-0039-4 .
• El paisaje interno. (1981) - The Inner Landscape. First German edition under the title From the inner landscape. Ansata: Paul A. Zemp, Interlaken 1982, ISBN 3-7157-0053-X .
• Humanizar la Tierra (1989), - Making the earth human (consisting of the three writings The Inner View , The Inner Landscape. And The Human Landscape ), Edition Pangea, Zurich - Berlin - Vienna, 2019, ISBN 978-3-907127 -09-4 .
• Experiencias guiadas. (1989) - Guided Experiences, 1990
• Contribuciones al pensamiento. (1990) - Contributions to thinking, M. Uzielli Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-930755-02-5 .
• Mitos raíces universales. (1991) - (not translated into German)
• El día del léon alado. (1993) - Day of the Winged Lion. Edition Pangea, Zurich - Berlin - Vienna, 2019, ISBN 978-3-907127-04-9 .
• Cartas a mis amigos. (1993) - letters to my friends. M. Uzielli Verlag, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-930755-00-9 .
• Habla silo. (1996) - Silo speaks, M. Uzielli Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-930755-06-8 .
• Diccionario del Nuevo Humanismo. (1997, 1999) - Dictionary of New Humanism
• Apuntes de psicología. (2006) - Notes on Psychology, Edition Pangea, Zurich - Berlin - Vienna, 2017, ISBN 978-3-952472-51-4 .
• El Mensaje de Silo. (2002, 2007) - Silo's message, Edition Pangea, Zurich - Berlin - Vienna, 2016, ISBN 978-3-952472-50-7 .

literature

• Patrick Barr-Melej: Siloism and the Self in Allende's Chile: Youth, "Total Revolution," and the Roots of the Humanist Movement. In: Hispanic American Historical Review. No. 86, 2006, pp. 747-784.

Web links

• Portal with information on Silo (English and Spanish) and books by Silo (multilingual)
• Writings from Silo in German translation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See obituary in Los Andes printed by Gazeta Intercultural here [1] and in El Pais (Spanish)
2. ↑ The full text of the speech
3. ↑ Link to the study and reflection park Punta de Vacas
4. ^ Revista Rolling Stone, August 2011, No. 161
5. ↑ The full text of his lecture on the occasion of the talk about the preconditions for dialogue in Silo , page 148, under [2] .
6. ↑ The complete charter ( memento of the original dated January 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Patrick Barr-Melej: Siloísmo and the Self in Allende's Chile: Youth, “Total Revolution,” and the Roots of the Humanist Movement. P. 755 ff.