Carmen Via: Journey in the Songlines of Italy

Bernard Anson Silj was born in Rome, Italy, in 1948 of a British father and Italian mother. His formative education between Britain and Italy and subsequent time as a young man, studying with great masters in India, fuelled his tension between the orders and expressions of the north-west and the south-east of the world. In the Nineties, after a successful but unfulfilling business career, he founded the Humanistic Laboratory Institute on the doorstep of Rome. In the intervening years he has rediscovered both the joy and angst of his native Italy and her place as the crucible of western civilisation, with all its eastern influences. Through his storytelling, the author releases a recollection of great teachings of the human saga contained in the landscapes of Italy. Some of his work about the mystical path was published by the University of Rome (Sandra Chistolini, Pedagogia e charisma nella globalizzazione, Faculty of Human Sciences, 2003). His ongoing research is also the foundation of a unique travel venture (Belvedere Italia) which offers extraordinary locations for the enjoyment of ancient landscapes and hosted explorations into the metaphors they contain.