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Technology of the Dreamer, The
The Technology of the Dreamer
The philosophy of the Dreamer and the quintessence of the Book could be offered in a three word-aphorism: “nothing is external”.You may not believe that this is true but if you welcome this thoughtand let it and circulate within, you will see an exponential growth ofinner responsibility and freedom.
Called literally, “The Dreamer and You,” in its the Turkish translation, The Technology of the Dreamer establishes a unique, personal, and intimate, relationship with you, the reader. From the very beginning. The Dreamer says cryptically: “I have been you thousands of times, you will be Me once and Forever,” leaving it to the reader to discover, throughout the pages of the Book, not His identity, but the reader’s very own.
Through The Technology of the Dreamer, the Dreamer will show you that there is no one else in the world, that the world is your projection – a “moving picture show created for your own entertainment.”
Page by page, you will soon realize that the Book tells you what you already know, to the point that you will feel that it is not you reading the Book but the Book reading you, reminding you of your innermost self.
Whatever you see and touch, the entire business of existence, all that is visible, is just a projection of your inner being: the invisible.
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Visibilia ex invisibilibus. Visibility is born from Invisibility.
Everything important and real in a man is invisible - a world of principles and ideas, moral values and intelligence on which all of his life depends. There is a hidden passage within every man, if he knows how to access it, will take him to a plane of a higher order. It is in this invisible world where we find the origin, and the creative cause of the ‘facts’ and events which are visibly projected not only in the world of economics and business, but also in every field of Life.
The philosophy of the Dreamer and the quintessence of the Book could be offered in a three word-aphorism: “nothing is external”.You may not believe that this is true but if you welcome this thoughtand let it and circulate within, you will see an exponential growth ofinner responsibility and freedom.
Called literally, “The Dreamer and You,” in its the Turkish translation, The Technology of the Dreamer establishes a unique, personal, and intimate, relationship with you, the reader. From the very beginning. The Dreamer says cryptically: “I have been you thousands of times, you will be Me once and Forever,” leaving it to the reader to discover, throughout the pages of the Book, not His identity, but the reader’s very own.
Through The Technology of the Dreamer, the Dreamer will show you that there is no one else in the world, that the world is your projection – a “moving picture show created for your own entertainment.”
Page by page, you will soon realize that the Book tells you what you already know, to the point that you will feel that it is not you reading the Book but the Book reading you, reminding you of your innermost self.
Whatever you see and touch, the entire business of existence, all that is visible, is just a projection of your inner being: the invisible.
.
Visibilia ex invisibilibus. Visibility is born from Invisibility.
Everything important and real in a man is invisible - a world of principles and ideas, moral values and intelligence on which all of his life depends. There is a hidden passage within every man, if he knows how to access it, will take him to a plane of a higher order. It is in this invisible world where we find the origin, and the creative cause of the ‘facts’ and events which are visibly projected not only in the world of economics and business, but also in every field of Life.
300 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2016
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About the author
Stefano Elio D'Anna
5 books46 followersStefano D’Anna graduated in Economics at the University of Naples with First Class Honors (cum laude), obtained a Master at the London Business School (ITP Program) and a Doctorate in Sociology of Communications with first class Honors at The Catholic University in Milan. He has been associate research fellow at The Science Institute in New York.
Has been a leading manager of multinational companies including Alfa-Romeo, Olivetti Corporation (based in Milan), Olivetti Corporation of America (based in New York and Middle East), and FIAT International (Turin and Jeddah).
He is an international lecturer, a key-note speaker and guest of honor at many major international conventions and forums, in Europe, USA and South America.
In last years has started the cycle of the “Integrity Seminars” bringing to International Corporate Leaders his findings about leadership, Integrity and Corporate Longevity. His lessons on liberalism pertaining to concepts of freedom and individualism are considered revolutionary.
He has published over one hundred articles in Italian, English and Turkish and scholarly papers about his studies and researches. Publications include the books “Berlusconi in Concert”, “The School for Gods”, already translated in the main European Languages, besides Russian, Chinese and Turkish. Since 2005 up today it is best seller in Turkey. His latest book “A Dream for the World” is the manifesto of a new generation of leaders driven by ethics and integrity. They will save the World.
Has been a leading manager of multinational companies including Alfa-Romeo, Olivetti Corporation (based in Milan), Olivetti Corporation of America (based in New York and Middle East), and FIAT International (Turin and Jeddah).
He is an international lecturer, a key-note speaker and guest of honor at many major international conventions and forums, in Europe, USA and South America.
In last years has started the cycle of the “Integrity Seminars” bringing to International Corporate Leaders his findings about leadership, Integrity and Corporate Longevity. His lessons on liberalism pertaining to concepts of freedom and individualism are considered revolutionary.
He has published over one hundred articles in Italian, English and Turkish and scholarly papers about his studies and researches. Publications include the books “Berlusconi in Concert”, “The School for Gods”, already translated in the main European Languages, besides Russian, Chinese and Turkish. Since 2005 up today it is best seller in Turkey. His latest book “A Dream for the World” is the manifesto of a new generation of leaders driven by ethics and integrity. They will save the World.
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January 21, 2019
For those who read The School of Gods, this book is even more beautiful and dearing than the latter: almost a metaphor in itself, it brings forth a very bold vision about Man and the World: you, the reader, are the World and your thoughts are those who make this World happen. A book to read and re-read, as an upside-down look to ourselves and to everything.
March 21, 2017
L’architettura invisibile che sostiene The technology of the Dreamer forma un libro che con la sua fisicità fatta di dimensione, di cromia, d’illustrazioni evocative dello scritto, è il segno evidente di una ricchezza che parla ai sensi e li coinvolge totalmente per meglio raggiungerti.
Il testo che ti accingi a leggere ti guiderà per autonomi itinerari e orizzonti evocativi, fino a farti scoprire la ricchezza del tuo panorama interiore. Il Dreamer con rara maestria ti lascia solo davanti alla scoperta più grande, non è il mondo esterno a contenerti ma sei tu che lo contieni, sei tu l’autore e il creatore di tutto.
Di primo acchito ti chiedi chi sia il Dreamer e, per conoscerlo meglio, prosegui la lettura ma si fa chiaro sempre più l’intento dell’autore che non ti vuole lettore passivo. Le domande che affollano la tua anima sono le stesse di ogni uomo. Il Libro parla direttamente a te, ci sei solo tu e il Dreamer. Non vi è spazio per la temporalità, è un manuale di sopravvivenza, un testo base e un punto di riferimento per la nuova umanità. Parafrasando l’autore, ‘The way out is the way in’, in questa sorprendente rivelazione vi è racchiuso il significato dell’opera, vi è un’unica via percorribile dall’uomo nuovo, solo con la comprensione di sé stessi, solo con la guarigione dell’individuo sarà possibile eliminare per sempre tutte le guerre e le miserie del mondo.
Questo libro è per sempre…
In una società dominata da paure, legata a tensioni sociali, saldamente ancorata a pregiudizi e superstizioni, il messaggio del Dreamer rappresenta una splendida verticale che si congiunge idealmente alla biblica scala di Giacobbe.
Per tale ragione, per tornare all’oggetto che ti appresti a leggere, l’autore reale rivendica con forza che, paradossalmente, questo testo non ha autore. Nel momento esatto – egli afferma - in cui apri la pagina e ti accingi a leggere, il libro si forma e prende corpo.
Il testo che ti accingi a leggere ti guiderà per autonomi itinerari e orizzonti evocativi, fino a farti scoprire la ricchezza del tuo panorama interiore. Il Dreamer con rara maestria ti lascia solo davanti alla scoperta più grande, non è il mondo esterno a contenerti ma sei tu che lo contieni, sei tu l’autore e il creatore di tutto.
Di primo acchito ti chiedi chi sia il Dreamer e, per conoscerlo meglio, prosegui la lettura ma si fa chiaro sempre più l’intento dell’autore che non ti vuole lettore passivo. Le domande che affollano la tua anima sono le stesse di ogni uomo. Il Libro parla direttamente a te, ci sei solo tu e il Dreamer. Non vi è spazio per la temporalità, è un manuale di sopravvivenza, un testo base e un punto di riferimento per la nuova umanità. Parafrasando l’autore, ‘The way out is the way in’, in questa sorprendente rivelazione vi è racchiuso il significato dell’opera, vi è un’unica via percorribile dall’uomo nuovo, solo con la comprensione di sé stessi, solo con la guarigione dell’individuo sarà possibile eliminare per sempre tutte le guerre e le miserie del mondo.
Questo libro è per sempre…
In una società dominata da paure, legata a tensioni sociali, saldamente ancorata a pregiudizi e superstizioni, il messaggio del Dreamer rappresenta una splendida verticale che si congiunge idealmente alla biblica scala di Giacobbe.
Per tale ragione, per tornare all’oggetto che ti appresti a leggere, l’autore reale rivendica con forza che, paradossalmente, questo testo non ha autore. Nel momento esatto – egli afferma - in cui apri la pagina e ti accingi a leggere, il libro si forma e prende corpo.
January 20, 2024
Great book for learning more about oneself.
April 10, 2020
I have started reading the book with mixed enthusiasm which soon turned to skepticism. The pages turned revealed a Nietsche-meets-Oprah motivational narrative, with eyebrow-raising claims such as:
"Man is a God".
"The world exists only in your mind".
"There is no time".
Bearing on just a little more, I've read the "Dreaming vs desiring" chapter, which completely changed my view of the book. Written entirely in aphorisms, a style popular to ancient greeks but rarely used today in "serious" literature, the text hides deep, profound truths behind general, sometimes simplistic sentences.
However, Elio D'Anna's truths are subjective in the existential sense:
"The dreamer is you" - that which you may become, as long as you search, in your own unbiased and honest way, for personal meaning.
And, I did feel, to a certain degree, the book concealed a personal message, addressed to myself and myself only. I have to grant that as a merit to the author's writing.
As for the more general themes, D'Annas dreamer echoes Nietsche's ubermensch: he is alone, outside social or political structures, acting with ignorance and disregard to them, pursuing perpetual self-development, embracing pain and suffering as a means of growth, and growing through action.
Unlike him, the dreamer seems to reject human culture and his afiliation to the race as a whole. The world is seen as a mere projection of the individual. It does not exist outside of the dreamer.
The ubermensch is the natural next-step in human evolution, whereas for the dreamer, there is no time, hence no evolution to worry about other than one's own. The ubermench carries the weight (& responsibility) of humanity's future whereas for the Dreamer, future, like the past, do not exist.
Rejecting the "others", history, science, medicine or any identification with the "worldly" for that matter, seems a little cynical to me, but I have to admit it is liberating for those in suffering, in search or need for validation outside social frameworks.
I had trouble accepting these very same ideas, which I can only interpret as release of any kind of preconception or bias (social, historical, etc.) in search for the self.
To sum up, this book is not a self-development manual, nor is it a "system of thought" (not a complete one, for sure). To me, it is a set of suggestions, an exercise in imagination, occasionally naive but sometimes powerful, for those (of us) who exercise (still) a willingness to dream.
"Man is a God".
"The world exists only in your mind".
"There is no time".
Bearing on just a little more, I've read the "Dreaming vs desiring" chapter, which completely changed my view of the book. Written entirely in aphorisms, a style popular to ancient greeks but rarely used today in "serious" literature, the text hides deep, profound truths behind general, sometimes simplistic sentences.
However, Elio D'Anna's truths are subjective in the existential sense:
"The dreamer is you" - that which you may become, as long as you search, in your own unbiased and honest way, for personal meaning.
And, I did feel, to a certain degree, the book concealed a personal message, addressed to myself and myself only. I have to grant that as a merit to the author's writing.
As for the more general themes, D'Annas dreamer echoes Nietsche's ubermensch: he is alone, outside social or political structures, acting with ignorance and disregard to them, pursuing perpetual self-development, embracing pain and suffering as a means of growth, and growing through action.
Unlike him, the dreamer seems to reject human culture and his afiliation to the race as a whole. The world is seen as a mere projection of the individual. It does not exist outside of the dreamer.
The ubermensch is the natural next-step in human evolution, whereas for the dreamer, there is no time, hence no evolution to worry about other than one's own. The ubermench carries the weight (& responsibility) of humanity's future whereas for the Dreamer, future, like the past, do not exist.
Rejecting the "others", history, science, medicine or any identification with the "worldly" for that matter, seems a little cynical to me, but I have to admit it is liberating for those in suffering, in search or need for validation outside social frameworks.
I had trouble accepting these very same ideas, which I can only interpret as release of any kind of preconception or bias (social, historical, etc.) in search for the self.
To sum up, this book is not a self-development manual, nor is it a "system of thought" (not a complete one, for sure). To me, it is a set of suggestions, an exercise in imagination, occasionally naive but sometimes powerful, for those (of us) who exercise (still) a willingness to dream.
December 16, 2019
Χωρίς τον Ονειρευτή δεν υπάρχει κόσμος.
Χωρίς τον βλέποντα, δεν υπάρχει αντικείμενο θέασης. Χωρίς το υποκείμενο δεν υπάρχει αντικείμενο.
- [Η προδιάθεση για το 'Ναι']
Οχι γέννηση, όχι θάνατος.
Όχι αρχή, όχι τέλος.
ΌΙστορία, όχι Πεπρωμένο.
Όχι Χρόνος, όχι Χώρος.
Όχι ενοχές, όχι διχασμός, όχι όρια.
Όχι παρελθόν, όχι μέλλον.
Όχι ανάμνηση, όχι προσδοκίες.
Όχι φόβος, όχι αμφιβολία, όχι άγχος.
Όχι πόνος, όχι διεκδίκηση.
Όχι όνομα, όχι φήμη, όχι πίεση.
Οχι αμαρτία, όχι σφάλματα, όχι τεχνάσματα.
Όχι θυμός, όχι μίσος, όχι τύψεις.
Όχι ελπίδα, όχι βοήθεια, όχι ανάγκη.
Οχι σχέδια, όχι παράπονα, όχι αναμέτρηση.
Όχι αυτό-λύπηση, όχι αυτό-δικαίωση.
Όχι αυτό-θυματοποίηση, όχι αυτοκαταστροφή.
Όχι εξαρτηση, όχι εθισμός, όχι ταύτιση.
Οχι εξωτερική γνώση, όχι κουλτούρα.
Οχι εκπαίδευση, όχι πειθαρχία. '
Οχι πολιτική, όχι έθνη, όχι θρησκεία.
Όχι λατρεία, όχι μυστικισμός.
Οχι είδωλα, όχι Θεός.
Χωρίς τον βλέποντα, δεν υπάρχει αντικείμενο θέασης. Χωρίς το υποκείμενο δεν υπάρχει αντικείμενο.
- [Η προδιάθεση για το 'Ναι']
Οχι γέννηση, όχι θάνατος.
Όχι αρχή, όχι τέλος.
ΌΙστορία, όχι Πεπρωμένο.
Όχι Χρόνος, όχι Χώρος.
Όχι ενοχές, όχι διχασμός, όχι όρια.
Όχι παρελθόν, όχι μέλλον.
Όχι ανάμνηση, όχι προσδοκίες.
Όχι φόβος, όχι αμφιβολία, όχι άγχος.
Όχι πόνος, όχι διεκδίκηση.
Όχι όνομα, όχι φήμη, όχι πίεση.
Οχι αμαρτία, όχι σφάλματα, όχι τεχνάσματα.
Όχι θυμός, όχι μίσος, όχι τύψεις.
Όχι ελπίδα, όχι βοήθεια, όχι ανάγκη.
Οχι σχέδια, όχι παράπονα, όχι αναμέτρηση.
Όχι αυτό-λύπηση, όχι αυτό-δικαίωση.
Όχι αυτό-θυματοποίηση, όχι αυτοκαταστροφή.
Όχι εξαρτηση, όχι εθισμός, όχι ταύτιση.
Οχι εξωτερική γνώση, όχι κουλτούρα.
Οχι εκπαίδευση, όχι πειθαρχία. '
Οχι πολιτική, όχι έθνη, όχι θρησκεία.
Όχι λατρεία, όχι μυστικισμός.
Οχι είδωλα, όχι Θεός.
April 28, 2025
Θυμάμαι ότι δεν μου άρεσε καθόλου, δεν κατάλαβα τίποτα απ όσα έγραφε
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