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Emanuel is the founder of various large-scale movements. He is also an entrepreneur, writer, journalist, philosopher, philanthropist, quantum physicist, and activist for social transformation who has had many lived encounters with spiritual masters. Emanuel founded Greenheart International in 1985, and is the co-founder of Fundación por el Futuro in Madrid, Spain, serving as President since 1995. He is the founding co-creator of the Global Purpose Movement and Purpose Earth, and a member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle. His most current project is developing the theory of the Holomovement as a movement to unite humanity through our collective purpose.
Emanuel Kuntzelman: And then, flash forward a few months after that, I was traveling around Europe. I was prone to taking all-night trains because I had a Eurail pass, and if you took a night train, that'd save you a hotel or hostel bill so you could just sleep on the train. And I woke up at dawn and the train was somewhere up in northern Italy approaching Genoa. And I was looking out the window in the passageway.
At the rising sun over the sea, a kind of tall, dark stranger approached me and started chatting me up, and he said. You look like a pretty serious person here, what's your gig, what are you up to? And for once in my life, I didn't often say this, or hardly ever. Because I didn't want to face the consequences, but I said, well, I'm on a search for truth.
Paulette Pipe: Hmm.
Emanuel Kuntzelman: He goes, deep subject, man. And he said, so what's your line of truth? And I had my backpack right there. And since I was carrying everything on my back in those days, I had a rule that I only carried one book at a time.
So I didn't have to carry a lot of weight on my back, but they were always big, complicated books. And the book I was carrying right there that was on the top of my backpack was In Search of the Miraculous. P.D. Ouspensky, who was the associate of the philosopher George Gurdjieff, and Uspensky took Gurdjieff's system and tried to put it into everyday language for mere mortals like myself to hopefully understand.
And so that was the book I was reading. And speaking of sevens, I haven't lost total track of everything here.
Paulette Pipe: No, no, you're doing well!
Emanuel Kuntzelman: Gurdjieff, his probably most famous, at least from my point of view, contribution to knowledge was the Law of Seven, and that nature has a default for flowing in phases of seven. Seven colors in the visible rainbow, seven notes on the western musical scale. Seven layers, rows in the periodic table. Seven days in the week, and on and on and on.
And Gurdjieff pointed out that the true spiritual search, and he was the first one, way back when, who started out with a group called Seekers of Truth. And then had defined the evolutionary wave phase of things, of flowing in sevens turning into octaves. And so it's also the law of octaves. So I was very intrigued with that.
Tall, dark stranger looked down, saw the book, and he said, oh, you're into that stuff, are you? I said, yes, I am. He said, well, I know where your next stop should be, then. I said, oh, really?
He said, yeah. Said, there's a tiny island, have you ever heard of Formentera? I said, no, no idea. He said, well, how about Ibiza?
Well, I had some idea. He said, okay, there's this chain of Balearic Islands off the coast of Spain. Menorca, Mallorca, Ibiza, and then way south there's this tiny little island called Formentera, okay? And on that island, there is the Hotel Casbah.
And the Hotel Kasbah is owned and operated by what I think is probably the foremost authority on the Gurdjieff-Uspensky work. And, you might want to go there and find this gentleman. His name is Runneman von Bissing. I said, oh, very interesting, yes and so then I turned around to kind of look at a few things and get my pack together and when I turned back, the guy was gone.
And I'm sitting there on the train. I thought, okay, well, Formentera, here we come.