Our event on Byzantine music was held with great success at the Hellenic Center London on October 21st, 2022.

designated by internationally recognized academics, the President of Omilos referred to “the potential of every human being to be well” and then gave the basic tone of our musical presentation.

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You can read his speech here:

“I would like to welcome you all and to thank you for coming tonight at our event. (…) Let me introduce myself. I have the honor and the responsibility to be the President of Omilos Eksipiretiton (The Servers’ Society), which has existed in Greece for 42 years now. We work upon the human being, because we believe in the potential of every person to be well. The best way to realize this is to believe in and express spirituality within each person.

Greece has great roots; they begin from ancient times and reach up until today. If we think for a while what are the first sounds that a person in Greece hears when they are born, we will see that the first sounds are from the parents, the mother and the father and the second is from Byzantine music. From the priest, who gives the blessing to the child after forty days to go out into the society. Byzantine music, that is, church music, has been directly linked to the Greek people since ancient times

In a sense, the Greek see in themselves the priest as the continuance of the ancient wise man, with the beard and the tunic, the cassock.

These things pass into the consciousness of the people.(...)

Así, let’s delve deeper into Byzantine music, which has permeated all Greeks and I believe it is a timeless and universal music.”

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Our event titled “Revealing the Hidden Wisdom of Poetry” at Morley College in London was opened with the speech by the President of Omilos, in which he referred to all those who teach through Art and help humankind along its path.

His speech follows:

“Let me welcome you tonight.

We are a Spiritual Centre which has been active in Greece for 40 años. The teaching that is given is how to learn to be well and that there are no impasses in Life.

Life brings problems. The immense current of Life brings problems, but it also brings those who teach human beings how to be helped.

These people, in our opinion, are the artists, the musicians, the poets, the painters. Por lo tanto, we delve into their work and we learn to see the hidden meanings through which they teach humankind and how through these teachings we can be well in life and in practice.

Today we are analysing Kavafis. Kavafis, in essence, was not a poet, he was a philosopher. Así, let’s see if we can convince you!"

	“Revealing the Hidden Wisdom of Poetry” – Our literature event at Morley College London (08-11-2019)
	“With the songs as our compass and tradition as the captain”: Our music event at Hellenic Centre London (07-11-2019)

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Nuestro event on traditional Greek music at the Hellenic Centre in London was opened by the President of Omilos who vividly illustrated the panhuman, common element that exists within us and unites us, giving us the infinite strength to be well.

His speech follows:

“The Philosophy of Omilos is very simple. We believe that every human being has the right to be and can be well in their life. Difficulties will always exist, no one can say that there aren’t any difficulties in life, but we believe that every one of us has the power within them to be well. The centre of Omilos’ philosophy is the human being, each and every one of us. But you will ask: “how can we be well?"

Let’s say that the human being is a tree. A tree is strong and healthy when it has very deep roots, very good roots, healthy ones.

And you know, Greece has very, very deep roots which begin with Homer, Aeschylus, Plato, Aristotle, Socrates and reach Elytis, Kavafis and many other contemporary Greek poets.

And so, every Greek learns, just as every human being in every people does, to make their anguish, their pain, their joy into a poem, a song, a dance.

By dancing, the person performs, let’s say, a ritual act and takes the problem and lifts it up high. It is the tsolias (Greek man wearing traditional Greek clothes) who hits his foot on the ground and lifts it up into the air, thus taking the problem from the earth and giving it to the sun. And Greece has a lot of sun! Many problems and a lot of sun!

Así, let us delve into the essence of folk music, our tradition, and let us deepen into it to see what happens. Thank you very much.”

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	“Revealing the Hidden Wisdom of Poetry” – Our literature event at Morley College London (08-11-2019)
	“With the songs as our compass and tradition as the captain”: Our music event at Hellenic Centre London (07-11-2019)

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During the event by the magazine KELAINO on 03 Marzo 2019, Paraskevi Kostopetrou, Head of Megas Seirios Publicaciones, describes in her speech in a crystal clear way, how we apprentice at Omilos to create and express ourselves through poetry, but also through any form of art, because essentially, we are apprenticing in the one and only supreme art, the Art of Life.

So that the dark sides of the self are illuminated, and the human being can take their course towards inner freedom

“At this point I would like to share with you how I began to write. But before this, I should tell you that from an early age I sought truth and knowledge, the kind that helps the human being be well. Coincidentally, although, of course, nothing is a coincidence, I arrived at Omilos Eksipiretiton, a school of thought and action. Dimitris Kakalidis, the founder of Omilos, poet and philosopher, became my Master and I was a disciple at his side for 12 años.

I remember in the very first lessons he had told me: “Voula, here we will not say something which is not already known, but we will put it into action.” And I began to act by accepting the facets of life, by expanding the mind and the heart, by deepening to find the hidden wisdom in every single thing.

At some point in my life, a difficult one for me, he told me that I have very powerful ideas and to start writing poetry. He saw in me the capability to write poetry. Every day, as I tackled the issues that occupied me, to make them into verses, and thus the power of the mind would become creation.

And so, I began to write.

The Master passed away in 1995. Since then, we have continued his work in many different ways. One of these is to open up the paths to all who come to Omilos, of expression and creativity through the arts, and therefore through poetry and literature!

So that ta buffet was served at the courtyard of Omilos where discussions on literature took place among the guests -men of Literature human being can take their course towards inner freedom.”

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• “Poetry is an embrace expressed with words” – The presentation of our books at an event by the literary magazine KELAINO (03-03-2019) 

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For us at Omilos, Poetry is the highest field of Art.

in a previous event – Namouna tou Aianta, a buffet was served at the courtyard of Omilos where discussions on literature took place among the guests -men of Literature, of Spirit and of Arts – let us allow the words of a member of our Literary Workshop to speak:

"(...) 24 years ago, I had the fortune of finding myself at Omilos Eksipiretiton. I found myself there because I had some philosophical pursuits and the need to get to know myself. I had no idea then about the many-sided and important work that is carried out at Omilos. I realized this later on, when I began to break free a little from my limitations and wants.

I also had the fortune of having many discussions with the person in charge and current President of Omilos. One day in his office, as I was reading him an assignment pertaining to my self, he interrupted me by saying: “You will write Poetry. It is through this that you will progress…”

He took a book from the bookcase, opened it at a random page and read to me a poem by the Master and founder of Omilos, Dimitris Kakalidis. I was astounded! But what is he talking about?, I thought… Is it possible for me to write poetry?

And then I remembered a notebook of poems that I had during my school years, in which I wrote poems and which at some point I threw into the fire, for fear of someone finding it and reading them. I considered them unimportant, fleeting escapes, which eventually were carried away in the flow of my life and were buried in the utmost depths of my memory. And at that appointment, President of Omilos  had come to raise them.

And so, I began to write. I remember the first poem… I was very happy when I brought it to him. “It is not good” he told me, “work on it more”. I wrote and re-wrote it many times… Every time he would say: “It does not have redemption. You have to give it redemption”. Poesía, he used to tell me, is the word that redeems as the soul pulsates in the magnificence of the Entity. It is the highest field of Art.

Así, I began writing in a different way… going beyond myself and uniting with other people. Always under his total care and guidance.

I observed that the word becomes Poetry when it follows the soul in the processes it goes through until it finds its way. And poetry, accompanying it in this wandering, helps it to go through its sadness less painfully… to experience its joy in a more balanced way… Thus, it elevates the soul and redeems it…

For me, but also for all of us, the literary group of Omilos Eksipiretiton, who are apprenticing, who have learnt how to be well by helping others, what is important is that the word is expressed in such a way that the soul can take breaths and reality vision, giving, through our verses, breaths and visions to humanity who is suffering…

And this is the legacy, the vision that was left in the field of poetry and literature, by the Master and Poet Dimitris Kakalidis. We thank him for it.”

Vassiliki Ergazaki, poetess, member of Omilos and the Taller Literario

(from her speech at the event by the magazine KELAINO en 03 Marzo 2019)

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The exceptional poet and literary critic Mr. D. Karamvalis honored us by addressing a greeting at our event about the poetic work Logos the Third on 01/12/2018. We would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to Mr. Karamvalis for his deep and profound approach and his speech is cited below unchanged:

“A short promenade in the great secret garden of the Master”

Dimitris Kakalidis lives forever with us through his true teachings, his secret gardens and his legacy of words and deeds. He was a distinctive, timeless individual in the spiritual world since, in our opinion, he does not belong to a specific generation, as do not poets and philosophers of great caliber like K.P. Kavafis or Giorgos Sarantaris.

With his rich, insightful, catalytic word, Kakalidis could and managed to harmoniously combine poetry and philosophical contemplation, something that very few – a minimal number we could say – have accomplished in the passage of their spiritual path. Verses taken out of the depths of the soul, an apologia of silence and deep inner culture of an encaustic with the condensed and evenly structured word of poetic synthesis that brings to light an entire MODUS VIVENDI – a way and stance of life – which lays sleepless in the passages of night for the “glimmer of day”, this solitary traveler and anchorite of the worldly with both fight and agony, already experienced in the meaning of sacrifice and holocaust.

They are the “words of the deeds” (of the recently departed P. Sotirchos) and a “practical philosophy” to remember Evangelos Papanoutsos, stance and resistance, revolutionary word that forms the navigational compass and with panhuman messages, products of inner battle and fire, as he characteristically writes.

“I lay awake,

against the sleep of my world I turn…

and of my holy matter,

the wild nature I tame.»

His poetic compilation “Logos the Third”, and philosophical at the same time, and which signals the completion of a trilogy, sounds the horn of hope to the souls through the exfoliation itself, the insertion and the invitation – challenge to a new spiritual engraving, the orientation and the approach towards the precarious and the hidden, and therefore the history itself of humanity and civilization, in a timeless space that touches with its tips the experience and the fire (Arist. Nikolaidis) and the feverous orgasm in a distilled code of honor, responsibility and duty:

“Timeless is my present,

that in the distant future

the intentions of my past

I have expressed!”

The writing of Dimitris Kakalidis is the incarnate word, with selfless offer, holy bread to the “Mastermind of the spectrum, of mind the creator”, a “NEW SEIRIOS” with an everlasting journey

“from the infinite to the world,

from the world to the human

from the human to my self”,

there were he manages to convey to the reader – recipient the innermost burning of soul and word, without unworthy rhetorical ruses, but with the sling bag of the anchorite he speaks without intermediaries to the mind, the heart and the soul, with a word exceptionally unique and revelatory.

“The human I have attired

and my creation has attired me

that an orgiophant of my fires, I”

I am sure that the three distinguished speakers will analyze deeper the poetic flesh and blood of the great Master and the esteemed poetess Faidra Zambatha – Pagoulatou with her well-known sensitivity will render the texts.

Upon closing, I would like to congratulate the worthy President of Omilos, as well as the active members of the Omilos Eksipiretiton because they continue the true teachings and visions of Dimitris Kakalidis in the best possible way.

“Within my depths

the vibrant source

the suffocating force”

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Our poetic event at the Hellenic Centre in London on tLogos de la Tercera of the work “Logos the Third” was opened by the President of Omilos by giving the essence of the work being done in Omilos.

His speech follows:

“Ι would like to welcome you and thank you for coming. This is our fourth time at the Hellenic Centre, which is a cradle of civilization, of Greek civilization in London.

I had been thinking about what to tell you in tonight’s event… Ultimately, I will just convey to you something that happened on our way here. As we were driving here in a taxi, the taxi driver asked what the philosophy of Omilos is.

I will tell you, entonces, that the philosophy of Omilos is to learn to be well in life. In order to be well in life we must learn to delve into the events of life. Learn to truly live.

In Greek, the word “poetry” comes from the word “poio”, to create. So we learn that in order to be well, we need to create, to live life, to actualize in life. We learn to delve into poetry. We learn to see what is hidden behind the words.

For this reason, books have been written by Omilos which talk about the Wisdom of the Poem, whose second part was completed and published in English this year. We teach our members to write poetry. We are taught and we teach poetry.

The same way we apprentice in sciences, música, arts. And all this so that we can learn to see the essence of life.

This is the answer that was given to the taxi driver and I simply wanted to convey this to you. Today we will be talking about the third part of the trilogy. There has been a lot of work done on this so it would be good if I stopped occupying your time!

Otra vez, I thank you.”

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In his speech the President of Omilos referred on how delving into poetry and literature helps the expression of spirituality in every human being.

Here follows the whole speech:

“The human being can be well. Each one of us has the potential to express his or her spiritual self so as to be well. And you may ask, in what way?

By learning in our everyday life to simplify our thoughts, Specific ways for someone to be well were given through experiential activities, since they are simple, to begin actualizing them or changing the ones that make us feel difficult.

The best way to do that is to learn and deewhich originate from the ignorance of our true nature and potentialhrand to introduce them to basic relaxation techniquesroEmphasis was given to the concepts of self-observation and acceptancemewhich is the acsocial and professional life lifep people who very ofteIt was addressed only to non members of Omilos and was free of chargearThe group’s objective was for the participants to become as much as possible aware of fear’s nature and causesalwhich originate from the ignorance of our true nature and potential wand to introduce them to basic relaxation techniquesgeEmphasis was given to the concepts of self-observation and acceptancewawhich is the active and dynamic positioning in life this is why we present the works of great poets –many of them are here today honoring us with their presence; and in doing so, we learn to see that within us there is the potential for redemption to take place; redemption in our everyday living, here and now.”, through poetry, through arts. This is what we learn, day by day, in Omilos.

One of the best ways to do that, this group’s meetings took place, is poetry. This is why we delve into the work of each poet, this is why we present the works of great poets –many of them are here today honoring us with their presence; and in doing so, we learn to see that within us there is the potential for redemption to take place; redemption in our everyday living, here and now.

Once, in the year 1993, the Master asked me, “Andreas, if the Master passes away, what will you do?” And the answer I gave to him was, “Master, we will continue”. And so, I believe we can say that we are continuing.”

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