Coffee with Silo and the Quest for Meaning in Life - Tony Robinson

Coffee with Silo and the Quest for Meaning in Life by Tony Robinson An autobiographical work which charts the author’s experiences as an activist in the Humanist Movement over 20 years but spans from his birth on the island of Guernsey off the

 coast of France to his present day situation living in Budapest, Hungary.The story takes us through his childhood, to the first stirrings of a social conscience and subsequently to his first encounter with the Humanist Party and a trip to Florence, Italy that became a pivotal moment in his life.After a decade spent building a network of activists in Africa and participation in a most central role in the Humanist Movement network, Robinson took part over 50 days in the World March for Peace and Nonviolence, an initiative launched and promoted by the organisation World without Wars and Violence which spanned the world from New Zealand to Argentina between the 2nd of October 2009 and the 2nd of January 2010. His Journey diary, humorous, intimate and connected to the inspiration that characterised that momentous event also made it into the book. These personal testimonies together with others about his experience of spiritual awakening and finding a path towards sexual coherence stir in the reader echos of our own struggles, conveying the message that rather than going around pointing to solutions to other people’s difficulties, it is important to share the tools for them to find their own solutions.The book’s title refers to an opportunity that our co-director had to have a private coffee in 2005 with Mario Rodriguez Cobos, Silo, the Argentinean thinker and spiritual guide who launched the Humanist Movement with a public address to a few hundred supporters at the small border outpost of Punta de Vacas, Argentina, on the 4th of May 1969.