This month’s hack − or inspiration − is not a concept or a technique to adopt in one’s life. Abulafia is a person − a mystic who spent the last days of his life in a cave in none other than Comino in the 13th century.
He was an eccentric being, with quite advanced ideologies about ways of reaching the Divine. And, as usually happens when someone comes up with new ideas, he often gets rejected and even treated as a heretic, thus risking death.
Abulafia’s philosophy was quite in tune with today’s attempts to find a way to integrate the Jewish, Christian and Islamic beliefs under one umbrella. Though he lived centuries ago, the issue is still deliberated in our times, with interfaith events held all over the world.