Mythes Légendes aujourd'hui

Second part of Ange Duino's lecture.  To access to the first part click here. What is that laugh which, for thousands of years resounded in caves, temples, sources, where "the gods", rising the children of men to the rank of immortals, "created men in their own image" ? Ange Duino invites us to a journey out of time to meet great mythological characters: Amaterasu, Zoroaster, Heracles, Hephaestus, Merlin, Abraham, Noah. All of them evoke the laugh of the initiates, that freeing laugh, which shows joy and accomplishment "specific to the being who access to the dynamic Universe".

What is that laugh which, for thousands of years resounded in caves, temples, sources, where "the gods", rising the children of men to the rank of immortals, "created men in their own image" ?  Ange Duino invites us to a journey out of time to meet great mythological characters: Amaterasu, Zoroaster, Heracles, Hephaestus, Merlin, Abraham, Noah. All of them evoke the laugh of the initiates, that freeing laugh, which shows joy and accomplishment "specific to the being who access to the dynamic Universe".

En 1961, two French intellectuals: Jacques Bergier and Louis Pauwels (future creator of the Figaro Magazine!) create a magazine, the Magazine Planète, that will  experience a great success for seven years. Its concept: combining realism and fantastic, in other words: science and science fiction.  Forty years later: what became of the children of that magazine?
To answer this question, we gathered Wiktor Stoczkowski, anthropologist (EHESS and Collège de France), Jean-Luc Rivera, expert in paranormal and Stéphane François, counterculture specialist.

"If you want your hero to appear to your conscience, you have to be at the disposal of the mistress who wants for her lover" asserts Luc Bigé. In consequence of his presentation on The language of the Birds, Luc Bigé comes back here on two important notions : the theme of the "hero" and the symbolical initiating of the first work that Hercules-Heracles must accomplish: to kill Nemean lion.
To Luc Bigé, a hero is a Eros with an "H" as a prefix. The H represent the exploration of three worlds which is a constant in Shamanic traditions: the lower world, the world of above and the ordinary one.  The Eros isn't only that god who sends "a love arrow to his beloved", but as it is said in the Orphic tradition, the Eros is at the origin of the of the world: the strength of its energy gives him the necessary vitality to the exploration of these three worlds. Thus the Hero has the courage to abandon the known world to go towards the unknown and from its confrontation with the unknown a transformation will be born.  The hero will tell this statement to those who live in the ordinary world.

In front of the economical, demographical, ecological and symbolical crisis review, man has to define again the right place for each system in which he evolves, and the meaning of his relation to the world. 
To Luc Bigé, nature in a never ending balance, harmony and beauty creator conflict, is a true model in which we can find solutions. 
Intelligence of the living, organizing different reigns of life, can guide us to approach the crisis. 
What about the biological model of species evolution, internalization of its functions, of fragile balance between their liberty and their respective cooperation?
What about their influence on our own future?

We are living a changing of civilization model. Today the economic system is in globalization.  Built on a mathematic model, logic and mechanist, it erases cultural differences, going away from the true human model. Facing the economical, demographical and ecological crisis, there is no choice but to accept that it doesn't answer to man's needs anymore. Facing this change, many questions are raised: Is every development a progress? What the conditions for progress to be an evolution? How are archetypes influencing us and taking us towards a mutation?