Tradition Primordiale

"In the current Promethean drift, it is important to listen to the Grandmother's voice! " says Marie-Laure Colonna. Indeed, since the 17th century, the development of rationality provoked the exclusion, or even the questioning of the existence of the soul. When we talk about the notion of soul, we generally place it on an personal level, attached to someone in particular.  However there is a collective soul that Plato, in Timaeus, called "the world soul",

Writer, essayist and professor, the life and work of Jean Biès are marked by an insatiable spiritual search.  His books are "keys of life" to accept the modern world, a world without soul where the Diabolum (which divides) to take precedence over Symbolum (which unites). To Jean Biès, the spiritual wandering we are crossing obliges us to go back to the transcendental unity of all the religions and to discover again the eternal truths that all the genuine traditions share.

The book of Jean Biès, Modernity and spirituality, how to reconcile the irreconcilable. (Ed. L’Harmattan, 2008) seems to be not only a warning, but book full of advice, simple, to open to a form of true spirituality, that is to say embodied.
Meeting with this author which discretion, kindness and modesty are light years away from our modern world where cacophony, dispersion and exaggeration are legion. ... for sure Jean Biès is a lightener for our time.

René Guénon (1886-1951) was a great leader who could appeal to all sides. Beyond its blatant exclusivism and its drastic anti-modernity, he created a solid bridge between the East and the West.  In deed, its time was influenced by the discovery, for the West, of the abundance of eastern doctrines and at the same time the West sunk in a spiritual famine promoting the appearance of syncretism movements and a radicalization of the roman church. 
René Guénon studied metaphysic of different revealed religions and tried to extract the very substance from it: the Traditionalist School (Sophia Perennis).  The Tradition goes beyond difference of opinion, beliefs or customs, that are always different (so contingent?).

Unlike a lot of Amerindian myths which, by their polymorphism  stop at the 3rd step (the wind on the lake/ the search of an inner master) of the universal scenario established by Jean-Louis Brun from the I Ching, the myth of the creation of Arikara presents a great consistency. Based on the works of professor Pierrette Désy, specialist in ethnography and anthropology at the University of Quebec, Montreal, Jean-Louis Brun tells us, in this 15 minutes presentation, the myth of that  farming tribe who lived in what is called now Dakota.  Like the 15 other myths and legends presented, he brings in this one following the eight successive steps of the eight hexagrams from the I Ching.

Jean-Louis Brun presents here a South American myth, the myth of people of Chulupi. Based on the works of the ethnologist Pierre Clastres who gathered in a book edited in 1966, 73 stories which form the entire corpus of the the mythology of the Chulupis.  A mythology rich of strong images and very harsh descriptions.  Described as muscled and brave, gatherers, hunters and practicing Shamanism, the Chulupis live in a large oblong region with a severe and contrasting climate, located between Paraguay, Bolivia and Argentina (the Gran Chaco). To illustrate its paradigm, Jean-Louis Brun tells us the story of the hero Kufahl.