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By : Jean Biès - Friday, 03 December 2010 13:00 |
 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.
The spiritual path of Jean Biès began with the discovery of René Guénon's works, in 1951, year when "the Cairo master" passed away. The reading of René Guénon was a real revelation, and a revolution, since it caused in himself a radical call into question, a change of perspectives that himself qualified as "first tearing of the temple's veil". Then followed a teacher career, rich in meetings (Schuon, Marie-Madeleine Davy, Arnaud Desjardins, Marie-Louise von Franz), about thirty books... "nine thousand pages to try to describe the unutterable" he says.
 
Starting from an alarmist statement on current society, where destruction of sacred (and to the incompetence of many religious man, intoxicated by their power, became « technocrats of heavenly affairs » Ed.) To him, the solution can only be spiritual.
 
Silence, meditation, inner peace, knowledge of oneself, depth psychology, reconciliation of the opposed, Jean Biès draws from the universal spiritual patrimony the solutions to blur doubts and sufferings ti which we are all faced today.
The prologue of the Gospel of John "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it... " would be more than ever significant?
Think about it in this 45-minutes interview, presented by Virginie Durand and filmed at the Forum 104.
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