Eveil Spritualité

The legend of the hummingbird says: "A huge forest is burning. The animals are dismayed, powerless, observe the disaster. Only the hummingbird drops one by one the water drops it carries in his beak. Facing the other's skepticism who consider his action as ridiculous, the hummingbird says that if each one did as he does, the fire would have been already extinguished"...

How to create a revolution of conscious? To answer this fundamental - and very topical - question, a philosopher, Ervin Laszlo and a spiritual teacher, Andrew Cohen, gathered in Paris within the context of an exceptional party organized by EnlightenNext France. To Andrew Cohen, the society change, or paradigm change, has to occur by a change within each man and woman. "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?"

Greeks called it education "paideia", a transmission of knowledge full of sensibility, values, ideals, far away from actual instruction characterized by a simple accumulation of technical notions. Actual school, is reduced to an institution for the transfer of these information. It does not seem to represent an oasis of life where blooms freedom anymore but on the contrary a place threatened by rhetoric and the technicist drifting of the world which includes it.

To Arouna Lipschitz, the spiritual quest leads us towards mystery, essence of things,  by experience; the initiatory way is a logical way which expresses itself, a knowledge way which is studied.  Besides, the spiritual experience of awakening, the come back to the "One", erases the conscience of otherness which embodies in the dual world. The initiatory way allows, to reach knowledge of oneself and of the world aiming at opening of the heart.

How to live in a world which doesn’t offer more landmarks? How to find our path?  In his book, Fabrice Midal invites us to reinvent our life at the light of great philosophers, poets and artists, like Nietzsche, Rilke and Cézanne. Far from useless consolations and the worship of well being, he questions on the true meaning of freedom offered to everyone to try the adventure, to face reality, to reach, beyond disappointment and suffering, true joy.

Science, managed by the left brain, is the method of understanding privileged by modern man. Weighing, classifying, ordering, the object-world, it is the fundamental of a unique thought, promoting space and particles, which aims at pulverizing its reading of the world.  Yet if it aims at measuring and quantifying the world, it wouldn't explain everything.
Starting from this statement, Luc Bigé suggests to open to other ways of knowing reintegrating time and meaning, managed by the right brain. Comprehending the world not in terms of parts, but relations to reach the meaning of this one, he invites us to "reunify" our thought, warrant of harmony between the world and us.

Since dawn of times, music represents a way for a wise person. In our "modern" society" where image reign, where noise is everywhere, it is essential to define what is listening, a true way to reach spiritual on which Dominique Bertrand leads us in this 33-minutes presentation.

Who is listening ? Who is hearing ? And more importantly, who is speaking ? Pierre Bonnasse explores here "the power of the speech".

Awakening is an Act  A 24-minute talk recorded at the “René Daumal Symposium” organised by CIRET (Centre International d'Etudes et de Recherches Transdisciplinaires - International Centre for Transdisciplinary Study and Research) on the occasion of the centenary of the poet René Daumal’s birth. Pierre Bonnasse touches on what we know was very dear to the writer, the “self-work” he describes in his letters - now published by Gallimard.