Religion

"Often, when we talk about the Prime Principle, about Absolute, or God, according to each one's tradition, we realize we can never define precisely these notions" says Michel Cazenave.  "We found it appropriate to question about the origins and the significance of negative theology (apophatic), that is to say that ideology which implies that of "God we can't say anything" and if we try to define it, it is saying what He is not".

The phenomena of trance always existed and however, the official thought don't consider them as serious. However we question: what happens during a trance ? What part of the human is involved ? And what part of irrationality, or super humanity, does a trance enable to show ? To answer that question, we gathered around Michel Cazenave: Isabelle Celestin-Lhopiteau (psychiatrist), Djohar SI Ahmed (psychiatrist, Secretary-General of the Institut Métapsychique International, IMI) and Edouard Collot (Hypnotherapist).

In the current complexity of our "modern world" everyone agrees to show the importance of the meaning quest: to know why we are down here. In order to come back to these existential or ontological fundamentals following the understanding pattern of each one we need clear answers and tested by time: since every time and everywhere, men asked these questions. Why does every generation have to invent the "cheesewire" (implicit critic of New Age) ?

Who never sat over against a tree, in a forest, the palms open to trunk, the eyes closed, without feeling an unutterable confusion, the feeling of a special communion... ?  Excessive sentimentality ? Auto suggestion ? Neuroses ?  "Nowadays, the way we question the dominant ideology, shamanism has come back into vogue"says Michel Cazenave.

What happened between catholic church and women ? Why Church, in spite of a crisis with multiples symptoms, still is reluctant to open to the feminine universe ?  Although when reading Gospels, no trace of misogyny is present. Jesus of Nazareth constantly dialogs with women showing many times their prophetic visions. He listens to them, take their opinion into account, changes his mind when he is faced to courage and to tenacity of the Canaanean. No woman doesn't trust the Christ and it's by them that passes a fundamental part of the Revelation.

From God to man to the manifested world, the way of thinking of Martinès de Pasqually  and the order of the Eleus Cohens encompasses everything", says Jean-François Var. It is a system conceived not only for the theory, the contemplation of ideas, but also for the praxis, its bringing into play. The core of the system, its acting element, is priesthood. "Martinès de Pasqually settled his system in Christianism y especially en roman catholicism", he says doing in this 30-minutes presentation, an exegesis of the priesthood function.

God with multiple faces, Odin  (in old Nordic Odhinn, Woden in Anglo Saxon or Wotan in old Germanic) is a mysterious figure. King of Gods, gos of war, shaman god, god of runes, Odin is also considered as the god of wisdom, poetry and magic. The root Woth means "sacred furor" and expresses the idea of ecstasy, surpassing oneself. To Arnaud d'Apremont, odinism is the symbol of persistence of a tradition, the Nordic tradition which noways reborn from its ashes just like Shintoism which lasted through the multiple upheavals of history.

Henry Corbin created the concept of hierohistory to give an account of spiritual events which happen in the soul's world and are taken by our capacity of perception of theophanic forms.   This sacred history makes sense, since it is animated by a downwards and return motion cycle, by founding dramaturgy and eschatology.  
This conference's aim is to show that liturgic time is, within Christianism, the privileged method of expression of hierohistory, like religious communities evoked by Corbin, 

The Tao (the Way) and its immanent and active aspect, the Te (the Virtue), understood as "strength", "capacity", is one of the most pure and complete form of metaphysic. Its "paradoxes" - called that way by the canons of a western modern and discursive logic - representing its characteristic color, the best way to subtilize the inexpressible essence of sacred. Away from any dialectic and analytic thought, Taoism has deeply determined the traditional Chinese culture. It also influenced some forms of Buddhism that gave birth to the Zen way of thinking.

Is "homogeneous" what is composed of  similar "heterogeneous" parts, what  is composed of different natures.
The logic of dynamic contradictions established by Stéphane Lupasco is based mainly on the notion of Tiers inclus. This general logic, includes the classical logic as a particular case, aims at showing the tripolar future of our world which is just a matter-energy.  The three matter-energies are for Lupasco: micro physics (homogeneous), biology (heterogeneous) and the "mental"matter-energy (cf his book "Les Trois matières" (The three matters)).