Anthropologie spirituelle, croyances et superstitions

The greatest innovation in the field of writing is the invention of the alphabet. Underlying structure to many thinking systems, alphabet contributes to organization of time, from the elaboration of a tradition and to the construction of oneiric dimension of every civilization. How was the alphabetic order decided? What are the supposed origins?  What are the links between writing, zodiac and the measurement of time?

Modern anthropology aims at considering man as of component (Soma) and a soul (Psyche). This conception of man hid a third component:  spirit (Noûs), foundations of every spirituality and which has been reduced to psyche, to mental. Consequently, there is a great confusion in our modern societies between what belongs to psyche and the spirit.

"We can't imagine what we already know!" says Claude Lecouteux... Since prehistory, men used to accompany the passage of their dearest to the beyond with rituals which make us think that they believed in life after death or at least in a transmigration of the dead's soul.  Moreover, since the Middle Ages, and the development of writing by clerics, many writings talk about the apparition of ghosts and disturbing phenomena. Nowadays, these statements still remain, especially in France, Scotland or Iceland.

In our society governed by standardization, the reign of quantity, trade and its ally: fear, there are polysemous words that have to be handled with care, even with respect.  The word "secret societies" is one of them. Two popular sayings are indeed in contradiction: "to live happily, let's live hidden" and "those who have nothing to be reproached have nothing to hide". Both are potentially true... yet truth seems to be in these two meanings.

A superstition is a belief, a practice, a gestural that enables to face different ordeals and to protect oneself. What characterizes a superstition is that it lasts through places and times. According to an objective definition and thus dogmatic, a superstition comes from the Latin words "superstitio" and "superstare": what remains, so it's a remnant of ancient times.
On the contrary, to others interpretors, what we can qualify as "modern" meaning where all their system of thinking is influenced by a notion of progress, as "positive course of history" (which is a nonsense because everyone knows that history has always been written by the winners, Ed.)