Each month, Basketball Europe offers you a new column, a real Masterclass on one of the most important, but often neglected aspects: the mind. Last month, we presented what the work of mental preparation consisted of in broad outline. Today, focus on one of the most mystical tools of mental performance: meditation. Michael Jordan, Kobe … Read more
Released on May 13, this fifth album poetically interweaves historical and mythological references to ecstatic rhythms. Four years after the release of High as Hope (2018), Florence + The Machine is back with a new album. Started at the beginning of the pandemic, it celebrates life, hampered by health restrictions and successive confinements. Far from … Read more
As a worthy daughter of my father, a senior civil servant, I first threw myself into the intellectual world. For 12 years, I complied with my studies by being a lawyer at the Paris Bar. The legal reasoning intoxicated me, I must admit. And then one day, I had a revelation, I suddenly realized that … Read more
Whether for the theater or for the cinema, Emmanuel Schwartz has always been attracted by complex characters that allow him to explore the gray areas of the human soul. The role he plays in the psychological drama The contemplation of the mystery is no exception. “He’s a kind of metrosexual Hercules, a tragic urban hero,” … Read more
Book. The title is daring, the subject removed. At a time when questioning the identity of France may seem obsolete or even tendentious, Abdennour Bidar intends to show the urgency of such reflection. Accustomed to religious or spiritual questions (self-islamThreshold, 2006; Spiritual revolution!Almora, 2021), the philosopher prefers, however, to the term “identity” – which suggests … Read more
When you frequent the scouts too much, you risk mystical burnout. An intimate adventure that the actor François de Brauer, a slender Caubère, reinvents with very personal magic and a lot of humor on the Petit Saint-Martin set for a countdown with the spectators and his head in the stars: magic. Magnificat What is this … Read more
Beyond the quality of its players and the contribution of its supporters, the Senegalese national team has always called on a third force to try to win its matches: mystical practices. Present in Senegalese society, the mystical (black magic for some, maraboutage for others) or ”xons” in Wolof, has always (discreetly) accompanied the Senegalese selection. … Read more
Paul Verhoeven, “the violent Dutchman” as it has been nicknamed, returns to the past full of mysticism and plague to tell us the story of a young girl with burning love. If the subject only stirs up questions already addressed by the cinema and past controversies, the actors and the formal work save the day. … Read more
On the day of her consecration, Isabelle P. received a ring, symbol of her union with God. Always in her bag, her little Bible never leaves her. JUSTINE RODIER ” Have a nice weekend and don’t forget the essay for Monday! recalls Isabelle P. from the classroom blackboard as she finishes picking up her things. … Read more
WEBSERIES 8/9 – Le Figaro Special Edition devotes an exceptional issue to the painter of Spring. In The Mystical NativitySandro reveals the anguish caused to him by the execution of Savonarola. “I, Alessandro, painted this picture at the end of the year 1500 during the troubles in Italy, when the eleventh chapter of Saint John … Read more