Netflix has taken a daring gamble: producing a series a bit intellectual, not to say demanding, in the middle of its catalog overflowing with accessible products, easy to approach, even unifiers. In the department of feature films, there are many risk takings that have turned into memorable stunts: we remember The Power of the Dog … Read more
Patrick Kéchichian, literary critic and convinced Catholic Well known to Catholics, journalist, literary critic and writer Patrick Kéchichian died on October 18, at the age of 71. He was an autodidact, he entered Le Monde at the age of 18, in February 1970, to then climb the ladder to become deputy editor. Coming from an … Read more
The history of the Church, a struggle between mysticism and politics A fight between mysticism and politics, a perpetual tension between the teaching of Jesus and what the Catholic Church has made of it: this is how Olivier Bobineau interprets the history of the Church. Like a constant tension between “peace and war”, “grace and … Read more
Published on : 06/10/2022 – 14:38Modified : 06/10/2022 – 14:45 A few weeks before the start of the 2022 World Cup, major occult and non-occult maneuvers are underway. Most Cameroonian footballers flock to remote villages deep in the equatorial forest to seek out and meet traditional healers. RFI wanted to know why these footballers run … Read more
Published on : 06/10/2022 – 14:38Modified : 06/10/2022 – 14:45 A few weeks before the start of the 2022 World Cup, major occult and non-occult maneuvers are underway. Most Cameroonian footballers flock to remote villages deep in the equatorial forest to seek out and meet traditional healers. RFI wanted to know why these footballers run … Read more
All summer 2022, Bertrand Chamayou commemorates the 30th anniversary of Olivier Messiaen’s death by performing one of his key works: Twenty looks at the Child Jesus, that the Toulouse pianist has just recorded with Erato. How does one fall in love, as a child, with a cycle as monumental as the Twenty looks at the … Read more
For this new launch, Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren explain that they wanted “create a perfume around the concept of modern spirituality”, mixing white magic, lithotherapy, yoga or alchemy. It is the singer-songwriter FKA Twigs who embodies the image of the perfume in a publicity clip filmed by Andrew Thomas Huang and photographed by Inez … Read more
The notion of “mysticism” refers to an interdisciplinary field: that of the Sufi authors of the Eastern tradition and the spiritual poets of the Western tradition. It is not thus a field reserved for theology, especially since it appears, as Atmane Bissani explains, as a mysterious language of love that traverses centuries, countries and beliefs. … Read more
Tehran (IQNA)- Persian literature professor at Ataturk University in Turkey considers Persian the best language for poetry and literature, emphasizing the role of Iranian thinkers and men of letters in the development of mystical literature and the formation of Islamic civilization. In an interview with the Iranian Quranic News Agency (IQNA), Nemat Yildirim, a professor … Read more
“What good are poets in times of distress? », wondered the poet and philosopher Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843). One could add: and what good are mystics at the hour of catastrophes, these incandescents whose words burn with their love for God? John of the Cross, Thérèse of Avila, Bernard of Clairvaux… Of these best-known names, the … Read more