Throughout our lives, it sometimes happens that spirituality becomes a topic of conversation. Rare are these privileged moments when we dare to touch the ineffable essence. Discussing spirituality is a delicate art where each word is a tightrope walker, sliding on the fragile thread of metaphor. As for me, I dance on it with difficulty. Not that I dislike the exercise, but do we know how to convey in a word, a sentence, ideas that embrace infinity and the absolute?
It's a complex undertaking to clothe the invisible in words and animate silence, especially as we quickly realize that none of us speaks the same language. But I'm not giving up on this dialogue, because every word spoken becomes a precious stone for each of us to add to our collective treasury of wisdom.
That's why I decided to write this book. I do so in the hope that, by putting my philosophical constructs down on paper, I'll find a way of clarify my concepts. In this way, I hope to make future discussions more fluid, richer and more exciting.
This book has no higher ambition. It doesn't aim to reinvent the genre or offer anything beyond what I consider to be real. Beneath the widely accepted fantasies, spirituality remains an undeniable reality. There is indeed something that transcends matter. But I will return to this obvious point in due course.
This essay is primarily a pedagogical work, attempting to express in simple terms what I believe to be accurate and concrete concepts. Normally, the biggest problem for me has always been to wade through mountains of elaborate fantasies of all kinds. These dreams, buried in the collective unconscious, are propagated by tradition or by what we call books, but it remains an arduous task for all of us to abandon these dreams in order to embrace reality.
Nor do I claim to be the exclusive possessor of new knowledge or sensational discoveries. Almost all the ideas and considerations I will develop in the following pages have been expressed with talent and ingenuity by countless writers, thinkers, and researchers.
So what's the point of continuing this exploration? Well, the main point is to offer a fresh perspective, a compelling insight that sheds light on some overlooked or neglected aspects of these ideas. My goal is to give these familiar themes an original and distinctive color, inviting readers to rediscover and appreciate them in a new light.
I'm also convinced that clarifying and simplifying complex ideas is a valuable contribution to the philosophical and spiritual conversation. Too many nebulous stories and myths have created a confusing and muddled landscape, obscuring vision and sometimes leading to extreme actions that echo with eschatology.
It is my hope that through this process of clarification and simplification, readers will discover not only fascinating new ideas, but also a strong foundation for reflection, dialogue, and a deeper understanding of the mystery of consciousness and the universe that encompasses it.
However, this book does not seek to challenge traditions or beliefs, nor stories, myths and fables, although it does invite you to engage in this confrontation in an honest and constructive dialog for the sake of understanding reality.
Above all, I want to share it with you as a thank-you. Because reality is good, it relieves, it heals, it clarifies visions, approaches, relationships and the world.
My dearest wish is that you will find peace and strength in these lines, but also the joy that dwells in each of us and makes peace.
May these lines accompany you on your personal journey and give you coherent support. And may they help you to rediscover a healthy balance between mind, body and the ineffable.
The Key called "Infinity"
For me, infinity is the key to understanding, although it's only one component of my concept of spirituality. It is the cornerstone upon which the whole rests, and I'll develop the reasons for this assertion later.
Unfortunately, in the present state of our cognitive faculties, we are unable to grasp infinity with our thoughts, which makes it difficult to state it clearly. To do so, we must first familiarize ourselves with this concept, which, paradoxically, is not a concept at all.
For many of us, including myself, approaching infinity means imagining an object-such as a bubble, a sky, a circle, a light, or anything else-and mentally erasing its boundaries.
At first, this approach seems satisfying, but we soon realize that we must constantly push back the new boundaries that our mind tends to establish further out. This is because our imagination is constantly incorporating this object into a larger one. The result is always emptiness or nothingness, which inevitably implies the total negation of all life. This shows the limitations of this approach.
Another approach, more time-consuming and uncertain, is meditation. Time consuming because it requires training, and uncertain because it depends on the "tool" of the mind with which we are endowed. This method ultimately culminates in immersing ourselves in a space that isn't a space, because there is no space in it. And yet, within this "space," the now hypothetical "I" feels completely complete.
Those who have a personal meditation practice and have experienced similar situations will probably quickly understand what I'm talking about. However, if you've never been initiated into this discipline, trying to imagine this experience is like trying to imagine the sensation of warmth without ever having felt it. So I sincerely apologize for not being able to give you a more tangible and concrete explanation.
The meditative approach is eminently more conclusive for grasping the infinite, just as the sensory experience of heat transforms an abstract concept into a tangible, perceptible reality. Unfortunately, this cannot be experienced in a book. That's why I propose in this chapter to train your mind on the "concept" of infinity.
Let's start by imagining a book in which all the stories of humanity, the earth and the world are written. A book that would tell us about the future, the present and the past. In its pages we would rediscover our childhood or youth, but also our future and our potential. This book would evoke the earth and its history. It would tell of multiple universes and their countless epics. But also more insignificant things like the phone numbers of your neighbors or the number of pebbles on your way to school.
Such a book would undoubtedly take up an infinite amount of space, and the language in which it would be written would have to be understandable to everyone. Our minds refuse to believe that such large books could exist or have been written, yet such books are legion.
We all know at least one, so famous that we have a letter in our alphabet dedicated to it, a letter that symbolizes only it.
These books are written in the form of numbers, and we've given them a name. We call them "Universe Numbers. They are fascinating because each section of their decimal progression contains all other possible numbers, giving them a fractal structure. Considered to contain the infinite information of all finite numbers, they have appeared in many mathematical disciplines as well as in music and art.
The number Pi(π), with an approximate value of three commas, one four, one five nine…, is a classic example of a universe number. Its decimals extend to infinity without ever repeating. Before it was considered infinite and universal, this number always represented the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. This is an attempt to show that drawing a circle tells the whole story of the world.
In the numbers called universal, the decimals are not regular. In fact, any combination of digits is possible. For example, a three can be found next to a six, then a four, in a completely random way, so that the next digit can never be predicted. However, if you follow the decimal points one by one, you're sure to find your date of birth, age, phone number, and so on.
Incredibly, every regional, national,
