During my Neoplatonic Academies in the spring of 2025, I had the joy of welcoming Lise, an 80-year-old Canadian, who gave me the immense gift of sharing her secrets with me. These secrets are a resolution to allow us to accept old age, this path that awaits us all (barring an early accident in life), which we so often fear, which our society does not want to hear about, since it flees the degradation of our body of flesh like a pestilential disease.

The all-out development of "artificial intelligence" (AI) and the enthusiasm it generates must be the object of our greatest attention. The first alarm we should have is the hook method used to encourage the population to make rapid and major use of it.

Reducing human life to a "price" is to strip it of all its dignity. Yet this is what we clearly see today: we must eliminate the sick, the useless, the unproductive from a capitalist point of view. But what about human beings when AI has replaced them and they have become completely useless in terms of economic profitability? At best, some will take care of serving the machine that dominates them, with maintenance jobs.

The author of this precept "never stand surety" is Thales of Miletus (Θαλῆς ὁ Μιλήσιος), whose name has survived through the centuries. Greek philosopher and scholar, born in Miletus around 625-620 BC, died around 548-545 BC, still in Miletus, he is best known for his scientific reasoning! Legend has it that this mathematician and philosopher of nature spent time in Egypt, where he was initiated into Egyptian and Babylonian science through the teachings of the priests.

The human epic through the ages is mysterious… And sometimes, I find myself thinking about what our humanity would have become without these men and women who, often anonymous and silent, worked to preserve it as best they could, even to the point of performing miracles. It is one of these miracles that I am about to tell you about…

Just as the death drive was reaching its highest expression in France, with the so-called "euthanasia" law, passed on May 27, 2025, I had an unexpected encounter, in an unsuspected place, which appeared to me like a powerful beam of light sweeping away this darkness in its path. Fiat lux.

Authority is linked to responsibility, which means knowing how to answer, both for oneself and for the world. This is also how it is linked to the power of speech. Demonstrating authority necessarily means knowing how to answer for one's actions. However, when everyone in the organization disclaims responsibility, they are no longer the author of their actions and take refuge in the anonymity of the crowd ("it's not me, it's everyone").

This wisdom of "nothing in excess" calls upon the physical, emotional, and psychological life of the individual. It is a daily practice of spiritual life, intimately linked to self-knowledge and scrupulous observation of oneself, and in particular of one's own needs.

In a first analysis, entitled The Controlled Opposition or the Yellow Union, dated January 21, 2024 in Antipresse, I described the methods for containing political opposition among the people and directing it towards paths that are less dangerous in the eyes of those in power. This popular opposition, thus controlled, must be guided by leaders who will render it, without its knowledge, totally harmless.

What happens when a philosopher, armed with good reading, finds herself caught in an abusive—yet ordinary—airport search? The result is a profound meditation on the voluntary servitude that accompanies modernity like its shadow…

Perhaps one day I will say how my opponents were particularly useful to me in their own way, despite the challenges imposed, but today I would like to pay tribute to my ten greatest masters who, thanks to their unexpected help, allowed me to cross a sacred obstacle course.

In line with my reflection on kairos, which concluded on the necessary effort with which to strive towards introspective and in-depth knowledge of oneself, it is now logical that we take on board this maxim as famous as it is misunderstood: "know thyself", Γνῶθι σεαυτόν.

Some historians zealously strive to discredit the very concept of totalitarianism. Curiously, these same historians have remained silent on its recent manifestations, particularly the pseudo-sanitary episode. Do they perhaps lack the necessary vision to decipher the messages of history?

I have never attended more funerals in my life than in the last ten years in Colombia; the reason is not an increased mortality, but the fact that death here, where I live, concerns many people beyond the deceased's loved ones, family and friends.

Here, Pittakos of Mytilene seems to urge us to discern kairos, to learn to know it. It would therefore be, not only a natural gift, an innate talent, a brilliant intuition, but also a quality to be acquired.

Totalitarianism is a political system that seeks "total domination". Hannah Arendt's assertion must be taken literally: it is not a question of relative domination over all public and private spheres of a society's lives, but of total domination. What does this mean?

In the current turmoil and the various controversies concerning "sex education", "emotional and relational education", the "sexual rights" of children, Dr. Régis Brunod and I wanted to return to the fundamentals of the psychological protection of children. A look back at an encounter, a journey, a refusal to negotiate with perversion, and the identification of multi-faceted manipulations.

Who is Sébastien Castellion? He is a great humanist who leads a poor existence, free from any material ties. He lives from his translations and the lessons he gives. His conscience revolts before the burning of Michel Servetus: he cannot remain silent and accuses Calvin. He then chooses the heroic life, without support, without a party, without a protector, without friends to support him openly. Castellion knows that such an attack condemns him, a helpless and isolated indivi

According to one of the seven sages of Antiquity, Bias of Priene, "Most men are wicked". It is perhaps worth revisiting this maxim today to grasp its full depth... and its warnings!

In 2020, I indicated that we were only experiencing the first tremors of the totalitarian onslaught. Since then, the processes have intensified, and we have become routinely "accustomed" to the various excesses of the global totalitarianism towards which we are, more by force than by choice, compelled to move.