After the death of his cat, Jean-Pierre saw “a mystical experience” in the Orne

The retired philosophy professor, who lives in the Carneille (Orne), wrote this monologue following a walk, which was A very strong experience for him.

A mystical experience

“The beginning is a walk, which took place on February 24, Two days after Shams’ deathmy cat ”. Unaccustomed to hiking exercise, the author walked towards Sainte-Honorine-la-Guillaume. “I was alone, I needed natureI did two hours of walking in the cold and the wind … and it fell on me ”.

This mystical experience, which he tells in his book, is its origin: “If this mystical experience had not been, I would not have written this book. I had an injection to write it when I got home, I was again living from the inside ».

A spiritual impulse

Jean-Pierre then felt the need to testify to his experience upon his return: “In a spiritual momentum, in the sense of the aesthetics of the heart, I took three days to write it. This is the first time that it happens to meI wrote it in a milking, without failure, as if my mind was under the guidance of a master ”.

This dialogue with itself is “punctuated by sequences of meetings with the outside: the stones, the moor, the trees, the wind, the houses … Happé to the outside, It’s an inward return ».

Invisible

“With this sorrow of having lost someone, my heart was big, tight heart, it was empty. This suffering woke up An ancient suffering ». He claims that life is not only what is visible, the living is also behind, in the invisible.

Death, disappearance is to render in the invisible. The fact of knowledge and realizing it is a concept.

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“When you are jostled by events, you have to do more than understand, you have to go through the trials, walk to understand Why does that happen to us ».

An initiatory passage

It is important for the author to “want or be able to continue to move forward. Life continues, She does not stop at death ». He defines it “as an initiatory passage, it is a passage for the one who leaves in the invisible and it is a passage for the one who remains and who suffers. »»

But this suffering is not an end in itself, because it kills, it withers, it roars: one can die of suffering.

In the book, he also talks about the “body of suffering”, somatization. This body which requires being recognized, accepted as such. We must then make an inventory of what constitutes this body of suffering: early childhood, mourning, fears.

A body of suffering

After this experience, he explains that “his spiritual consciousness separated from his body of suffering. Without this one, the idea of ​​writing would not have come to me. This dialogue with myself may be used for others, open an interior space ».

For him, “Death is not definitive separation with lifeit can lead us to another form of relationship with ourselves: a more spiritual and more serene relationship ”.

Jean-Pierre Manesse-Dupont will dedicate his book to the Carneille market, on Sunday May 4 and June 1 at Clos Ulysse from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The book is on sale at the Café Books Read and Stroll of Ségrie-Fontaine, open on Friday and Saturday from 3:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., and from Wednesday to Saturday summer at the same times.

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