Dialogues with my readers #1 — When words begin to flow
Building a space together of fraternity and collective intelligence.
This article is the author’s own translation of the original French version.
Dear readers,
A few weeks ago, I invited you to participate in a three-part conversation, thereby launching the dialogical project I announced in my 2026 resolutions. This approach represented far more than a simple solicitation; it marked the beginning of a collective experience of words circulating, encountering one another, and mutually enriching each other. You will find this invitation in the article below.
This publication, Dialogues of the New World, is not the product of narcissism. I certainly express my enthusiasms, questionings, spiritual quest, and personal commitment to improving the world within it. However, the essence of this approach lies in the encounter with individuals who share the same questions and sense of responsibility for a world that must transform itself. With each article, I aspire to connect with different thoughts, sensitivities, and energies carried by engaged individuals.
I must confess that I had hoped for more participation. However, since I did not pursue a career in professional journalism — though I did edit the cultural pages of a local newspaper for a few years — I am still learning how to engage readers. What truly captures attention? How does one transform a silent reader into an active interlocutor? I continue to ask myself these questions with humility.
Having experienced it many times myself, I know how arduous the writing process can be. Expressing in words what stirs in the depths of our being is a significant challenge. Public speaking, even under the cover of anonymity, demands courage and vulnerability. Moreover, why engage in an endeavor whose contours and prospects remain uncertain and whose utility is not immediately apparent?
I therefore fully understand the reasons for this initial reserve. Nevertheless, I persist in believing in the feasibility and necessity of such a project: creating a space where the words, reflections, and intuitions of people mobilizing for the future intersect and fertilize one another. These women and men exist. They reflect intensely, act concretely, accept questioning themselves, and choose to demand more of themselves. They all share the same aspiration: to enable the emergence of a more authentically human civilization, one that is less traversed by violence and more animated by the urgency of justice. This civilization could finally be born and flourish on the earth we share.
I will continue to propose topics for discussion, open-ended questions, and themes for collective reflection. Today, however, I also extend a more direct invitation to you: If you are hesitant to participate, please help me understand your reservations and expectations. How can we refine this dialogical project, one of the fundamental axes of these Dialogues of the New World, together? Your words, even brief and uncertain, possess inestimable value in shaping the space of exchange that I am calling for.
It is urgent to me to encourage fruitful dialogue and open, constructive exchanges while, around us, disagreements are radicalizing and lies and deception are being exhibited shamelessly. Our words are being imprisoned in algorithmic machines, and they are progressively deserting our hearts and minds.
The virtues of genuine dialogue
Dialogue to understand and enrich one another; dialogue to build together; dialogue at the level of humanity, free from prejudices and sterile anger. Is this not the most authentic form of resistance today? Doesn’t this give us a tangible chance to restore meaning and trace the paths of a truly collective and shareable intelligence? Does this not affirm our common humanity while reminding us of the necessary humility to recognize that we ultimately know very little, including how to live together in harmony?
Does this practice of dialogue constitute the primary condition for rebuilding community in the noblest sense of the term? It allows us to escape the paralyzing narrowness of our mental refuges and defensive certainties. To finally begin advancing together toward the new world we envision?
Dialogue is already laying the foundations of a possible fraternity. I envision a dialogue in which each word enriches and honors the other — the opposite of sterile confrontations that recall rams clashing horns to win a female’s favor. In our contemporary arenas, protagonists collide to seduce an electorate, attract the favor of a community of supporters, impress and subdue an adversary, or gather the eager assent of admirers in search of idols.
The dialogue I wish to discuss with you and the nobility of speech I wish to invite you to are the opposite of that. They are words that circulate freely and expand through contact with others. They patiently build the foundations of a world habitable for all. This is only a beginning, certainly, but is it not in beginnings that the full power of possible transformations unfolds?
The most important thing is the authenticity of shared speech.
My dear readers, I have a concrete proposal for you: once a month or every two months, I will dedicate an article to your contributions to the conversation. These texts may take two distinct forms:
first, your responses to questions that I will pose in my articles,
or, you may send me your own reflections on a subject close to your heart.
The only criterion is that your writing fits within the scope of these dialogues, which include spirituality, civilizational transformations, ethics, the issues of our time, and any existential questions that align with our shared perspective.
To participate, simply write to me at dialoguesen@substack.com.
Whether brief or developed, signed with your name or under a pseudonym, your contributions will be welcomed with the same respect and attention. What matters is not whether it is “well written” according to some academic or literary norm, but rather the sincerity of your words, the authenticity of your search, and your sincere desire to contribute to this collective effort to understand and elevate one another.
The first participation of two readers
To inaugurate this dialogical practice in February, I present the valuable words of two readers who responded to the question I posed in my article, “A Word that circulates”. Their voices are the first living stones of the shared structure we are building together. I thank them warmly.
My three-part question invites us to explore our vulnerabilities, interior resources, and concrete commitments simultaneously.
Below are the contributions of these two readers:
First contribution:
(1) What crisis is affecting you the most right now?
“It is the collective crisis of the intelligence of the heart, suffocated by the vanity of cerebral intelligence, beginning with my own individual crisis. It would be easy for me, in a purely cerebral approach, to criticize my wife’s and daughters’ disinterest in my spiritual commitment. But through the heart, I accept the mystery of these three beings. It is not what we believe that is essential, but rather, our acts of love when we give the best of ourselves to others.”
(2) What practice, inner source, or commitment sustains you?
“It is the book The Sign or Revelation of Arès. After reading it, I was definitively convinced not by the text itself, but by the brutal perception of the total non-duality of the universe and Its Creator at the site of the supernatural events in Arès. I was also convinced by the humility and refusal to be a leader on the part of Michel Potay, the witness of this revelation, when I read one of his articles, ‘Option Solitude,’ written in 1990.”
(3) What concrete action—even a modest one—will you take to contribute to the common good?
“I am mobilized by speaking to passersby on the street to find, without trying to convince them, those who seek a spiritual life through action. This consists, in my view, of slowly and freely changing oneself by loving all humans, which I call penitence.
Two weeks ago, I sent N. a private email about spiritual topics. I felt that we did not understand each other. That same evening, however, Jeremy listened attentively when I told him, “There is no guaranteed method to change oneself. The human is a god who fears his divinity.” “Yes, he has forgotten it,” he replied. I then felt N.’s presence within me, as if he were helping me. My email had connected us, but only briefly.”
Patrick T.
Second contribution
(1) Which crisis is affecting you the most right now?
“Many contemporary crises affect me, but they don’t sadden me in and of themselves. What affects me profoundly is their common root: the retreat of the desire to embody virtue, not as an abstract ideal or moral posture, but as an internal necessity, expressed through choices, words, and actions.”
(2) What practice, inner source, or commitment sustains you?
“What sustains me is the cosmology of the Surveyors, heirs to an ancient age. It offers a vast and demanding interpretation of reality. This cosmology is inseparable from a profound distinction anchored in me: the difference between my responsibilities, choices, words, and actions, and systems over which I have no control.”
(3) What concrete action—even a modest one—will you take to contribute to the common good?
“The acts are too numerous to list without impoverishing them. The central act, the one that contains them all, is my constant vigilance for coherence in my actions and my patient search for the right word.
From this axis, gestures unfold naturally: I make my garden a living oasis, practice eco-driving, renounce fossil energies, adopt an essentially plant-based protein diet, produce vegetables outside of winter, and inscribe my professional activity in the field of renewable energies.”
Alexander Djis, author of “La Voie arc-en-ciel”, a french publication.
The horizon of new fraternity
I am profoundly touched by these two contributions, which, despite their different formulations, testify to the same fundamental dynamic: the inseparable union of a need for virtue and a need for engagement. Patrick and Alexander each embody these two imperatives with their own sensibilities and very different frames of reference. Yet, it is clear to me that they both contribute to bringing clarity and peace to our world, which has such a desperate need for them, from their respective places of existence and through their singular means.
These testimonies reveal what could be the foundation of a New World: a civilization in which fraternal encounters are based not on common adhesion to doctrines or identity markers but on mutual recognition of an authentic spiritual life, embodied in concrete existence, free from ideological barriers, and shared in the common quest for renewed meaning. Patrick suggests this when he says, “It is not what we believe that is essential, but our acts of love when we give the best of ourselves to others.” This idea aligns with Alexander’s approach of “living virtue, not as an abstract ideal or moral stance, but as an internal necessity, embodied in choices, words, and actions.” These two formulations, nourished by different spiritual frames of reference, converge toward the same truth: the primacy of action over discourse and embodiment over profession of faith.
In this precise sense, I find myself in profound fraternity with these two individuals, and their testimonies fill me with genuine joy. I thank them from the bottom of my heart!
Here is my contribution to the proposed exercise!
(1) Which crisis is affecting you the most right now?
Our epoch confronts multiple crises, but the one that seems to me to be at the epicenter of all the others is the loss of meaning. This loss leads to the impoverishment of the interior richness that can only be built through the quest for meaning. This crisis is exacerbated by the degradation and impoverishment of language, which has become an instrument of manipulation rather than a vehicle for truth. It is also exacerbated by the inundation of images that saturate our consciousness without nourishing it.
In the face of this void, there are two responses: frenzied consumerism in all its forms or the descent into various radicalisms—political, religious, identitarian, and national. Meanwhile, anger and invective colonize public spaces, violence insinuates itself into interpersonal relations, and the social bond transforms into a permanent battlefield.”
(2) What practice, inner source, or commitment sustains you?
“What sustains me is my daily commitment to becoming a better version of myself and making room within me for a greater Presence. This requires ridding myself of selfishness, cowardice, and laziness and cultivating unconditional love, courage to remain upright in the middle of the night, and a taste for effort and surpassing. When this will weakens, it is renewed through the frequent contemplation of the Words of Life that refresh my mind and heart.”
(3) What concrete action—even a modest one—will you take to contribute to the common good?
“I strive to align my thoughts, words, and actions with the necessity of virtue so that perhaps one day I may demonstrate that another life is possible—one that is broader and more worthy of human nobility. This life is described in an ancient sacred text, the Rig-Veda, as ‘daughter of Heaven through the Body of Earth.’ For example, this means devoting myself to suffering individuals in my profession as a therapist, encouraging each person to care for life—their own and that of all living things—working to propagate the hope of transforming the world through personal improvement, and writing and dialoguing publicly to disseminate ideas that promote an awakening of consciousness and a sense of responsibility.”
Now it's your turn!
Patrick and Alexander have paved the way for you. Follow them and share your thoughts and feelings about their testimonies. I join them in thanking you in advance. I say, “See you very soon!” with all my heart.
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