The hardship of the exceeded death
From impossible mourning to mourning
The evolution towards freedom
We were natural primates. We are men builders. We go to the accomplished human. Between these three stages, the way of welcoming death follows a rising curve.
At first we were natural primates. Death was then all-powerful. It struck our instincts. Passive fatality was the only answer.
Human society then became a tribe (the shamanic period). In this period, the dead passes into the hereafter with his body (and all his affairs, so to speak).
Then comes the religious period. For this spiritual period, it is the spirit that passes into the hereafter. The body is a simple vehicle of the soul.
In the following scientific and nihilistic period, the hereafter does not exist. Neither the body nor the mind passes from the border at the moment of death. Death can not be thought with some serenity. The materialistic spirit clings to the remains of beliefs while the overactivity makes it possible to forget the presence of the end.
* characteristic of the current western world
We can therefore consider this latter period as the period of total mourning. This period of total mourning separates itself into two main stages. There is the present face in which mourning is unacceptable, therefore bifurcated. And the next phase of a total mourning but this time realized, admitted, and surpassed. In this final phase, death, in a certain way, will be overcome. The ordeal of mourning will then no longer exist.
Total unacceptable mourning
During the scientific period the divine is simply marginalized. Without divine, it is impossible to conceive a beyond. And without beyond, it is difficult to give meaning to creation. This passage through atheism had to impose itself on the West. It is the fruit of materialism and the explosion of our knowledge. But he did not provide any cure for the anxiety arising from the death of God (if not ultra liberalism). Modern man must therefore bypass this disarray by deafening strategies. False recklessness, hyperactivity, hyper-distraction, compulsiveness, quest for power, in short, by the satisfaction of the primary impulses ...
The industrialized human being is then obliged to deny the very reality of his death.
* or to tinker with a virtually polytheistic after-death and comfortable enough.
Mourning accomplished
After this period of occultation, will come, according to us, the period of mourning accomplished. Humanity will then be able to transcend death. To understand and to surpass it through ecstatic experience. The question of the hereafter * will simply disappear from human preoccupations. She will be repatriated into a phenomenal world that has become fully spiritual.
* insoluble for man as for science,
In other words, future humanity, through beatitude, nirvana or ecstasy, will experience the divine on earth. And through ecstatic experience man will annihilate the very thought of death, and therefore death itself.
We are in the first phase of this total mourning, oriented towards the second.
François Villon (1431)
La Ballade Des Pendus
Frères humains qui après nous vivez
N'ayez les cœurs contre nous endurciz,
Car, ce pitié de nous pauvres avez,
Dieu en aura plus tost de vous merciz.
Vous nous voyez ci, attachés cinq, six
Quant de la chair, que trop avons nourrie,
Elle est piéca devorée et pourrie,
Et nous les os, devenons cendre et pouldre.
De nostre mal personne ne s'en rie:
Mais priez Dieu que tous nous veuille absouldre! Se frères vous clamons, pas n'en devez
Avoir desdain, quoy que fusmes occiz
Par justice. Toutefois, vous savez
Que tous hommes n'ont pas le sens rassiz;
Excusez nous, puis que sommes transsis,
Envers le filz de la Vierge Marie,
Que sa grâce ne soit pour nous tarie,
Nous préservant de l'infernale fouldre
Nous sommes mors, ame ne nous harie;
Mais priez Dieu que tous nous vueille absouldre! La pluye nous a débuez et lavez,
Et le soleil desséchez et noirciz:
Pies, corbeaulx nous ont les yeulx cavez
Et arraché la barbe et les sourciz.
Jamais nul temps nous ne sommes assis;
Puis ca, puis là, comme le vent varie,
A son plaisir sans cesser nous charie,
Plus becquetez d'oiseaulx que dez à couldre.
Ne soyez donc de nostre confrarie;
Mais priez Dieu que tous nous vueille absouldre! Prince Jhésus, qui sur tous a maistrie,
Garde qu'Enfer n'ait de nous seigneurie:
A luy n'avons que faire ne que souldre.
Hommes, icy n'a point de mocquerie;
Mais priez Dieu que tous nous vueille absouldre!
