Theme :
Abellio and the new Gnosis
In his last and posthumous book Manifeste de la nouvelle Gnose, Raymond Abellio justifies the word « Gnose » which, despite its various usages in the course of history,
reminds us of its primary meaning of knowledge that the ancient Greek language gave to it.
He promptly emphasizes that, contrary to the present common use, « the word knowledge should not be confused with science ».
But distinguishing is not excluding: Knowledge as the new Gnosis wants to compare and associate rationality and intuition, science and spirituality.
The theme « Abellio and the new Gnosis » incites particpants and sepakers to follow the perspectives of that vision of knowledge inspired by Gnosis.
The reference to Abellio's thought and work is proposed as a starting point and a source of reflection, not as a prescriptive framework.
The titles of the 6 chapters of Manifeste de la nouvelle Gnose suggest some of the domains that could be treated during these Rencontres:
- I. Sciences and Gnosis
- II.Philosophies, religions and Gnosis
- III.Gnosis, symbolism, mythologies
- IV.Gnosis and heuristics
- V.Gnosis, history and prophetism
- VI.Gnosis and ethics.
Communications
José Guilherme Abreu
Knowledge as recognition: towards a « gnostic reduction ».
Éric Coulon
Messianic time and the eternal present -
Abellioʹs messianism, part 3
Michelle Nahon
The archetype of Man-God
Jean Ratte
From Circle to Sphere or from Science to Gnosis.
Jean-Charles Roux
Meditation on Abellio's present moment.
Daniel Verney
The universal psychic field (from and after) Abellio.
Call for papers
The theme of the Rencontres 2020 - "Abellio and the new Gnosis" - will bring together communications around an integrative vision of knowledge
implied by a "new Gnosis". LThe reference to Abellio's thought and work is proponed as a starting point and a source of reflection, not as a prescriptive framework.
Here is an open list of possible domains of contrinutions:
- Sciences et spirituality
- Philosophies, religions and new thinking
- Knowledge, intuition, creation, heuristics
- Towards a new paradigm of knowledge
- Works, researches, testimonies about Abellio: man, novelist, philosopher
- ...
Submission of contribution projects
Please email to projets@rencontres-abellio.net the following documents:
- 1. A short project of less than 500 words, showing the title, the author's name, and a simple and clear presentation of the theme and
approach of the communication.
- 2. A brief curriculum-vitæ of the author, giving his/her email address, and if applicable research institution or organism membership.
(CV is not required to authors who have already been published in the Rencontres Abellio web site).
After examination by the Rencontres mamangement Committee the author will be informed of the acceptation status of his/her project.
Format of equired documents
- PDF
- Character font : Times New Roman.
- Simple line spacing.
- Langages : French, English, Portuguese.
Schedule
- Submission of projects: 30 June 2020 at the latest.
- Acceptation of projets: 15 July 2020 at the latest.
- Confirmation by the author of his/her participation to the session: 1st August 2020 at the latest.
Scientific Committee
The Rencontres Raymond Abellio Scientific Committee is composed of:
- José Guilherme Abreu, professor at the School of Arts of the Portuguese Catholic University (UCP), Porto Center,
and member of the Research Center on Arts Sciences and Technologies (CITAR), same university.
- Rémi Boyer, spécialist of esotericstic philosophies, author of essays, short stories and poems.
- Laura Castro, professor at the School of Arts of the Portuguese Catholic University (UCP), Porto Center,
and member of the Research Center on Arts Sciences and Technologies (CITAR), same university.
- Michelle Nahon, psychologist, author, researcher.
- Bertrand Vergely, philosopher.
- Daniel Verney, engineer and researcher in software sciences and technologies,
former associate professor at Reims University.
The Scientific Committee's function is to verify and enforce scientific ethics in the documents which it examines, before publication in the Rencontres Abellio web site.
This applies in particular to méthodological rigour, to distinction between hypotheses and facts, to sources and citations of documents.
It is not within its purview to take a position against, or in favor of, contents of sumitted papers.