«Do not think for one minute that your mind could rise and grow until it could know God» (Master Eckhart, On Eternal Birth).
At the end of a letter dated October 9 1918, Freud asks the letters addressee, Pastor Oskar Pfister, a riddle, as difficult as the one the Sphinx asked Oedipus, the Theban hero :
«By the way, why is it that psychoanalysis was not discovered by one of those pious people, but rather, by a jewish, absolutely non-religious person?» .
Why is this question a riddle ? Simply (...)

«However, (and again, this is not applicable to those perhaps lucky people who believe in God), spirituality has been lost, lost far away. Since Newton discovered gravity, we have been living in a world where the planets are no longer moved by the will of God or the Gods, but by a physical force with a cause and an effect. Let’s take another example; the chakras. Most yoga practitioners have heard about the chakras, those wheels or centers of energy located along the spine. How does this match the vision we have of our body? We have been taught that our body is made of blood, bones, flesh and cells. Not of lotus flowers that may open up and connect to celestial bodies and Gods... So where are the chakras? The first most common answer is that they are so small that no microscope has been able to see them yet. Given the degree of precision reached by microscopy today, this answer does not seem to be a valid one [...]
In summary, people are attracted to yoga because of its spiritual dimension, but our cultural paradigm makes it difficult to access that spirituality. There is danger of misunderstanding and confusion. As Mircea Eliade puts it, the risk exists that the spiritual element in the hindu tradition is eaten up by our materialistic culture, rather than, as we would hope, our material values enlightened by eastern spirituality» (Mireille MARTINI, Yoga and the unconscious).

«Perspectives on brain and mind - different aspects - different methods create different problems regarding a common matter.
 What could the connection be between disturbances in the synaptic gap and life experiences?
 This article brings medical and psychanalytical perspectives together regarding brain activities by help of a theoretical framework inspired of cultural anthropology. A contribution to the "French black book" discussion, written in a yellow cross with a background in blue» (Nina Garevik, Perspectives on brain and mind).