Lectures from the sacred Field
What does it mean to become holy?
It means entering a realm that we cannot inhabit all the time. Being holy, then, is not a state in which a subject can remain without losing itself. We are talking about the field of the unavailable. Unavailable to the law, to social status, to success, available only to the unavailable soul of the other being. Thus, to enter the state of oneness, we must cross the threshold of identity and put on the cloth of the divine.
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To put on the cloth of the divine is not only a religious question, but also a philosophical questioning of the ideological and physical availability (including aspects such as that of biopower as defined by Michel Foucault), and finally a question of how the sacred in terms of togetherness can become a fundamental part of our socio-political activities.
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“By this I mean a number of phenomena that seem to me to be quite significant, namely, the set of mechanisms through which the basic biological features of the human species became the object of a political strategy, of a general strategy of power, or, in other words, how, starting from the 18th century, modern Western societies took on board the fundamental biological fact that human beings are a species. This is what I have called biopower.”
Michel Foucault
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A major act of deepening the theological, philosophical, and political question is to narrate the stories of the sacred anew. We will do this in relation to the needs of our time, as has been done in centuries past, in order to let the sacred become true.
In order to discuss and delineate the field of the sacred under the premise of togetherness, we develop and carry out lectures, symposia and publications in cooperation with partners from theology, politics and other fields.