Text originally published in the brochure Paris Mystères (2017) and reproduced with the kind permission of the author.
Geo-synchronicity. That is the name I gave to symplanicity, this new phenomenon that could not have been discovered before we possessed, as we do today, geographic maps faithful to reality. I was led to this phenomenon quite by chance in 1989, after reading Jacques Trescases’ book L’Étoile flamboyante. Two pentagrams were drawn over France: a smaller one whose points represented the cities of our most beautiful cathedrals, and a larger one whose points marked places where Master builders and Compagnons du Devoir gathered during their tours of France. It was only when I transcribed these two pentagrams onto a Michelin map of France that they began to “speak” to me. I discovered only about twenty lines of meaning, but they concerned Joan of Arc—the pivotal figure in French history between the temporal world and the spiritual world—François Mitterrand, the President of the Republic at the time, and the destiny of my own modest person.
Symplanicity, a gateway to the fifth dimension
After several years of research and reflection, I came to the conclusion that symplanicity is the manifestation of a dimension other than that of our four-dimensional world (the three dimensions of space and that of time), the only ones perceptible to our five senses or to the technological tools that extend them—atomic microscopes, cyclotrons, or telescopes.
Since symplanicity uses symbols to reveal meaning, I deduced that it unfolds within the universe of meaning itself, what C.G. Jung called the collective unconscious. Let us be clear: for me, symplanicity is the gateway to the dimension closest to our universe that is accessible to us—the fifth dimension, that of Spirit. This new dimension is accessible only through the mind, just as the ordinary four-dimensional universe, the phenomenal world, is accessible only through our senses.
Why does modern humanity have so much difficulty with the subtle world?
To grasp the world of the spirit, it is necessary to take into account the theory of the two cerebral hemispheres. Contemporary civilized humans use—except in rare cases—primarily, if not exclusively, their left brain: the brain of reason, analysis, division, calculation, and the segmentation of knowledge. The left brain is hypertrophied, while the right brain, little or not at all stimulated, is atrophied.
The right brain is the brain of intuition, emotion, holistic thinking, and the symbolic universe; it alone can resonate with symplanicity, just as it does with synchronicity. Humans before the advent of writing were more intuitive and contemplative than those of today, who believe only what they see. Yet, as Saint-Exupéry reminded us, “One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye.” And in one of his books he added, “To know is not to demonstrate or to explain; it is to gain access to vision.” These two quotations may seem paradoxical, but in fact they are not, because the vision in question is not optical vision but inner vision—the vision of the mind or of consciousness.
Symplanicity is the simplest means of moving from the material universe to the spiritual universe, from the physical world to the metaphysical world. After the preliminary step of setting aside our preconceptions, it asks only one thing of us: to accept simply looking in order to see—that is, to perceive meaning when it exists.
A new way of looking at the world
Civilization is in crisis not only because institutions are failing, but above all because humanity first seeks external solutions, whereas the solutions are primarily within ourselves. This message is not easy to convey to contemporary humans, who often have only rights and no longer know what duties are, who know the price of everything but the value of almost nothing… Without a reversal of values and a change in perspective, our civilization has no future other than to drag us into a world of permanent stress, speed, and addiction to smartphones or other videophones which, when poorly used, vampirize our attention and insidiously transform us into robots. Just look around you.
And yet the solution is simple, concerns only ourselves, and cannot be shared, for we alone can see ultimate reality—and not others. Symplanicity contributes to the awakening of consciousness by pushing back the limits of reality. Within you, more subtle senses are asking to be engaged—test them!