Paris !

Notre Dame, the very center of Paris



Le Louvres

Augustin's baptism

Augustin is Clotilde's third child. Clotilde is my sister. Well, one of my four sisters. She lives with her husband Laurent and her two other children, Maxime and Leonie, in Lille. You don't know my family yet? You'll see. It's mad complicated.


Ok. Left to right : the godfather, Laurent, Clotilde holding Augustin, the godmother. At the foreground, Maxime and Léonie.



Maxime and Léonie.



My older sister Blandine. She's got a baby :



Guillaume. Blandine's son.



My mother, talking to Laurent (Clotilde's husband), with Maxime and Léonie.



My younger sister Madeleine, holding Augustin.



My father with Clotilde.



My youngest sister Anne-Sophie.



My younger brother Benoit.





A picture of my older brother Denis is lacking.

Arnaud Desjardins' ashram

I'm just back from there. It was a very peaceful experience. I met people that went to India the way I'm planning to. I improved the quality of my consciousness. I made lucid dreams. I made exercises and heard words that made life begin to awaken in me. Each leaf and each fruit of each tree on my way was an entire surprising world.

Their very light website is here



Wisdom I brought back from there, to be read slowly :

What am I?
What makes me feel alive right now?
What is the source of my consciousness?
Cellular connections?
To be and to function, my body doesn't need my will.
So why do I think I own it?
It doesn't belong to me.
It exists by itself.
I stop trying to control it.
I return it to itself.
I only observe.
And then...

Meeting Indios and friends

I've been away for a few days, to meet my brazilian friend Indios. He was with his girlfriend, Gwen, and two friends of her : Sarah and Aurélien. We went together in a small village, in the Gorges du Tarn.

Left to right : Indios, Sarah, Gwen, Aurélien

Indios' father makes an amazonian "tea" called ayahuasca. It's a mixture of two plants that have psychotropic effects. But ayahuasca is not a drug. It's a shamanic medicine. I may write more about this later. We took the tea at the top of a "causse", which is a kind of mountain surrounded by cliffs. Some people that are living there took the tea with us.

On the "causse".


The house where we stayed for two nights. The owner is away and allows everyone to come there and stay as long as he wants.


The people we met there


Gwen's father's car :)


View from the top of the causse. Choosing a good place is fundamental for taking ayahuasca


The rock on the right looks like a head looking at the sky


Indios meditating


He almost looks like a shaman


Ready for the ritual





I would have liked taking pictures of what I saw afterwards... But unfortunately, such a technology doesn't exists yet.



Sunrise

Left to right : Aurélien, Indios, Sarah, Gwen (in the light). Aurélien made a thesis in sociology. He knows a lot of places were people have a special art of living. He drived us to some of them in the area.

The people that live here spend almost no money. They built their own cants in the woods. No water, no electricity. They sometimes recover things in super markets' garbage.

Left to right : Gwen, Nico, Indios, Sarah, Aurélien, Steph








Sunset

Then we moved in this other community, but I had to separate from them to get back in Avignon, my mom's place. I don't know when I'll meet Indios again. He's my best friend. I'll miss him.

Back to Montpellier

I used to live there for one year. I met Alex at Yves' place. Now, he's addicted to couchsurfing as well. We travelled together in Brazil. You can check out the pics on his blog here