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this subject.Dom Charles-Rafaël Payeur proposes that you reflect on the profound meaning of the Incarnation of the Word, and invited you to discover the Person of Christ as the Incarnation of the Word. In this way, you will learn how to unmask four fundamental errors that are spread about the nature of the Son of God and His mission. This lecture is obviously of particular utility to enable you to become familiar with the traditional foundations of Christian thought.
If there is a central theme in the domain of Christian spirituality, it is that the experience of the Presence this lecture enables you to discover. How do we effectively approach an experience of God? What does such an experience imply at the level of interior life? What are its practical consequences? There are so many questions to be dealt with in a simple and practical way. Dom Charles-Rafaël Payeur also proposes to initiate you into the practice of contemplative prayer as a spiritual way enabling you to let yourself be inhabited by God’s presence, thus making a true “tabernacle of flesh” of your heart.
The Pater noster is without doubt the most known prayer and the most recited in the world, but the profound character of this invocation has rarely been explained. In this talk, you will discover the initiatic and sacred meaning of the petitions making up this prayer, and you will thus learn how to recite it in the most authentic way according to its original meaning as when it was given by Christ to His disciples and as it appears in the Gospel narrative.
In this talk, you will discover to what extent the spiritual teaching of Saint Francis is relevant to our times. Indeed, it invites us to modify our relations with others into a perspective where the economy takes a secondary dimension. Now, at a time like ours, where economic relations reign supreme, you will discover how it is possible to live another way. This will also introduce you to the ecological vision of Saint Francis, in which all being, including animals, occupy a high place.
The concept of the Resurrection has all too often been badly understood by Christians, who have generally understood in an excessively naïve sense. This talk is intended to show you the way in which we can consider this experience and prepare to die in the right state of spirit for an experience of opening to divine light. Dom Charles-Rafaël Payeur also speaks about a few popular beliefs about hell and paradise, by identifying the way these concepts have often been distorted in relation to the traditional teachings from which they come.
Many other lectures are also available on the great religious
feasts of Christmas, Candlemas, Easter, the Ascension and Pentecost, and on
the lives of the great Saints. Here are a few titles about
this subject.
Here are a few titles about the interpretation of the Scriptures:
In this talk, Dom Charles-Rafaël Payeur offers you the discovery of the profound meaning of an Old Testament narrative, that of Noah’s Ark, learning to do this through a symbolic approach, emphasising the main spiritual keys it contains, thus enabling you to discover the requirements of a major task of interior evolution leading to true peace and an authentic spiritual opening.
The Biblical narrative of the Tower of Babel is certainly one of the most important texts of Genesis to identify the traps our modern society proffers to men of faith, and to rectify our way of life to establish the basis of a better world in which each person is liable to develop his potential and express them in an original way.
The Ten Commandments, as we learned them at Catechism, seem to us often to be trite. Indeed, injunctions like “thou shalt not kill” or “thou shalt not steal” seem to be elementary. However, the transmission of these Commandments is shown to us in a particularly solemn context. This lecture in therefore intended to bring us to discover to what extent they are the fundamental keys in a process of communion with the Divine, insofar as they are interpreted in a more profound manner.
The narrative of the Prophet Elijah’s life opens with a great drought imposed on the whole people of Israel, and is concluded by his rising to heaven in a chariot of fire. If Elijah seems to have exceptional powers, the narrative emphasises something else by teaching us how to go from the worship of an Almighty (from a Yahwist Shamanism) to the overturning encounter with a God of love, who can be heard only through a voice of fine silence. This Biblical episode is therefore essential to understand the spiritual way proposed by the Judeo-Christian tradition and the way God expresses and truly manifests Himself in the world.
The betrayal of Judas is without doubt, of all the Biblical themes, the one that seems the most incomprehensible. Indeed, how could a disciple of Christ betray Him for thirty pieces of silver? What is the meaning of this event? How can he enable us to transcend our own situations of betrayal to open us to an interior transformation? These are a few themes gone into throughout this lecture.
Saint John’s Apocalypse shows us precisely the whole of the initiatic work corresponding with our messianic times, a time when truth must be revealed (what the Greek work “apocalyptos” means) and when the eternal plans of creation are to be accomplished. Dom Charles-Rafaël Payeur therefore proposes the discovery of a few of the great keys allowing you better to understand our times, and to live our period consciously using altogether exceptional working tools that enable you to work on certain dimensions of your being to experience the Resurrection in the way the Biblical tradition invites us.
Many other lectures about
the interpretation of the Scriptures are also available.
Here are a few titles about western spirituality:
This lecture proposes going into a few fundamental aspects of the Celtic tradition by discovering how some aspects of symbolic knowledge can still enable us, even today, to approach nature and find an door open to the most transcendent dimensions of our being. In this sense, a study of the oghams (Celtic alphabet) and their correspondence with the trees and birds is offered.
Mainly inspired by North American Shamanism, Dom Charles-Rafaël Payeur proposes an exploration of this strange world, by seeking to discover how the spiritual heritage of these ancestral peoples can today represent a tool of interior development suited to the great issues of our turn of the century, furthermore bringing us to discover the unsuspected facets of our own spiritual tradition.
This lecture invites you to explore the life of Hercules, this hero of Greek mythology who incarnates the main aspects of the heroic way to which we are all invited. This study more specifically concerns his birth of a human mother and a divine father, his visit to Delphes where he discovered his mission, the twelve works to which a completely original correspondence is proposed with the twelve Signs of the Zodiac and his entry into Olympus. All these stages are obviously as many steps in our own development in the heroic way.
In the lecture, Dom Charles-Rafaël Payeur proposes the discovery of how to develop a state of serenity by taking seven pathways leading to this salutary experience. To do this, he teaches you how to avoid seven contrary attitudes, thus becoming the watchman of our heart. The seven ways to perdition correspond with what the ancients called the seven cardinal sins. They are explained here clearly and precisely as so many ways of false happiness that do not lead to the sought plenitude.
In simple language, this talk proposes a way that enables you to be introduced to an experience of essential inner peace so that a world of peace may one day be edified. To get there, seven gifts must be received, these gifts to which the Prophet Isaiah had already made allusion: wisdom, intelligence, counsel, strength, knowledge, fear of the Lord and piety. Truly, to what do these correspond? How do we receive them and fully incorporate them into our lives? How are they tools for building up a world of peace? These are the main questions dealt with within this conference.
For thousands of years, man has wanted to communicate with the after-life by seeking to discover the particularities of life after death, or to ask for the help of those believed to populate this other world. This conference invites you to explore the various methods used by past civilisations to establish contact with invisible plans, and the way the ancients have represented this world. Moreover, you are invite to reflect on the pertinence of seeking to communicate with these worlds.
Many other lectures about
the western spirituality are also available.
Here are a few titles about the work of psycho-spiritual development.
If there is a reality closely associated with life, it is breathing. The first breath marks the beginning of our existence and our last breath corresponds with our death. Breathing is therefore a vital process, and if this is true, from a simple biological point of view, this is no less true at psychic and spiritual levels. This is why breathing techniques were always at the centre of the training given in all the great schools of initiation. Dom Charles-Rafaël Payeur proposes a better understanding of mechanisms and the discovery of some practical exercises enabling you to act at a physical level (by increasing your vitality), psychic (by improving your inter-personal relations) and spiritual (by emphasising your perception of the divine presence).
Psycho-genealogy is a science that is increasingly developing from the basis of the work of Anne Ancelin Schützenberger. Dom Charles-Rafaël Payeur proposes the discovery of the main keys by learning how better to manage your “family karma” which all too often hinders us from living fully. The Christian illumination he proposes to bring to this discipline brings us to develop entirely new tools better to transcend the wounds of the past and avoid their happening again through what is sometimes called the “anniversary date syndrome”.
Since high antiquity, the hand has always been a symbol of power. Through symbolic anatomy, we can learn better to grasp what it represents, discovering furthermore how the position of the fingers evokes certain precise states of conscience, as they are represented on traditional icons. Having largely explored its symbolism, Dom Charles-Rafaël Payeur offers you different exercises enabling you to use the energy of your hands and a whole set of postures that bring you to arouse and harmonise the three fundamental levels of your existence (physical, psychic and spiritual).
We live in times when violence seems more and more to take root in our daily experience. How can we identify its causes? How, above all, do we work to eradicate this evil by introducing a dimension of tenderness into life, which transforms our relations with others and brings a new meaning to life? These are the subjects spoken about in this talk.
This lecture, altogether exceptional, shows you the characteristic processes of worry, firstly from the biological angle and psychiatry, and then progressively discovering the profound and metaphysical causes of its development. This talk also is intended to offer you bodily mediation exercises that are essential for overcoming worry and establishing a true aptitude for developing serenity in you.
If there is a step that can truly enable us to transform present-day life, all too often characterised by sadness and seriousness, it is therapy by laughing. More than a simple occasion for amusement, laughing can indeed become an exceptional technique for working on yourself. It is in this sense that Dom Charles-Rafaël Payeur goes into this subject in this talk.
Many other lectures about
psycho-spiritual development are also available.
Dom Charles-Rafaël Payeur also proposes educational workshops of three to seven days on more developed themes. For example, we can mention:
Dom Charles-Rafaël Payeur proposes you a deepened reflection about the traditional meaning of All Saints and All Souls, two great Christian feasts that were already celebrated in the Celtic world through rites especially dedicated to the solemnities of the Samain. Even more precisely, he offers you the discovery of a method for helping those who have died, enabling you to guide a departed person towards the light through ten cycles of liberating visualisations. This is therefore a high-level teaching and of great importance for all those who wish to help a departed loved one or prepare to experience death in the initiatic meaning of the term.
Other workshops about
the Christian tradition are also available.
The main objective of this study session is to enable persons who have never studied Hebrew to be introduced to the symbolism of the letters in a simple and playful way, to go on to beginning to use elementary methods to discover the deep meaning of certain Biblical words and names. To do this, workshops enable each person to familiarise himself, at his own speed, with interpretation methods within the reach of everyone. Games calling upon your intuition are also proposed in view to learning to “read images” of particularly meaningful words of the Hebrew Bible.
Other workshops about
the interpretation of the Scriptures are also available.
If there are in the Orient several teachings about the sacred dimensions of sexuality, few tools are proposed in the western tradition. Dom Charles-Rafaël Payeur therefore invites you to discover the meaning to be given to loving and sexual life in the context of spiritual awakening and development. A whole reflection about the symbolism of the anatomy and sexual physiology is offered in this sense, as well as several exercises intended to permit the best opening to love as a celestial power being able to fully incarnate, at the level of all levels making up the personality, and not only at the sexual level.
Other workshops about
the theme of western spirituality are also available.
In this study session, Dom Charles-Rafaël Payeur invites you to discover the psychological and spiritual implications associated with the main systems making up the human body: especially the skin, skeletal, hepatic, pancreatic, cardiac, renal, respiratory, nervous and digestive systems. He also brings you better to know human physiology and anatomy by learning from the intuitions of traditional symbolism. In this perspective, he also offers you the possibility of being introduced to the great principles of spiritual healing, a therapeutic approach essentially based on the symbolism of the body. You will thus discover how to identify the psycho-spiritual problems associated with pathologies, all in implementing an interior work intended to bring a remedy.
Other workshops about
psycho-spiritual development are also available.