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I consider that we are eternal beings, expressions of an infinite consciousness that imagines and creates the universe.
And then I look at the world, the immense suffering inflicted on all forms of life and the madhouse that our planet has become.
No sane person could stand the current absurdity and violence for very long, nor could they live with it.

Smart objects are invading our daily lives. Our gadgets are getting smarter and smarter. They inform us about our geographical location, our fame in social networks, our biological or financial health, and transmit this information to companies that want to do us good... It's going very fast. 

In 1993, I had written an article following a Swiss TV program on the theme "Should tobacco smoke be regulated outside the private sphere? having sensed the rise of scientific fundamentalism. Fifteen years later, in the midst of the AH5N1 crisis, I reworked this article for the Matin Dimanche readers' letter. Today, it is time to put it back on the front page...

The day after the UDC's initiative against mass immigration was accepted, many voices were raised in Switzerland, fearing its negative consequences on the economy and our relations with the European Union.

Abroad, this vote has shocked beyond the borders of Europe. Already tainted by the behaviour of its banks, Switzerland has sabotaged a further part of its international goodwill.

Human arrogance is reaching new heights. For billions of years, Life has evolved throughout the universe, guided by an Intelligence that is beyond our capacity to understand. In our lost suburb of the Milky Way, we bipeds barely reached self-awareness declare war on Life (in its viral form) and think we'll get away with it. Hm.

Attention is the most precious commodity of the human being - and probably of any conscious creature. It is the attention I give to a person, an object, a situation that gives it reality. I pay attention to you, I am interested in you: I charge this attention with appreciation, disdain, interest, love, judgement, expectation, desire, disgust, etc.

Two things are infinite, said Einstein, the universe and human stupidity; before adding, but I am not sure about the universe.
I have never trusted authorities - parental, medical, religious, political, etc. An asset to observe the current planetary crisis.

Our little monster developed a terrible and fulgurating arthrosis, which degenerated at sight. This afternoon he was screaming in pain and could no longer stand on his hind legs. 

After a few hours of crisis, imagining the nightmare to come for him as for us, we decided to offer him eternal freedom.

Thanks to you who loved him, he knew how to enjoy it.

A bear, passing over Sion, August 31, 2015.

This year we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the entry of the Valais into the Helvetic confederation. On this occasion, the Nendaz artists' association Nendartistes invited me to exhibit in the collective exhibition held from August to October 2015. 

If many artists touch me, none succeeds in doing it like Leonard Cohen. In all his discography, no title leaves me indifferent. This man is an angel of passage on Earth bringing balm to the human heart. And his works are timeless.

In the global upheaval of systems and beliefs, do you live in areas at risk? Is the building that houses you earthquake-proof, or is it in danger of collapsing in the event of a strong tremor? 

I wrote this blog in 2006, when the cartoon affair first started, but everything indicates that it is still relevant, so I'm putting it back on the front page...

A Danish editor publishes various cartoons of Mohammed to boost his sales and excite the public. And of course, the followers of the prophet feel abused, sullied, violated in their beliefs.

They demonstrate, shout, scream, inveigh, threaten, offended by such obscenity.

We just started 2014 and it's already spring....

Time is not what it used to be.

To say "I am" is to affirm one's existence. It is what is added after "I am" that is currently creating insoluble and dangerous problems.

Let me explain. The first biological life forms appeared on Earth about 3.5 billion years ago. These first cells developed, specialized, complexified, producing in the course of time an extraordinary diversity of aquatic organisms. 

In 2008, during a walk along the river at the bottom of the Nendaz valley, I met a wise old man who was dozing in the bed of the torrent. I took a picture of him.

And yesterday, at the same place, 5 meters from the first one and on the bank, I discovered his brother! Or maybe it was one of his disciples or servant posted there to protect the sleep of the master? He didn't want to answer me, but accepted that I take a picture of him :)

It happens at the North Pole. A little polar bear asks his father: Dad, are you sure I'm a polar bear? Yes, my son, of course you are a little polar bear!

A little later, the little polar bear comes back to his father: Daddy, are you really sure that I am a polar bear? Yes, my son, I am sure you are a polar bear!

Later still, the little polar bear insists: Daddy, are you really sure that I am a polar bear?

Our Bed and Breakfast is definitively closed since September 15, 2012. 

During its 12 years of existence, we had the pleasure to welcome and meet many people who enriched us by their presence. The quality of these exchanges, the kindness and friendship remain alive in our hearts, and in the soul of the place. We thank you for this!

THRIVE est un film documentaire tout à fait non-conventionnel, qui lève le voile sur ce qui se passe REELLEMENT dans notre monde, en remontant à la source des systèmes financiers - dévoilant une consolidation globale du pouvoir qui affecte presque tous les aspects de nos vies. 

The US debt put in perspective... I don't know where the original English version came from (thanks Ray!), but it confirms that a picture is better than 1000 words.

There are currently 66 countries and 7 territories around the world that are affected by anti-personnel mines or explosives left over from past wars. Communities living in these areas depend on outside expertise to solve the complex problem of mine detection and clearance of these suspect areas. Mine detection is difficult, dangerous, costly and time consuming.

In 1988, John Carpenter directed the movie "They Live", visible on YouTube). In this film, he describes a lobotomized and obedient society, with its omnipresent advertising boards praising seductive products and services, and its TV broadcasting everywhere the same soporific information and series to which we are accustomed today...

Since the release of the movie 2012, the symbolic meaning of this date has become more widely imprinted in the collective consciousness, intensifying the diffuse but tangible feeling of an imminent end. Let's leave it to the experts to explain the history and consequences of this milestone, which in the Mayan calendar corresponds to the completion of many cycles. 

In less than two weeks, the vaccination campaign against the H1N1 flu will have started in Switzerland. Yesterday, a survey indicated that 86% of the Swiss population did not intend to get vaccinated. So a funny idea came to my mind.

The scene takes place in the Middle Ages, in a castle. It is winter, the fire crackles in a fireplace. Around it, slumped in cushions, two lords with vast estates are drinking and plotting. They are looking for ways to annex new territories, to extend their power. Wine unlocks their imagination.

I was walking at the bottom of the Nendaz valley. The dogs were gambolling happily and running after the pieces of wood that were flying here and there. The path went along the river, the water glistened with a thousand changing reflections, caressing the red pebbles in its bed, typical of this iron-rich region.

Yes, everything happens... Trilulle the Dragonfly is getting multimediated. If this poem is not new - it dates from 1995 - the call to open the windows and to break the locks of "bien-pensentism" is more than ever topical... At the time of the holy war against everything that goes beyond and smokes, I offer you a re-edition of these verses full of common sense...

As you may have noticed, I make a drawing every day, inspired by the news. In fact, it goes like this: I do a quick review of the main news sites and I save myself some interesting dispatches, before choosing which one is going to undergo the assault of my pen.

In these times of uncertain climatology, one observes with a curiosity mixed with concern the weather reports that follow one another. For my part, I have always thought that there is a correlation between the sum of human emotions and daily events, and therefore, that we should also have emotional weather reports.

After years of war and senseless occupation of Iraq, we learn that Poland and Great Britain will withdraw their troops and that, following the Democratic victory at the beginning of the month in the USA, the United States also seems to be preparing its exit. The situation is no happier in Israel and Palestine. Or elsewhere, closer to home, in our so-called civilized nations.

If the idea of compulsory schooling started with good intentions in the time of Charlemagne, the school quickly became the primary instrument for formatting consciences. Even today, education systems are directly inspired by the Prussian model of the 18th century: the child is a material to be molded into a docile and productive instrument in the hands of the elites.

A UBS study published these days sounds the alarm: people are getting too old in Switzerland. It is inevitable, productivity will fall.

The big bank is proposing various measures to mitigate the impact of what they see as a catastrophe - that is, a future that is beyond the logic of banking institutions.

It had to happen... American researchers have shown that a reduction of about 25% in daily calorie consumption for six months had positive effects on several biochemical and cellular indicators of aging in humans. In short, the less you eat, the longer you last.

In the latest "Spuren", a Swiss-German magazine, I read a very encouraging article about Alexander Penkovski, a healer of Russian origin living in Germany.

In his late teens, he noticed that people were behaving and showing extreme symptoms in his presence; screaming, crying, hysterical laughter, vomiting, in short, particularly pronounced states of catharsis.

A few lines to draw your attention to a book that should remain within reach in your bathroom: "La vérité sur les cosmétiques", by Rita Stiens. It reads like a novel, and you discover the list of the 1200 most used components and their possible risks for health and the environment.

The more researchers delve into the mysteries of nature, the more questions they ask themselves. They have just discovered that our DNA has a kind of consciousness and that it can even communicate, and its prowess is such that it surpasses anything that man has been able to create through technology.

And here it is: the virus is released in the media: the avian flu is coming. Hysteria is running high.

So far, since 2003, there have been 100 cases of bird flu caused by the H5N1 virus worldwide, 60 of which have resulted in death. A number infinitely lower than the number of deaths caused by flower pots falling from windowsills during the same period.

We have come to understand that the primary objective of the instituted religions is to keep the herd of its faithful in sleep and ignorance, to prevent the awakening of the individual at all costs. For the record, two well-known quotes from high dignitaries of the Holy Church of Rome:

This morning, I was listening to the news on the radio. On the sidelines of the Jakarta summit, scientists want to coordinate all possible means to prevent such disasters in the future, and to set up systems to warn people during similar cataclysms. Follows a description of the very expensive technological devices to develop, with satellites and so on...

Against all odds, the long-awaited and much-feared end of the world on the planet Terra in the Sol system has been cancelled, reported Archangelical Inc. chief executive Dr. A. Michael. This announcement was immediately followed by an outraged statement from the Lucifer Global Media Network, which had recently acquired the universal broadcast rights to the event.

The most trancendental realizations always appear where we least expect them.

I was listening to the evening news, oil prices going up, attacks in Baghdad, free fall of Swiss airlines, and so on, you know the drill, when the root cause appeared to me in a succession of animated images:

One day, Barbara arrived with a German book with a curious title: Das LOLA Prinzip (The LOLA Principle.)
As she read it, I heard her exclamations of all colors, interspersed with pauses where she told me passages from the book.
We found it so excellent that we decided to go on a great adventure: translate it into French.

But why are so many excellent books not translated into French? This time it was "What is Lightbody" by Tashi-ra Tashi-ren, published by my friends at Oughten House. In this excellent book, as I said, there is a section dedicated to the Invocations that Archangel Ariel offers us. Full of joy, exuberance and love, they could not be ignored by my non-English speaking friends. So I translated them...

To compensate an alarming "prevention" campaign... The stickers on the packages of cigarettes are more and more aggressive, and moreover, twisted in their communication. So I prepared some labels to put the church back in the middle of the village.

After a few years of intense study of the ways and customs of Earth, to my great surprise, I discovered that unlike any other place in the universe, Earthlings do not seek enlightenment above all, but comfort. At first I was shocked, so far from my own perspective. 

Among all the writing about community impoverishment in the United States today, here is a book that highlights the ability of local communities to heal from within. Neglectful Society shows how competent communities have been invaded, captured and colonized by professional services.

Comfortably installed in his office, the psychiatric doctor Sigmund Afraid receives his clients: Mr. Proffe, Archibald Plin-Hozass, a senior executive, Jules Gagneur, a business consultant, Isabelle Bauzard, an artist, Francis de Plouto-Crassy, the Great Protector of Arts and Culture, Ursule Petipul, a social worker, Hector Bigot, an acorn-faced priest.

On all sides, I am asked to participate in meditations for world peace. With each new crisis - China, Kosovo, Palestine, Guatemala, Iraq, etc. - my email and mail are overflowing with calls for global meditations. - my email and mail are overflowing with calls for global meditations. 

Cette page est dédiée à Giulia, un être exceptionnel qui, pendant 14 ans, s'est déguisé en Cocker Spaniel pour nous inonder de tendresse et nous enseigner l'amour sans conditions. Elle a quitté son déguisement canin début novembre 2000, comme elle nous l'avait annoncé, pour retrouver l'état sans entraves de sa dimension lumineuse. 

Greetings!

We come to you on this day with shocking news on the mass landings and the Ascension process for you and your planet. First of all, we would like to say that mass landings and ascension are two completely opposed concepts. Ascension deals with the free will choice of the individual to shift her or his attention from outside distorted perceptions to the inner guiding Spirit. It is a processs of liberation.

Dear customers of Earth Travel Tours,

As some of you may have noticed, we have entered the fourth dimension. You can unbuckle your seatbelts and get rid of all other safety systems, they will no longer work. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by these dimensional changes.

We are still on Earth, in 2057. Many things have changed. It would take some effort to recognize the landscape, and you would be amazed by the new light emanating from nature. Yet your greatest amazement would come from the psychology of the people. It has changed, irrevocably. 

In the summer of 1993, in preparation for the elections, the Geneva Liberals presented their "Project for Geneva". Print this archive, it's worth it. You'll be able to show it to your grandchildren in a few decades, just for a laugh. 

Dear incarcerated,

Even in your worst nightmares, you would never have imagined that one day your prison would shrink to the point where there remained no other solution for you but to escape. And you had arranged things so well. Your work, your hobbies, your insurances, your social position, your philosophical or religious options, everything seemed so stable, solid, secure, there for eternity. 

The brochure of the Société des Régisseurs Genevois published in the Tribune illustrates the dangers of distorted communication. According to this leaflet, the régies are doing a public service by redistributing the rents paid to them to the numerous professionals of the real estate industry: concierge, régie employee, architect, etc... This logic can be applied to any field, and justify anything. 

Geneva Wins!  An expression of Geneva's collective consciousness, this slogan was born out of the crisis. It is a perfect illustration of two diametrically opposed trends. Underneath its rebellious and winning exterior, "Genève gagne" sounds like a timid and uncertain affirmation, like a last attempt to deny the atmosphere of gloom that makes every inspiration a superhuman effort.

In 1991, the Swiss Confederation celebrated its 700th anniversary. Great events were planned on the scale of the country, initially to be centered on utopia, on the possible futures of this country, reflection to which each and everyone was invited. Finally, this event took the form of an exhibition of regional particularities.

To the head of external planning, Orion.
The work is going well. Important progress has been made in terms of vegetation. Acid rain has already devastated one fifth of the flora.

What if we told you: conjugate Switzerland in the past, present and future? A few years before the 700th anniversary of the creation of the Swiss Confederation, this idea resonated in me, filled the air and gave joyful shapes to the clouds as I visited the Ranft Gorge, the deep valley where Nicolas de Flue lived as a hermit for 20 years.

Monsieur le rédacteur,
C’est avec un réel plaisir que j’ai appris que le Département Militaire avait donné sa caution aux cours de tir au fusil d’assaut donnés aux écoliers de Sissach dans le cadre de cadre de "Passeport Vacances". Les choses n’étaient d’ailleurs pas faites à moitié, des cibles de forme humaine ayant été utilisées.