The house of sense

Tell me the house you are living in and I will tell you who you are. Human reality isn't really at home if not in this original space which is the 'house of sense'. Here man is born. Here he lives. Here he grows up. Not only physically!

The house of the sense in which we live from day to day is not first a large house. It rather resembles a house made at our measure where we find ourselves really 'at home'. You need a hurricane which shakes its bases and devastates the closed grounds to feel dependant on a broader environment. The space of sense we are breathing in needs to be shaken so we feel taken into a larger including space.

A shock or an upheaval ejects us out of our daily certainty. A catastrophe, an accident, a failure expels us out of the 'middle' to be projected towards the 'extremes'. When the bridges are burned, then remains an extreme gaping where the sense can be given absolutely. Large 'conversions' testify of that.

The sense in the sense... There is always a broader sense - a more including sense - which carries our actual sense. One can also express that while distinguishing between the 'constituted' sense, that one which is currently and effectively mine or ours, and the 'constituting' sense, namely the dynamics which makes possible, which generates and which carries the constituted sense.

The sense is not from nothing. Every sense is always given starting from a larger and more fundamental sense. The simple possibility of saying: “it is absurd” presupposes such an including possibility of sense.

Today we are likely to lose the Sense. There was never a civilization so rich in cultural productions as our modern one. A proliferation of 'constituted' sense. But it misses the 'constituent' one. Never was the risk of spiritual asphyxia so threatening as today.

The sense of sense, two differential appoaches:

The various levels of sense fit into each other. A 'why' is not necessarily an ultimate 'why'. It remains still and still the 'why' of 'why'. Each constituted sense lives thus by grace of a constituent sense.

Trying to carry out the thought until its extreme end does not go without finally giving up in front of an ultimate including Sense. Which is this including? Nature? Chance? Necessity? Reason? God? Fundamentally each philosophy orbits around one of this absolute includings.

More shouting has made the need for an ecology of sense today . We believed our spiritual system could function in strict enclosure and buckled in schizoid autoproductive autonomy. We wanted to be masters and owners of the total system itself. Much more, masters and owners also of its hot source and of its cold well. Masters and owners thus of all its potential difference, that is of all its creative spiritual energy.

It is impossible that immanence buckled into strict immanence can produce something else than tautological redundancy. Man needs more than man to become really human. He needs the Other one. He needs the great vertical Difference. He needs God.

But the world is slow to risk its safety measures of immanence. He prefers to articulate ad infinitum his installed certainty, resisting his transfiguration.

What our modernity, trapped by its schizoid enclosure and its sedentary vision of happiness is so passionately unable to understand, a glance through Passover, a new-born glance, perceives it in great simplicity. God loves the being in its crossing of nothing. God likes creation being re-created. God loves man's resuscitating.

Modernity, however, insists. Greatness of man? But what a strange greatness which must pass through its 'other' dimension! Rather alienation! And to protest for man. All man. Only man.

Total man, maybe. However aren't we today culturally promoting a man who wants to be total - more total than ever - and whom, very curiously, are prohibited at the same time the vital openings and the essential dimensions? Our project of humanity becomes so much obsessed by its total realization that we forget the faults against the totality of the project itself. Rather than to achieve even partially our totality, we prefer to carry out completely our partiality.

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