This text is not a linear analysis but an exercise in perception.
Through metaphor and ellipse, it invites linking together different levels of sensitivity — reason, intuition, premonition. For invisible threats do not move only through the space of facts: they navigate, undulate, and rebound through the layers of our consciousness. To read in this way is to learn to discern what is happening and what is at stake, beyond appearances. Each person carries within them a dormant cognitive soldier. The hour has come to awaken it.
The hills burn in this very hot 2025’s summer around me, the forests consume, and the very air, heavy with heat and climate warming, seems to rub stones together to spark fatal embers. But alongside the heat of visible flames there is another, more insidious one, which ignites minds. In the cognitive space saturated with extreme tension, every image, every word becomes combustible.
Social networks amplify anger, awaken sleeping impulses, and some, drawn in by this tumult, cross the line into action: malice, pyromania, instrumentalized violence. Physical fire and mental fire feed each other like a feedback loop. We live in a changing era where mere “critical thinking education” is no longer sufficient: critical thinking, misdirected, can become a vector for destructive indignation. It shows itself today through its limits.
What is needed is a firewall of another nature: not merely technical, but rooted in awareness of the shared cognitive field — that common space of human interactions, perceptible even in the material reality of our connections, and which love and joy make almost tangible. This field has nourished humanity’s evolution by strengthening cooperation, trust, and solidarity in the face of predatory forces.
It has today entered a metacognitive phase: it becomes an object of consciousness, observation, and interpretation. This new visibility exposes it to deliberate manipulations that act openly on free will and the psyche of the masses, loosening, for the sake of doctrinal horizons, powers which may prove blind and uncontrollable.
Recognizing this field, acquiring lucid awareness of it, protecting and nurturing it is one of the major challenges of the 21st century. It is a matter of defending the People by equipping the multitude with a metacognitive capacity able to integrate religious, spiritual, cultural and technological dimensions, and to preserve the cognitive defenses of the human collective. No new organ must grow. No chip must be implanted. We already have the tools to filter.
We have warning lights blinking when anger, hate, indifference, gain the upper hand. It is the relationship between free will and consciousness that protects us from ourselves. We must not abandon it to the deluge of information, the injunctions that the media universe projects upon it. We all have warning lights blinking. It is up to us to see them.
From this perspective, the Political, in its noblest sense and regardless of the claimed regime, serves this substratum with intelligence and precision. Each one first serves their people. But if one serves them while respecting the vital relationship to the shared cognitive field, one also serves the People — that of “a finite world that begins,” as Paul Valéry foreshadowed, some years before, emerging from abyssal cognitive fissures, the failed attempt of the Third Reich to dictate a thousand years of history.
Yet, nearly a century later, the cognitive trap reopens. Vladimir Putin’s Great Russia and Benjamin Netanyahu’s Great Israel mobilize, in turn, a narrative and symbolic arsenal acting on those same zones of collective psychological vulnerability: messianic exaltation, inversions of accusation, historical mythologies reworked to legitimate domination.
As in the past, the stake goes beyond geopolitics: it is played out in the space where perception of reality is formed and where it is decided, often without our knowledge, what we deem possible or necessary. It is in that space — the shared cognitive field — where peace is won or lost. Our responsibility in our era is to preserve its integrity, to protect it from being captured, so that the rivalry of powers does not once again lead to global conflagration.
The challenge is to achieve this without a Third World War, by keeping open the common place where peoples can understand one another before weapons are raised.
The shared cognitive is the foreboding of God which, with its gaze, pursues history, consciousness, and the prolific imagination of all peoples across space and time, in multiple forms. It is always about extinguishing the smoldering fire in this field, reducing it, taming it. We do so through custom, law, Constitution, Sovereignty. But we must change mental era.
What was read, from Freud onward, in a psychoanalytic framework (unconscious motives, internal symbols), must move into a metacognitive dimension: the ability of a system — here, humanity — to become aware of its own collective cognitive processes, to observe, interpret, and act upon them, to remain on the right side of the battles played out within.
In this metacognitive field:
- Religion and spirituality are not excluded, but integrated as sub-spaces of this system of interactions.
- Phenomena are measurable (information flows, propagation of ideas, behavioral effects), but also interpretable through different cultural and symbolic frameworks.
Mysticism here merges with the rational. The history of religions with that of democracies and of the advent of popular sovereignty, as I have written long ago in the first sentence of this continuum. Thought, for its part, goes beyond intellect and reconnects with Spirit. The goal becomes to regulate this field, not by censoring it, but by cultivating its resilience against distortions and manipulations that attack free will.
I speak of hard science. Cognitive sciences already show that priming — here a narrative or emotional climate saturated with tension — increases the likelihood of certain reactions or acts of violence among some individuals. Research in the psychology of violence confirms that peaks of collective anxiety, intra-group hostility, or sense of urgency can tip an already fragile or radicalized individual into a violent or destructive act.
This effect is amplified by the contagion effect (copycat effect), documented in suicides, shootings, attacks, and, more rarely studied, in deliberate fires. This is what I call the autocatalysis of violence: the cognitive environment acts as a catalyst that transforms legitimate indignation into a devastating collective impulse.
We must learn to know ourselves better under the regime of these invisible interactions. Otherwise, what is the worth of democracy? “Know yourself” succeeds “Know thyself”. It is vital in a world saturated with information where opinion factories, in fierce competition with one another, have entered an industrial age and distribute power and patronage according to interests and forces invisible to the naked eye.
Water extinguishes fire. Love is the first circle of compassion between two beings, matrix of an infinite network that undulates and embraces all humanity. This intimate circle is the source where the public spirit is regenerated, and without it, the fire always wins. Poets, musicians, artists, workers, all serve this common field, sometimes treating it roughly, never betraying it.
Only those betray it who seek to monopolize, by manipulating the pliable substance that forms Love, the infinite power for themselves alone, closing its doors instead of opening them. There lies the Apocalypse, if Apocalypse is, according to its Greek etymology, revelation. In this instance, the unveiling and expansion of what in the shared cognitive aspires toward unity or is lost in predation. The other meaning, for apocalypse, refers to the end of times and major cataclysms.
The cognitive fire does not belong to another world. It is already in ours. It has taken hold. It constitutes a particular pyromania. This fire is a highly manipulable oxidizing agent and some are learning, with success that will inspire other historical actors in case of success, to use it with impunity. They must fail.
Otherwise, we will all burn. On earth transformed into hell. Or we will live, still on earth, transformed into Paradise, in the Eden garden of the shared cognitive.
Humanity vibrates in approaching this living reality. It is beyond churches, beyond atheism, beyond distinct sensitivities, for it encompasses all sensibilities in a single and vital aspiration to understand one another. This aspiration is the foundation and principle even of every civilization.
The invisible light that nourishes the People — made of all the peoples of the Earth — emanates from this shared cognitive, whose nature transforms with each degree of expansion and resolution crossed. From now on, visible light is that which comes from the People, to fulfill the part of expectation of this cognitive space. This expectation is hard to express: it is a completeness, a fullness which, once perceived, can no longer be lost.
Invisible or visible, it is a single light, but perceived under two regimes:
- Invisible when it emanates from the shared cognitive which we only know to call or pray under the form or the unpronounceable name of God,
- Visible when it manifests through acts, creations, speeches, the great and infinitely conscious movement of the People moved by aspiration to good and beauty, to calm and restraint.
These are two faces of a single spectrum, and this spectrum is the intimate link between humanity and the universe: a silent but continuous dialogue, where we are not only conscious of it, but where, perhaps, it too is conscious of us — and of our consciousness of it.
This bond goes beyond contemplation or fear: it rises up to a reciprocal knowledge, still unfinished but expanding, which changes our place in the world and in the universe.
>Poor Putin and his host of Kyrills: earthly procession that believes it holds infinity in its hands, and retains there only its own shadows drawn into the illusion of power.
Note: The elliptical style is deliberate. It seeks to escape the confines of schools and fixed styles, in order to follow the natural curvatures of thought itself. To speak of the cognitive field requires not straight lines but resonances, interruptions, and metaphors — a language that reveals movement rather than confines it.
All my work, my improbable poetics of a new world, is itself a curvature.
I was dancing when I was twelve. Cosmic Dancer — T. Rex.
En attendant la Renaissance 