Bruno Bérard

Bruno Bérard (born in Nancy, France, October 28, 1958) is a French thinker, essayist, and metaphysician.
Doctor of École Pratique des Hautes Études, in Religions and Thought Systems; he devotes his reflection to metaphysics, to Christian mysticism as well as to the synthesis and dissemination of the thought of Jean Borella.
==Biography==
Bruno Bérard is the son of the French philosopher André Bérard aka Pamphile, poet laureate of the French Academy, disseminator of yoga in France, professor of oriental philosophy, close to Jean Borella, Lanza del Vasto et François Chenique..
After a youth spent in Nancy, he followed his parents to Paris, where he studied at the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly then at the Académie Commerciale Internationale, where he graduates in Commercial Studies and get a special certificate in Foreign Trade.
Alongside an international professional career in the aeronautics industry, he has taught in several business schools, with the Ministry of Industry, has become an expert with National Agency for Research Promotion (ANVAR) and assists young entrepreneurs on a voluntary basis in the creation or the development of their activities.
===Education===
He obtains a Diplôme Supérieur d’Études Commerciales, and a Certificat Spécial de Commerce Extérieur, before enrolling at Paris-Sud University, in 1999 in view of a DEA (master) of economy (globalization).
On January 16 2015, he defends his thesis, carried out under the supervision of Jean-Pierre Brach, “Un philosophe et théologien occultisant au XIXe siècle : la vie et l’œuvre de l’abbé Paul François Gaspard Lacuria (1806-1890)” and becomes doctor of the École Pratique des Hautes Études.
===Writing===
In 1986, he begins to study metaphysics and discovers “the eminent place occupied by Jean Borella”, whose friendship he gradually gains as well as that of François Chenique.
He then continues to write articles and books on metaphysics; he is asked for some prefaces and directs the writing of collective books.
As of 2018, his first articles and books are published in the United States and in Italy .
===Editing===
After two first books published by L’Harmattan (2005, 2006), he facilitates the transfer from L’ ge d’Homme of the Delphica series, which became Théôria, and to which he still collaborates. In parallel, L’Harmattan’s director, Denis Pryen, encourages him to create a collection there: “Métaphysique au quotidien” (daily life metaphysics) with the first publication, Souvenirs métaphysiques d’Orient et d’Occident (2009) (Metaphysical memories from East and West) by François Chenique, then other authors like Jean Borella, the painter and metaphysician Georges Brunon, or the mathematician, physicist and metaphysician Wolfgang Smith. Recently, he facilitates the hosting of the journal Politica Hermetica.
There, he directs collective works, such as Qu’est-ce que la métaphysique ? (What is metaphysics ?), Métaphysique et psychanalyse (Metaphysics and psychoanalysis), Physique et métaphysique (Physics and metaphysics), Métaphysique des contes de fées (Metaphysics of the fairy tales) Métaphysique pour tous (Metaphysics for everyone).
His own works are not published in Théôria, nor in “Métaphysique au quotidien”, but in the series “Ouverture philosophique” or “Religions and spirituality”.
==Philosophy==
His metaphysics “is a metaphysical mystic, that is to say, formally, a metaphysics, but, fundamentally, a Christian mysticism”. It is based on the fundamental distinction between reason and intelligence, a distinction that reopens modern thought to religion.
This distinction is not new, it goes back to Plato and Aristotle and, simply, marks what belongs to calculation and reasoning (reason) and what belongs to understanding, to sense (intelligence). This sense is uncreatable, it is received in the intelligence like a reflection in a mirror.
From there, he applies metaphysical thought to many subjects, including paradox, fairy tales, psychoanalysis, physics, sex (“with the idea of renewing that of Julius Evola, published in 1958”), democracy... with the aim of offering access to metaphysics to as many people as possible. The book Métaphysique pour tous pursues this objective.
The study of paradoxes and the limits of knowledge led him to propose a Métaphysique du paradoxe (Metaphysics of Paradox) according to which, to the paradoxality of what is to be known corresponds a paradoxical modality of knowing.
A good connoisseur of the metaphysician Jean Borella (1930), he presented a synthesis of his work to date
==Main publications==
===Works===
* A Metaphysics of the Christian Mystery. Introduction to Jean Borella’s Work, ed. John Champoux, Tacoma (WA), Angelico Press, 2018.
imprimatur (Paris) n° 20 (janv. 2003). [Introduction to a Metaphysics of the Christian Mysteries (with regard to the Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, Judaic and Taoist traditions)]
* (fr) Initiation à la métaphysique. Les trois songes, préface de M. Cazenave, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2009. [Initiation to Metaphysics. The three Dreams]
* (fr) Collectif, Bruno Bérard dir., Qu’est-ce que la métaphysique ?, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2010. [What is Metaphysics ?]
* (fr) Bruno Bérard et Jean Borella, Métaphysique des contes de fées, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2011. [Metaphysics of the Fairy Tales]
* (fr) Collectif, Bruno Bérard dir., Métaphysique et psychanalyse, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2013. [Metaphysics and Psychoanalysis]
* (fr) Collectif, Bruno Bérard dir., Physique et métaphysique, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2018. [Physics and Metaphysics]
* (fr) Métaphysique du paradoxe, t. 1. Paradoxes et limites du savoir, t. 2. La Connaissance paradoxale, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2019. [Metaphysics of paradox, t. 1. Paradoxes and limits of knowledge, t. 2. The paradoxical knowledge]
* (fr) Lacuria, un philosophe et théologien occultisant au XIXe s., t. 1 & 2, ART édition, 2020. [Lacuria, a occultist philosopher and theologian in the 19th century]
* (it) Introduzione a una metafisica cristiana, Rome, Simmetria, 2021. [Introduction to a Christian Metaphysics]
* (fr) Métaphysique du sexe, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2022. [Metaphysics of Sex]
* (fr) Bruno Bérard et Annie Cidéron, Métaphysique pour tous, Entretiens avec Bruno Bérard, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2022. [Metaphysics for Everyone]
* (fr) La démocratie du futur. Le partage du pouvoir, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2022. [The Democracy of the Future. Power sharing]
* (it) Metafisica per tutti, Rome, Simmetria, 2023. [Metaphysics for Everyone]
===Articles & lectures===
* “Unmasking ‘AI’”, Philos-Sophia.org, 22 février 2018.
* (fr) « Jean Borella : distinguer entre intelligence et raison », dans Alain Santacreu (dir.), Au commencement est le cœur, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2010.
* (fr) « René Guénon, l’ésotérisme et le christianisme », dans Alain Santacreu (dir.), Au commencement est le cœur, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2010.
* (fr) « Faut-il être intelligent pour être sauvé ? », Contrelittérature website, 2010.
* (fr) « Retour vers une métaphysique du Beau », dans Alain Santacreu (dir.), Du religieux dans l’art, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2012.
* (fr) « Un prêtre indépendant au XIXe siècle : l’abbé Lacuria (1806-1890) », Politica Hermetica n° 30, 2017 (pp. 159 sq).
* (fr) Lecture Politica Hermetica : « Un prêtre indépendant au XIXe siècle, l’abbé Lacuria », 10 avril 2015, couvent de l’Annonciation, Paris.
* (it) “La metafisica come anti-dogmatismo e non-sistema”, trad. Aldo La Fata, Il Corriere Metapolitico, IIIe année, n°9, déc. 2019.
* (it) “Chrono-Sophia, Riflessioni sulla fine dei tempi”, trad. Aldo La Fata, Il Corriere Metapolitico, IVe année, n° 10, avril 2020.
* (it) “La Guarigione in due tempi”, trad. Aldo La Fata, Il Corriere Metapolitico, Ve année, n° 13, avril 2021.
* (it) “L’ologramma cristologico o il Cristo olagrammatico“, trad. Aldo La Fata, Il Corriere Metapolitico, Ve année, n° 14, septembre 2021.
* (fr) « La notion japonaise « Aïda », in Morena Campani, Mieko Matsumoto, À la recherche d’Aïda, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2022.
===Forewords===
* Jean Borella, Wolfgang Smith, Rediscovering the Integral Cosmos: Physics, Metaphysics, and Vertical Causality, Angelico Press, 2018.
* Wolfgang Smith, The Vertical Ascent, from Particles to the Tripartite Universe and Beyond, Angelico Press, 2020.
* (fr) Qu’est-ce que la métaphysique ? collectif, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2010 [What is Metaphysics ?]
* (fr) Jean Biès, Le soleil se lève à minuit. Initiation aux sagesses du quotidien, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2011 [The Sun rises at Midnight. Initiation to the Wisdoms of everyday Life]
* (fr) Métaphysique et psychanalyse, collectif, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2013 [Metaphysics and Psychoanalysis]
* (fr) Physique et métaphysique, collectif, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2018 [Physics and Metaphysics]
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