ÉDITO

We are dancing – or rather waging war – on the edge of a volcano, without considering the really serious problems that are looming and above all without reacting to the sad state of our planet. The Kali Yuga is, nevertheless, a present reality that Alain Daniélou often spoke of, particularly in his book “While the Gods Play – Shaiva Oracles and Predictions on the Cycles of History and the Destiny of Mankind”, which could have been entitled “Apocalypse Now”, if the title had not already been used.

Among the problems worrying the Daniélou Centre during the coming year, in the front line I should place pollution and over consumption. I should therefore like to ask everyone receiving this letter by post to give us their e-mail address, or that of a neighbour, or friend, or even to consult our site, so that we needn’t use up paper for printing an ephemeral document which does not need it. It is merely a tiny drop compared to our immense ecological problems, but it is a sign – and not the only one – among the various measures we take every day.

The request for our information letter is continually increasing, showing the growing interest roused by Alain Daniélou’s work in all the fields he wrote about.

We have already begun preparing events and planning new publications and re-issues for 2007, the year in which we shall commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of Alain Daniélou’s birth.

On the very date of the Winter Solstice – today, December 21st at 7.35 p.m. CET – the whole team at the Labyrinth unites with me in wishing you a happy festive season, in the hope that the ascendant half-year (for the northern hemisphere) or the descendent (for the southern) will bring you happiness, serenity and harmony.

Jacques E. Cloarec, The Labyrinth, on the day of the Winter Solstice 2005.