Author\u2019s note\u00a0:<\/i> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The goblins are let out<\/b> Gloria, Sandra\u2019s little girl, wants to introduce her new best friend Eva to her mother, and that is, quite naturally, how their two mums first meet. <\/span><\/p>\n The connection<\/b> Potted history of the <\/i><\/span>Berty<\/i><\/span> family:<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Taking control<\/b> Levels of initiation<\/b><\/span> The boundary with esotericism is very thin and, if you don\u2019t pay close attention, you can easily slip through without even realising. V\u00e9ro, followed timidly by Alex, tries out all kinds of attractive novelties (reiki, lithotherapy, etc.)<\/span>. Seeking the spiritual<\/span> in stones to protect themselves from bad vibes, people, computers, the past \u2026 and finding energies capable of moving the pendulum and the Oracle cards! <\/span><\/p>\n The origin of these forces is the \u2018Universe\u2019 (can\u2019t be vaguer than that!)<\/span>, \u2018people\u2019 say that it\u2019s positive and that\u2019s enough not to do any more soul-searching (as it works\u2026)<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n V\u00e9ro has the feeling of having under her control a power that gives her importance and of having at her disposal an answer to satisfy the buried expectations of her soul. But, in parallel, a kind of uneasiness sets in little by little (must get into it <\/span>more<\/b><\/span> deeply, that must be the reason\u2026).<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n So the Bertys free their chakras, <\/span>consult all kinds of \u2018specialists\u2019: masters in guided meditation, <\/span>mediums, kinesiologists, cleaners of cellular memories and even their animal totem (a snake!) <\/span>to try to discover what they still lack<\/span>\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n * not their real name\u2026<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n _______________________________<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Author\u2019s note\u00a0: Usually you don\u2019t tell a true story until it\u2019s finished… \u2026Except that this one is unfolding\u00a0right now! I am in close contact with those who are living it and am going to try to convey it to you … More…<\/a> More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11607"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11844,"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11607\/revisions\/11844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"boule-de-cristal-w\"](\"http:\/\/www.auderset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/boule-de-cristal-w.jpg\")
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\nUsually you don\u2019t tell a true story until it\u2019s finished…<\/span><\/em>
\n \u2026<\/span>Except that this one is unfolding\u00a0right now!<\/b><\/span>
\nI am in close contact with those who are living it and am going to try to convey it to you as faithfully as possible<\/span>.<\/span><\/em><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong><\/span>It all starts in Belgium, in a little town near Charleroi. Sandra (a mum like so many others) <\/span>joins the band of parents spread out in a circle around the railings at the school exit.<\/span>Suddenly the polite silence of the adults is broken by shrill cries: at that moment all the vacant looks turn towards the same point: the school. Indeed, as soon as the bell marks the end of the school day, an army of mindless little gnomes, free at last to express themselves, smash open the exit doors of the school building in a massive clamour of relief. Like a tidal wave, they burst forth in their bright colours into the empty, grey space of the school yard to land, in a great surge of affection, in the arms of their parents.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nThe chat between the two women on the way home is so nice that it, quite naturally, becomes the basis for a daily get-together. They get to know each other and bit by bit become friends. V\u00e9ronique, Eva\u2019s mum, really likes reading, so Sandra passes on to her the book \u2018Date in the Forest\u2019. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nJust like her husband Alex, V\u00e9ronique is the survivor of a dysfunctional family. Abuse and the absence of a father (whether it be emotional or physical)<\/span> leave a bitter taste in people\u2019s lives. A taste that they would rather do without, and never reproduce. But to achieve that, they have to take control of their lives rather than put up with a hereditary curse. V\u00e9ro gorges herself in books on self-realisation and drags her family along with her. The couple campaign for a healthy, ecological, vegetarian and moral life. They cling as best they can to recipes taken from here and there, while feeling guilty that they never really attain it. And as people tend to criticise everyone else for the things that they condemn the most in themselves, without even realising it, the Bertys have become merciless know-it-alls, seeking to convince themselves as well as those around them and believing that they are in this way contributing to saving our chaotic society (quite honestly, if everyone was like us, things would be much better, wouldn\u2019t they?)\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\nTheir commitment is exemplary but a little something is still missing\u2026 Their thirst for fulfilment has exposed an emptiness which increases as they try to fill it.<\/span><\/p>\n
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