Christos Papachristopoulos

Christos Papachristopoulos

Christos Papachristopoulos born in Lexaion, Greece (November 19, 1973) is a Greek journalist, philosopher, author, analyst of European matters, media expert and image-maker. He has studied Mass Media and Communication with a master in European Policy and Diplomacy from the University of Athens and he is known for his which relates with synaesthesia in Mass Media through the use of Analogical Media in ancient mysteries and rites, transfered in the modern world.

This Analogical Medium is the Golden Ratio or Golden Mean when applied to the electronic, new media and is focused on the magical power of words.
His theory is based on the ancient Greek phrase "The First Initiation of Knowledge is the Meditation on Names" ("ΑΡΧΗ ΣΟΦΙΑΣ ΟΝΟΜΑΤΩΝ ΕΠΙΣΚΕΨΙΣ").

He believes that each name of every animal (that is of an alive, organic matter) contains a substance which can be energised from the writer or the manipulator of names -if he belongs himself to the same family or race or group with the persons who bear each name- and, so, through this medium, the writer can perform a rite in order to obtain the form or information of the thing he is interested in, being helped by his ancestors.

Ch. Papachristopoulos introduced the term Nuclear/Perennial Philosophy of Media, which is based on the nuclear discoveries of Albert Einstein and the perennial or integral theory of Jacques Maritain. He combined the ancient springs of Styx and Pirini Krini (Στυγξ and ΠειρÎ®νη of Corinth, Greece, in the area where he has also born) with the immortality Thetis offered to Achilles and with the Theticism or Positivism of August Comte, in order to arrive at a higher synthesis: this synthesis or transcendence takes elements of the modern world and the positivist sciences and makes them richer, adding elements from the original, primordial spring of knowledge.

The most important characteristic of Ch. Papachristopoulos' work in this synchronisation is the cross that he makes between the ancient divination techniques of prophetic oracles and the technological innovations in culture and media (he belongs to the Marshall MacLuhan School of Communication, in this respect, and to the Albert Camus' Revolutionary Group, as a fraction inside Surrealism which exercises criticism against Nihilism).

He is also influenced by the priest in Delphi, Plutarch, and the archetypal writings of Plato, Aristotle and Plotinus. He claims that there is a Greek, divine grace -the famous elan vital of Bergson- which has transmitted through the myths the DNA of the original, primordial man Adam or Adam Kadmon to Cadmus and Ammonius Saccas and, more recently, to Albertus Magnus, Leo Battista Alberti, Immanuel Kant and, lastly, to the Insensé sons of Greece like Albert Camus.

He makes a parallelisation between the tails children are shown with their fathers explaining the story and the myths men are shown by the messengers -enterpreneurs- of gods who interpret the real world, accompanied by sound and icon.

Christos Papachristopoulos, also, believes that there is a secret "Arianne" myth or thread which connects the writings of Albert Camus, Simone Weil, George Orwell, Arthur Koestler, Karl Jaspers, Ernst Junger, Hannah Arendt, Jacques Maritain, Lev Shestov, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevski, Henri Bergson, Nikos Kazantzakis and he also believes that there is an internal communication through the members of this group which he has named "Spartans" or Spartes, that is men who spring and grow from the Nature itself.
This is related to the myth of Cadmus and the teeth of dragon which generated men from the Greek earth. Papachristopoulos believes that this is the fire of Gods that Prometheus stole and, after adding a natural thread which could be burned like a candle, he gave it to the human race. This is called in Greek and Christian religion incense.

He has found his justifications in the Stoic philosophy -which he interpretes as the internal or perennial wisdom of Styx- and the Pythagorian doctrine. He is, also, influenced, by the philosophy of Chryssipus and he first introduced the term Mathemagics.

He has written a special essay about mysticism, metaphysics and mathematics (referring to the bonds between the Resistance movement of Charles de Gaulle, the Combat movement of Albert Camus & Rene Char and the Nicolas Bourbaki Group of mathematicians under Andre Weil, Jean Dieudonne and Henri Cartan). He supports the argument that Henri Bergson is actually a persona of Ingmar Bergman (in cinema), Shoemakers (the theoritician of neoplasticism in painting), Arnold Schoenberg (in music), Henri Cartan (in physics and mathematics), Descartes (in philosophy and science).

He believes that every artistic creation of man has the ability to become true and to be repeated in other fields or rings of reality, each one of which constitutes a closed world.

He also believes that in the world there are repeated patterns, like a Mandelbrot system: he has noticed that NATO follows the same organisation as Nature does and he interprets the article 5 of NATO with the article of faith in Phoebus, the Greek god Apollo. In this respect, in computers, Apple and Dell represent Apollo and the island of Delos, under the same pattern. He also believes that Cadmus and the House of Phoenicians represent the structure of the House of Bauhaus in architecture.

He has worked in the Greek radio stations Flash and Profit and in several newspapers of Athens, like Xora and Athinaiki, as a journalist dealing with the Stock-Exchange. He has translated in Greek The State of Siege - L' Etat de Siege, the Essay against the Death Penalty, the essay Why Spain? and other texts of Albert Camus. Moreover, he has translated over 40 essays of George Orwell in Greek.

Selected writings, essays and articles
*Cadmus: the Great Priest of Eleusinian Mysteries (Newspaper Xora, Athens, September 2007)
*Albert Camus and Albert Einstein: Revolutionary Theory of the Atom (Newspaper Xora, Athens, March 2007)
*Camus & Comte: The great feast of the Elysian Fields in the Eleusinian Mysteries (Newspaper Xora, Athens, February 2006)
*Cadmus, Camus and Satchmo: The Cameo Manifestation of the great god Pan (Newspaper Xora, Athens, March 2006)
*Bergson and Maritain: the Creative Spirit in Art (Newspaper Xora, Athens, August 2006)
*Prometheus: The Messiah as liberator from the State of Siege (Newspaper Xora, Athens, July 2007)
*Camus and Aescylus: The lost Promethean tragedy (Newspaper Xora, Athens, April 2005)
*The Resistance of Albert Camus and Simone Weil (Newspaper Xora, Athens, April 2004)
*Styx as an Integral Theory of Immortalisation (Newspaper Athinaiki, Athens, January 2003)
*The Nuclear Philosophy of Media: Connaturality (Newspaper Xora, Athens, April 2007)
*The Mysticism and Mathemagics of Bourbaki Group (Newspaper Athinaiki, Athens, March 2002)
*NATO & THE APOLLONIAN NATURE: THE GREEK ATLANTIS (Newspaper Xora, Athens, January 2007)
*Flash: The Daemonium of Socrates (Newspaper Athinaiki, Athens, July 2000)

Insensé theory

A theory of the Greek journalist, Ch. Papachristopoulos, who borrowed the term Insensé from the French artists Albert Camus and Rene Char and used it in order to name a class of men with special gifts who act as a common group, beyond place and time.

Papachristopoulos discovered in ancient Greek texts a tecnique of transmitting through the centuries a special gift, a donation of divine grace from the gods to men of the same race or common family through the archetypes, that is the original and authentic manuscripts of a written language.

These archetypes have a religious sense, liturgy and function since they can be interpreted according to the icon and the sound which accompanies the text: it is like speaking, seeing and hearing at the same time in different channels of the radio, so that information can be transmitted in great quantity (ραδÎ¯ως in ancient Greek, meaning at the same time through radio and very easily).

Ch. Papachristopoulos claims that the only thing that must be done is that texts must be read according to the original syntax and grammar of the era of the author (transcedent scheme "σχÎ®μα υπερβατÏŒν" or scheme X "σχÎ®μα χιαστÎ¯"). This concept arises from the natural philosophers of Greece --like Democritus- who watched the forms of nature and transported its functions into their theories and writings, putting man in the place of a machine of copying nature and making him immortal.

However, Papachristopoulos has managed today to transfer these ancient technigues of rhetoric from the Greek language to all languages and in modern books and texts, especially English and French (something like abstracting a painting or a theatrical play from its original context and transfering its attributes to modern, new canvas). So, he has a medium communication with the spirits of the writer of each text. This practice in philosophy is called philosophy of the subject and helps someone to project the subject of his study in actual life.

The origins of this function of language, in order that special features of a tribe can be inherited to the future generations through bio-logy (logos of life), can be found in the divine messenger of the Egyptians, Tat or Theut or Hermes Trismegistus -Θωθ according to Timaeus of Plato- and the god Ammon.

According to the theory of Ch. Papachristopoulos, Amun/Ammon or Zeus is the same personification of Adam, the First Man, the Archetype Man or Adam Kadmon of the Jews. He is, also, the same persona behind Cadmus, Ammonius Saccas (the founder of Neoplatonism), Sakyamuni (the founder of Buddhism) and the founder of Shintoism and Samanism. He is the same representation of the Spirit as Kami in Japan and El Cid in Spain.

Even more important is the relationship revealed from Ch. Papachristopoulos between the revolutionary theories of Albert Einstein and Albert Camus. The Greek journalist supports the argument that in charismatic figures of humanity there is manifested a power -an aura, an aurora- to provoke the intervention of a god, like a cameo in cinema: this is easily proven by the appearance on stage of Alfred Hitchcock or Louis Armstrong, every time they were invoked.

The same Insensé theory says that there can be found cycles or motives of parallel behaviour of history and persons, cycles that form a ring -like an electrical circuit- between historical events or group formations.

It is a theory which completes the theory of Henri Bergson about the elan vital (Bergson had written that The Universe is a machine to make gods) and is based on the ancient concept of Deus ex Machina (ο απÏŒ μηχανÎ®ς θεÏŒς, in Ancient Greek). He proves this by a movie of Ingmar Bergman -whom he considers as the persona of Henri Bergson in cinema: the movie the Magician, which focuses on the magician Albert.

Analysis of "Insensé"

"Insensé" is a French term, used in the past by the movement of the Nobelist journalist and writer Albert Camus and today by the Greek journalist and writer Ch. Papachristopoulos as an opposition to the surrealist group of Andre Breton.

It refers to a secret gift, or charisma, a donation given from a divine, immortal power to a mortal man. It represents the power of regeneration (RENOVATIO or Renaissance) against the force of nihilism and death.

It is related to the term synaesthesia —known from the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky—or sixth sense (see the writings of Jacques Maritain) about the Sixth Way of creation and poetry. The attribute of "insensé" -according to the Greek journalist Ch. Papachristopoulos- is said to be an integral property of the human body and soul, an inheritance from past ancestors of Ancient Greece to mankind through Eleusinian mysteries and art.

The word "insensé" was also used in France by the French poet Rene Char, friend of Camus. According to these two intellectuals, the term is focused on the sons of Greece, les fils insensés.

It was first used in public in the theatrical play of Camus L' Etat de siège (The State of Siege), where a young doctor, Diego, wins a mortal combat against the Plague, wearing a mask. This use of the charisma by Albert Camus has also a lot of commons with the ancient Greek quality of "ΕγρÎ®γορος" or the process of Quickening (a concept extracted from the movie Highlander), meaning the angels/daemons who save man.

It also relates with the secrets behind the Batman story. It combines, as well, with the myth of Zorro, Diego de la Vega, his mask and the religion of Zoroaster (see the asterism of Vega, in Lyra) and with every charismatic personality -in all fields- of great performers like the players Diego Maradona, David Beckham, Rivaldo, the poet Rimbaud, the politician Andreas Papandreou, the mysticist Simone Weil, the singers Louis Armstrong and Francis Albert Sinatra.

It seems that in this concept there is a manifestation of the great gods Pan, Apollo, Prometheus, Aurora, Hermes, Hera, Hercules who are led -through the integral calculus of number Φ, the golden mean or golden ratio of Luca Pacioli and Fibonacci- to a teleogony, an entelechy, according to Aristotle. It is a quality of matter and mind, νους in ancient Greek or pneuma, which is manifested when nature treats man like a fruit. It relates with Rennaissance, Impressionism, Neoplasticism, Mysticism and Metaphysics.

This irrational property of the insensés or immortal men is expressed in mathematics according to the square root of minus one or imaginary unit √(-l) and in philosophy with the absurd philosophy of Albert Camus. In painting it is expressed by the Abstract painting of Piet Mondrian and in Religion with the Metaphysical Faith (La Foi) in God.

Finally, it seems that this quality of insensé does not mean crazy or mad but rather prophet, the man who has the gift of mania like Cassandra or divine anger "μÎ®νιν" and is immortal like Achilles. Madman in ancient Greek is the Seer, the Clairvoyant, the Diviner (most famous madmen in ancient Greece were Calchas and Teiresias).

It seems, also, that this quality is transmitted through the DNA, the Book of Life, when someone reads ancient Greek in the archetype text and receives information through the RNA, the messenger of the Gods, Hermes - Hermes Trismegistus - Prometheus.

The similarities between the real story of Camus and the myth of Cadmus and the similarities between his theatrical trilogies and the gods Kami of Japan who created the first mythological dynasty are, really, impressive.

Cadmus was the most important priest of the Eleusinian mysteries, the founder of ancient Thebes and Athens, and he can be compared today with August Comte, the founder of sociology, the High Priest of the Cult of Reason and the festivals of the Supreme Being during the French Revolution in the Elysian Fields.

Insensé theory and Synaesthesia

Another term for this attribute of the human species -used for the first time by the Greek journalist Ch. Papachristopoulos in his Insensé theory- is exactly the word Insensé, which refers to a special gift, a donation (don in French) inherited through ancient rites to members of a common race or family. Marcel Mauss has, also, written about the concept of gift in the first tribes of the human species through his studies in anthropology.

The Insensé theory is based on the argument that it is a quality given to a man through a participation in a mysterious art ceremony. It characterises humans like Albert Camus, Wassily Kandinsky, Immanuel Kant, Georg Kantor, Leon Batista Alberti, Albertus Magnus, Albert Einstein, Albrecht Dürer, Piet Mondrian, Hermes Trismegistus, Philo of Alexandria, Albert Schweizer, Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Nobel, Walter Gropius, Louis Armstrong, Simone Weil and other charismatic personifications.

The concept of cameo and the concept of the olympic dada (meaning the fire given from one athlete to the other in the Olympic Games through a secret envelope or staff) are closely linked with this gift of the gods to the human species, which provokes the intervention of a God through mimesis. It is, also, linked with the deus ex machina of the ancient Greek theater, the theater of the gypsies and the elan vital of Henri Bergson and Nikos Kazantzakis.

It is evident that there is a passage of ingerited features of one generation to another through a special liturgy or function of art, something that happens to especially gifted individuals. The use of the theater -especially the Ancient Greek theater, the theater of the Absurd and the Romen theater of Shasha Kolpakov- through Pantomime is crucial in this field, especially if someone considers the greek meaning of the word theater, that is to make god, θεÏŒς, and if also someone considers as a theater every written text, especially palimpsests and papyrus.

Crucial, also, is the spring of this attribute. According to the Insensé theory of Ch. Papachristopoulos, the origins of Insensé are found in the ancient Greek philosophy of the Stoics and in the immortal spring of Styx, near Korinth in Greece, where Achilles was made immortal by Thetis. According to this theory, Thetis represents -in this respect- the theticism or positivism of science, introduced by the sociology of August Comte.

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