We are in 2026, a year known as Year 1 in numerology, because 2 + 0 + 2 + 6 = 1, and the One always marks the beginning of’a new cycle, an initial impulse, a movement of birth, renewal and restarting. But the One carries within itself a fundamental tension, almost initiatory: that of A detached house, the isolated ego that believes it is alone, and that of One of the Unit, consciousness connected to the All, which remembers that it was never cut off.
For me, 2026 marks the entry into an even denser acceleration of a wide chasm that has become almost unsustainable: on the one hand, the madness of certain powers that we observe on the world stage – in the United States, Russia or Iran – and on the other, the explosion in inequality, with the rich seeing their wealth grow exponentially in 2025 while the poor grow ever poorer. To my mind, this external phenomenon is a faithful mirror of what is playing out in the inner system of every human being, because the violence of the world is the echo of the violence experienced in our family and personal systems, and the collective madness that one feels when following geopolitical news resonates deeply with our own inner madness.
It then becomes urgent to to set about, individually and collectively, facing our neurotic systems head-on, not to judge them or condemn them, but perhaps, at last, to understand and cure them. In my therapeutic practice, I regularly run up against resistance, and I honestly note that it is often immersive workshop spaces that allow for genuine internal shifts; this is the case in the tantra workshops that I co-facilitate with TantrÂmour, but ultimately, the method matters little, because for me, the real vector of transformation always remains the same: love.
Bringing love and connection back into one's intimate system, bringing humanity back into our humanity, that is the issue. We are reaching the end of a system of excessive consumption, driven by our egos, which is making this world mad and putting madmen at the top, and this is nothing new: since the dawn of agriculture, some 12,000 years ago, we have been entangled in the same pattern – consume, conquer, perform, accumulate power. The patriarchy, understood here as the domination of unbalanced masculine values and not as an attack on the masculine or men, resembles a cracking fortress today, because a soilless system, cut off from its earth, from its female potting soil, cannot last indefinitely.
We are not just thinking heads, we are infinitely vaster than our beliefs, and yet we have profoundly cut ourselves off – from our bodies, our feelings, from the living world. The proposed path is that of awareness of what we truly are self-knowledge, looking inward, through experience and not intellect, because experience reveals to us that we are not solely this character, this ego with which we identify. Identifying solely with this ego-driven persona can only lead to collective madness, from the individual ego to universal consciousness.
The pathway is love. In a world where information endlessly reminds us of separation, wars, conflict, stress and division, choosing to respond with connection, love, understanding and listening is by no means naive it is simply profoundly human, it is our very nature. We are born of love, from the union of two beings, and yet so many of us seek love as something to be possessed, forgetting that love cannot be possessed, that it is an intangible treasure, a feeling, something that cannot be bought and cannot be conquered.
Tantra then appears as an obvious path to self-access and universal consciousness, a true revolution of love, a magnificent way to become fully human again, Homo sapiens sapiens – not only capable of thinking, but capable of knowing we are conscious. We cannot continue like this, because this permanent acceleration – consuming ever more, ever faster – is madness, and if we put madmen in power, it is also because this madness lives within us as long as we remain unaware of it.
Turn your gaze inwards then becomes a fundamental act, because the enemy is not the other; it is a matter of taking responsibility, of’confronting one's inner enemies with gentleness. When we agree to see the problem within ourselves, we also discover the resources for change, provided we change our paradigm—the one that makes us believe we must fend for ourselves. Maturity also means knowing how to lean on a third party, asking for help without losing our power, because we already carry the solution within us, simply by daring to walk the path, by daring to experience it.
To transform oneself is to transform the world We are living through a pivotal period.
2 + 0 + 2 + 6 = 1, a transition – from the «1» of the ego, isolated and buffeted by the madness of the world, to the «1» of Oneness, universal consciousness.
Where ego divides, love connects - and perhaps that is where our true humanity finally begins.
Photo credit: The Studio of the Stars – TantrÂmour Festival 2025
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