The CICNS is an independent center open to new spiritualities and to everyone seriously wishing to be informed about them. It fills an obvious gap of objective and rigorous information on the question of spirituality in our time. The integration of new expressions of spiritual search represents a challenge for our society. This challenge is at present taken up neither by authorities nor by the public at large. On the contrary, an odious campaign is going on to totally discredit spiritual commitment up to its very roots.

The CICNS provides a space for information and counseling to every person and movement concerned with freely awakening, nourishing and promoting spiritual search under all its legal forms. It also works on informing authorities and the public, and presents itself as a reliable partner on the question of today’s new spiritualities.

The CICNS does not judge the value of the diverse spiritual paths of its members.

It stands for a neutrality that is missing in media, justice and anti-cult activists today. It indeed founds its outlook on the knowledge of the natural place of spiritual search in a human society, which is at present victim of its superficial orientations.

Human beings naturally aspire to find and live fully the meaning of their existence. The condemnation that spiritual search has to bear today – summarized for the general public under the derogatory term “cult” – is born of the tendentious and revolting mixing up perpetuated by people and groups engaged in a crusade against spirituality at large.

Criminal acts of a few individuals in the world have been used to justify an exceptional campaign of discrimination in France .

Members of the CICNS do not deny the existence of criminal acts and accept without reserve as citizens and if the facts are proven that they may be judged and sentenced whatever the personal conviction and allegiance of their authors. But the existence of our center is justified by the fact that these acts, sometimes not elucidated, lead today to a campaign of disinformation on the nature of spiritual search, to a confusion of ideas that the population has accepted as a whole, to discriminations, to injustices and human tragedies of which we have numerous examples and reports in our archives.

This situation which can be compared to a new obscurantism is unacceptable in a society declaring itself to be democratic.

The CICNS has therefore been established to represent those who see themselves in this observation and who wish to see the situation evolve.

Consequently, to become a member of the CICNS also implies some responsibilities:

-         Members of the CICNS are necessarily engaged in a process that aims at restoring dignity to man, expressing his potential, revealing his true and profound nature, freeing him from the burden of materialism and promoting humane and spiritual values in our society. The CICNS reserves the right to deny membership to people or groups who would advocate destructive or criminal actions.

-         Members of our association are conscious whatever their beliefs of the necessity to respect laws in force in our country. They nevertheless reserve (themselves) the right to denounce laws that would not respect the natural right to live and express one’s own choices of life, as extravagant as they may seem to the general public.

-         Members of our association have at heart to respect all forms of belief, avoiding to draw hasty conclusions and pronounce gut judgments or common place statements on the diverse forms of spiritual search. They are particularly careful to observe for themselves, above all, how the collective conditioning could lead them, in spite of themselves, to thoughtless condemnations with which they would unavoidably become victims themselves.

-         The sensibility of the members of our association goes for a peaceful approach for restoring truth on the question of new spiritualities.

 
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