{"id":781,"date":"2026-10-13T09:57:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T09:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckb.adlania.net\/in-search-of-inner-life\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T19:40:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T19:40:34","slug":"in-search-of-inner-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/in-search-of-inner-life\/","title":{"rendered":"In Search of Inner Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is inner life? Do you have one? If so, can it be cultivated? Is it not both the source of our thoughts, feelings and intuitions, and the wellspring of all creativity and spirituality?<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br\/>Patrice van Eersel guides us through a fascinating investigation, unfolding through conversations with eight remarkable figures: psychiatrist Christophe Andr\u00e9, neurologist Stanislas Dehaene, paediatrician Catherine Dolto, mathematician C\u00e9dric Villani, singer Arthur H., Sufi master Sheikh Bentounes, biblical scholar Annick de Souzenelle, and poet Christian Bobin. From the \u201csilent inwardness\u201d described by Christophe Andr\u00e9 to the \u201cinner child playing hide-and-seek\u201d whom Christian Bobin invites us to rediscover, this is an unprecedented journey into what each of us carries within: something essential and unique.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is inner life? Do you have one? If so, can it be cultivated? Is it not both the source of our thoughts, feelings and intuitions, and the wellspring of all creativity and spirituality? Patrice van Eersel guides us through a fascinating investigation, unfolding through conversations with eight remarkable figures: psychiatrist Christophe Andr\u00e9, neurologist Stanislas Dehaene, paediatrician Catherine Dolto, mathematician C\u00e9dric Villani, singer Arthur H., Sufi master Sheikh Bentounes, biblical scholar Annick de Souzenelle, and poet Christian Bobin. From the \u201csilent inwardness\u201d described by Christophe Andr\u00e9 to the \u201cinner child playing hide-and-seek\u201d whom Christian Bobin invites us to rediscover, this is an unprecedented journey into what each of us carries within: something essential and unique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biographies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}