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In this interview Annick de Souzenelle mentions how she has started tracking the message contained in illness through a new reading of the biblical texts in their symbolic dimension. She shows how her discovery of surprising connections between the human body figure and the Tree of Life of the Cabala has led her to decipher suffering as an ardent and conflict generating breakthrough of the Being. Standing away from the dualistic opposition between “Good” and “Evil”, Body and Mind, this former psychotherapist prefers using the words “accomplished” and “unaccomplished”. As an example she resorts notably to the scriptures in the Genesis and Isaac’s sacrifice to bolster her personal conviction: each one’s path of life is a “rising of the sap in the tree of knowledge leading towards accomplishment”. This implies that we truly be the authors of our lives.