Letter to Jaden Smith

Open letter from Mathieu CALTEAU to Jaden Smith
“The frontier between Light and Darkness”

29 February 2020,

Hello Jayden Smith, many child stars, from Mac Caullay Culkin to the Olsen twins to Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson, All have experienced a sort of existential imbalance due to the weight that their personal identity weighs against the image they leave of themselves and over which they have no control.

There is a way to improve that.

I will first take the existence of the two "William James".

The first became a brilliant psychologist of the nineteenth century but experienced an unhappy life because before succeeding his brilliant career all that happened to him was trouble. One day he became aware of an essential but rare thing:

We are all responsible for the actions we carry out on the world even of those who are not at first sight of our fact. He accepted that everything that happened to him was the consequence of what he was and that he could do nothing to change that.
From that moment on he changed and became what he hoped to be because his destiny was not the one that he wanted to have, but that he had acquired by the "force of things".

This notion of responsibility is very important but very difficult to perceive, I come back to it shortly afterwards.

The second William James is one of the greatest geniuses of the 20th century: William James Sidis.

Here is a Youtube video that describes his life:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsDD93pSppw

These parents had only one goal for him, to make him a genius and for that, his psychiatrist father had a strategy. He did not give him love, and he forced him to find in the other the recognition he had for himself. So Sidis spent his childhood wondering why he exists and what the meaning of his existence is, which changed his growing intellect. Having inherited the genes of two intellectually brilliant people, this view of the world has grown its IQ further.

He became a genius, but what he was looking for above all was the recognition of his father, the love and the emotional identity bond that it engenders. He never had that, so he became a pariah and ended up badly because he died of cerebral hemorrhage.

These two stories tell us something about human destiny.


The first tells us that our "power to act" does not lie in our will but in our ability to understand ourselves better and to see what connects us to the world intrinsically and extrinsically, so as not to make them obstacles but to accept it.

The second tells us that our "will to act" does not lie in our ability to perceive reality, but in the relationship that connects this person, to our own emotional becoming.

We cannot grow up without a family and we cannot perceive reality without understanding what our parents, brothers and sisters teach us from ourselves.

The essence of life lies in something invisible that I call the boundary between Light and Darkness. It is an analogy to explain that everything we experience, when subjected to our psychic, intellectual or emotional ignorance, will lead us to darkness, that is to the inability to act on our destiny.


The Light cannot come from us, we are only drivers of what is happening between us and the rest of the Universe.
The more we understand how we conduct our destiny (without the will or power forcing us to interact) the better we know that we cannot "do wrong" if what we do is responsible, that is to say that we understand its foundations and its implications for ourselves.


The methods of psychological treatment, psychiatric and psychoanalytic do nothing but create an awareness of the implication of being in these own choices and of the impact that certain relationships or beliefs have on the way in which the person perceives the world (without judging the value of these beliefs, leaving it to the person to find his own balance).


The essence of Yin and Yang lies beyond the Yin and Yang, in the interpretation that we give things without realizing it.
The profession of actor consists in interpreting roles, that is to say in passing on to a person a part of our own history in order to give him a "vision" from this own darkness, but if, in oneself, one does not know one’s own destiny, we cannot give the character the element he lacks to make him realistic.

The actor replaces the boundary between Light and Darkness that binds the character to his story, he does not become the character, because he does not identify with the Darkness of the characters (his ignorance in relation to his own experience).

He interprets this ignorance, making it real by infusing his own experience with the consequences of choices on action.

The actor makes the character responsible and this is how the interpretation is recognized as valid because the more this responsibility becomes that of the character, the more the actor is recognized as being a great actor.



I don’t know if this letter will reach Jayden Smith, but I hope it will help anyone who reads it to connect better to themselves so that they can perhaps live more in harmony with their consciousness and the surrounding world.

Sincerely Yours.

Author: Mathieu CALTEAU