A Mirror of the Divine
This second issue is devoted to meta-ecology, a term coined by Jean-Marie Pelt, and revolves around Spinoza’s famous statement: “God is Nature.” There is, indeed, a way of speaking about our environment and nature in the broadest sense that goes beyond quantitative and material considerations. To save our world, we must truly re-enchant it.
Marc de Smedt invited around thirty specialists — philosophers, scientists, naturalists, sociologists, ethnologists, poets and journalists — to share, within their respective fields and drawing on their own experiences, how the concept of nature resonates with them at the deepest level of their being.
The result is a renewed vision of the Earth as a living being and of the universe as an entity animated by an intelligence that transcends us, yet is nonetheless real and profoundly thought-provoking.
Sheikh Khaled Bentounes embodies the essence of a tolerant and enlightened Islam. Committed to a form of spiritual ecology, he offers his perspective on the visible and invisible dimensions of the world.
Contributors include: Leili Anvar, Sheikh Bentounes, Christian Bobin, André Comte-Sponville, François Cheng, Aurélie Godefroy, Jacqueline Kelen, Jean-Yves Leloup, Michel Onfray, Jean-Marie Pelt, Pierre Rabhi, Hubert Reeves, Marc de Smedt, and others.