{"id":784,"date":"2026-10-13T09:54:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T09:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckb.adlania.net\/nature\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T19:50:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T19:50:39","slug":"nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A Mirror of the Divine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This second issue is devoted to meta-ecology, a term coined by Jean-Marie Pelt, and revolves around Spinoza\u2019s famous statement: \u201cGod is Nature.\u201d 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.<br\/><br\/>Marc de Smedt invited around thirty specialists \u2014 philosophers, scientists, naturalists, sociologists, ethnologists, poets and journalists \u2014 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.<br\/><br\/>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.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contributors include: Leili Anvar, Sheikh Bentounes, Christian Bobin, Andr\u00e9 Comte-Sponville, Fran\u00e7ois Cheng, Aur\u00e9lie Godefroy, Jacqueline Kelen, Jean-Yves Leloup, Michel Onfray, Jean-Marie Pelt, Pierre Rabhi, Hubert Reeves, Marc de Smedt, and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Mirror of the Divine This second issue is devoted to meta-ecology, a term coined by Jean-Marie Pelt, and revolves around Spinoza\u2019s famous statement: \u201cGod is Nature.\u201d 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 \u2014 philosophers, scientists, naturalists, sociologists, ethnologists, poets and journalists \u2014 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, Andr\u00e9 Comte-Sponville, Fran\u00e7ois Cheng, Aur\u00e9lie Godefroy, Jacqueline Kelen, Jean-Yves Leloup, Michel Onfray, Jean-Marie Pelt, Pierre Rabhi, Hubert Reeves, Marc de Smedt, and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","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\/784","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=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}