The legend of the hummingbird says: "A huge forest is burning. The animals are dismayed, powerless, observe the disaster. Only the hummingbird drops one by one the water drops it carries in his beak. Facing the other's skepticism who consider his action as ridiculous, the hummingbird says that if each one did as he does, the fire would have been already extinguished"...
Facing an ecological disaster (and measurable) on which an exceptional spiritual famine adds (this one is less tangible)... we wanted to question ourselves about the subtle relations between the notions of "ecology" and "spirituality".
To answer this question, Michel Cazenave gathered with him a geographer: Chantal Delacotte, a specialist of the Celtic world and the Arthurian legends: Claudine Glot and an "artist of nature" (like " Naturphilosophie" important for the German romanticism)/ Anna Jeretic.
Does Nature have to be considered as a "good Mother" or on the contrary does it refers to the reign of death" ? Is it the Eternal juxtaposition of the tree of life and the tree of death ?
Between the notions of "geographic" ecology, "scientific" ecology, and "symbolical" ecology (e.g. James Lovelock and his « Gaia hypothesis") are we able to dissociate these three levels of understanding ?
Does every "citizen" gesture have to begin with a personal awareness of his responsibility (karma of the hummingbird ?) or of his beingness, without what he is but a chimera and doomed to failure ?
Elements of answer in the 56-minutes debate filmed at the Forum 104 where with a five centuries gap we will be able to meditate the saying of Rabelais "Science without conscience ruins the soul"...
