Tony Rinaudo
The Forest Underground: Hope for a Planet in Crisis2022
If you work with nature, miracles are possible.
Documentation centre
The Silene Documentation Center contains resources and documents about the spiritual and intangible cultural heritage linked to nature and natural heritage, from the local to the international level. Summaries are offered in four languages: English, Spanish, French, and Catalan, although the documents are in the original languages, accompanied by translations, when available.
It is the reference documentation center of the Group Specialist in Cultural and Spiritual Values of the World Commission for Natural Protected Areas, of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
- Information and sensitization
Tools for information, awareness and reflection on the cultural and spiritual values of nature and landscape in various traditions and worldviews. Pedagogical, didactic and training resources that help integrate spiritual values in the conservation of nature, including myths, tales, and legends. - International declarations
Declarations of spiritual, scientific, political or social authorities in relation to the spiritual values of nature and the need to acknowledge them. - Legal documents
Conventions, treaties, laws, regulations of any administrative, national or international scope. - Management documents
Actions that reinforce the preservation and enjoyment of the values of the intangible heritage of nature, in an integrated way with conservation, in all fields, including the evaluation of their effectiveness. Traditional systems of governance of territories and resources. - Planning documents
Plans and programs aimed at the conservation of nature, protected areas, habitats or species, that incorporate the spiritual and cultural dimensions. - Reflections on nature and spirituality
Contributions on the relationship between nature and spirituality, in any of the concepts and the meanings that both may have and in all its manifestations. - Reflections on science and spirituality
Contributions on the relationship between modern science and spirituality, or with the traditional sciences of nature and / or traditional ecological knowledge. - Strategical documents
Guidelines, strategies, recommendations or proposals, from congresses, symposia, seminars, workshops, etc. either international or national - Videographers
Movies, documentaries and interviews - Wisdom quotes
Quotes, aphorisms and advices about Nature from the spiritual Traditions of humankind.
Zigoneshi: Cross Diagnosis
Éric Julien2019
In Haut-Diois, Drôme (France), some Kogi shamans and thirty modern Western scientists gathered in a focal point of…
Helène Grimaud
Helène Grimaud. Une âme insurgée2018
Nature is all a theophany It is our duty not only to preserve it, but to honor it.
River Culture – Life as a Dance to the Rhythm of the Waters
The global crises of biodiversity and cultural diversity are interdependent, especially so in rivers. While we know that…
Xavier Melloni
Rediscovering the sacred way of relating to nature, this is what we urgently need.
The cries of the forests and air, water, land, and the poor
Promotio Iustiatiae - Ecojesuits2022
The cries of the forests and air, water, land, and the poor are the focus of the latest…
Nicole Échivard
God is the first ecologist. When he once again inhabits the hearts of human beings and brings them…
Jean-Yves Leloup
Un art de vivre et d'aimer par temps de catastrophe2020
To meditate is to live this eternal instant at the heart of present time, to open our finite…
Muhammed Taleb
Sciences et archétypes2002
Western capitalist civilization is the first in human history whose raison d’être is to blind human beings to…
Kilian Jornet interviewed Josep Maria Mallarach about the immaterial values of Nature
Kilian Jornet Foundation2022
With the aim of contributing to raising awareness of children’s education, the Kilian Jornet Foundation is proposing to…