THE EXPERIENCE OF NATURE

The enigma of life

An episode from the series SACRED PATHS

Synopsis

The mysterious powers of nature plunged the first humans into both fear and rapture, no doubt inspiring in them the feeling of the sacred.

The impenetrable secrets of nature can be found in the rock paintings in the Chauvet caves, the Aborigines who communicate with the spirits of their ancestors, the energy of trees, the secrets of plants revealed by a Peruvian healer or an heiress of Mayan cosmogony in Guatemala.