“I believe in nature, science, and spirituality”, Hubert said.

“How that? How do they relate to one another?”, I wanted to know.

“Good human relationships, love, compassion, and reason”, Hubert replied in a rather cryptic manner. We laughed.

His friend asked him: “How do those things relate to nature, science, and spirituality?” – “Good relationships and love and compassion, they all relate to spirituality. Reason – to science. And nature: Nature unites all of this! I’m curious what you’re gonna make out of this”, he smiled at me. He added that he liked making things tangible, being creative in that sense. Well, we’re in the same boat here, so… here is your smallest, Hubert:

Nature, science, and spirituality were presented as some sort of trinity.

However, the category of nature unites science and spirituality and thus it is not a “perfect” trinity where all three components would be at the same level of interrelating to one another in the equal sense.

I put science and spirituality at the opposite ends of an ellipse inspired by the way the cell division is depicted in biology. The background category is nature, as cell division is a “natural” process – a process that happens in every single living organism in the whole world.

Since all matter in this world can be metabolised by some organism somehow and thus contribute to their cell division, and those organisms are capable of feeling love and compassion and the creation of good relationships with one another, and since science can try and decode all of this but in its science-manner which will never go “full circle” and decode spiritually because the very essence of spirituality is the opposition and the non-being of the scientific method mindset logic (reason, but I would say there is also reason in spirituality), this is why there is an ellipse and this is why they are opposed and yet connected, but only imperfectly with splinters of consciousness indicating some sort of ellipse, because they will never connect perfectly, and our understanding of both will remain a splinter (for most of us…).

More to tell you in person, Hubert. The moment you said “nature unites them all”, my soul and mind and heart lit up and smelled some truth coming. Truth to be explored. Thank you, you helped all of us getting closer to an understanding of this existence we are all in!