| The Ancient Greek word Gaia was the primal | | | | There is a life force (call it Spirit if you |
| Greek goddess personifying the Earth. The | | | | like), a force field that carries information |
| Gaia hypothesis is an ecological hypothesis | | | | and message from out there to everyone that |
| that proposes that living and nonliving parts | | | | will receive. What's coming our way can be |
| of the earth are a complex interacting system | | | | known before hand: needs to be known in |
| that can be thought of as a single organism. | | | | advance. We need to awaken and be delivered |
| In other words the earth, our solar system | | | | from our dogmas and doctrines that act as |
| and the universe is a living universe. | | | | parachutes dragging behind us and holding us |
| | | | back. |
| Albert Einstein had it wrong. We don't live | | | | |
| in a static world. The earth is alive, it | | | | The Ohlones (Indian tribe in Northern |
| pulses, breathes, and resonates with the rest | | | | California) who flourished 5,000 years ago, |
| of the solar system and universe. We are all | | | | embraced a religion without dogma or |
| one with one another, attached to in ways not | | | | doctrinal constraints. Author Malcolm |
| known or seen- to all. There is nothing that | | | | Margolin said of them, "They felt the power |
| doesn't live and there is no such thing as | | | | everywhere, in everything, and therefore |
| empty space. | | | | every act was a religious act." We're just |
| | | | simply unaware that we are living in a world |
| Luther Standing Bear said this of his Lakota | | | | that is ALIVE and teeming with LIFE. |
| Sioux, "There was no such thing as emptiness | | | | |
| in the world. Even in the sky there were no | | | | We need to awaken to the cosmological truths |
| vacant places. Everywhere there was life, | | | | that are there for our benefit. As Duane |
| visible and invisible, and every object gave | | | | Elgin exhorted us, "In a dead universe, |
| us great interest in life." Before there was | | | | materialism makes sense; in a living |
| quantum physics, Indian tribes, Mayan | | | | universe, simplicity makes sense." How |
| mystics, and Egyptian elders knew things we | | | | complicated we have made life; however, |
| the scientifically sophisticated are just now | | | | there's a time coming which will force us |
| realizing. | | | | back to the power and excitement of the NOW. |
| | | | We have a few years to get ready. |
| We need some strategic thinking. | | | | |
| | | | Are you? |