How to Meditate Like a Corpse
How a die-in at the state capitol reinforced the value of meditating like a corpse.
How will your death help the world?
Will your death help heal Gaia or contaminate Gaia? And how have you prepared for that?
When Shalt Thou Kill?
Could the sixth commandment be more nuanced?
Grappling with the Spectre of Death
Could COVID-19’s shiniest silver lining be a heightened salience of mortality?
The Story of Job: A Gaian Update
Is there wisdom that could be gleaned from a new ecocentric version of The Book of Job?
It Could Be Worse: Lessons from Transatlantic Voyages and Medieval Quarantines
Social distancing is frustrating. But with a bit of perspective, I hope we can agree it’s not all that bad.
Hell is a Time Not a Place
Lessons from Lazarus on communicating about hell—and the looming climate crisis.
We’re All Gonna Die!
A new study suggests scientists greatly underestimated CO2’s contribution to climate change. But that doesn’t mean we should freak out.
What Would Local Gaian Groups Do?
What is the role of Gaian groups? Connecting and healing. Connecting us to Gaia and each other and also healing us and Gaia. We live in a broken world, and much of that is caused by how we treat Gaia and each other. But we can change that. This week’s reflection explores four main purposes of local Gaian groups.
Returning to—and Tidying Up—the Fold
Can we, with the same joy as Marie Kondo convinces families to clean up the resultant mess of the consumer culture, persuade families to return to a Gaian way of being?
Waves, Waterfalls and Our Eventual Return to Gaia
Death is our inevitable return to Gaia. And as it is inevitable it should not be feared. Rather our focus should be on how we live our lives.