Setting a Gaian Meditative Practice
What should a daily Gaian meditative practice look like? How about an outdoor meditation three times a day to help us connect with Gaia and our purpose, and to improve our health and well-being at the same time.
Lesssons from Serpentor
If we were to take our CRISPR (Clipper of Religion Inspired Systems Producing eco-Renaissance) to snip the best bits of religions to build a new philosophical system, what elements would we harvest?
Gaia is not Omniscient, Omnipotent, nor Omnibenevolent
Unlike the western concept of God, Gaia is not all-knowing, all-powerful, or all good. Instead Gaia is limited in power, in sentience, and is abenevolent. In other words, unlike God, Gaia is vulnerable. And we are in direct relationship with Her. How does that shape this philosophy? And our understanding of suffering?
Resolving to…
What are your New Year Resolutions this year? Can you think of one that makes both you and Gaia better off?
Celebrating Yuletide in a Christmas Culture
Today (December 21st) is Solstice—the shortest day of the year (or longest if you’re in the southern hemisphere). Tomorrow, in the north, days will start to lengthen and the sun will start its rebirth, bringing with it warmth, spring, and new life. Yule—meaning wheel—celebrates this annual solar cycle and passing the darkest point of the year.
Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis
In the beginning, religion evolved as land-based. Then missionary religions came to dominate. Could Gaianism be the bridge between these two paths—the next step in religion’s evolution?
Giving Thanks
This Thanksgiving, let us give thanks to Gaia for making this feast, and our lives possible. And to everyone who has brought joy–both to this day and to our lives. But let’s not do that passively. Our gratitude should be active, sharing these sentiments–and our good fortune–with others.
Earthing: Could Literally Reconnecting to Gaia Help Heal Us?
Going out in nature and walking barefoot has many healing properties. Are you barefoot enough?
Unceded Territories and Untreated Wounds
What if we started every public gathering with this simple mantra? “Before we begin, let us acknowledge that we are on the infected, lesioned, and festering skin of Gaia.”
Is a Techno-linguistic Transition Inevitable?
Nature’s language is being co-opted by the techno-sphere. Can we stop this? How can we reclaim our linguistic heritage?
Reflections from a Climate Rally
Is a deeper understanding of what changes are truly necessary missing in the climate movement?
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?