Questions at the End of the Nuclear Age
Seventy-five years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, do we know how we will guard the poison fire we have created for millennia to come?
Keeping It Simple: Gaian Dietary Norms
Michael Pollan said it best: “Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.”
Introducing “Digesting,” a new Gaian variation of Tonglen
What do a Children’s Scifi Novel and a Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Have in Common?
Answer: They both suggest a similar way to draw in suffering and send out relief.
Grappling with the Spectre of Death
Could COVID-19’s shiniest silver lining be a heightened salience of mortality?
Aloha. Shalom! Go with Gaia?
A short reflection on the power of words and how we use them to part.
Encountering an Essential Lesson in the Church Forests of Ethiopia
How a religious system has played a key role in preventing total deforestation of Ethiopia and what we, Gaians, can learn from this.
What is the Sound of Gaia Breathing? And other Gaian Kōans.
Kōans are riddles and stories that help deepen understanding. Could they be used to cultivate our deeper understanding of Gaia?
Forest Meditation, Sunday Forest School, and Sassafras Tea Time
Imagining the Gaian Sunday Service
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.
May be, or The Luck of the Virus
What if we applied Taoist and Zen wisdom to the coronavirus pandemic?
The Wrath of Gaia
How does Gaia’s Wrath compare to God’s? Less predictable? More knowable? And how shall we respond?