The Gaian Solar Meditation
Here’s a shiny new meditation for you to try and a science lesson to boot!
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.
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?
May be, or The Luck of the Virus
What if we applied Taoist and Zen wisdom to the coronavirus pandemic?
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?
Pandemics on my mind (and everyone else’s)
Lessons from Eyam and Early Christians to help our communities better deal with disease outbreaks.
Hell is a Time Not a Place
Lessons from Lazarus on communicating about hell—and the looming climate crisis.
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.
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.”