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Can We Still Chart a New Course?
1 Aug 2021

Can We Still Chart a New Course?

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Growing the Gaian Community, The Quickening | 4

A reflection on the recent update to the Limits to Growth and what it means for our future.

collapse, degrowth, Gaian Way, Prepare, Resilience, sacrifice, sustainability, The Quickening, transition
Are Environmentalists No Wiser than Monkeys Reaching for the Moon?
6 Mar 2021

Are Environmentalists No Wiser than Monkeys Reaching for the Moon?

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Parables, The Quickening, Understanding Gaia | 3

Grasping at green energy illusions will not bring about a sustainable future.

degrowth, Green New Deal, limits, Parables, renewables, sacrifice, sustainability, Technology, The Quickening, transition
Questions at the End of the Nuclear Age
9 Aug 2020

Questions at the End of the Nuclear Age

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Beliefs and Purpose, Gaian Practices and Rituals, Growing the Gaian Community, The Quickening | 2

Seventy-five years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, do we know how we will guard the poison fire we have created for millennia to come?

collapse, Gaia, Gaian Way, Prepare, Purpose, Resilience, sacrifice, wisdom
Say Three Hail Marys and Clean Up the River
26 Jul 2020

Say Three Hail Marys and Clean Up the River

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Practices and Rituals, Growing the Gaian Community | 1

It turns out that environmentalists have their own form of penance and ablutions: river and beach cleanups.

Community, Gaia, Gaian Way, nature awareness, Penance, Purpose, Ritual, sacrifice, sustainability
What are you doing to commemorate Earth Overshoot Day?
12 Jul 2020

What are you doing to commemorate Earth Overshoot Day?

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Practices and Rituals | 2

This August 22nd is the day when we start consuming beyond Earth’s biocapacity for the year. How will you spend this day?

Climate Change, collapse, consumerism, degrowth, Diet, Gaia, Gaian Way, limits, Purpose, Resilience, Ritual, sacrifice
Is COVID-19 a Collective Rite of Passage?
12 Apr 2020

Is COVID-19 a Collective Rite of Passage?

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Beliefs and Purpose, The Quickening, Understanding Gaia | 5

Humanity is currently living through a liminal period. Will we emerge as adults or fail in our transition?

Climate Change, collapse, COVID, health, liminality, postgrowth, Ritual, sacrifice, transition
Introducing a Spring Germination Fast
9 Mar 2020

Introducing a Spring Germination Fast

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Practices and Rituals, Gaian Prayers | 1

Are you searching for a fast that connects you with the cycle of life, and improves your and the Earth’s well-being? Try this Spring Germination Fast.

Gaia, health, nature awareness, plenitude, Resilience, Ritual, sacrifice, Wheel of the Year
Resolving to…
29 Dec 2019

Resolving to…

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Uncategorized | 2

What are your New Year Resolutions this year? Can you think of one that makes both you and Gaia better off?

anxiety, Climate Change, consumerism, Diet, Gaia, Gaian Way, plenitude, Ritual, sacrifice
The Wrath of Gaia
8 Sep 2019

The Wrath of Gaia

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Learning from Other Traditions, The Quickening, Understanding Gaia | 0

How does Gaia’s Wrath compare to God’s? Less predictable? More knowable? And how shall we respond?

Climate Change, Disasters, Gaia Theory, Gaian Way, God, Prepare, Resilience, sacrifice, suffering, The Quickening, wisdom

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