The Ancient Greek word Gaia was the primal Greek goddess personifying the Earth. The Gaia hypothesis is an ecological hypothesis that proposes that living and nonliving parts of the earth are a complex interacting system that can be thought of as a single organism. In other words the earth, our solar system and the universe is a living universe.
Albert Einstein had it wrong. We don't live in a static world. The earth is alive, it pulses, breathes, and resonates with the rest of the solar system and universe. We are all one with one another, attached to in ways not known or seen- to all. There is nothing that doesn't live and there is no such thing as empty space.
Luther Standing Bear said this of his Lakota Sioux, "There was no such thing as emptiness in the world. Even in the sky there were no vacant places. Everywhere there was life, visible and invisible, and every object gave us great interest in life." Before there was quantum physics, Indian tribes, Mayan mystics, and Egyptian elders knew things we the scientifically sophisticated are just now realizing.
We need some strategic thinking.
There is a life force (call it Spirit if you like), a force field that carries information and message from out there to everyone that will receive. What's coming our way can be known before hand: needs to be known in advance. We need to awaken and be delivered from our dogmas and doctrines that act as parachutes dragging behind us and holding us back.
The Ohlones (Indian tribe in Northern California) who flourished 5,000 years ago, embraced a religion without dogma or doctrinal constraints. Author Malcolm Margolin said of them, "They felt the power everywhere, in everything, and therefore every act was a religious act." We're just simply unaware that we are living in a world that is ALIVE and teeming with LIFE.
We need to awaken to the cosmological truths that are there for our benefit. As Duane Elgin exhorted us, "In a dead universe, materialism makes sense; in a living universe, simplicity makes sense." How complicated we have made life; however, there's a time coming which will force us back to the power and excitement of the NOW. We have a few years to get ready.
Are you?
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