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mother earthGaia is the living, evolving, enduring body of Mother Earth. She comprises the physical and spiritual manifestations of our planet: the forests, mountains, oceans, rivers; the animals and plants, the fungi, bacteria and viruses, from the immense to the microscopic; as well as all the spiritual beings and realms of the Sacred Land.

Thus, Gaia inevitably includes humanity, in our creative greatness and our misguided destructiveness: humanity in our perilous present; ancestral humanity from the past; and humans of the future, wherever it is that we’re headed.

Gaia is continuously engendering all these levels, all these strands, to be in a dynamic state of balance, to maintain the healthy, resilient wholeness inherent in the earth’s deepest being and our own.

We can participate in this balance as we learn to loosen our attachment to the human-created world and attune with the regenerative Green World of Gaia, which illuminates our own most authentic self.

What are Seeds, Really?

Many people speak of planting good seeds for the future. What does this really mean?

There is certainly the level of planting literal seeds, within the practices of indigenous agriculture, permaculture, bio-dynamic gardening and other technologies that seek to go “with the grain” of Nature’s creatures, cycles and laws.

But when we consider planting less tangible “seeds”—seeds to help birth a new, regenerative future for the earth and humanity—it’s not so easy to envision what this might look like. What “crops” do we want to grow? How do we manifest the seeds for them? How do we plant them? How will the seeds know when and how to sprout? Once growing, where will their necessary nourishment come from?

This blog is dedicated to exploring these questions, on behalf of a beautiful, harmonious and life-enhancing future for all of Gaia.

The Latest Blog Posts…

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Acting Like We Have Relatives

I’ve been told that the Dineh people of the desert southwest describe someone who has gotten grievously off-track in his life and behavior by saying: “He’s acting like he doesn’t have any relatives.” Among ancestral peoples, someone who acts like he or she doesn’t have relatives—someone who behaves as if they are not linked to their life-honoring ancestral ways, and who disrespects and rejects the human and non-human members of their … [Read More...] about Acting Like We Have Relatives

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The Path of Gaia

After writing Gaia’s Blog for over a year, I’m circling back to the most central questions: Who is Gaia? How can we understand and unite with Her as fully as possible? In mythology, “Gaia” typically refers to the Goddess of the Earth, the ancestral Mother. Indeed, another way to refer to Gaia might be as Mother Earth, the entirety of the physical planet—the waters and forests and prairies, and more fine-grained manifestations like the plants … [Read More...] about The Path of Gaia