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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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Undoing Our Separation from Gaia

A familiar metaphor refers to the fish not perceiving the ocean even while she swims in its all-pervasive waters. Similarly, we modern humans usually have no idea of the ubiquitous anti-Nature, anti-Earth beliefs and assumptions we “swim” in as part of the human-created world. One of the most pernicious human supremacist ideas—reflected in science and technology, spirituality, and everyday life—is separation. We’ve been conditioned to consider … [Read More...] about Undoing Our Separation from Gaia

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Approaching the Reality of the Underworld

Many people see our current ecological crisis as also a spiritual crisis for humanity. While I wholeheartedly agree, I’m coming to understand that our eco-spiritual conversations often overlook something important. We need to meet, up front, our beliefs about the Underworld—the mysterious physical and spiritual domain under our feet, extending into the body of the planet, all the way to the center of the Earth. Our indigenous ancestors … [Read More...] about Approaching the Reality of the Underworld