HILLCREST ENVIRONMENT CLUB

"Our Gaia Matters..."

The Gaia Hypothesis:

“Our Planet – Mother Earth – is a Living Being and all life forms are her offspring”

Pronounced ‘Gay-a’, Gaia is named after the Greek word for the ‘Earth Mother’ – Gaea.  Think of the Earth as a human body, where the billions of cells working together as a single living being are represented by the billions of life forms on Earth working together as a living super organism.

Looking at our Planet:

·        We can visualize the Equatorial rainforests functioning as the planet’s lungs, exchanging oxygen and carbon dioxide.

·        Observe the atmosphere functioning as a global respiratory system.

·        Imagine that our rivers and streams are like a circulatory system for the planetary body, bringing clean water and flushing the system.

·        Feel invisible currents of universal force that run longitudinally, latitudinally and diagonally around our planet.  These unseen but sensed Ley lines are like acupuncture meridians that carry this life force within the human body.

·        Notice that the whole planet “breathes” by contracting and expanding with the moon’s gravitational pull.

·        Witness the seasonal cycles mirroring bodily changes, from the contraction of autumn to the inevitable rebirth of spring, or at the equator the rainy seasons and the dry seasons.

All life on our planet seems intelligently self-regulating and acting wisely as a part of the planet…except human kind.  Here we are, the species Homo Sapiens, composed of 70% water and 30% earth, much like the surface of our mother, Gaia, Planet Earth.  With today’s technology, the media, electronic communications, space photographs we are coming to the realization that all of humanity are a product of Mother Earth.  If our umbilical cord could be traced back from our mother’s mother all the way back into the past, we would see that we have all come from Mother Earth.

Yet, today, with all our technology and knowledge we witness widespread disaster and tragedy.  We have forgotten that we all come from the same mother, and humanity has become fragmented and separated, brother and sister pitted against each other.  We do not need prophetic visions to tell us where such conflict is leading us.

On Mother Earth, humans can be compared to bacteria on our own bodies, basically benevolent, but when harmony and balance do not exist, the bacteria can cause illness that in some cases leads to the termination of the host.  This is particularly noticeable in the relationship of humanity to our planet.  We big brained creatures have and shall play a vital part in the evolutionary growth of Our Planet, Gaia.

The Gaia hypothesis does not conflict with any of the major schools of religious thought.

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