Throughout the ages various cultures
have held that the Earth is alive. Some have named
the Earth as a goddess, as the Greeks did, calling
her Gaia.
Most cultural mythic stories of origin do not
separate what we in the West call nature vs. supernature.
They simply assume that humans came forth from the
same living source that gave life to plants and other animals. The ideas
that the Earth is not-alive or simply a dirt
ball hurling through the cosmos or nothing but a temporary
residence for human life—are counterintuitive
to most cultures. Yet, these ideas are key to the stories
of origin of the three Big Stories
that dominate contemporary global consciousness.
Earthfolk's gasping
response to the sight of Mother! was an awakening
to
more than any previous mythic story has ever conveyed.
It was an
awakening to the heartfelt emotional bond that we share
with all that
exists: not just humans, fauna and floral but
with what is labeled by the
dominant Big Stories as "inorganic," meaning
dead or lifeless.
Earthfolk sensed that everything that is, is part of
the Living Earth.
Rocks, stones, minerals, elementals ... everything is
somehow what the Living Earth is.
Part of this "more than"—we
Earthfolk were also grasped by an insight into the heartfelt relationship
which emerged as we delighted in Mother! ...
We were amazed and astounded by the nurturing presence
of Father!
It is the insight into and heartfelt sense
of being parented that marked our transformation
into being Earthfolk.
We
passionately felt ourselves present as the Forever
Family.
This was the sense that all that is has always been and
will always be.
In the human sphere, you are someone's child
and you are the
potential parent of every other child.
Through time you as an individual transform
as the
Family lives on Forever.
We Earthfolk live peacefully at-home
on the Living Earth within the
nurturing parental embrace of our Forever Family.
Continue—Scientific Gaia
theory
