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Gaia
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last updated November 27th, 2004 and is permanently morphing...
(9 Ix (Jaguar) / 17 Keh (Red) - 74/260 - 12.19.11.11.14)

Gaea (jê´e) also Gaia
(gâ´e) noun
Greek Mythology.
The goddess of the earth, who bore
and married Uranus and became the mother of the Titans and the Cyclopes.
coined by James Lovelock
theory that the planet earth is
one giant organism, and that we do not share its consciousness because of our
scaling (like the idea that our individual cells might be conscious but they
(nor us) are not aware of the other's consciousness). we as humans, might
be the equivalent of the individual neurons of our brain, forming a
network
of communication for the entire planet.
The
Foundation
Series
by
Isaac
Asimov
Gaia.
Planet in the Sayshell Sector,
10 parsecs from Sayshell Planet. Gaia is an ancient word for "Earth".
Has one small (100km) natural satellite. Population; 1,000,000,000.
Engineered by the humaniform robot R. Daneel in order to resolve the conflict
of the
Zeroth
Law. In 498FE Gaia maneuvered Golan Trevize, Stor Gendibal and Harla
Branno to the vicinity of Gaia in order that Trevize determine the future
of the Galaxy. A decision that Gaia couldn't make but believed that
Trevize had a special aptitude that would enable him make the correct decision.
Although Gaia felt responsible for the
Mule,
they allowed the Second Foundation to correct the problem. Gaia wanted
Trevize to be convinced that he had made the correct decision in choosing
Galaxia and so, through one of their members, Bliss, assisted Trevize in
his search for Earth.
Statistics.
Period of rotation: 22 hours.
Axial inclination: 12o
from Encyclopedia Galactica
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The planet has a kind of intelligence, it can actually
open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message
that nature sends is, transform your
language
through a
synergy
between electronic culture and the
psychedelic
imagination,
a synergy between
dance
and idea, a synergy between understanding and intuition, and
dissolve
the boundaries that your culture has sanctioned between you, to become part
of this Gaian supermind.
- Terence McKenna
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In one sense the sons & daughters
of Gaia have never left the paleolithic; in another sense, all the perfections
of the future are already ours. Only insurrection will "solve" this paradox
- only the uprising against false consciousness in both ourselves & others
will sweep away the technology of oppression & the poverty of the Spectacle.
In this battle a painted mask or
shaman's
rattle may prove as vital as the seizing of a communications satellite or secret
computer
network.
Our sole criterion for judging a weapon or a tool is its beauty. The means
already ARE the end, in a certain sense; the insurrection already IS our adventure;
Becoming IS Being. Past & future exist within us & for us, alpha
& omega. There are no other gods before or after us. We are
free in
TIME
- and will be free in SPACE as well.
-
Hakim
Bey -
_TAZ_
"Whole-system fine tuning.
If the phenomena associated with biological harmony and
resonance
could be understood, then such large scale systems as global banking or global
food production and distribution could be more properly managed. The Gaian
biologists, Lovelock, Margulies, and others, have argued persuasively that the
entire planet has been self-organized by microbial and planktonic life into
a metastable regime favorable to biology and maintained there for over two billion
years. Plan-based Gaia has kept a balance throughout
time
and space - and this in spite of the repeated bombardment of the earth by
asteroidal material sufficient to severely disrupt the planetary equilibrium.
We can only admire - and we should seek to imitate such a
Tao
-like
sense of the planet's multidimensional homeostatic balance. But how?
I suggest we look at plants - look more deeply, more closely, and with a more
open mind than we have done before."
-
Terence
McKenna -
_Archaic
Revival_
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TAZ
- Gaia - 4/20/96
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The
Ambient
Temples of Imagination and Pyromania Arts present
GAIA
BEAT reGENERATION
BIOMASS
GAIA
P.A.N.
EARTHTRIBE
MYCELLIAL MIND (Pyromania Arts/ATOI Neuronal Mix)
FRIENDLY FIRE
MAHAKALIMA (for Diamanda Galas)
NU WHIRRLD ORDER
FOUNTAINS OF NEPTUNE
with
RICHARD
SUN
BLUE SCREEN
Justin Beck & Jordan Cadogan
IAO CORE
Johannes Ayres, April Dawn, Enrique, &
thee Siren was Kira Westfall
arranged & mixed by MARK WAYNE (E.A.R.)
I have had a thought about this
recently which I will tell you. One of the
science
fiction fantasies that haunts the
collective
unconscious is expressed in the phrase "a world run by machines"; in the
1950s this was first articulated in the notion, "perhaps the future will be
a terrible place where the world is run by machines." Well now, let's think
about machines for a moment. They are extremely impartial, very predictable,
not subject to moral suasion, value neutral, and very long lived in their functioning.
Now let's think about what machines are made of, in the
light
of
Sheldrake's
morphogenetic field theory. Machines are made of metal, glass, gold,
silicon,
plastic; they are made of what the earth is made of. Now wouldn't it be
strange if biology is a way for earth to
alchemically
transform itself into a self-reflecting thing. In which case then, what we're
headed for inevitably, what we are in fact creating is a world run by machines.
And once these machines are in place, they can be expected to manage our economies,
languages,
social aspirations, and so forth, in such a way that we stop killing each other,
stop starving each other, stop destroying land, and so forth. Actually the fear
of being ruled by machines is the male ego's fear of relinquishing control of
the planet to the maternal
matrix
of Gaia. -
Terence
McKenna
TAZ
-
Pulse
Of Gaia - November 11, 1995
The artist, Aristotle says, imitates
Nature. The
trickster,
practical joker and counterfeiter also imitate Nature, if you think about it.
Certain insects imitate Nature so successfully that they become invisible, except
to those who look at all things with suspicious eyes; and
Philip
K. Dick has memorably suggested that we may share space-
time
with "Zebra," a hypothetical gaian intelligence that we can't see because it
disguises itself as the whole environment.
-
Robert
Anton Wilson -
_Cosmic
Trigger III_
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"The universe is the communion of
subjects,
not a collection of objects." - _The
Dream
Of The Earth_ by Thomas Berry
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We're just part of the
process
of turning mountains into computers.
"A pair of coevolutionary creatures
chasing each other in an escalating arms race can only seem to veer out of control.
Likewise, a pair of cozy coevolutionary symbionts embracing each other can only
seem to lead to stagnant solipsism. But Lovelock saw that if you had a vast
network
of coevolutionary impulses, such that no creatures could escape creating its
own substrate and the substrate its own creatures, then the web of coevolution
spread around until it closed a circuit of self-making and self-control."
"...if Earth is reduced to the size
of a bacteria, and inspected under high-powered optics, would it seem stranger
than a virus? Gaia hovers there,
a blue sphere under the stark
light,
inhaling energy, regulating its internal states, fending off disturbances, complexifying,
and ready to transform another planet if given a chance."
-
Kevin
Kelly -
_Out
Of Control_
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Interview with Grant Morrisson, author of _The Invisibles_
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THE PULSE: Are you religious, if so how
do your beliefs mirror
science
fiction?
Okay ... I've had 24 years of occult experimentation and
a "
contact"
experience in Kathmandu in 1994 which brought me to a point where my own experiences
and the lessons I'd learned became much more meaningful, real and important
to me than some old book that was written a long time ago by people no more
special than me or anyone else. My beliefs are firmly grounded in nuts and bolts
reality
but probably sound strange because of the sci-fi style language of biology etc.
So based on my own experience, I've come to the conclusion
that the individual human body is no more, no less than one of the billions
of skin cells we lose every day. Each of those cells was once bursting with
youth
and health before it lived its allotted span, shriveled and then fell as dust.
Now, if a skin cell became conscious and forgot that it was only a
temporary
and recyclable part of a much larger living body, it too would no doubt feel
the same existential trauma experienced by all living, sentient creatures. It
would fear its own demise as we do, because it would have forgotten its purpose
and function within a larger context and become trapped in the illusory yet
painful cage of individuality.
Like skin cells or perhaps more like immune cells, we
as individuals are all part of one immense intelligent living creature which
has its roots in the Cryptozoic era and its living tendrils - including us -
probing forward through the untasted jelly of the 21st Century. The body of
this vast and intelligent lifeform - the biota as it's known - is still in its
infancy and still at the stage in its life cycle where it must consume the planet's
resources like a
caterpillar
on a leaf. What looks like environmental destruction to us is, I believe, the
natural acceleration of an impending metamorphosis; just as a caterpillar gorges
itself to power its transformation into a butterfly, so too does the biota consume
everything in its path, in preparation for its own imminent transformation into
adult form.
Quite soon now, possibly within ten years even, the infant
creature in the body of which we are all merge cells will awaken to its true
nature, the concept of individuality will vanish overnight, as the
imaginary
walls separating our minds collapse, we will realise there is only one mind,
and our mega-maggot will metamorphose, leaving the planetary cradle and the
four
dimensions
of spacetime to be born at last as a fully-formed adult creature designed for
existence in a higher dimension fluid continuum or
informational
supermembrane. As immune cells inside this gigantic, living, tree-like body
that's currently huffing and puffing its way towards maturity, it's our job
to do everything we can to keep the larva healthy and developing normally. That's
if we want to be born as adults into
hyperspacetimelessness
and quite frankly, I fancy the idea.
That's my religion and it didn't come from a book and it's not based on my blind faith but on my own direct experience of and conversation with my "God." "Grant" is an immune cell in the body of "God" - the biota - does its thinking and its sensing through tiny, self-replicating cell-creatures like me and you and all the other examples of life on earth. All life is the same life. All thoughts are the same thought. No one dies at all, except in the way that a baby has to "die" for a child to be born and the child has to "die" for the adult to be born. That's all death is at every stage - scary transformation. And, although individual "bodies" seem to wither, fall away, and be lost, consciousness remains as a function of the biota.
YOU CAN FOLLOW ME IF YOU LIKE. I'VE GOT MY OWN CULT AND EVERYTHING.
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pOrtal:
MkzdK
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