peace
eric
p.s. I am off line for 9 days, be seeing you...
On Saturday, March 22, 2003, at 12:45 AM, The Korrows wrote:
The Gaia concept is as old as consciousness. It seems odd to western society because we are so detached from the inerturnings of the world & are caught up in our "superior intellectual pursuits". One can not find Gaia in intellectual pursuits. The truth is that we all have experience with nature spirits. We may not have much experience with lets say trucking, but it is never the less an integral part of our lives which affects us every day. Foods, hardware, mail etc. Now if you wanted to find out about trucking you could go about it. Research, talking to truckers, mechanics, one could even get a job at it to understand it better. But Nature Spirits???? Oh my gosh, what a mystery!! In fact it is no different, less common or difficult to understand than trucking. Most people are not even aware that they are incredibly shallow breathers until it is pointed out to them, or that they walk off balance with one food pointed out or in, or even that they have no control over their thoughts, they can't turn them off. Nature Spirits/Gaia is not even a concept. It's like a bunch of people sitting around trying to talk about Chris (me) as a concept. It doesn't make sense. But if they meet me, well that makes sense (well maybe not) The trick with Gaia is that it is an attention. Step out in the woods and focus your attention on nature spirits and they're just simply there. The real problem that we face is not in seeing/feeling Nature Spirits but in turning off the drumming in our heads that we have been thought that they do not exist.
Peace, Chris
