Gaia - How To Tap Into Gaia's Wisdom

Gaia is a living organism. She encompasses every living and non-living entity within the earth's sphere.

The Gaia hypothesis was formulated by James Lovelock in the 1970's that the earth is a self-regulating organism that actively produces conditions that are conducive to sustaining life.

For example, if Carbon Dioxide levels increase too much then the earth will naturally warm. However this warming will also stimulate more plant growth and algal blooms. This additional plant life then sequesters more carbon out of the atmosphere, which in turn reduces the temperature of the planet to levels conducive to life.

Gaia - the living being we call Earth

It is this self-regulating behaviour of our planet earth which has caused many scientists to hypothesize that the earth is a living entity that provides conditions that are conducive for life.

When you tap into the wisdom of nature it becomes very clear that the earth is a living organism that has an intention to restore balance.

For example, after a bushfire the landscape turns black. However within a few months there is a prolification of plant growth through new shoots and growth from seeds that have been activated by the strong heat of the bushfire. Nature restores the blackened forest to again provide conditions that are conducive for life.

Gaia - learn how to tap into her wisdom

Likewise with cleared land. If you look at a paddock that has not been farmed for a couple of years you will see young sapplings starting to grow amongst the weeds that have loosened the soil. Within a couple more years you will start to see the sapplings take over and the beginnings of a new forest starting to develop. Again, nature is self-regulating and restoring the balance in order to provide the conditions that are conducive for life.

On a larger scale, you can see that mother Earth is a living organism. For example, if you took a time delay sequence of Gaia over thousands of years then you would see her forests move. During the ice ages her forests retreat away from the poles and concentrate around the equator. However when the ice ages finish, you would again see her forests spread out and grow once more further away from the equator. Similar to how our skin moves when we move our body.

So given that the earth is a living organism then like all living organisms she naturally has an intelligence and wisdom about her.

Indigenous people across the planet knew that everything within mother earth was connected and one with everything else. They honoured the sacredness of the earth and would seek answers and guidance from her by tapping into her wisdom.

However with the shift of our modern civilization into cities and away from the connection to Gaia through nature, we have mostly forgotten how to listen to the wisdom contained within nature. We have largely forgotten how to tap into the messages she has for us.

The reason for this is that our attention and focus on a societal level is being consumed by the capatalistic model within which we currently live in. We have not been taught how to listen to Gaia's messages, however the wisdom is still there just waiting for us to tap into again.

Largely, that is what this website is about. It is about how to tap into the wisdom contained within nature again. The wisdom has not gone anywhere, it's just that largely we have forgotten how to listen to it.

For example I once went on a heart walk in nature and had been thinking about the journey Gaia is going through right now with mass levels of deforestation, rising carbon dioxide levels and the resulting global warming. So I set my intention to be about 'global warming'.

As I listened to my heart I kept on getting guided to the charcoal on logs and stumps that had been burnt by bushfires from long ago. Likewise nature would guide me to the forest floor and within the leaf litter I kept on finding small bits of charcoal from previous bushfires.

I could not find the connection between this charcoal and 'global warming' that Gaia through nature was wanting to give me, however I wrote down 'charcoal' in my heart walk notepad. That was the obvious message that nature was trying to point me to on my heart walk.

When I got home I again looked through my heart walk notepad and saw that 'charcoal' was what nature was trying to tell me around 'global warming'. So I Googled 'charcoal global warming' and the whole world of carbon sequestration through bio-char opened up to me as a way to mitigate the effects of global warming.

The point here however is that when we again tap into the wisdom of nature as our indigenous ancestors once did, then we can again start to hear the messages and intelligence that Gaia is wanting to give us.

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