The book I’m reading (see previous blog post) is bringing me back to my awareness of the greatness and aliveness of this planet, and how we need to accept our place within her. We are not outside of Earth, we’re in her, like microbes in a body, and we have a role to play and it’s time we started playing it. Or perhaps, we need to accept that we ARE playing it, whatever we might think is happening, but in any case, to stop trying to detach, separate, elevate ourselves above and outside our matrix. We are of Earth, made of Earth, and we depend on her for everything. Everything.

All that we believe, think, understand, perceive comes to us through the medium of our senses, emotions, neuronal synapses firing. It’s all her. That doesn’t mean it’s not transcendent and spiritual. But it’s through her that we are that, too. Our transcendence is only possible because we are a part of her. As great, spiritual and amazing as we might be, she is more so, and she is what makes it possible.

In other words, we need to freakin’ get OVER ourselves and get inside the planet. And stop thinking of it, as her, as a buncha rock, wood and stuff. There. That’s my preach.

I have been reading a book called “Animate Earth: Science, Intuition and Gaia” by Stephan Harding. It inspired my new mission statement (”Speaking the Word For Gaia”) and this song (which I’m searching for a good title for):

A Song For Gaia

She is the ground that I stand on
she is the air that I breathe
She is the stuff I am made from
She is both mother and father to me

She is the stars in the heavens
for she is the eyes that I see with
She is all my relations
she is both mother and father to me

This wood is my father, this stone gave me birth
I will place no other God before her
This earth is my mother, this stone gave me birth
I will place no other God before her

she is this path we are taking
she is the poisons we spill
she is these bonds we are breaking
she is all the species we kill

she is our face in the mirror
she is the works of our hands
she is this green revolution
She has a purpose for man

This wood is my father, this stone gave me birth
I will place no other God before her
This earth is my mother, this stone gave me birth
I will place no other God before her

She is this crisis I’m facing
She is this song that I sing
She is my final salvation
She’s life and she’s death, she is everything

She is the stars in the heavens
for she is the eyes that I see with
She is all my relations
she is both mother and father to me

This wood is my father, this stone gave me birth
I will place no other God before her
This earth is my mother, this stone gave me birth
I will place no other God before her

She is the land where I’m standing
She is the stuff I am made from
She is the blood in my veins
She’s life and she’s death, she is everything
and she is both mother and father to me