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Thursday, July 19, 2007
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Emotional Motivations
There are only two emotions at the base of all human motives: that of love and that of fear. Every other emotion may be distilled down to these two. The emotion of fear causes closure, resistance and at its extreme expression, violence. The emotion of love causes openness, relaxation, and at its extreme expression, creativity. All human activity may be gauged upon a scale emotional motives, with fear and closure at one end; and with love and openness at the other.
--- excerpt from the online, interactive book, Parallel Mind
copyright Aliyah Marr
--- excerpt from the online, interactive book, Parallel Mind
copyright Aliyah Marr
Monday, June 11, 2007
The Purpose of Life?
It is my belief that the purpose of life is the evolution of conscousness. Human consciousness is at a unique crossroad. At this point, we are capable of evolving ourselves consciously. As the individual evolves, so does the species, as the species evolves, so does consciousness in general.
We live in an ocean of consciousness. As the fish does not "see" the sea in which it swims, so are we blind to the very environment that nourishes and supports us.
-- copyright Aliyah Marr
We live in an ocean of consciousness. As the fish does not "see" the sea in which it swims, so are we blind to the very environment that nourishes and supports us.
-- copyright Aliyah Marr
Friday, May 25, 2007
Join as a Co-Author!
If you have an interest in writing in this blog, please post your comments after any blog entry. If your comments are apropos to the intended content of the Gaia Paradigm, then I will contact your email address that you leave in the comment.
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Viral Thinking
I had the idea a few months ago that once a thought is released into the ether, it starts to go everywhere there is a mind to receive it. Our minds are like radio receivers for ideas, as long as the thought exists, it can propagate like a virus. Thus it came to me that it would be fun to launch a new idea, to see how fast it spreads. I started this simple blog, unannounced except to a few choice friends. Let's see how fast it spreads.
-- Aliyah Marr
-- Aliyah Marr
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Why The "Gaia Paradigm"?
The Gaia Paradigm is based upon the Gaia Principle: that the Earth is actually a kind of living organism. The original Gaia Theory is named after an ancient female Earth goddess of the same name. It follows that all her creatures, including Mankind, can be understood as cells in this huge living consciousness / being.
I, personally, am not a worshipper of any "divinity"; however, the word is useful in communicating a concept that may be new to many people, but I feel is already starting to grow in universal consciousness. It is difficult in our limited culture and language to express the sacred without using the language of the past. Poetry and metaphor are powerful tools in making "new" concepts comprehensible. Thus, I chose the name "Gaia Paradigm" to express the idea of a new cultural paradigm through the use of poetic metaphor. The idea "piggybacks" upon the original Gaia Theory.
Inclusion, and mutual respect never hurt anyone, in my opinion, and there is much healing there. Every man and woman has power: we all have the choice in how we act in the world. We all have the potential to be self-important and petty, but we can make an effort to evolve past these issues on a personal level. Who knows if it will ever get to the social level, but I for one, prefer to live in the world I describe: one of inclusion, respect, and appreciation.
It is odd to me that when one person (or sex) claims a small portion of their own natural power, that others are often threatened. Perhaps the reason lies in a misinterpretation of the concept of power: yes, in the old paradigm, power meant power OVER another, not personal power. It works like love: love is a kind of cornicopia (to use another ancient metaphor): giving love to someone or something else doesn't mean that you have less of it. Instead giving love returns more love to the giver. Gaining personal power doesn't mean that you wrest your power from another. No, it means that you have enough personal power to not need to take anything from anyone, including their power (self-respect). The more people live inside this reality of self/mutual respect, the more there is to go around.
People do not stand to lose anything going forward, but they stand to lose a lot if they remain stuck inside their bubble of superiority, exclusion, etc. Exclusion, exploitation, disrespect, etc all serve to only keep us in the hell that ultimately is self-hatred. We are taught that self-hatred and fear as young children, so we learn to strike first as a form of self-defense, and to fear anything new. We learn to hold onto our little islands of power and bogart our possessions from everyone else, use resources and leave nothing for anyone or anything else.
Continuing in this old paradigm of fear-based thinking is impossible, so an appreciation for the interconnection of all the cells of this Earth and ultimately our responsiblity for the Earth comes down to a kind of self-respect after all.
-- copyright Aliyah Marr
I, personally, am not a worshipper of any "divinity"; however, the word is useful in communicating a concept that may be new to many people, but I feel is already starting to grow in universal consciousness. It is difficult in our limited culture and language to express the sacred without using the language of the past. Poetry and metaphor are powerful tools in making "new" concepts comprehensible. Thus, I chose the name "Gaia Paradigm" to express the idea of a new cultural paradigm through the use of poetic metaphor. The idea "piggybacks" upon the original Gaia Theory.
Inclusion, and mutual respect never hurt anyone, in my opinion, and there is much healing there. Every man and woman has power: we all have the choice in how we act in the world. We all have the potential to be self-important and petty, but we can make an effort to evolve past these issues on a personal level. Who knows if it will ever get to the social level, but I for one, prefer to live in the world I describe: one of inclusion, respect, and appreciation.
It is odd to me that when one person (or sex) claims a small portion of their own natural power, that others are often threatened. Perhaps the reason lies in a misinterpretation of the concept of power: yes, in the old paradigm, power meant power OVER another, not personal power. It works like love: love is a kind of cornicopia (to use another ancient metaphor): giving love to someone or something else doesn't mean that you have less of it. Instead giving love returns more love to the giver. Gaining personal power doesn't mean that you wrest your power from another. No, it means that you have enough personal power to not need to take anything from anyone, including their power (self-respect). The more people live inside this reality of self/mutual respect, the more there is to go around.
People do not stand to lose anything going forward, but they stand to lose a lot if they remain stuck inside their bubble of superiority, exclusion, etc. Exclusion, exploitation, disrespect, etc all serve to only keep us in the hell that ultimately is self-hatred. We are taught that self-hatred and fear as young children, so we learn to strike first as a form of self-defense, and to fear anything new. We learn to hold onto our little islands of power and bogart our possessions from everyone else, use resources and leave nothing for anyone or anything else.
Continuing in this old paradigm of fear-based thinking is impossible, so an appreciation for the interconnection of all the cells of this Earth and ultimately our responsiblity for the Earth comes down to a kind of self-respect after all.
-- copyright Aliyah Marr
The Social Gaian
Some radical political environmentalists who accept some form of the Gaia theory call themselves Gaians. They actively seek to restore the Earth's homeostasis - whenever they see it out of balance, e.g. to prevent manmade climate change, primate extinction, or rainforest loss. In effect, they seek to cooperate to 'become' the "system consciously manipulating to make conditions more conducive to life". Such activity 'defines' the homeostasis, but for leverage it relies on deep investigation of the homeorhetic balances, if only to find places to intervene in a system which is changing in undesirable ways.
Tony Bondhus brings up the point in his book, Society of Conceivia, that if Gaia is alive, than societies are living things as well. This suggests that our understanding of Gaia can be used to create a better society and to design a better political system.
Gaians are attempting to create a new ideology which fuses conclusions from science and politics; they see this as a protoscience of human ecology. These ideas include the idea of humans as the keystone species, say act to prevent climate change, primate extinction, etc., and might deliberately maintain the balances of the entire biosphere with their own cognition.
Gaians argue that it is a human duty to act as such - committing themselves in particular to the Precautionary Principle. Some refer to this political activity as ... one that takes the axioms of the science of ecology in general, and Gaia theory in particular, and raises them to a kind of theory of personal conduct or moral code.
-- from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_philosophy
Tony Bondhus brings up the point in his book, Society of Conceivia, that if Gaia is alive, than societies are living things as well. This suggests that our understanding of Gaia can be used to create a better society and to design a better political system.
Gaians are attempting to create a new ideology which fuses conclusions from science and politics; they see this as a protoscience of human ecology. These ideas include the idea of humans as the keystone species, say act to prevent climate change, primate extinction, etc., and might deliberately maintain the balances of the entire biosphere with their own cognition.
Gaians argue that it is a human duty to act as such - committing themselves in particular to the Precautionary Principle. Some refer to this political activity as ... one that takes the axioms of the science of ecology in general, and Gaia theory in particular, and raises them to a kind of theory of personal conduct or moral code.
-- from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_philosophy
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