Gaia Philosophy

Gaia Philosophy: The Gaia philosophy - an overivew

Gaia philosophy is a broadly inclusive term for related concepts that living organisms on a planet will affect the nature of their environment - to make it more suitable for life. This set of theories holds that all organisms on a planet regulate the biosphere to the benefit of the whole. The Gaia concept draws a connection between the survivability of a species, (hence its evolutionary course) and their usefulness to the survival of other species.

Gaia Philosophy: Encyclopedia II - Gaia philosophy - Gaia in politics 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 interven ...

In science, a Gaia theory is a class of scientific models of the biosphere in which life fosters and maintains suitable conditions for itself by affecting Earth's environment. The first such theory was created by the English atmospheric scientist James Lovelock in 1969. He hypothesized that the living matter of the planet functioned like a single organism and named this self-regulating living system after the Greek goddess Gaia.

Gaia Philosophy: What is Gaia?

Most of us sense that the Earth is more than a sphere of rock with a thin layer of air, ocean and life covering the surface. We feel that we belong here as if this planet were indeed our home. Long ago the Greeks, thinking this way, gave to the Earth the name Gaia or, for short, Ge. In those days, science and theology were one and science, although less precise, had soul. As time passed this warm relationship faded and was replaced by the frigidity of the schoolmen. The life sciences, no longer concerned with life, fell to classifying dead things and even to vivisection. Ge was stolen from theology to become no more the root from which the disciplines of geography and geology were named. Now at last there are signs of a change. Science becomes holistic again and rediscovers soul, and theology, moved by ecumenical forces, begins to realise that Gaia is not to be subdivided for academic convenience and that Ge is much more than just a prefix.

James Lovelock

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Gaia Philosophy: God of All Things

Animal Rights: God of All Things

All creatures, big and small, are beautiful creations of God. Very often, however, we tend to either ignore the "small" or exploit them for selfish reasons. This is where religion and spirituality can help - to restore to us a holistic perspective so that all of God's creations are given due respect.

Religious thought and spirituality serve a larger purpose only when they find positive expression in action. Theory without implementation is of no use. I fear that the concepts of religion and spirituality are being hijacked by humans for their own selfish purposes, leaving out all the other, equally if not more valid forms of life.

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Gaia Philosophy: Man not Measure Of All Things

Man is no longer to be the measure of all things, the centre of the universe. He has been measured and found to be an undistinguished bit of matter, different in no essential way from bacteria, stones and trees. His goals and purposes, his egocentric notions of past, present and future; his faith in his power to predict and through prediction to control his destiny - all these are called into question, considered irrelevant, or deemed trivial.

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Gaia Philosophy: Encyclopedia - Mother Earth

Mother Earth may refer to: Mother Earth is a common metaphorical expression for the Earth and its biosphere as the giver and sustainer of life. Mother Earth was also one of Slavic deities. In many Neo-Pagan and Wiccan traditions, Mother Earth is seen as the Goddess, with the Horned God as her consort (and sometimes son). The idea of the Earth as a deity was and is also prominent in many pagan religions. Mother Earth is also the title of a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov ...

Gaia Philosophy: Encyclopedia - Daisyworld

Daisyworld, a computer simulation, is a hypothetical world orbiting a sun whose temperature is slowly increasing in the simulation. Daisyworld was introduced by James Lovelock and Andrew Watson to illustrate the plausibility of the Gaia hypothesis in a paper published in 1983. The simulated planet is seeded with two different species of daisy as its only life form: black daisies and white daisies. White daisies have white flowers which reflect light, and the other species has black flowers that absorb light. Both species have the same ...

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Gaia Philosophy: Encyclopedia - Gaia

Gaia (mythology) In Greco-Roman mythology, Gaia is a Greek and Roman goddess, also known as the Earth Mother. Gaia theory is a group of scientific theories about how life on Earth may regulate the planet's biosphere to make it more hospitable to life, includes the views of Drs. James Lovelock, Lynn Margulis, Richard Dawkins, Carl Sagan. Gaia philosophy is a set of philosophical views based on Gaia theory and the concept of a "living planet." Gaia Movement is an international network of activist

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Gaia Philosophy: Encyclopedia - Gaia theory science

Gaia theory is a class of scientific models of the geo-biosphere in which life as a whole fosters and maintains suitable conditions for itself by helping to create an environment on Earth suitable for its continuity. The first such theory was created by the atmospheric scientist and chemist, Sir James Lovelock, who developed his hypotheses in the 1960s before formally publishing the concept, first in the New Scientist (February 13, 1975) and then in the 1979 book "Gaia: A new look at life on Earth". He hypothesized that the liv ...

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Gaia Philosophy: Encyclopedia - Conservation ethic

The Conservation ethic is an ethic of resource use, allocation, exploitation, and protection. Its primary focus is upon maintaining the health of the natural world: its forests, fisheries, habitats, and biological diversity. Secondary focus is on materials conservation and energy conservation, which are seen as important to protect the natural world. Conservation ethic - Introduction. To conserve habitat in terrestrial ecoregions and stop deforestation is a goal widely shared by many groups with a wide vari ...

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Gaia Philosophy: Encyclopedia - William Golding

Sir William Gerald Golding (September 19, 1911 – June 19, 1993) was an English novelist, poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1983) "for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today." William Golding - Early life. Golding was born on September 19, 1911 at St Columb Minor, a village near Newquay, Cornwall, England. He started writing at the age of seven. His Cornish background ...

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Gaia Philosophy: Encyclopedia - Mother goddess

A mother goddess is a goddess portrayed as the Earth Mother who serves as a general fertility deity, the bountiful embodiment of the earth. From the elegant snake-offering goddess figures of Knossos to the rock-cut images of Cybele, to Dione ("the Goddess") who was invoked at Dodona, along with Zeus, until late Classical times, it is sometimes too facile to class all archaic female goddesses as manifestations of the mother goddess. Archaeologists tend to avoid such theories in interpreting sites and material remains and sometim ...

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Gaia Philosophy: Encyclopedia - William Irwin Thompson

William Irwin Thompson (born 1938) is a visionary cultural historian, social critic, novelist, yogi, and poet. He is especially interested in keeping alive the esoteric, humanistic, and spiritual traditions of mankind. He describes his writing and speaking style as "mind-jazz on ancient texts". Previously professor of humanities at Cornell, York University in Toronto, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he left for a more humanistic and spiritual quest. He has lived for part of the year in Europe in recent years. Thompson's son ...

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Gaia Philosophy: Encyclopedia - Appleseed

Appleseed TV, Appleseed Movie 2 For the Aesop Rock album, see Appleseed (album). Appleseed (Japanese: アップルシ－ド Appurushiido) is a science fiction manga created by Masamune Shirow which, like much of his work, merges elements of the cyberpunk and mecha genres with a heavy dosage of politics, philosophy, and sociology. As of 2005, four books have been released between 1985 and 1989. There have also been a several adaptations for TV, film and video games. Applesee ...

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Gaia Philosophy: Encyclopedia - Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi D.H.L., Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati; Brooklyn Chabad Ordination 1947. Rabbi Schachter held the World Wisdom Chair at The Naropa Institute and is Professor Emeritus at both Naropa and Temple University. He has also served on the faculty of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Omega, the NICABM and many other major institutions. Founder of the Aleph Ordination Program and Aleph: Alliance for Jewish Renewal, he is a major figure in the Jewish spiritual renewal movement, presenting the central teachings ...

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Gaia Philosophy: Encyclopedia II - Gaia philosophy - Predecessors to the Gaia theory

There are some mystical, scientific and religious predecessors to the theory, which had a Gaia-like conceptual basis. Many religious mythologies had a view of Earth as being a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts (e.g. some Native American religions). Lewis Thomas held that Earth should be viewed as a single cell; he derived this view from Johannes Kepler's view of Earth as a single round organism. Teilhard de Chardin, a paleontologist and geologist, believes that evolution unfolded from cell to organism to planet to solar ...

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