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Gaian Beliefs and Purpose

Without Solidarity, There’s No Survival
3 Aug 2020

Without Solidarity, There’s No Survival

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Beliefs and Purpose, The Quickening | 3

If we can’t end racism, we can never achieve true sustainability.

Belief, Climate Change, collapse, degrowth, Gaian Way, meaning, Mission, postgrowth, racism, solidarity, transition
Keeping It Simple: Gaian Dietary Norms
28 Jun 2020

Keeping It Simple: Gaian Dietary Norms

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Beliefs and Purpose, Gaian Practices and Rituals, Learning from Other Traditions | 1

Michael Pollan said it best: “Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.”

Climate Change, Diet, Gaian Way, health, wisdom
Aloha. Shalom! Go with Gaia?
1 Jun 2020

Aloha. Shalom! Go with Gaia?

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Beliefs and Purpose, Gaian Practices and Rituals, Gaian Prayers | 2

A short reflection on the power of words and how we use them to part.

Belief, Community, Gaian Way, meaning, Mission, Purpose, Ritual, wisdom
Encountering an Essential Lesson in the Church Forests of Ethiopia
17 May 2020

Encountering an Essential Lesson in the Church Forests of Ethiopia

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Beliefs and Purpose, Growing the Gaian Community, Learning from Other Traditions | 2

How a religious system has played a key role in preventing total deforestation of Ethiopia and what we, Gaians, can learn from this.

Belief, collapse, Community, cosmology, Gaia, Gaian Way, Mission, Purpose, sustainability, wisdom
Forest Meditation, Sunday Forest School, and Sassafras Tea Time
26 Apr 2020

Forest Meditation, Sunday Forest School, and Sassafras Tea Time

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Beliefs and Purpose, Gaian Practices and Rituals, Gaian Prayers, Growing the Gaian Community | 6

Imagining the Gaian Sunday Service

Ancestral Skills, Community, Gaia, Gaian Way, Guilds, Indigeneity, nature awareness, Prayer, Purpose, Religion, Ritual, wisdom
Is COVID-19 a Collective Rite of Passage?
12 Apr 2020

Is COVID-19 a Collective Rite of Passage?

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Beliefs and Purpose, The Quickening, Understanding Gaia | 5

Humanity is currently living through a liminal period. Will we emerge as adults or fail in our transition?

Climate Change, collapse, COVID, health, liminality, postgrowth, Ritual, sacrifice, transition
The Story of Job: A Gaian Update
5 Apr 2020

The Story of Job: A Gaian Update

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Beliefs and Purpose, Gaian Parables, Understanding Gaia | 2

Is there wisdom that could be gleaned from a new ecocentric version of The Book of Job?

death, Disasters, Gaian Way, God, health, meaning, Parables, sustainability, Technology, Theodicy, wisdom
Distilling Meaning from Meaninglessness
2 Mar 2020

Distilling Meaning from Meaninglessness

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Beliefs and Purpose | 2

Is the universe and human life truly without meaning? If so, can we live our lives in ways that extract meaning from that meaninglessness?

collapse, cosmology, Gaia, Gaian Way, meaning, Mission, Purpose
The Four Dimensions of Change
23 Feb 2020

The Four Dimensions of Change

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Beliefs and Purpose, Gaian Practices and Rituals | 5

In exploring the four dimensions of change, it becomes clear that we, ourselves, are at the center of that change—and that this process is a lifelong journey, not a sprint.

anxiety, Belief, Gaia, Gaian Way, Mission, Purpose, The Quickening
Lesssons from Serpentor
10 Feb 2020

Lesssons from Serpentor

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Beliefs and Purpose, Learning from Other Traditions | 7

If we were to take our CRISPR (Clipper of Religion Inspired Systems Producing eco-Renaissance) to snip the best bits of religions to build a new philosophical system, what elements would we harvest?

Belief, children, collapse, Community, cosmology, Gaia, Gaian Way, Indigeneity, nature awareness
Hell is a Time Not a Place
27 Jan 2020

Hell is a Time Not a Place

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Beliefs and Purpose, Learning from Other Traditions, The Quickening, Understanding Gaia | 2

Lessons from Lazarus on communicating about hell—and the looming climate crisis.

Belief, collapse, death, God, Hell, Prepare, Resilience
We’re All Gonna Die!
20 Jan 2020

We’re All Gonna Die!

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Beliefs and Purpose, The Quickening, Understanding Gaia | 3

A new study suggests scientists greatly underestimated CO2’s contribution to climate change. But that doesn’t mean we should freak out.

anxiety, Climate Change, death, Disasters, Prepare, sustainability

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