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Learning from Other Traditions

Can We Find Resilience through the Embrace of Controlled Chaos?
18 Aug 2025

Can We Find Resilience through the Embrace of Controlled Chaos?

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Learning from Other Traditions, The Quickening | 0

A month living in a post-collapse nation helps reveal what the transition to a post-growth, post-consumer society might look like.

Climate Change, collapse, consumerism, Gaian Way, Prepare, Resilience, sustainability
Surprise Communique from Titan
2 Jun 2025

Surprise Communique from Titan

by Gaian1 | posted in: Guest Contributor, Learning from Other Traditions, The Quickening, Understanding Gaia | 2

Tom Prugh offers some unsolicited advice from aliens who have gone through their own planetary bottleneck.

Climate Change, collapse, sustainability, wisdom
Gidammit and Gaia Bless You?
13 May 2025

Gidammit and Gaia Bless You?

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Beliefs and Purpose, Gaian Practices and Rituals, Learning from Other Traditions, The Quickening, Understanding Gaia | 0

Is it time to offer up some ecocentric curses and benedictions?

Gaian Way, health, nature awareness, sustainability, traditions, wisdom
Visualizing Nature to Defuse Anger
3 Mar 2025

Visualizing Nature to Defuse Anger

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Practices and Rituals, Learning from Other Traditions | 0

A simple exercise to help create space between triggers and their responses

Anger, Gaian Way, nature awareness, wisdom
No Mind or Unified Being?
13 Jan 2025

No Mind or Unified Being?

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Practices and Rituals, Learning from Other Traditions | 0

As embodied beings, how do we learn to allow the body to lead, rather than the mind?

embodiment, Gaian Way, karate, wisdom
Lessons from a Burning Bush
9 Dec 2024

Lessons from a Burning Bush

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Learning from Other Traditions, The Quickening, Understanding Gaia | 0

A reminder of the variety of perspectives present on troubled grounds

collapse, nature awareness, Prepare, Resilience, sustainability, wisdom
Is It a Dog Eat Dog or Dog Be Dog World?
21 Oct 2024

Is It a Dog Eat Dog or Dog Be Dog World?

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Beliefs and Purpose, Gaian Practices and Rituals, Learning from Other Traditions, Understanding Gaia | 4

On pet ownership and religion’s unquestioning embrace of this form of hyperconsumption.

consumerism, Gaian Way, growth, pets, population, sustainability
The Internal Conflict of Modern War
16 Sep 2024

The Internal Conflict of Modern War

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Learning from Other Traditions, The Quickening, Understanding Gaia | 1

Could interstate conflict of the future actually be good for the planet?

collapse, conflict, nuclear, sustainability, wisdom
The Land of Bows then Tenements
2 Sep 2024

The Land of Bows then Tenements

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Learning from Other Traditions, The Quickening, Understanding Gaia | 0

A reflection on New York City and its invasive history.

collapse, consumerism, history, invasive, Prepare, Resilience, sustainability
Implicit. Metamodern. Regenerative. Gaiapunk?
3 Jun 2024

Implicit. Metamodern. Regenerative. Gaiapunk?

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

Applying newly learned religious studies terms to the Gaian Way after the “Myth, Ritual and Practice for the Age of Ecological Catastrophe”

Gaia, Gaian Way, Gaiapunk, nature awareness, Religion, sustainability
On How Gaians are Embodied to their Core
21 May 2024

On How Gaians are Embodied to their Core

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Beliefs and Purpose, Learning from Other Traditions, Understanding Gaia | 0

Exploring both the value of embodiment and meditation

embodiment, Gaian Way, health, nature awareness, wisdom
On Animism and Gaianism
12 Feb 2024

On Animism and Gaianism

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Beliefs and Purpose, Gaian Practices and Rituals, Gaian Prayers, Learning from Other Traditions, Understanding Gaia | 5

Whether literal or metaphoric, should we not give thanks to the animate Earth?

animism, Gaian Way, nature awareness, sustainability, wisdom

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