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Learning from Other Traditions

How will your death help the world?
27 Sep 2020

How will your death help the world?

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Practices and Rituals, Learning from Other Traditions | 7

Will your death help heal Gaia or contaminate Gaia? And how have you prepared for that?

Climate Change, death, Gaia, Gaian Way, pollution, sustainability
Free Money Day? How about Free Veggie Day?
20 Sep 2020

Free Money Day? How about Free Veggie Day?

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

#FreeMoneyDay is a clever way to challenge people’s thinking. But is there a way to apply its sharing mission to charitable food distribution?

Charity, Community, degrowth, Diet, Gaian Way, Mission, postgrowth, Resilience, Sharing
The Ten Twig Meditation
14 Sep 2020

The Ten Twig Meditation

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

Adding a Gaian twist to the Five Attitudes meditation of Jin Shin Jyutsu.

Anger, anxiety, Gaia, Gaian Way, Grief, meditation
The Gaian Solar Meditation
19 Jul 2020

The Gaian Solar Meditation

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

Here’s a shiny new meditation for you to try and a science lesson to boot!

Gaia, Gaian Way, health, meditation, nature awareness, Ritual, Space
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
Introducing “Digesting,” a new Gaian variation of Tonglen
21 Jun 2020

Introducing “Digesting,” a new Gaian variation of Tonglen

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Practices and Rituals, Gaian Prayers, Learning from Other Traditions | 4

What do a Children’s Scifi Novel and a Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Have in Common?
Answer: They both suggest a similar way to draw in suffering and send out relief.

meditation, Prayer, Ritual, suffering, 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
What is the Sound of Gaia Breathing? And other Gaian Kōans.
3 May 2020

What is the Sound of Gaia Breathing? And other Gaian Kōans.

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Parables, Learning from Other Traditions | 0

Kōans are riddles and stories that help deepen understanding. Could they be used to cultivate our deeper understanding of Gaia?

Gaia, Gaian Way, Kōan, meaning, Parables, sustainability, wisdom
May be, or The Luck of the Virus
21 Mar 2020

May be, or The Luck of the Virus

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Parables, Learning from Other Traditions, The Quickening | 2

What if we applied Taoist and Zen wisdom to the coronavirus pandemic?

anxiety, Climate Change, collapse, consumerism, COVID, degrowth, meaning, Parables, Resilience, wisdom
Setting a Gaian Meditative Practice
17 Feb 2020

Setting a Gaian Meditative Practice

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Practices and Rituals, Learning from Other Traditions | 8

What should a daily Gaian meditative practice look like? How about an outdoor meditation three times a day to help us connect with Gaia and our purpose, and to improve our health and well-being at the same time.

anxiety, Gaia, Gaian Way, gratitude, health, meditation, nature awareness, Ritual
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
Pandemics on my mind (and everyone else’s)
2 Feb 2020

Pandemics on my mind (and everyone else’s)

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Practices and Rituals, Growing the Gaian Community, Learning from Other Traditions, The Quickening | 6

Lessons from Eyam and Early Christians to help our communities better deal with disease outbreaks.

Belief, collapse, COVID, health, Mission, Prepare, Resilience, Technology

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