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1 Aug 2021

Can We Still Chart a New Course?

A reflection on the recent update to the Limits to Growth and what it means for our future.

6 Mar 2021

Are Environmentalists No Wiser than Monkeys Reaching for the Moon?

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Parables, The Quickening, Understanding Gaia | 3

Grasping at green energy illusions will not bring about a sustainable future.

9 Aug 2020

Questions at the End of the Nuclear Age

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Beliefs and Purpose, Gaian Practices and Rituals, Growing the Gaian Community, The Quickening | 2

Seventy-five years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, do we know how we will guard the poison fire we have created for millennia to come?

26 Jul 2020

Say Three Hail Marys and Clean Up the River

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Practices and Rituals, Growing the Gaian Community | 1

It turns out that environmentalists have their own form of penance and ablutions: river and beach cleanups.

12 Jul 2020

What are you doing to commemorate Earth Overshoot Day?

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Practices and Rituals | 2

This August 22nd is the day when we start consuming beyond Earth’s biocapacity for the year. How will you spend this day?

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?

9 Mar 2020

Introducing a Spring Germination Fast

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Gaian Practices and Rituals, Gaian Prayers | 1

Are you searching for a fast that connects you with the cycle of life, and improves your and the Earth’s well-being? Try this Spring Germination Fast.

29 Dec 2019

Resolving to…

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Uncategorized | 2

What are your New Year Resolutions this year? Can you think of one that makes both you and Gaia better off?

8 Sep 2019

The Wrath of Gaia

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Learning from Other Traditions, The Quickening, Understanding Gaia | 3

How does Gaia’s Wrath compare to God’s? Less predictable? More knowable? And how shall we respond?

The Gaian Creed

“We believe that the Earth, Gaia, is a living being. That Gaia is at the same time composed of the vast diversity of life and is alive in Her own right. We understand that we depend completely and utterly on Gaia and are part of Gaia. We recognize that current human actions are fundamentally altering Gaia and that if pushed too far, Gaia will shift from Her current state to one inhospitable to humans and millions of other species. Therefore, we commit to living radically sustainable lives—even to an extent that it may alienate us from our kin, our communities, our cultures. We commit to sharing our philosophy and bringing others to understand and embrace their relationship with Gaia and help heal Gaia—and in the process, themselves, their families, and their communities.”