Gaia and the Global Religion

There's been a lot of controversy in these parts recently about the whole 'is environmentalism a conspiracy theory' idea. A lot of us are appalled by the suggestion that the environmental movement as such might not just have been coopted (this is pretty obvious to everyone here, I think), but that the movement might have been funded by the Money Power and founded by its agents right from the hazy start.

Guess what: it absolutely was. Documentary evidence points directly to this conclusion.

No, no, hear me out: I love Gaia. I really do. She's a wise, ancient, beautiful, and unfathomable woman, and I am more grateful than I can express in words to be both her son, and her devoted lover.

But this isn't a religious thing with me. I don't do religion. To me, Gaia is an entity, a real being, a superorganism of which I am but a single cell. What she isn't is a goddess, a thing to be worshiped. She is no more intrinsically important to creation than I am, just as I am ultimately no more important than a bug.

Which isn't to say that she isn't of vast, overwhelming importance. She is, but so is the bug, and so am I. And so are you. No element in a holographic, fractal whole is ultimately any more important than any other; to pretend this to be the case is to kind of miss the point, like looking at the Mandelbrot set and seeing an isosceles triangle. Ultimately, what is important in Gaia is that she is the highest resolution expression of deity that we can see within the fractal hologram of the divine mind we call the cosmos. The relationship of all things to deity is one of symbolism, and Gaia is the richest symbol for God we know.

But she is not deity. The GodSelf embraces everything, permeates everything, but is not any of the things within it (except insofar as all things are ultimately made of God.)

Let's forget all this talk of the Earth Mother for a moment and talk about Jesus. I'm sure you've heard of him, and are no doubt more familiar with his story than maybe you'd like to be.

Jesus has been held up in front of two thousand years worth of Christians as the ultimate expression of the Godhead on Earth. People have fallen down by the billions to worship him ... or more accurately, to genuflect before the priests who smoothly interposed themselves between Christians and God in the centuries following Jesus' death. They also completely rewrote the story of his life, suppressed most of his teachings and burned every heretic who questioned this but that's neither here nor there to the point that a man came around to tell people that the Kingdom of God is within and somehow this worked out that you had to tithe the Church if you wanted the keys to that Kingdom.

Funny, eh? You'll note this was accomplished primarily by the slick transformation of Jesus from 'the Son of Man' who through hard spiritual work became 'the Son of God' to a literal Son of God who thus had Divine Powers that you, puny mortal that you are, had best be in abject fear of because unlike Jesus you are not, nor will ever be the Son of God. After all he was born of a virgin and your daddy impregnated your momma the old fashioned way.

You don't suppose that a similar switcheroo might be under way with Gaia...? Get everyone all wrapped up in Gaia-worship (*cough*recycling*cough*), and you can extend the control system to levels the Catholic Church never dreamed of. Pretty sweet if you could swing it: a global religion that worships the globe! Where every member of the New Church of Earth lives their lives in perpetual guilt for all the thousands of ways they unavoidably soil its once-pristine lands.

Never happen though, utter crazy talk. I mean, I'm like WAY smarter than people like Rockefeller so there's no way his kind would ever have been able to figure out a plan so devious. So please, disregard my deranged ranting and go out to join an anti-Global Warming protest somewhere.

(But make sure you put on a coat, it's getting chilly out there.)