Self Improvement > Spirituality > The Gaian Paradigm Part 7 -- Belonging
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*********************** GAIAN VALUES ******************
ALL THAT IS -- IS A WEBS OF BEING
We belong to the Webs-of-being - - to the Cosmos - - to Earth - to Gaia.
Belonging is the protovalue from which all other values derive.
We belong to the physiophere, to the biosphere, to the ideosphere.
We belong to Gaia.
As the aborigines said it we are the ownees of the land, not the owners of the
land.
As Chief Seattle said it, We can not own the land, we are part of the land.
We belong to and are inseparable from our culture-- from one another --from Earth
-- from Gaia.
We are interdependent with all that is.
Belonging is scientific fact; and, belonging is more than scientific fact.
Belonging is not merely being a member of, but it is being subject to- being in
partnership with -
- being responsible for.
We belong to -- are responsible for --- the webs -of-being -- the universe --
theEarth -- Gaia.
Belonging to-Gaia means recognizing that we are enmeshed in the webs-of-being
and that
our well-being is dependent on the well-being of Gaia.
If we destroy Gaia, we destroy ourselves.
Belonging implies cooperation -- working
with what is --- with Gaia -- the webs
of being.
Belonging implies community. In our face-to-face relationships with people we
form community --
we belong to community.
Belonging implies responsibility. We are responsible for Gaia. We are responsible
for one another.
Belonging implies Love. We can not separate love (agape) from the fact that we
belong to Gaia. We love because we must love to preserve Gaia -- to preserve
ourselves -- to preserve the webs-of-being
Cultures built on values other than belonging are doomed to self-destruct.
A culture built on domination of the earth, and all the animals therein is doomed
to disappear.
A culture based on self-interest is doomed to disintegrate.
A Culture based on survival-of-the-fittest will not survive.
A culture based on competition will destroy itself.
To be stable and sustainable a culture must be based on cooperation, community,
responsibility, love, honesty, caregiving, and the other values which are implied by
and intertwined with one another and with belonging.
We can no more separate ourselves from belonging -- from Gaia-- and remain a
viable culture; than an oxygen atom can separate itself from hydrogen atoms and
retain the qualities of water.
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