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awakening
May 2008 
The Gaia Community College
Posted on Jan 22nd, 2008
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Aetheric
Aetheric
Aho friends and family!
I've been watching this transition from Zaadz to Zaadz within the greater Gaia Community, and it has been amazing to watch different people's reactions to the change. It's been quite illuminating in many ways, and reminds me of Octavia Butler's famous earthseed quote "God is Change" from The Parable of the Sower.
Siona, one of the community admins that has been so graciously and conscientously guiding us through this process, posted a transitional blog entry the other day with the statement:
"I'm humbled and grateful and so happy to see what our new site looks like. It's a little like the beginning of Zaadz, except with a team of 150,000 instead of 10.
(Next time it'll be 7 billion, right? The creation of this virtual Gaia Community is just practice for all of us becoming conscious of Gaia in the 'real world.' ;)"
This has been a very provocative statement to me, because we do live in an age where we are beginning to make the transition from little isolated cultural identities to a planetary identity within the even greater cosmogenesis event that we commonly refer to as universe. As above, so below; our little online microcosm is a hopeful reflection for the greater macrocosm, and I can't help but notice and appreciate the numerous parellels.
There will always be individuals within every species who "don't get it" for various reasons in the greater evolutionary scheme of things, and fall by the wayside. In context of conscious humanity, I feel that this is akin to loosing perspective, the proverbial missing the forest for the trees. Our species has spent the last ten thousand years or so doing our best to convince ourselves that the same rules that apply to everyone else don't apply to us, but as we begin to mature as a community (in all senses), we're beginning to understand the sheer folly of that basic premise.
I am fascinated with this growing awareness of our transitional process, and this is one of the prime reasons I was drawn to Zaadz / Gaia in the first place. Along those lines, and to honor the visionaries who are midwifing the memes that will help guide us through this transitional process, I have created The Gaia Community College.com and a Gaia Community College pod here in this community to create forum for further understanding of such awarenesses.
I would like to coordially extend a warm invitation for interested individuals to our budding communities that are nuturing these growths, and encourage any and all participations and contributions. Ultimately we are all living in a most stupendous time in the history of creation, and it has come to be that the choices that we make now determine the course our little ship will sail as we collectively explore the heavens.
Namaste.
Eric
I've been watching this transition from Zaadz to Zaadz within the greater Gaia Community, and it has been amazing to watch different people's reactions to the change. It's been quite illuminating in many ways, and reminds me of Octavia Butler's famous earthseed quote "God is Change" from The Parable of the Sower.
Siona, one of the community admins that has been so graciously and conscientously guiding us through this process, posted a transitional blog entry the other day with the statement:
"I'm humbled and grateful and so happy to see what our new site looks like. It's a little like the beginning of Zaadz, except with a team of 150,000 instead of 10.
(Next time it'll be 7 billion, right? The creation of this virtual Gaia Community is just practice for all of us becoming conscious of Gaia in the 'real world.' ;)"
This has been a very provocative statement to me, because we do live in an age where we are beginning to make the transition from little isolated cultural identities to a planetary identity within the even greater cosmogenesis event that we commonly refer to as universe. As above, so below; our little online microcosm is a hopeful reflection for the greater macrocosm, and I can't help but notice and appreciate the numerous parellels.
There will always be individuals within every species who "don't get it" for various reasons in the greater evolutionary scheme of things, and fall by the wayside. In context of conscious humanity, I feel that this is akin to loosing perspective, the proverbial missing the forest for the trees. Our species has spent the last ten thousand years or so doing our best to convince ourselves that the same rules that apply to everyone else don't apply to us, but as we begin to mature as a community (in all senses), we're beginning to understand the sheer folly of that basic premise.
I am fascinated with this growing awareness of our transitional process, and this is one of the prime reasons I was drawn to Zaadz / Gaia in the first place. Along those lines, and to honor the visionaries who are midwifing the memes that will help guide us through this transitional process, I have created The Gaia Community College.com and a Gaia Community College pod here in this community to create forum for further understanding of such awarenesses.
I would like to coordially extend a warm invitation for interested individuals to our budding communities that are nuturing these growths, and encourage any and all participations and contributions. Ultimately we are all living in a most stupendous time in the history of creation, and it has come to be that the choices that we make now determine the course our little ship will sail as we collectively explore the heavens.
Namaste.
Eric
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