What is Gaia Medicine

Hi! Welcome to my blog. This blog is dedicated to assisting this amazing planet and her people into the next stage of evolution. What's that you say? Is there something bigger than the enviornmental and economic crisis going on? You bet there is.

What all of the chaos points to is an underlying need for change on a spiritual level. We can no longer ignore the Earth and her inhabitants as separate. We can no longer ignore that we are in a suicidal slide with the Earth.

How might I know this? Look around. We are consistantly having to choose the higher road in our togetherness and unity with the Earth. Just look at how people the planet over are responding to signs of unity rather than discord. You can see this diplomatically, politically, and just today, the priminister of Israel said he wanted to make peace.

Signs of global warming are really signs of our greed and imbalance in relationship with the Earth. When do we ever say thank you for all that we take from her? Imagine a fisherman saying a big thank you to the fish as he hauls in the nets. Imagine the miner saying thank you to the coal. What would happen if we just said thank you before meals?

Here is a true story. I recently moved into a place that had TONS of ants. Now to have tons of ants you have to have a lot of them. That is how many there were. So I made a deal with those pesky critters, and said, "Look, I know you are good for the Earth, and I acknowledge that you lived here first. However, I am here now, and I will give you some food, if you will agree to move out of this space, and eat outside." So, I started doing a small food offering, just a little, everyday.

Within a week the ants are gone, I mean not one ant. They are not in my house. Sometimes there are some in my bathroom when they need water, but not one in the kitchen, not one ever since.

We cannot continue to take, take, take without a thought about what we are doing. If everyone who took a natural resource tuned into the Earth and said a sincere thank you, this would go far in helping to heal the rift we have right now with the great Mother.

Let me back up a bit. We are living on a living planet, not on a dead one. How do I know this you ask? Just feel her. Lay out on the grass somewhere, or in the forrest if you can find one, and feel the peace. Then open yourself to the fundemental beauty all around you. How nature takes care of you, she provides food, clothing, shelter and whats more, comfort.

I know for myself I have always looke towards Gaia for inspiration, solice and connection. She is what we need, not more stuff. We need planetary diversity for a healthy planet. WE need it! Our minds and hearts are so connected to Mother Gaia, that we need all that lives on her.

Yesterday a group of people in the San Francisco Bay Area gathered at the Marin Headlands to honor the Salmon. We went deep into ourselves and listened, through ceremony, to what the Salmon wanted to tell us.

It was beautiful. They need us. The Salmon are going extinct. They feed everyone, over 144 species all over the world. They feed us, whales, and bears. They feed eagles, and numerous others species. We, as humans need the salmon. But we are killing them through unecessary dams on rivers, through pesticides, through fertilizers that do not help them, through our toxic waste.

But mostly, we have stopped relating to them as part of sacred food. Our Native people know about this. It is time we learned about it. So here is what you can do. Offer thanks, give a little food back to the Earth. Give a little love to her. Support an enviornmental group. Get out and hike and communicate with her. Give some tobacco, some water, some wine, anything you value to her.

Then watch how your relationship changes to her.