GAIANISM

The Gaian Way was founded by Erik Assadourian in 2019 (after many years of thinking and writing about the need for a deeper environmental way). It is now an active living community with several events online each month and three local guilds that meet regularly for nature meditations... The beauty of Gaia Theory is that it makes clear several things: our dependence, our ability to disrupt things, and our obligation to restore the Gaian system. But it also makes clear our smallness and our ignorance. A liver cell, even a brain cell, cannot fully grasp the workings or purpose of the body it is part of. Nor can we-but we can function as a healthy liver cell all the same, doing what is needed to sustain ourselves and the larger organism. (Of course a liver cell deserves enough food and other resources to sustain itself and do its work, and deserves to reproduce itself so the liver can continue to serve its purpose. It just doesn't deserve beyond its fair share or the ability to reproduce..