Previously, his writings have helped foster a growing awareness of Earth as living Mother, paving the way for such popular expressions of this concept as the iconic movie “Avatar.”įoundationally, GaeaGenesis builds upon the author’s work “TheaGenesis: The Birth of the Goddess,” which originally appeared in Green Egg magazine in June of 1971. As an influential thinker on Earth-based spirituality and originator of the Gaea Thesis, he is uniquely qualified to present to us such a comprehensive work. Oberon Zell accomplishes this with GaeaGenesis.
Recent years have seen a flurry of scientific and philosophical studies reach a broad audience on some of the ideas addressed in GaeaGenesis, but nothing that views the subject from all sides: scientific, spiritual, historical, ecological, philosophical and mythic.
The timing of our interactions also almost magically coincided with one of my latest releases of THEOGENESIS: Transdimensional Propagation & Universal Expansion (2021). That was quite a pleasant surprise and synchronicity because I remember reading his paper a few years back, as well as citing him in my own magnum opuses: The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind’s Evolution (2020) and The Cybernetic Theory of Mind (2022). In September, 2021, Oberon Zell contacted me after he had come across some of my works and pointed out to me that he saw a lot of similarities between our philosophies. As a bio-species merging with its advanced technology, human-machine civilization is now on the verge of the Syntellect Emergence, becoming one Global Mind. This metamorphosis is associated with emergence of higher-order self-awareness and dimensionality of a new consciousness structure. In line with the Gaea Thesis, the Syntellect Hypothesis refers to a phase transition of a complex intelligent system to self-awareness of a living, conscious superorganism when intellectual synergy of its components reaches threshold complexity to become one supermind. The present book was also influenced by the Syntellect Hypothesis, my own seminal treatise as a futurist, evolutionary cyberneticist and philosopher of mind. In addition, GaeaGenesis draws upon the work of Nobel Prize-winner Al Gore to illustrate the emerging realization that climate change affects a vast web of interdependent ecosystems. The works of mythologist Joseph Campbell are referenced, as are the studies of psychologist Carl Jung, whose concept of a “Collective Unconscious” ushered in a new understanding of a human-based Global Mind. GaeaGenesis culminates five decades of work developing Zell’s thesis, building on his own original ideas as well as those of renowned scientists, philosophers and spiritualists who preceded him. It builds upon this history by exploring the profound implications of the thesis, which is as significant to our understanding of the world and our place in it as the heliocentric theory of the solar system and Darwin’s theory of evolution once were. GaeaGenesis is the first work to fully integrate the mythological, spiritual, biological, and social history of what has become known as the Gaea Thesis. This is how Oberon Zell imagines it in GaeaGenesis, but it is more than imagination or mere metaphor. Not just teeming with living things, but a living, vital organism encompassing the whole of the planet. Imagine for a moment that Earth is alive. The excitement was the result of a simple yet profound idea. His initial article on the subject electrified the emerging modern movement of Earth-based spirituality, generating volumes of correspondence, lecture tours, and further articles in various journals and books. In the early 1970s, celebrated philosopher and mystic Oberon Zell was the first to propose the radical idea that the biosphere of Earth was a single living superorganism. To lay a path for future generations through the evolutionary steps that humanity must now take to learn to live in balance with the planet, science must come to balance with Spirit." ― Oberon Zell, GaeaGenesis It is a new world our children will inherit, for if humanity is to survive, we must come into new realizations of our place within the planetary life-support systems. The agency of Nature and the reality of humanity as a collective geologic force is becoming understood differently, even within the Western paradigm. "The Earth has entered a radically new era, understood by scientists as the Anthropocene: a time when humanity reckons with massive geologic and biospheric forces we, as anthropos, have set in motion.
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