1. Take a college course in environment or science 2. Meditate on Gaia 3. Make a list of reasons to be grateful to Gaia 4. Organize an event to educate people about nature 5. Organize a trash pick up event 6. Stand up and yell "I Love Gaia!" 7. Think "I Love Gaia" 8. Whisper "I Love Gaia", even if you don´t believe it 9. Convince yourself to believe "I Love Gaia" 10. Convince yourself that Gaia Love´s you, because it is true. 11. Help me Share this message with the world 12. Contact me so I can Serve you 13. Writer a nature story about an animal 14. Contemplate deeply on aspects of this message 15. Try to feel in your heart the import of this message 16. Organize and take a trip in nature 17. Study advanced sciences for how to help solve environmental problems 18. Support political candidates who work for the environment 19. Buy an energy efficient car 20. Push for an energy policy and support for new alternative energy 21. Find out about Free Energy 22. Study Nikola Tesla´s work 23. Read the book "The Great Work" by Thomas Berry 24. Look into sustainable development and communities 25. Support an organic farmer 26. Help promote less use of chemicals in our food production 27. Sing a song for nature 28. Smile at someone and think that "Gaia Loves Them" 30. Organize a conversation with friends about what we can all do to protect nature 31. Learn how a "hyperspectral sensor" can help with solving environmental issues 32. Study a science topic to work to protect the environment 33. Read "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson 34. Learn about the environmental movement 35. Go to your priest and minister and tell them this is an important message for them to Share 36. Write a single blog about some topic of nature or Gaia 37. Become a member of the Gaia Writer´s Guild 38. Support an organization that works to protect the environment 39. Support the Plant a Tree Today Foundation 40. Volunteer for an organization that works for Gaia, or nature 41. Contemplate on where we would be without Gaia 42. Thank yourself for Reading the Blog, because you are doing something for Gaia already!
I saw this message and it triggered a certain knowing ever since I had an experience 30 years ago, where I realized all humanity is really just ONE - one collective being that lives in synergistic harmony with this beautiful spirit named Gaia. Here you can read the blog relating my experience from 1979 - Thirty Years to Tell this Story.
I shared this with Tom, and a short dialog began. He had shared with me this idea that the basis of our being we are animals. Here is what he sent me, as a summary of this discussion we have been having over the last few weeks: "We have been given the ability to know and contemplate upon ourselves, and do we see the world through the eyes of the animal or God. Hence, Be still and know I am GOD".
But today I was contemplating this idea, the simplicity of Osho´s message. How do we move from the distractions, the complicatedness of the world. It is so easy to get distracted and pulled away from moving in the direction that Osho suggests.
Here was what I came across today that I sent to Tom.
Hi Tom,
Osho´s message has been in the back of my mind. It is really very simple. We are animals that have an opportunity to awake, and the end goal is to live as one global community.
The interesting thing for me is that in 2008 when I traveled to the U.S. and had to go through Mexico, it really struck me the boundaries that we have created. The security check points are really kind of bizaare. I wondered why light would have to go through check points (science proves that everything is light energy by the way).
I got the book 1984 (never read it before) from the Colombian national library yesterday (Apr. 13, 2010). It´s funny, the first sentence of the book is "I was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen." hehe
But really the quote I wanted to share with you I read this morning:
"The girl with the dark hair was coming toward him across the field. With what seemed a single movement she tore off her clothes and flung them disdainfully aside. Her body was white and smooth, but it aroused not desire in him; indeed, he barely loooked at it. What overwhelmed him in that instant was admiration for the gesture with which she had thrown her clothes aside. With its grace and carelessness it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thoughts as though Big Brother and the Party and the Thought Police could all be swept into nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm. That too was a gesture belonging to the ancient time. Winston woke up with the word "Shakespeare" on his lips.!
Could it be so simple to shrug off all of the "trauma", drama, pain and suffering?
I don´t know why I felt compelled to share this you, maybe I will find out. In any case, as the king in the movie Amadeus always said "Well, there you have it.
End of my message to Tom . . .
As I was writing this message I had an insight that I might have touched on this previously in a couple of blogs that I wrote.
As a possible solution, the way to move in the direction we need to go I think is really wrapped up in the Golden Rule. Fairly recently I wrote two blogs on this How do we simplify this model? and How to Live
Here you can find the written works of Andy Skadberg. Over time you will find this to be a treasure trove of "stuff" on a vast array of topics. My friend Tom described me as "the scribe of God". I don´t know about that, but the array of my life experiences has been significant. And now, I´m Sharing in various written works, and links to stuff that I have found valuable in the Experience we call Life