My friend Heather Fink nicely touches on Lovelock’s Gaia Theory:

All things in the world, nature, people, mountains and all- they are all amazing in themselves. Our universe, as one living, breathing, interacting thing, is so fucking amazing, that I believe that all things and all atoms share existence as something that we all have in common. Simply that we are alive and exist, we are all sharing time. This time right now together. And the sum of all things existing, as a whole, works together to create a sum greater than that of its parts. So the world is so amazing and phenomenal that things perceived as supernatural or miraculous are actually a part of this world, and not something else.

A theory that has affected my spirituality immensely. When you stand atop a majestic mountain or plant your feet in the cool ocean water or look down at the earth from a satellite, you can see how everything is interconnected while interdependent. I study geography, the science of space & place, and the understanding of the Gaia Theory, the notion that I am apart of one giant living organism means that my space and place within such a system is crucial. Am I a virus (think Matrix, consuming and destroying) or am I an organ (collection of cells doing a specfic task in balance)? Or maybe I’m some vestigial organ? For some reason I like think I am a cancerous organ, doing a specific task while my free radical cells rebel.