The Gaia direction

Gaia direction

What was it like when human and nature together formed one single whole like town and humans nowadays form an unified whole. There is a difference: town has been built, the nature has been created by the natural evolution to function together with humans.

In practise there is an initial state: the state of the biosphere before the age of humans, before the age of written language and technology. It is so long past that we have to deduce what it was like. It takes some time before we can reach it again, if we want.

In rebuilding Gaia we need to put each of its building parts to its natural corretc place in the whole. That requires lots of work. And the connections by which the living beings form Gaia have to be rebuild: pictures of the world, thinking, communication, compassion and instinctual cooperation.
Living beings, packs, ecosystems and Gaia as complex interconnected optimized wholes
So we need a theory of complex interconnected wholes. Simple essentials of sucha theory will this book give to you.

RELEARNING THE LANGUAGE OF THOUGHT AND EMOTION

There is one right way to live. That's the Gaia paradise's way. Gaia is the living Earth, the whole biosphere in a state of complete naturality and health. It is a world filled with love, since we love the things which we need and in the state of complete naturality and health which we are adabted to, all our natural functional needs are met.
So why isn't the world still Gaia, where did we lose our natural ways of living on the way? It all comes from one misunderstanding about the natural ways to think. Nature useed to be the biggest factor in our lives, we used to use emphaty in understanding it and mechanical thinking in understanding the use of tools. Now technolgy is the biggest factor in our living environment and we use emphaty as a way to understand it and try to understand humans via mechanical thinking.
Instead, we should understand that technology hasn't got a nature of its own, we cannot understand it via emphatizing with its style. We have to use our sense of sight instead. The way we watch nature landscapes gives us an enermous amount of well understood technical kind of information. We can use the same way: pictorial thinking with a holistic landscape of how things are, with technology too. That way we can handle the masses of information that we need in our living.
And with humans we have to remember to use emphaty, even if human workers sometimes are just tools of the large systems. Still, the right way to understand all sides of human life is emphaty.
But the world is so mechanical nowadays, how can we figure out what large systems want if we use just emphaty with humans and other living beings? The old answers were well thought of and they stay valid as the times change, whatever the new world is like, how artifical and even unhuman ever it is. And especially in natural kind of life in natural circumstances. So my thesis is that the human thinking has gone all wrong but that everything else stays the same. My thesis is that even human thinking has stayed the same, we just have to relearn the language of our thoughts. That's what this book is about.

Nature. We used to live in nature. The sky and the clouds, the forest and the meadows, the sea and the rivers, all the plants and animals were our guides to a better life. And guides for our thinking ability too. Animals are intelligent. They have all the natural building blocks of intelligence.

THE NATURAL INTELLIGENCE OF ANIMALS
Most animals have a good sense of sight. They can also understand the emotional voices of other animals of the same species. So it is likely that they can remember scenes for navigation and imagine in their minds eye what they can deduce from the voices that happens somewhere.
They can also recognize states of mind (the different emotions, thinking, using the senses, using the attention, atmospheres) from the body language & from other observations.
So they have the building blocks of intelligence:
imagining what the reality is like and making observations about that. And they can learn from others also thinking by copying the body language and so by following the states of mind and action of another.

So are we away from Gaia only because we humans use so artifical ways of thinking that we and those who copy from us get lost?
Here in this book is a holistic view of the world and some basics of human thinking. I hope that they can partly help us to the right road again.


FEELINGS TELL THE TRUTH

Feelings tell the truth. How is it possible in the modern world? Our needs connect us via our feelings to our natural goals in life. Our pictures of the world take care of the artificialities in the world. If something is confused, it is our picture of the world, our ability to recognise things, and not the feelings themselves. This book seeks to correct away at least partly that confusion in the pictures of the world.


I am sorry to include this many ideas of my own in one piece of text. So please grasp just what you agree with and nothing much more.


Hannele Tervola, Espoo, Finland, Europe

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