these are mutually exclusive (or even separate) goals :-\ufffd

Merely because organized religion has been so abysmally filled with treacle - doesn't mean that the Gaia metaphor is required also to conform to our historical standard of Execrableness. Capital-r Reality [whatever That might Be] is hardly likely to be accessible via merely the likes of Mr. Booles's handy stone knives & bearskins. (In my lexicon, anyway. YMMV)

Render unto C\ufffdsar Physics that which physics can manage: mapping the world of appearances and the Impressive! illusion of 'substance'. Dismiss the possibility of the ineffable at own risk ;-)


Ashtonanda
Subsidiary of, sat chit ananda

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