Gaia – Serena Gaia

Ester Prayer , 2020, from Humankind to Gaia

As Easter is with us, a prayer of resurrection is jelling in my heart. It’s a prayer of ecosexual love from humankind to Gaia.

Gaia, hostess of all life, sovereign of the only hospitable symbiotic planet we’ve found so far, partner we already always share with all other forms of life, may this day of resurrection be the one when you feel heard by us.

Your voice scours our world thru the passage of this virus which keeps us apart from many of our loved ones.

It s like the scream of a partner whose warnings have been ignored long enough.

It s your voice, Gaia, expressing your infinite ecosexual love for all life.

May this scream be loud enough to shake us into alignment with the forces that inspire you.

May it bring our awareness on how we have suffocated, imprisoned, maimed, desecrated our fellow travelers, be it animals, plants, soil, fellow humans, underworld, skies, rocks, waters, microbial life.

May this awareness pinch our numbness to the pain, grief, desperation we ve created around us, and on which we ve installed our world.

The planet s happiness is before our eyes, when dolphins swim in the lagoon of Venice, when the skies are clear is Los Angeles, when hares walk in Milan s parks, when trees rejoice as logging is paused in the forests they inhabit, when spring visits war fields paused by a ceasefire, when ducks take their brood for a walk on city’s riverbank.

This happiness now depends on the timeline of the virus.

Life is calling upon non-life to save itself from us.

How did we let that happen?

Can we be more considerate of how we treat our partners?

Do we need a virus to behave as if our world depended on the health of this planet?

From this scream, a new awareness has come to us.

May this awareness guide us as we reinvent the world to align with the happiness of the entire planet.

Happy Easter from Dr SerenaGaia, aka Serena Anderlini, happy Easter to all of us!

Gaia and the New Politics of Love: Available Soon from 3WayKiss

Dear friends of Gaia and appreciators of Gaia and the New Politics of Love:

We have a wonderful announcement to make.

The book, Gaia and the New Politics of Love has been released and is in print again, available for purchase to everyone who’s excited about it and anyone who might have missed it.

The new aegis under which the book will be made available is 3WayKiss, a non-profit dedicated to research and education in the arts of love.

The text, cover, and price of the book will be unvaried.

Based on continuing interest on the part of our public for this seminal work and the research therein, we at 3WayKiss have decided to keep this book in print. It is a service to the public and to knowledge itself that entails no financial reward.

The book will be available on Amazon.com, on CreateSpace, on Kindle, and possibly on Ingram. The approximate date of release is early November 2016. For those of you who’ve been waiting to get your copy, we have good news. It’s coming!

Follow updates at the Gaia book’s Facebook page here.

As an added gift to the temple of knowledge, an entirely revised take on Gaia is in the works as well. This book is tentatively entitled Gaia 2.0. It will position Gaia theory in the context of the Ecosexual Movement, it will be structured as a dialog, and it will contain a practical guide to the creation of one’s amorous and inclusive consensual Bonoboville.

The process is co-creative. For those of you interested in participating, the Facebook group can be found here.

Thanks to all for your patience in these transitions.

We look forward to all returning and new excited readers.

May Gaia inspire a world where is it safe to live because it is safe to love, a world where love is the ecology of life.

For more information, go to http://drserenagaia.wpengine.com/blog-2/

In love,

Gaia Love Politics

Mini Encyclopedia of EcoSexuality – The Gaia Hypothesis (3 of 3)

Entry: The Gaia Hypothesis

Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD

3. Conclusion: Gay Nature

Lovelock’s macroscopic perspective emphasizes the risk of taking for granted that Gaia, the Earth, will always be hospitable to human life, or even life in general. As an animated

entity, Gaia has a biography: and if we don’t pay attention, Lovelock admonishes, the biota could dry up and Earth become just as barren as its neighbors Mars and Venus. Margulis’s microscopic perspective compounds this awareness from an evolutionary viewpoint. The process of autopoiesis has evolved complex organisms like us humans out of those simple, loving, resource-sharing bacteria. We, the new kids on the block in evolutionary terms, have some lessons to learn. The global ecology that sustains life as we know it is symbiotic: it is the expression of love that results in the infinite acts of sharing resources and collaborating within and across species and biological realms. To put it more simply: love is the ecology of life. Take love out of the equation, and you turn Gaia, with her beautiful blues, greens, yellows, whites, reds, and blacks into a brownish rock like its dead neighbors. So the Gaia Hypothesis is also an axiomatic statement that life is essentially “gay”: capable of loving for fun and across conventional gender lines. If love is the ecology of life, if health, pleasure, joy have been the purpose of lovemaking since our first ancestors bacteria populated the Earth, then we may as well hypothesize that Gaia, our hostess planet, is gay! And we better keep her gay, happy, cheerful. How? It’s simple: by practicing love in symbiotic, fluid, fun, erotic, ecosexy, gay, imaginative, and inclusive ways.

Or else.

List of Sources

Anderlini-D’Onofrio, Serena. Gaia and the New Politics of Love: Notes for a Poly Planet. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2009.

Eisler, Riane. The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future. New York: harper Collins, 2011.Gimbutas, Marija. The Language of the Goddess. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2001.

Lovelock, James. The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth. New York: Norton 1995.

______ . Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth. Oxford University Press, 1979.

______ . The Revenge of Gaia: Earth’s Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity. New York: Basic Books, 2006.

Margulis, Lynn. Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution. New York: Basic Books, 1998.

Margulis, Lynn and Dorion Sagan. Acquiring Genomes: A Theory of the Origin of Species. New York: Basic Books, 2003.

______ . Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution. University of California Press, 1997.

______ . Mystery Dance: On the Evolution of Human Sexuality. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.

Margulis, Lynn and Dorion Sagan eds. Slanted Truths: Essays on Gaia, Symbiosis, and Evolution. New York: Copernicus, 1997.

Golding, William. Wikipedia Entry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Golding, November 23, 2013.

Lovelock, James. Wikipedia Entry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lovelock, November 23, 2013.

Margulis, Lynn. Wikipedia Entry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Margulis, November 23, 2013.

Ryan, Christopher and Cacilda Jetha. Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships. New York: Harper Perennial. 2011.

To be continued . . . . next entry: EcoSexuality. Come back next week, same time.

Sending much love and all good wishes to all of you and your loved ones. Thanks you for listening and opening up. Stay tuned for more coming. With all good wishes for a happy end of winter, spring, and summer. Thank you!

Namaste,

SerenaGaia

Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD

Author of Gaia, Eros, and many other books about love
Professor of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

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Mini Encyclopedia of EcoSexuality – The Gaia Hypothesis (2 of 3)

Entry: The Gaia Hypothesis

Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD

2. The Name: Origins, Implications, Connotations

The Gaia Hypothesis takes its name from Gaia, also known as Gea, a Greek deity symbolizing the ancient notion of the Earth. From Gea we get the word geography: the art and science of mapping out the ecosystemic elements, designs, and forces that make up the surface of the Earth and affect its dynamic balance. Gaia was the Hellenic version of an embodied feminine deity whose representations are observed in archeological findings of the Neolithic Age around the Mediterranean. Gea represented the sovereign power of the feminine among the forager groups of the Neolithic. She was also present among those who transitioned to agriculture while still maintaining matrifocal values and egalitarian, symbiotic organizations, including Crete, Lydia, Lesbos, Catal Huyuk, and Asia Minor in general. This deity was imagined as connected with the Chthonic powers of terrestrial energies: sources of ecstasy, magic, fertility, and love.

In classical Greek mythology Gaia was considered part of the first generation of Greek deities. The Titans included Aeolus for the winds, Uranus for the sky, Cronus for time, Eros for the force of love, and others. They represented the sovereign powers of nature and were not as personified as the subsequent generation of deities known as the Olympian Gods. A later version of Gaia is Demeter, who is more personified as was typical of Olympian deities. According to classical Greek legend, Demeter was the goddess of harvest and Earth. When losing her daughter Persephone, Demeter became sterile for six months of the year. This ended the golden age of eternal spring and marked the beginning of the age of seasons. The Roman versions for Demeter and Persephone are Ceres and Proserpina respectively. From Ceres we get the word cereals: as in staple foods like wheat and other grains that wean us from mother’s milk and get our bodies to grow into adulthood.

In a gender and sexuality perspective, the Gaia Hypothesis corresponds to a semantic reconfiguration of what is commonly known as “nature” as an entity capable of what is known in French as jouissance, or erotic enjoyment beyond genders. The idea of using Gaia as a name for this paradigmatic scientific hypothesis came to James Lovelock from the novelist William Golding, a Nobel Laureate in Literature familiar with the Classical world. Golding most probably knew the connotations of the name better than Lovelock. In Latin, Gaia is a female personal name correlative to the male Gaius (as in Gaius Julius Caesar). In both grammatical genders, the name means s/he who is cheerful, happy, joyful, and capable of enjoyment. The name is related to the Latin noun gaudio which refers to the act of enjoying, including sexual enjoyment and orgasm. In Italian the connectedness between these ancient meanings has been conserved, with Gaia used as a female name meaning gay (in the original sense): joyful, cheerful; and with godere as the verb most commonly used to refer to the act of sexual climax, or jouissance, as it is called in French. In English the continuity between Gaia and enjoyment is represented by the overlap between the current and conventional meanings of the word gay. As the scientific hypothesis was named, these sexualized connotations were probably part of the discursive awareness of those involved in the process. While they were not intended as primary connotations, they still bring an entirely new twist to the interpretation of nature the Gaia Hypothesis involves.

To be continued . . . . come back next week, same time.

Sending much love and all good wishes to all of you and your loved ones. Thanks you for listening and opening up. Stay tuned for more coming. With all good wishes for a happy end of winter, spring, and summer. Thank you!

Namaste,

SerenaGaia

Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD

Author of Gaia, Eros, and many other books about love
Professor of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

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Mini Encyclopedia of EcoSexuality – The Gaia Hypothesis (1 of 3)

Entry: The Gaia Hypothesis

Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD

1. Introduction: The Epistemic Axiom

The Gaia Hypothesis is a term currently used in scientific discourse to denote a major axiom in post-modern epistemologies. The biota, or sum of atmosphere and biosphere, marks the difference between third planet Earth and its neighbors Mars and Venus. This web of interconnected ecosystem constitutes a sovereign entity that is over four billion years old and has the power to perpetuate itself at the expense of any species that might constitute a threat to its balance and homeostasis. To the woeful surprise of many humans, this sovereign power also applies to our species.

The Gaia Hypothesis is a scientific theory of the pardigmatic order: it shifts the foundation of knowledge that characterizes an age. In this, it can be compared to the cosmological theory that came to be known as the Copernican revolution: a theory that marked the modern era with the interpretation of the Earth as a revolving sphere also in motion around a center outside of itself, rather than a immobile sphere around which everything else revolves. Just like Copernicus’s paradigm accentuates dynamism over stability, so the Gaia Hypothesis accentuates interconnectedness over individuality. Just like modernity is marked by a focus on humankind as a species with a special potential and destiny, so post-modernity is marked by a focus on global ecology and planetary consciousness: sovereign entities with whom human consciousness is free to align or not, at its own risk.

As a scientific theory, the Gaia Hypothesis is associated with two main scientists of the second half of the 20^th Century: the independent scientist, ecologist, and futurologist James Lovelock, based in Devon, England; and the late geoscientist, biologist, and university professor at U Mass, Amherst, Lynn Margulis.

Lovelock is responsible for the macrocosmic aspects of the theory: the observation that planetary homeostasis has been maintained overtime at the expense of species or varieties within a species that constituted a threat to the overarching balance of life as a whole; and the diagnosis of Earth as an ailing patient in need of immediate medical attention, due to persistent human abuse. In Lovelock’s perspective, this attention could come in the form of replacing fossil-fuel energy with nuclear energy, which would be exclusively devoted to civil use.

Margulis focuses on the microcosmic aspects of the theory and extrapolates significant global conclusions. Margulis articulates a Gaian perspective on evolution that involves a critique of Darwinian emphasis on selection and competition. The main force that sustains life across time and space is symbiosis and collaboration. Further, Margulis interprets symbiosis as a form of sexual expression that helps to sustain the life of a species that engages in it, much beyond the reproductive intent of any of its individuals. From this perspective, life, consciousness, sex, love started with bacteria about four billion years ago. These prokaryotic unicellular organisms are our first ancestors and our symbionts: namely the smaller organisms that aggregate to form larger and more complex ones like ours. So, based on this axiom, our ancestors bacteria are symbiotic and accustomed to sharing resources of love. They have recreational sex with their neighbors to stay in good health. Since they’ve been around for so long, one might infer that we would probably do well to learn something from them.

To be continuded . . . . come back next week, same time.

Sending much love and all good wishes to all of you and your loved ones. Thanks you for listening and opening up. Stay tuned for more coming. With all good wishes for a happy end of winter, spring, and summer. Thank you!

Namaste,

SerenaGaia

Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD

Author of Gaia, Eros, and many other books about love
Professor of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

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7 of 7 – A Life of Science: Lynn Margulis Opens the Gaian Era

Dear Earthlings:

you’ve faithfully followed this series to finally arrive at the beginning. The two snapshots of this week are part of the symposium’s intro. Who was Lynn Margulis? With whom can we compare her? Many names of great significance came up, including Galileo, Copernicus, Darwin, and Humboldt. But most of all she was free. She thought with her own head and she was fearless. And she was fortunate enough to be in a time and place where the potential of her being could be actualized. And she was wise enough to stay in that space of freedom even when conforming would have been easier. That’s why those comparisons are well deserved. Authentic science is not science-for-profit, and it doesn’t come easy, yesterday as today. But the mind is a wonderful machine and life a great experiment. And if you’ve come so far in this mini journey, perhaps you’ve developed an appreciation for Lynn Margulis and her view of evolution. Remember it’s very simple. If the Gaia hypothesis is true, every time you feel like helping someone, every time that impulse to help gets a hold of you, every time you share resources, every time you’re frugal, every time you’re generous, every time you take care of an ecosystem near you, you’re simply acting according to nature and are helping the process of evolution one itty bit step further. Isn’t that nice?

James Walker introduces Lynn s friend, professor of “hallucinogenic plants.” Did Lynn “know” nature in the “Biblical sense, I mean from experience? That’s a good thing for a scientist, no?

Peter Westbroeck of Leiden University in Holland hails Lynn Margulis as a modern day Copernicus.

Dear Earthlings:

Education is the heart of democracy. And that includes education to love. It comes in many forms. Including learning about Lynn Margulis, the role of collaboration in evolution, and Gaia theory.

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6 of 7 – A Life of Science: Lynn Margulis Opens the Gaian Era

Dear Earthlings:

two important posts this week. They came at the beginning of the conference about Lynn Margulis, from her son and co-author of many books and from one of her students. They bring tidings of other avatars of Gaia theory and of what this all means when it comes to schools, textbooks, and children.

Dorion Sagan, Lynn’s older son, reads an essay sent over by James Lovelock. Gaia is the shared theory, Lovelock’s macrocosm perspective offers the view from above, from the firmament where the third planet is visible. Lynn’s microcosmic perspective offers the view from below, from the microbes, the cells, the molecules that make us feel alive when we pinch them. As above so below. That’s the proof that Gaia theory is meaningful.

Emily Case vows to “liberate Lynn s ideas from the ‘box’ and move them to the mainstream text.” A science teacher formed at the school of Lynn Margulis, she agrees that research and teaching come together when the laboratory of life is one’s classroom. Symbiogenesis is when a cell enters another cell and becomes its nucleus. It’s a form of collaboration that resulted in the first big leap of evolution. Now it’s in a box, because the main narrative of evolution is Darwinian: it all happened because of competition. When there is a critical mass behind Gaia theory, collaboration will be the main narrative of evolution, with competition as a footnote: the error resulting from a failure to cooperate with the natural way of doing things.

Perhaps some day kids will come home from school and say: “Mom, pop, today I learned that without collaboration life would not exist. It was discovered by Lynn Margulis and James Lovelock. Before them, the opposite was believed. People were nasty and rude. Now we know better. How can I help you this afternoon?”

Dear Earthlings:

Education is the heart of democracy. And that includes education to love. It comes in many forms. Including learning about Lynn Margulis, the role of collaboration in evolution, and Gaia theory.

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Namaste,

Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD

Gilf Gaia Extraordinaire

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Professor of Humanities

University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

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5 of 7 – A Life of Science: Lynn Margulis Opens the Gaian Era

Dear Earthlings:

how difficult it is for a genius to be appreciated in her homeland. Often what we do reverberates far away and then comes back to us as the appreciation our neighbors would never give. This also happened to Lynn Margulis.

She interpreted the nucleated cell as a major leap in evolution, one that happens by collaboration. Her taxonomy of species reflects this. Many thought she was just disobedient. After all why make a new taxonomy when one already exists? Science is just habit, run-of-the-mill stuff, no?

She also looked up scientists from the Soviet Union who had great ideas without the means to prove them. She translated them and designed experiments to test these ideas. Many thought she did not give proper credit and was not original. After all, what comes from the Soviet Union is always suspicious, right? Science is just an American way to reinvent the wheel, no?

Antonio Lazcano, from the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico, explains this, including how unfair it is to make these insinuations against Lynn Margulis. How this parochial blindness only succeeds in keeping people in the United States ignorant about the value of her contributions.

Antonio Lazcano: Lynn’s taxonomy of species reflected her complex view of life and the biosphere.

Antonio Lazcano: Lynn made her predecessors known, proved their hypotheses by tests, and had their papers translated into English. Many of them were evolution scientists from Russia who emphasized symbiosis over selection collaboration over competition, which had been Darwin’s main point.

Dear Earthlings:

Education is the heart of democracy. And that includes education to love. It comes in many forms. Including learning about Lynn Margulis, the role of collaboration in evolution, and Gaia theory.

Did you enjoy the post? Let us know! Yours truly appreciates your attention. The comments box is open.

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Namaste,

Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD

Gilf Gaia Extraordinaire

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Professor of Humanities

University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

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4 of 7 – A Life of Science: Lynn Margulis Opens the Gaian Era

Dear Earthlings:

more snapshots this week. What is science? Who first talked about the “biosphere”? Is music a form of knowledge too? The big question come up when the topic is Lynn Margulis. She was “fearless” her son Dorion Sagan says in Digital Journal. That’s how she invented a new episteme, a new interpretation of what life is, from cell to cosmos.

Martin Brasier, of Oxford University, explains how specialization leads to mass extinctions in the history of life s evolution. Oh my! The we really need scholars whose horizon is the entire system. Have you been wondering what science is? Brasier explains, with a pinch of British humor: “A unique system for the measurement of doubt.” Just in case you’d confuse it with religion or other belief systems shamefaced enough to offer prepackaged “truths.”

Douglas Zook, of Boston University, compares Lynn Margulis to Alexander Humboldt, a 19th century American scientist, pioneer of ecology and biosphere. Like Morgan, he was a defender and advocate of indigenous people who saw the need to merge disciplines to look at the cosmos as a whole.

Flute music as audacious as Lynn, at the Ayurvedic lunch entertainment. Because, yes, science is also music!

Dear Earthlings:

Education is the heart of democracy. And that includes education to love. It comes in many forms. Including learning about Lynn Margulis, the role of collaboration in evolution, and Gaia theory.

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Gilf Gaia Extraordinaire

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Professor of Humanities

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3 of 7 – A Life of Science: Lynn Margulis Opens the Gaian Era

Dear Earthlings:

two more snapshots this week. Astrobiology: the science that studies the life of astral bodies. Oh my! These are big questions for yours truly. I’m an earth sign and my imagination doesn’t travel that far in space. But yes, if Gaia, the third planet, has a “life,” a “biography,” so must other astral bodies too. Lynn Margulis made contributions in this area too.

Lynn Rothschild explains what Astrobiology asks: where do we come from? Where are we going? Are we alone? In a cosmic way. Rothschild was inspired by Lynn Margulis who understood how important astrobiology would be for the future. Now we know that stars have planets too. The search for “intelligent life” continues.

Penelope Boston speaks of extant life, extinct life, and everything in between. Could extinct life, as in rocks, Mars, become extant again? Is extinction an interlude, as in the tale of Rick Van Winkle? Microbes exist in rocks and on Mars too! Finally yours truly gets what astrobiology is. It could be compared to the genre of science fiction if it were literature. “Yes,” says Penelope, “when I teach astrobiology I often ask students to read a science fiction novel and evaluate how plausible it is from a technical, scientific point of view.” Evolution only makes sense in the context of astrobiology, or is it vice versa? And in any event, is it fair to define life as what feels like life if you are a human? Again, you hit the big question when around Lynn Margulis.

Dear Earthlings:

Education is the heart of democracy. And that includes education to love. It comes in many forms. Including learning about Lynn Margulis, the role of collaboration in evolution, and Gaia theory.

Did you enjoy the post? Let us know! Yours truly appreciates your attention. The comments box is open.

Come back! And stay tuned for more wonders.

Namaste,

Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD

Gilf Gaia Extraordinaire

Author of Gaia, Eros, and many other books about love
Professor of Humanities

University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

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