Tom Ellis
1 min readMar 10, 2021

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Thank you, yet again, Desiree. (You’re well named, for your gifts in articulating all that is “desired”)

The only thing I would add is this: to give your wonderful ideas some traction, they need a name, a meme that people can relate to and embrace as their inclusive identity. Fortunately, that meme, that seed idea, already exists, and just needs watering. The word is GAIA. Our home. The only living planet we will ever know. You are already a conscious Gaian; so am I; so are millions of others, all over the planet. Gaianity is not, however, a “new religion!” One can, without contradiction, be a Gaian Christian, a Gaian Buddhist , Gaian Jew, a Gaian Muslim or a Gaian anything else. To be a conscious Gaian, all one needs to do is understand and embrace one unarguable truth, as beautifully expressed by Martin Luther King:

“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”

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Tom Ellis
Tom Ellis

Written by Tom Ellis

I am a retired English professor now living in Oregon, and a life-long environmental activist, Buddhist, and holistic philosopher.

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