“the universe [is] supported by … the cosmic breath”
“In Greek mythology, Gaia was born of Chaos, but as Chaos receded, Gaia came into being. She is considered the mother of all life.”[i]
The “chaos” in much of mythology is certainly present today in the Global Village. We experience this every day. “Apocalypse is not yet upon our world … but there are portents of disorder. The hopes nourished during the opening years of the decade—hopes that America was on a progressive path toward growing equality and freedom, hopes that technology held answers to some of our most pressing problems—have given way, with what feels like head-swiveling speed, to a dark and divisive new era. Fear and distrust are ascendant now. At home, hate-crime violence reached a 16-year high in 2018, the F.B.I. reported. Abroad, there were big geopolitical shifts. With the rise of nationalist movements and a backlash against globalization on both sides of the Atlantic, the liberal post-World War II order—based on economic integration and international institutions—began to unravel, and since 2017, the United States has not only abdicated its role as a stabilizing leader on the global stage but is also sowing unpredictability and chaos abroad.”[ii]
The inhabitants of the Global Village are descending into chaos and despair. To change direction, we are required to redefine reality itself, accept Oneness and the perfection of Creation. There is precedent for this as far back as the Axial Age.
Insight # 19 comes to us from Anaximander (610 – 546 BC). He was an ancient Greek philosopher who was first to claim there is no distinction between spirit and matter.
“Anaximander saw the universe as a kind of organism which was supported by ‘pneuma,’ the cosmic breath, in the same way as the human body is supported by air.”[iii]
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Additional Reading:
- Gaia, The ABC’s of Simple Reality, Vol 1
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[i] https://www.thoughtco.com/greek-mythology-gaia-1525978
[ii] Kakutani, Michiko. “The End of Normal.” The New York Times. December 29, 2019, p. 4.
[iii] Capra, Fritjof. The Tao of Physics. New York: Bantam, 1975, p. 6.
