Trust Gaia

Comments at the Millennial World Health Conference

3000 C.E.

Part 1.

Introduction.

It is fitting that we take this opportunity to reflect on the circumstances leading  to the Great Die Off, and in particular on the processes through which the race gradually recovered its balance.  After centuries of stability and  peace,  it is important to remember that it has not always  been this way.  What we take for granted today was once beyond imagining.  A thousand years ago we were still in the era of wars.  World population had grown far beyond any possibility of  sustainability.  Natural resources were being used up heedlessly.  The looming catastrophe was clear to many, but a willful ignorance prevailed.  The race marched on into the maelstrom.

But even then, as the disaster began to unfold with water wars and famines, signs of the ultimate solution were present.  No government saw this.  No statesman came forward to  champion the  changes that were essential.  Nobody understood what was happening directly before their eyes.  But Gaia knew.  And She was already taking steps.

Comments at the Millennial World Health Conference

3000 C.E.

Part 2.

Population. 

A thousand years ago world population was 6 billion.  It was projected it would be 9 billion within a hundred years.  And already resources were getting scarce.  The cause was obvious: unbridled unsafe sex.  That is, man/woman sex deliberately for the purpose of creating children.  Suicidal though it obviously was, no one condemned it.  On the contrary, as difficult as it is for us to believe today, M/W sex was universally encouraged -- by all religions, in all lands.  Irrespective of this, some chose M/M or W/W sex.  And it was these people who were condemned, not the irresponsible breeders!  Laws were actually passed to make safe and sane same sex sex (S5) illegal!   And here is one of the clear signs that nobody recognized.  When asked why they chose deviant same sex sex instead of "normal" sex, these people insisted they had no idea.  "I don't know.  I think I was just born this way!"  Think about that:  if they did not make this decision, who (or what) did?  Nobody drew the obvious conclusion.  They didn't know.  Governments didn't know.  Religions didn't know.   But Gaia knew.  

Comments at the Millennial World Health Conference

3000 C.E.

Part 3.

Cities.

Nine hundred years ago we were clearly nearing the end of big city madness.  For centuries the accepted pattern, world wide, had been for people to gather in large numbers in small spaces.  Crowded conditions were regarded as normal, irrespective of the obvious hazards to physical  and emotional well being.  The steady increase in homosexuality was universally viewed as a sign of societal decay caused by the stress of deteriorating living conditions.  By 2100 the burden of providing food, water and sanitation for the millions living in cities was overwhelming.  As resources dwindled, these monstrous constructs began to rot from the inside out.  They were revealed for what they had always been: a sign of irrationality and sickness, pustules on the human landscape.  Too many people shared a common water supply.  Ancient sewage systems began crumbling.  Illness increased dramatically.   Supply infrastructures became more finely tuned and unstable.  The scene was primed for disaster. The only question was precisely what disaster.   The denouement, however,  came not from within, but from outside the system.  An alien invasion.

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3000 C.E.

Part Four.

Visitors.

Perhaps it was the Perseids of 2104.  This was never proven, but the timing was about right.  By the Spring of 2105, in large cities all over the planet, people began dying from a new, mysterious disease.  The symptoms indicated a deterioration of the nervous system, but tests revealed no apparent  cause.  It was highly contagious -- cities were an ideal breeding ground.  Eventually the culprit was spotted:  a motile entity that was lifelike, yet not quite like our life.  But close enough -- close enough.  The old fear that earth might be invaded by creatures from outer space turned out to  be true -- but not in the colorful way once imagined.  The question about whether there was life elsewhere was answered in the most dramatic fashion.  It arrived quietly and we had no defenses.    During the next two hundred years world  population dropped by 90 percent.

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3000 C.E.

Part Five.

Darkest Age.

From the outset it was clear that some people got only a mild form of the new plague and survived.  No one knew why.  By 2410 the population stopped shrinking -- the remaining people were immune.  The race survived -- was given another chance.   The population, by necessity, adapted to a largely agrarian life style.  Universally, cities remained abandoned and fell into decay.  Farming communities, once regarded as far rural, became the primary living areas.  People wanted to live near their food sources. Cities, huge skeletal piles, were mined for valuable resources.  The flow was reversed:  what had been transferred into cities for centuries now gradually moved back out into the sparsely settled farmlands.  The ancient urge to gather in large centers lost its momentum.  And that momentum,  once lost, was never regained.  No one planned this, it just happened spontaneously all over the world.  No one knew why.  It just seemed to be the obvious, sensible thing to do.

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3000 C.E.

Part Six.

Realization.

The disastrous setback, and the beginning of a new age, brought about the beginning of what was later termed The Realization.  But at the time people just felt they were doing what was obvious.  Their attention was focused on surviving.  The sacredness of human life was universally recognized.  Who could think otherwise?  Resources were to be shared, not hoarded.  Healthcare was everyone's responsibility.  The race achieved a lasting, common-sense morality.  Not through the teachings of priests or rabbis, but emerging from a deep, inner conviction.  Several guiding principles became clear:  population stability, not growth, was the path to survival;  cities were intuitively understood to be destructive -- they were never repopulated; political boundaries -- regions, states, nations -- lost importance; connection to the processes of the earth was all important.  And out of that developed a rapturous sense of wellbeing.  

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3000 C.E.

Part Seven.

Balancing Act.

By three hundred years ago it was clear that somehow, through painful necessity, desperation and a reawakened racial morality,  balance was becoming evident.  Population density naturally adjusted to match available supplies.  This was due largely to a gradual shift in our attitude toward sexual pleasure.  For hundreds of years, without much notice, more people had been practicing same-sex sex.  The result was that the birth rate fell dramatically.  As, of course, it had to.  And this situation, at long last, was welcomed as natural and good:  the way it should be.  Finally, widespread bisexuality was understood to be a crucial survival trait.  Gaia had completed her slow racial rescue.