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Stephan Harding Ph.D., is the Resident Ecologist at Schumacher College and the author of Animate Earth: Science, Intuition, and Gaia and the app, Deep Time Walk.\\xa0 Stephan understands Earth, or Gaia, as an organism whose systems and inter-relationships we can know both scientifically and intuitively. We need a loving relationship with Gaia in order to restore her and ourselves, and we need to switch from control to awe, he explains. He advocates that we view ourselves as participants \\u201cin a cosmos suffused with intelligence, beauty, intrinsic value and profound meaning.\\u201d His concept of holistic science reveals how we can approach the natural world through not only a scientific lens as typically understood, but also the lenses of intuition, feeling, and sensing.\\xa0

Hear Stephan\\u2019s thoughts on:

\\xb7\\xa0 \\xa0 \\xa0 \\xa0How to find your \\u2018center\\u2019 so you can live a life friendly to yourself, your neighbor, and the planet as a whole. \\u201cThere is a deep center in ourselves and in nature. We can allow that to grow in us, and that\\u2019s what makes us happy, and what helps nature.\\u201d

\\xb7\\xa0 \\xa0 \\xa0 \\xa0Why he recommends finding your own Gaia Place: \\u201cIt\\u2019s very important to have a Gaia Place where I can just go to be with Gaia and look and listen\\u2026What is going on all around me? How is it connected to my self or center? \\u2026 If everyone has a Gaia Place, we can have a real ecological society.\\u201d

\\xb7\\xa0 \\xa0 \\xa0 \\xa0Why it is not an irrational act to connect emotionally or spiritually with Gaia. Connecting with nature feels good, and feeling good is objectively healthy. \\u201cIf you deny that, you\\u2019re hurting yourself as well as hurting the world\\u2026We are nature, so nature has to be good for us.\\u201d \\u201cWe are a multi-variant organism: we haven\\u2019t just got thinking: we\\u2019ve got our feeling, our sensing, our intuition. We need to feel all those in relation to Gaia.\\u201d

\\xb7\\xa0 \\xa0 \\xa0 \\xa0\\u201cI love science, but we [scientists] do treat the world like it\\u2019s dead, a machine. That\\u2019s wrong\\u2014because it makes you feel awful!\\u201d \\u201cA deep knowledge of what it means to be connected to Gaia is what we\\u2019ve been missing in our culture for 400 years.\\u201d

\\xb7\\xa0 \\xa0 \\xa0 \\xa0How being \\u2018spiritual\\u2019 is to have some sense of \\u201cwhere all this is going and how it could turn out really well, for us and for Gaia.\\u201d

\\xb7\\xa0 \\xa0 \\xa0 \\xa0His current work on bringing psyche, science, and alchemy into conversation together.

\\u201cGaia needs us to be humble and simple\\u201d--Stephan Harding

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