Whether one blames technology, religion or any of the other easy targets, our war to subjugate nature must end and cooperation with Gaia must commence. Mom loves us and she wants only good for us but she is getting a bit peeved. We really haven't called much lately -- and to say that we have taken her for granted is quite the understatement.

Over the course of this summer, Jeanne and I plan to make a start on a meditation garden in our backyard. We intend it to be a semi sacred place where one can sit and practice whatever inner work is appropriate at the time. It will be a place to be for participation in the various global meditations during the warmer months and it will be a place to commune with nature. It will probably take years to fine tune, but this is the year it begins. I believe that we are responding to an idea whose time has come. As I have written here in the past, there is a vision floating about of people coming together and creating such spaces both great and small. I hear of Mayor Daley talking about making Chicago into a green city and I know that the pulse is picking up. He may or may not be getting the sacredness aspect, but he is hearing the call and responding.

The indigenous cultures around the world - what remains of them -- tell us that the planet is alive. Some of these cultures maintain their connection to and communion with the mother. It is time to learn from them what they have to teach us, and for us to establish our own ways of reaching out to and loving our mother back. We have already won great victories with our global meditations, the end of the cold war being the most dramatic. If we will now turn the attention and the love of humanity toward the earth, we will achieve perhaps the most important of our quests, the integration of human consciousness with that of Gaia. I believe that we will then begin to attain our place in the realms.

I hear her, and I think you do too. We better get going.