An Audience with Gaia
People arrange themselves for a guided fantasy. The leader starts out with an initial induction.
[Music: Great Wall of China from Silk Road by Kitaro, or other spacey music]
Now imagine that your body is getting very light,... that
it begins to float up into the air. Imagine
yourself gradually floating up into the room, rising toward the ceiling, and as
you rise higher into the air, you go deeper into yourself....
You now find yourself near the ceiling and able to look down and see
everything in the room.... You
float right through the ceiling and out into the air, feeling no discomfort as
you do this. You can now look out and see the area around this building.
[Mention significant landmarks.]... And
you continue to rise in the air, and as you do you go deeper into trance.... [Leader
continues suggesting that they rise into the air and see more and more of the
earth and go correspondingly deeper into themselves. Continue
mentioning the sights one might see in this process based on the time and place
of the exercise. For instance, if
you are on the west coast in the afternoon, you might mention the sun glinting
off the ocean. Continue until:]
Looking around, you now notice that the horizon looks
slightly curved. You are beginning
to see the earth as the sphere that it really is.
As you continue to rise, what had been "the ground" gradually
condenses into a globe that you are observing at a distance, and what had been
"the sky" expands to become "outer space" completely
surrounding you. And still you feel
no discomfort.... There before your eyes is that beautiful little blue-green
ball, and you feel that you could almost reach out and touch it.
You also have a zoom lens so that you can zoom in and see or feel
whatever is happening on the surface of the planet....
[Music: Sequence in Earth Natural from Mother Earth Lullaby
by Synchestra, or other bright, nature-oriented music]
See threadlike rivers swinging first one way and then
another as they accommodate themselves to the changes of the land.
The surface of Gaia's body is also marked by high, majestic mountain
ranges, rich, teeming forests and jungles, flat expanses of fertile grasslands,
and great arid deserts....
Envision the planet, now, not as a dead hunk of rock as we
usually think of it, but as Gaia, a living organism, with all the normal life
functions of a living creature. Feel
the rhythm of night and day which is Gaia's pulse.... See the atmosphere and
ocean currents swirling around her surface, circulating nutrients and carrying
away waste products much as the blood does in your own body, feeling the
swirling movement and the sense of being cleansed.... Inside of Gaia you can
sense an enormous churning current of liquid rock flowing back and forth between
the core of the planet and the crust, sometimes oozing through volcanic pores to
supply the minerals essential for life.... Notice how Gaia maintains conditions for the existence of
life: the right temperature, the
right balance of nutrients in the oceans and gases in the atmosphere, and a
protective ozone layer over all.... Envision the various living creatures which
inhabit Gaia and which are analogous to her cells and organs.... And sense Gaia
as a being with awareness and feelings, who lovingly provides a life support
system for her creatures and who feels pain when her integrity is threatened....
[Music: Time Travel from Silk Road by Kitaro, or other
dark, discordant music]
Now you begin to notice that there are a number of dangers and threats to Gaia's health. Her air and waters are polluted with chemicals... Her rains, which generally bring life and growth, are sometimes poisoned with acid.... Her protective ozone shield is breaking down, threatening her life forms with radiation, floods, or freezing temperatures....
Many of her people are estranged from each other and from
her. Some are oppressed and exploited, making it difficult for them to have the
basic freedoms and necessities of life....
Many are starving or living without adequate shelter or suffering from
untreated diseases.... Violence is
widespread in the form of crime, terrorism, torture, war....
Humanity has lost touch with Gaia and with our deeper selves….
[Music: Heaven and Hell, by Vangelis, side 2, cut 4, religious tone with
female lead]
Now we are going to switch to a different realm altogether.
From the ordinary realm of space and time we move to a mythic realm where
you are no longer a human body but a soul, and Gaia is no longer a planet but a
goddess. Imagine what Gaia looks
like as a goddess....
Now we are going back in time to a point shortly before
your conception. You are having an
audience with Gaia. Feel what it is like to be in her presence.... Gaia is
speaking to you about your coming incarnation.
She tells you about the hurts she is suffering, and the threats to her
that are coming in the form of a planetary crisis. She tells you about your role
in helping to resolve this crisis and create a new society. She tells you about
the special talents and understandings and inclinations you will be born with to
help you in your task. And she may
indicate how you are to use them. Gaia may be very specific about what you are
to do or quite vague. She may speak
to you in words, or show you images, or you may just sense her message in your
body. Take a few minutes now to
listen to Gaia as she tells you of your calling at this crucial time in history.
[Allow until just before the music ends, about 2 minutes.]
She tells you that you will only dimly remember these things after you
are born, and only when you are deeply inside yourself.
But they will always be there to guide you if you listen.
She blesses you and ends the audience. Thank her for her guidance....
You now find yourself back in outer space watching Gaia from a distance. You begin to float back down toward the planet. [Reverse the initial trip into outer space, bring them back down to earth, but more quickly than on the way up.] You float back through the roof of this building and gradually settle down into your body on the floor. [Bring them out of trance.]