The Story of Gaia

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Jude Currivan, Ph.D., is a cosmologist, futurist, planetary healer, member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle, and previously one of the most senior business women in the UK. She has a master’s degree in physics from Oxford University and a doctorate in archaeology from the University of Reading. She has travelled extensively, worked with wisdom keepers from many traditions and is a life-long researcher into the nature of reality. She is the author of 6 books, including The Cosmic Hologram, and is co-founder of WholeWorld-View.

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Jude Currivan, Ph.D., reveals our Universe as “a great thought of cosmic mind,” manifesting as a cosmic hologram of meaningful in-formation that vitally, exists to evolve.

Résumé
Explores how the Universe, our planet, ourselves, and everything in existence has inherent meaning and evolutionary purpose

• 2023 Nautilus Gold Award

• Examines our emergence as self-aware members of a Universe that is itself a unified and innately sentient entity that exists TO evolve

• Shares leading-edge scientific breakthroughs and shows how they support traditional visions of Earth as a living being--Gaia

• Rewrites evolution as not driven by random occurrences and mutations but by intelligently informed and meaningful information flows and processes

Exploring our emergence as self-aware members of a planetary home and entire Universe that is a unified and innately sentient entity, Jude Currivan, Ph.D., shows that mind and consciousness are not what we possess but what we and the whole world fundamentally are. She reveals our Universe as “a great thought of cosmic mind,” manifesting as a cosmic hologram of meaningful in-formation that, vitally, exists to evolve.

Sharing scientific breakthroughs, the author details the 13.8 billion-year story of our Universe and Gaia, where everything in existence has inherent meaning and evolutionary purpose. Showing how the Universe was born, not in an implicitly chaotic big bang, but as the first moment of a fine-tuned and ongoing “big breath,” she shares the latest evidence for the innate sentience that has guided our universal journey from simplicity to ever-greater complexity, diversity, and self-awareness--from protons to planets, plants, and people. She explains how evolution is not driven by random occurrences and mutations but by profoundly resonant and harmonic interplays of forces and influences, each intelligently informed and guided.

In Gaia, the Universe’s evolutionary impulse is embodied in collaborative relationships and dynamic co-evolutionary partnerships on a planetary scale and as a wholistic gaiasphere. She reveals how the conscious evolution of humanity is an integral part of Gaia’s own evolutionary progress and purpose. By perceiving and experiencing our planet as a sentient being and ourselves as Gaians, we open ourselves to a deeply ecological, evolutionary, and, above all, hopeful worldview.

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From Chapter 5. “Parents: Sol, Luna, and Gaia as a Triple Relationship”

Within our Soular System, Sol and Luna are essentially the parents of Gaia, without whose tripartite relationship the emergence and abundance of her future organic children would have been severely constrained.

Sol is four hundred times larger than Luna and is four hundred times farther away. This exact and unique correspondence not only enables total solar eclipses to occur, also but numerous other valuable influences and processes to ensue.

With Luna’s orbit around Gaia, though, being around 5 degrees from the plane of Gaia’s orbit around Sol, solar eclipses only happen between two and five times each year and total solar eclipses only roughly every eighteen months: at a New Moon and specifically when Luna’s orbit intersects the solar plane. Given that at the time of a New Moon, Luna lies between Gaia and Sol, not only do they present an awe-inspiring cosmic sight, but the combined gravitational influence of her parents, along their arc of totality around Gaia, raises the highest of her tides.

However, in the earliest epoch of Gaia’s Soular family, before and during her early years as a planet, Sol was much fainter than now. So, when she was birthed around 4.54 billion years ago and located at the same distance as now from Sol, unlike later epochs, where his radiant heat enabled the presence of liquid water, some other influence needed to supply sufficient heat for that to be possible during her early years.

The most significant of these was the presence of Luna. The Gaia-Luna relationship is extraordinary and more of a binary system than a planet and satellite. Luna, recognized by many traditional societies as Gaia’s “mother,” is the largest moon in relation to its planet in the entire Soular System with the exception of Pluto and his moon Charon.

Even more astounding is the most likely way in which Luna and Gaia in her final form came into being.

Lunar rock samples collected by the Apollo astronauts show a great similarity with the rocks of Gaia’s crust, suggesting they had a common origin. Named after Theia, in Greek myth the mother of the moon goddess Selene, the Theia hypothesis posits that a body, about the size of Mars, slammed into the protoplanetary Gaia. Causing an immense ejection of material that formed Luna, the core of Theia plunged deep into Gaia where she has remained ever since.1 Indeed, some of her remains may be present in the form of two huge masses of ancient rock: one buried under Africa and the other beneath the Pacific Ocean.2 Known as large low-shear-velocity-provinces, or LLSVPs, denser and with a different chemical composition to Gaia’s geosphere, they have sunk to the base of her mantle rocks, straddling her core and possibly have provided a further rotational stabilizing influence.

In addition to the rocks of Gaia and Luna being very similar, Theia’s remains should thus also be found in the lunar rock samples. And, indeed, rocks collected from the deepest locations on Luna’s surface reveal relatively less similarity with Gaian rocks and are more attributable to being relics of Theia.3

Furthermore, there’s growing evidence that the birth of the Gaia-Luna system was even more extraordinary. It suggests that Theia may have originated not in an orbit close to Gaia’s but some further distance toward the outer Soular System. Unlike the arid environment of the inner Soular System, its outer echelons were replete with water and carbon-based materials. In this scenario, Theia would likely have brought with her these vital ingredients for the emergence of organic life and perhaps delivering much of the water that would make Gaia the bluegreen planet she became.4

It also seems that Theia delivered two further, interrelated and inestimable benefits. For unlike Venus—Gaia’s close sibling in planetary scale—thanks to Theia, Gaia gained a much larger and denser iron-nickel metallic core and a correspondingly much shallower crust; both, as we’ll see, are essential for the emergence and evolution of her future organic children. Indeed, the scale of her metallic core causes Gaia to be the densest planet in the Soular System.

The primordial heat of her core, convected through the magma of the molten mantle above and through to her volatile crust, evaporated the gases of her first atmosphere and, likely, huge amounts of hydrogen (and its heavier variant, deuterium, where a neutron joins the proton of its nucleus) and oxygen to form the two “flavors” of water: light (H2O) and heavy (D2O).

While the search for the possibly multiple sources of Gaia’s abundance of water continues to be studied, mineralogical…