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Gaia, the planetary religion: The sacred marriage of art and science
Abstract
As the human race approaches the 21st Century, the world's spiritual, political, social, economic, educational, and scientific philosophies appear out of balance with the emerging global consciousness brought forth by today's advancing technologies. Former President Bush's New World Order is really the same old nation state order of international anarchy. All the ancient problems seem to have reached a critical point. Now, a critical idealism in education, which is a call for spiritual action, is necessary in order to have the power to bond like-minds to cure our ancient social diseases. The scientific and social movement which scientist James Lovelock named the Gaia theory, named after the Greek Goddess of the Earth, is on the verge of creating world-wide evolutionary change. My dissertation attempts to help create a Gaian philosophy of planetary education based on love between the sexes by analyzing the function of epic poetry.
Subject Area
Education philosophy|Architecture|Womens studies
Recommended Citation
Neutopia, Doctress, "Gaia, the planetary religion: The sacred marriage of art and science" (1994). Doctoral Dissertations Available from Proquest. AAI9420668.
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9420668