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the gravity of gaia.

Posted on Feb 25th, 2008 by Siona : Synchronicity Coordinator Siona
Dave posted an entry on his amazing blog recently that included this paragraph:

Gravitational communities: My brother Alan coined this term as something less than an intentional community but more than an accidental one. It's the perfect explanation of how people find and make community in complex environments. You can't plan it -- there are no reliable ways to systematically search for and find just the right people to build community with. But it's not accidental either -- finding the right people is not a random activity. It's evolutionary. You send out signals, explicitly and tacitly, and so do others, and you pick up on them, sometimes consciously but often sub-consciously or unconsciously. You end up in community, not with random strangers or the 'people you were meant to be with', but something in between, a collective self-selection, in constant flux.

I think I recognized a little of this place in those words, and a little, too, of the real-world communities of which I'm a part. Gravity is such a beautiful unknown.

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szavanna : musiclover
9 minutes later
szavanna said

Hi Siona - hope you are well - I love this term as well. As I carry on learning how communities “happen” - I do learn a lot from your community and its happenings :) Enjoy the week!

Albert  : ~
17 minutes later
Albert said

Really amazing blog entry! Tkx Siona..I made the astonishing discovery that increasingly people outside of Gaia Community contacting me—finding some traces in the Google Universe for example.):)lots to explore about this fascinating journey..

WonderlandAlli : The Chicken Warrior
40 minutes later
WonderlandAlli said

Here's to a complex dance of orbiting stars, planets, and comets!

owais : Be good, Do good
about 3 hours later
owais said

Hey svelte girlie My deep and heartful blessings,
My warmingly n cheeringly n charming n sensational greetings, A very Good Morning to featuring, lovely and compassionate Sionajee ,

see, the most important thing needed to build an effective n contagious community is our effort to integrate people ethnically, because people are generally prone to emotions arising when we are intimate by anyone. to my opine and moreover I do not consider anybody as stranger since we relate within every beings in ways, it is just our attitude that made us to produce our reflections to people standing infront of us. i am just highly contradict to term stranger, none are stranger, we shall never build or form any such attitude or outlook that made people to realise as being discarded by him/her. nothing is greater than by your humble recognition of others and then being much friendly and helpful toward them is what this is real life. we are all one infact.
wow, lol awesome post, as usual again very sensual and true thoughts.    -OWAIS

well I do completely and congruently agree by your writing indeed, it is very much truth. hey lets cheer up.
hey being of compassion n helpful, hey being of hard working n gorgeous looking girl, your efforts are obviously changing the world, hey I am seeing I am seeing that people are uniting effectively in the name of true humanity. thank you very much and so I am thankful n grateful for your efforts being employed by you in this community, keep it up dear !

sending your way many a lots of mickle of loves, blessings and sincere prays, sending you a lovely fresh varied collections of flowers, sending your way my much respects n loves n hold you deeply into my reverent !

-OWAIS

Resurrected1 : Ariela -Quantum Leaper
about 12 hours later
Resurrected1 said

Yahhh….the Force is Awesome, LOL ;-)

What is the opposite of Gravity? =)

about 17 hours later
XD said

That is lovely

as well in the Fourth Way movement they say the we develop a 'magnetic centre' by reading, meeting significant people and so on and it leads, draws us,  to the right people, teachings, communities…

x

kcidybom : Manager - Bank of Cosmic Connection
about 21 hours later
kcidybom said

Yes yes yes - the gravitons of Gaia pulled me into delicious orbit.  The gravity of Gaia indeed!!!!  The ultimate (so far) accidentally inevitable community.

WonderlandAlli : The Chicken Warrior
1 day later
WonderlandAlli said

Gah, Gaia ate my post and now I have to re-write it! :( It claimed it was saving but never really did.

Resurrected1, if gravity is created by the existence of two opposite poles complimenting each other, such as the north and south pole here on earth, then perhaps the opposite of gravity is the repulsion that happens when you take two of the same poles and try to force them together. Eventually you can make them touch but it takes incredible energy.

So in that example, perhaps its natural for things to flow and compliment each other like on Gaia, and unnatural to try and force things that don't belong together. Peace is easy, its chaos and anger that take a ton of effort and leave us exhausted. ;)

Siona : Synchronicity Coordinator
1 day later
Siona said

Oh, thank you all, for gravitating over here!

Resurrected1
: I think the opposite of gravity would be lightness, no? And I think both are so important to this place! We need gravity to hold us together and keep us grounded and solemn and capable of reaching those depths of caringness and connection, and lightness to keep us from collapsing together in some impossible black hole. To my mind, Gaia is a graviatational community where the gravity—that which attracts so many of us—is light. We need both… just as to really be ourselves we need each other.

My two cents, at least. I do love paradox.

And many mickles of love to owais and all. :)

1 day later
Sherrilene said

Just today a wonderful colleague of mine, who I must say, must have been pulled into my space by some - till now - unrecognised force, but who is incredibly on the same wave length, told me that if we refer to nature, we will notice that as a particular type of energy increases, it will ultimately repel other kinds also. Thus, as you begin to resonate very strongly at the spiritual level, those people in your sphere of existence that continue at a less aware or intense level will somehow begin to fall away also. This wouldn't, of course, be the opposite to the gravity that speaks to lightness within the community, but perhaps the repelling force that  WonderlandAlli speaks of.

Like Albert, I am picking up signals now from a much wider range, so that I don't feel the nearly desperate need to send people to GAIA anymore to find positive energy. Some people are finding it other places, which is encouraging. I would say that times are changing positively, and we have already, possibly unconsciously been making a difference by vibrating so highly. Don't you think? :D

Finally, I would add that today when I think about my community of positiveness and consciousness, it is dispersed widely around the world, as I can now feel certain that we are not alone in desiring the best for our future. This gives me great comfort.

All my love and thanks for being yourselves, open, honest and caring.

Sherri

Nara-Narayana : RADIATING LOVE ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
2 days later
Nara-Narayana said

What a great term coined by your brother there Siona, “Gravitational Communities,” I love it!

This is something that I just read in Masaru Emoto's book, the Hidden Messages in Water

    “The general understanding is that E=mc2(squared) means “energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.” However, we can also interpret C as Consciousness instead of the speed of light. Since M represents mass, we can interpret it as the number of people consciously focused (awareness). Therefore E=mc2(squared) can be interpreted as, energy equals mass times consciousness squared.”
   

 “Almost a century has passed since Einstein announced this formula to the world. There is no way of knowing if Einstein himself considered the possibility of C representing consciousness, but since everything is in the universe is relative, you can't say that it is a mistake to see thee formula in this new way
    It is said that people make use of at most 30 percent of their abilities, but if we can increase our abilities by just!  Percent, then this amount, according to the formula, will be squared, doubling the amount of energy. If people around the world were all to increase their consciousness at the same time, the difference in energy would be enormous.
    If we fill our lives with love and gratitude for all, this consciousness will become a wonderful power that will speed throughout the world.”



    I think that consciousness is the “incredible force” which is what you are taliking about WonderlandAlli. WE are BE-ing brought together by our own thoughts (returning back to Oneness). As the energy of collective consciousness rises, it grows exponentially, causing our energies to be attracted to one another by such “force” that we cannot stop it. It's our destiny.

 “Gravitational Community.”

Why would you want to resist it???


I don't know, I could be wrong, but it sure is nice to think/talk about.

What a great group of beautifully enlightened souls are all are.
Much love to all of you, always, and in ALL WAYS.

~Namaste~
*deep bow*
Brian.

3 days later
AlphaGal said

I am honored to be part of this community. I came here by accident, like I am sure many others. But there are no real accidents..are there…

Nara-Narayana : RADIATING LOVE ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
5 days later
Nara-Narayana said

   

    Okay, so over the last two days I have been really doing some soul searching and growing in my awareness, and during this time I have come up with this theory. I think that Einstein’s theory of E=MC2 needs a slight modification to help us understand the universe better. I think that the formula E=WC2 (where E equals energy and W equals water and C2 equals consciousness squared) would help us come to a greater understanding of ourselves. I have come to this conclusion based on my experiences over the last two days, and yesterday in particular. Yesterday, I saw this video, that I blogged about, were this man (Randy Pausch) was talking about his life and the sad current condition that his body was in, was no going to affect his beautiful outlook on life. His message pretty much said, no matter what condition our physical bodies are in, we should always keep a positive and loving attitude. This video really touched me deep down in my soul. Here's is the video that I blogged about: Randy Pausch.  (It’s about 11 minutes long).
    After watching this very emotional video, I immediately jump in my car and started driving; I really didn't know where I was going I just wanted to be with my thoughts, and I find that the car is a very great place for me to do some really great soul searching. After driving only a few block away from my house an idea popped into my head that I needed to be amongst nature, so I started thinking about where the best place for me to go to be amongst nature. I almost immediately thought of going to this lake that is up in the mountains, which is only a 30 minute drive for me. While on my way to this lake, I had many epiphanies and aha moments, and once I arrived at the lake I really felt so much beautiful energy, where I had many more beautiful awakening. It was quite cold and foggy while I was at the lake, and even thought was about 45 degrees outside, I really wasn't that cold. To me the fog represented the current ‘foggy’ state that I was in, in trying to discover where to go next in my life. I had many wonderful and beautiful experiences at the lake one of which lead me to this theory; E = WC2.
    We all know that we are made up of about 80% water, and we know that without water there would be no life; we also know that our thoughts become reality, we can also all agree that everything is energy. So I, of course, came to the conclusion, all energy is created by combining our thoughts (consciousness) with water, which is found in all material substances (even if there is only a slight trace of it), to create matter. So in using this formula, we can see that as we become more conscious of our thoughts (become more aware), and combine them with water (water is the best conduits for amplifying electricity ‘energy’), we will be able to create more energetic materials/substances, which will create a more beautiful and peaceful universe. 

What you think about the universe?

Much love and many blessings to you all.
~Namaste~
*deep bow*
Brian.

5 days later
XD said


Wow, Brian! That video by Randy Pausch
had the tears rolling down my face.

Thank you for sharing

a deep bow

a lotus to y'all buddha to be


jyoti
x

WonderlandAlli : The Chicken Warrior
6 days later
WonderlandAlli said

“We all know that we are made up of about 80% water, and we know that without water there would be no life; we also know that our thoughts become reality, we can also all agree that everything is energy.”

Brian my friend, water in dreaming tends to represent emotions. And I started playing with your words in my head. What do you think of…

We all know that we are made up of about 80% emotion, and we know that without emotion there would be no love; we also know that our thoughts become reality, we can also all agree that everything is energy. So I, of course, came to the conclusion, all energy is created by combining our thoughts (consciousness) with emotion, which is found in all life (even if there is only a slight trace of it), to create love.

Just playing with little truths and the layers they have.

Nara-Narayana : RADIATING LOVE ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
6 days later
Nara-Narayana said

It's funny that you should mention emotions, as it pertains to water. When I was at the lake and was peacefully observing the water and noticed how there was a slight ripple going across the top which, of course, was just (E) motion dancing across surface of the lake, fr om all of the disturbance of all of the commotion that was effect it. But deep down in the true essence of the lake, was the  (E) motion-less vastness of it's true being, if you will. I agree many similarities there.

I like the way you think, right on!

~Namaste~
*deep bow*

Stevenini : Performance Dharmatist
8 days later
Stevenini said

Here's another riff on the idea of gravity:  picture that we're all ants following magical or not-so-magical pheremones laid down by people going to where we want to be or who we want to be…. google, community organization, how things seem to arise spontaneously kind of like chaos theory.   I listened to a great podcast yesterday called “Emergence”, an episode from WNYC's “Radio Lab” program.   Reading this blog about gravity certainly rung that bell about how people find cool people and communities… we just emerge!

Resurrected1 : Ariela -Quantum Leaper
11 days later
Resurrected1 said

Hi again!

Thanks for the responses about the opposite of gravity, lol =)

You know, I just don't like the word gravity…make me think “weighty” and “grave”.
What there is here, and what we're all doing, is exactly what Gaia has as an option, lol…

Resonance! (I like “Emerge” too, lol. But even more I like “glitch”…and “mutation” sometimes can be a positive thing, LOL)

The Force is Strong Here…It has Gravity…
Also an interesting Push-Pull…um…Paradox going on. ;-)
Apparently alot of us Love It.  :-D

lightenup : Leader
24 days later
lightenup said

I absolutely love that term, gravitaional communities. It is so descriptive of the Law of Attraction at work.  

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