“What
if Mary is another name for Gaia? Then her capacity for
virgin
birth is no miracle... it is a role of Gaia since life began...
She is of this Universe and, conceivably, a part of God.
On
Earth, she is the source of life everlasting and is alive now;
she
gave birth to humankind and we are part of her.”
–
Sir James Lovelock
Gaia's
Gurus
In my previous article, the First
Global Revolution,
I outlined how the very influential members of the 'Club of Rome'
have decided that the Earth is facing an "imminent
ecological collapse"
and drastic measures must be taken immediately to save Gaia from the
destructive beast of capitalism. They claimed that a new enemy was
required in order to unite humanity, "one
either real or invented for the purpose",
and that "the
threat of global warming"
is the ideal crisis. In this article I will take a close look at
these CoR members, and some of their close affiliates, and let them
describe, in their own words, exactly what their world view is. One
thing that immediately struck me when researching these men was how
often they refer to the Earth as 'Gaia', and speak of 'her' as a real
living sentient earth-spirit. They even call themselves Gaians.
From
a Gaian activist's perspective the theory of Global Warming presents
a dream scenario. It strikes at the very heart of 'Gaias greatest
threat' - capitalism and modern industrial society. According to them
without fossil fuels the world will be transformed into the Gaian's
ecotopian vision of small sustainable human settlements, surrounded
by protected wild-lands, and governed by some sort of United Earth
Council. Global Warming provides a clarion call to which the
'environmentally aware' masses can rally. Skeptics are now commonly
labelled as climate change-deniers, insinuating that they should be
treated with the same contempt that holocaust-deniers deserve.
While
those who embrace Gaia-worship may represent a small minority of the
Green Movement they are often the most driven, active and influential
members. I have been astounded to find that many of the most vocal
politicians and scientists currently raising alarms about Global
Warming, are also actively involved in the Gaia Cult and Deep
Ecology. I had assumed that professional politicians and scientists
would give little credence to the extreme views of these neopagan
philosophies but, as I will demonstrate shortly, many of them
actively and vocally espouse them.
This begs the question, is
the real threat of Global Warming being used by Gaians to further
their stated agenda of global transformation in which 'nature is
sacred', or more deviously, has the theory of man-made Global Warming
been fabricated as a tool to implement their earth-worship agenda?
Based on my many hours of research I have concluded that the second
scenario is the most likely. Once you had read enough eco-religious
texts it becomes easy to spot Gaian terms and references in the
speeches and statements of many prominent Global Warming activists. I
am continually amazed at the language that these devout Gaians use to
describe themselves and their 'mission'. And remember these are not
the members of some fringe green New Age cult. These are people in
positions of significant power and leadership. So lets take a close
look at these leaders of the Global Green Agenda:
Dr
Robert Muller spent
53 years working within the United Nations and Assistant
Secretary-General for more than 12 years (#2 in charge). He is the
Founder and Chancellor of the United Nations University of Peace.
Here is how he describes himself (remember this is not some fruitcake
standing on a streetcorner, this guy was responsible for formulating
many UN policies):
"A
divine motivator ... the wise man of the UN ... the shaman of the UN
... the man through whom God speaks ... the
spokesman of Christ
... a magic being ..."
link
Robert
Muller, a
Cosmic Being,
a Man of Peace, whose mastery of compassion created these
exhortations. At rare intervals in the evolution of the planet Cosmos
flares its magic wand and graces us with a Master of Compassion such
as Robert Muller."
link
Now this 'magic
being' was a key architect behind many of the UN's most
important environmental policies and plans. If you read Agenda 21 and
the Earth Charter you will be shocked. Dr Muller founded the UN's
University of Peace on a mountain in Costa Rica. Why did he choose
this location? Because of this ancient prophecy:
"The
Prophecy of Rasur - One day, a long time ago, in the village of
Quisar, all the children suddenly disappeared underground. The
parents could not understand what was happening and became extremely
worried. Faintly rising up from the earth below, they heard laughter
and singing and knew that their children were safe. The children
began to move and the parents followed their voices until they were
stopped by a strong magnetic force at the base of Mt. Rasur. The
Earth abruptly opened up and the children as well as a being of
light, Rasur (the god of the indigenous children), appeared to the
surprised parents. Rasur then spoke to the children, never once
looking at the parents, and said,
"Dear children, the
Great Spirit is in every animal, in every bird, butterfly, flower,
insect, leaf and grass you see. The
Great Spirit is also in you, the Creator's children. Please take care
of the wonderful nature created by God and some day, from this
mountain, you will see the birth of a civilization of peace spread to
the entire world."
link
Hindus
call our earth Brahma, or God, for they rightly see no
difference between our earth and the divine.
This ancient simple truth is slowly dawning again upon humanity, as
we are about to enter our cosmic age and become what we were always
meant to be: the planet of god."
- Robert Muller, Chancellor of the UN
University for Peace
"What
an incredible planet in the universe this will be when we will be one
human family living in justice, peace, love and harmony with our
divine Earth, with each other and with the heavens."
- Robert Muller, former UN Assistant
Secretary General
So, Dr Muller, who was the right-hand
man to three consecutive UN Secretary Generals, and was responsible
for formulating many UN policies and programmes clearly believes that
the Earth is Divine. On one of his websites he describes
conversations between himself and God, and between himself
and the Earth (halfway down
the page). He has a number of websites that make very interesting
reading and clearly demonstrate the link between Gaia, Global Warming
and Global Governance.
www.goodmorning-world.blogspot.com
www.robertmulller.org
www.goodmorningworld.org
www.centerforlivingethics.org
www.paradiseearth.us
Those
websites provide enough information for a year of study, and I
strongly urge the reader to have a look at them. But it's time to
move on to our next CoR Gaian:
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Maurice
Strong, founder
and Secretary General of the United Nations Environment Programme and
Senior Advisor to Kofi Annan. Founder of the Earth Council and the
Earth Charter Initiative, and former President of the United Nations
University of Peace. You will find many references to Maurice Strong
on this site. He, more than anyone else, has been the architect of
the Global Green Agenda. Strong is a devout Baha'i and from his lofty
positions within the UN has permeated the organisation with Gaian
theology.
He is the author of most of the key UN environmental
policies and plans including Agenda 21, the Earth Charter, the Kyoto
Protocol and the UN report on Global Governance. While he chaired the
Rio Earth Summit, outside his wife Hanne and 300 followers called the
Wisdom-Keepers, continuously beat drums, chanted prayers to Gaia, and
trended scared flames in order to "establish
and hold the energy field" for the duration of the
summit. You can view actual
footage of
these ceremonies on YouTube. He
founded the Manitou
Institue
where various Hindu, Bhuddist, and New Age groups perform rituals to
heal Gaia. The Institutes Mission is "to
perpetuate the ancient tradition of peoples of many tribes journeying
here for a sacred connection to the Earth."
Very Gaian!!
The Strongs have located their spiritual centre
in the Colorado mountains because "The
Strongs learned that since antiquity indigenous peoples had revered
this pristine wilderness as a place for conducting their vision
quests and receiving shamanic trainings. It is prophesied that the
world's religious traditions would gather here and help move the
world toward globally conscious co-existence and co-creation."
"It
is the responsibility of each human being today to choose between the
force of darkness and the force of light. We must therefore transform
our attitudes, and adopt a renewed respect for the superior laws of
DIVINE
NATURE."
- Maurice Strong
In 1991 Strong wrote the introduction to a
book published by the Trilateral Commission, called Beyond
Interdependence: The Meshing of the World's Economy and the Earth's
Ecology, by Jim MacNeil. (David Rockefeller wrote the foreword).
Strong said this: "This interlocking is
the new reality of the century, with profound implications for the
shape of our institutions of governance, national and international.
By the year 2012, these changes must be fully integrated into
our economic and political life."
He also
recently authored a book called 'Where on Earth are We Going? in
which he outlines a doomsday scenario of what will soon happen to
Gaia unless there is "an
immediate and total global transformation."
His predictions
make Al Gore seem like an optimist. He claims that
humanity will not survive the next 30 years on
its current course.
Strong has served, or is currently on the Board of Directors
of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN); the
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF); and the World Resources Institute
(WRI); the three international NGOs that have developed and advanced
the global agenda since the early 1970s. Maurice Strong, alongside Al
Gore, is perhaps the most well known, and certainly the most
influential, CoR Gaian. He is still deeply involved in the modern
green movement and has founded a number of organisations including
the Earth
Council Alliance.
recommended
reading:
At the United Nations, the Curious Career of
Maurice Strong -
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,250789,00.html
Maurice
Strong Biography - http://www.nationalcenter.org/DossierStrong.html
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James
Lovelock, guru of the Gaia Hypothesis and father of the
modern green movement. There is no need to establish Dr Lovelock's
Gaian credentials; he conceived the whole thing after all. He has
been one of the most vocal and extreme prophets of the coming climate
apocalypse. According to him "By the
end of this century the human population will be reduced to a few
breeding pairs subsisting near the North Pole."
Interestingly the good doctor has saved the world once before. In
1975 Sir James dramatically discovered that CFC's were destroying the
ozone layer which would shortly lead to our imminent demise. No doubt
controlling and eliminating CFC's was a test case for the big prize,
controlling and eliminating fossil fuels. His most recent
publication is entitled Homage
to Gaia.
"This
new interrelationship of Gaia with man is by no means fully
established; we are not yet a truly collective species, corralled and
tamed as an integral part of the biosphere, as we are as individual
creatures. It may be that the destiny of mankind is to become tamed,
so that the fierce, destructive, and greedy forces of tribalism and
nationalism are fused into a compulsive urge to belong to the
commonwealth of all creatures which constitutes Gaia."
– James Lovelock, Gaia: A New Look at Life
"What
if Mary is another name for Gaia? Then her capacity for virgin birth
is no miracle . . . it is a role of Gaia since life began . . . She
is of this Universe and, conceivably, a part of God. On Earth, she is
the source of life everlasting and is alive now; she gave birth to
humankind and we are part of her." – Sir James
Lovelock, Ages of Gaia
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Al
Gore, 'inventor of the internet and Global Warming'
has become the public face of the crusade to unite the world in the
fight against global warming. His devout Gaian views are scattered
liberally through the various books he has written the environment
and human spirituality. Al has formed an Alliance for Climate
Protection, using the funds from Live Earth, to push forward his
'call to action.' He recently announced a 300
million dollar advertising campaign
to raise public awareness and recruit an “army
of ten million climate activists.”
In his
book Earth
in the Balance,
Gore devotes no less than three chapters to the 'Earth Goddess.' He
states that "in
prehistoric Europe and much of the world was based on the worship
of a single earth goddess,
who was assumed to be the fount of all life and who radiated harmony
among all living things. Much of the evidence for the existence of
this primitive religion comes from the many thousands of artifacts
uncovered in ceremonial sites. These sites are so widespread that
they seem to confirm the notion that a goddess
religion
was ubiquitous through much of the world until the antecedents of
today's religions, most of which still have a distinctly masculine
orientation...swept out of India and the Near East, almost
obliterating belief in the goddess. The last vestige of organized
goddess worship was
eliminated by Christianity as late as the fifteenth century."
- Earth in the Balance, page 260
"The
fate of mankind, as well as of religion, depends upon the emergence
of a new faith in the future.' Armed with such a faith, we might find
it possible to resanctify
the Earth."
- Earth in the Balance
"This
we know: the Earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the Earth.
All things are connected like the blood that unites us all."
Earth in the Balance, page 259.
On the back cover of Earth
in the Balance the well-known New Ager M. Scott Peck states:
“Earth in Balance is a brilliantly
written, prophetic, even holy book, clearly pointing the way
we need to change to assure the survival of our children. I pray it
will have the dramatic impact it deserves – and must have for
our collective salvation.”
In the
United States the only operating carbon emissions trading market is
the Chicago
Climate Exchange
(CCX). Coincidentally, or not, Al Gore’s hedge fund, Generation
Investment Management, is the largest shareholder in CCX. Now that’s
what I call a conflict of interest! The most vocal Global Warming
alarmist is the largest shareholder in the USA’s only operating
‘carbon market.’ On the board of CCX we find our old
friend Maurice Strong.
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Mikhail
Gorbachev, formerly the President of the Soviet Union and
now the founder and chairman of Green Cross International, and the
Gorbachev Foundation. Attendees at his 1996 State of the World Forum
included New Age gurus Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Weaver, John Denver,
John Naisbitt, Carl Sagan, Ted Turner and Jane Fonda, Barbara Marx
Hubbard, Maurice Strong, Robert Muller, Dr. Deepak Chopra, and
Matthew Fox.
Gorbachev presided over the sudden collapse of
the Soviet empire. Perhaps he was removing one of the major obstacles
facing the Global Green Agenda. Since then he has been intimately
involved in politics of the environmental movement and is considered
to be one of its greatest champions. Gorbachev, in association with
Maurice Strong, was responsible for the production of the Earth
Charter.
"Nature is my god. To
me, nature is sacred; trees are my temples and forests are my
cathedrals." - Mikhail Gorbachev, 1990
“We
need a new paradigm of development in which the environment will be a
priority... World civilization as we know it will soon end... We have
very little time and we must act... If we can address the environment
problem, we have hope... but it will have to be done within a new
system, a new paradigm... We have to change our mindset - the way
humankind views the world." - Mikhail Gorbachev,
State of the World Forum, 1996
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Sir
Crispin Tickell, is considered to one of Britain's most
influential diplomats. He was the British Ambassador to Mexico
(1981-1983), Permanent Secretary of the Official Development
Assistance (1984-1987), British Ambassador to the United Nations and
Permanent Representative on the UN Security Council (1987-1990). He
chaired the British Government's 1994 Panel on Sustainable
Development. Tickell has been one of the most outspoken Global
Warming alarmists even though, like Al Gore, he has no scientific
training. His devout Gaian views are extremely obvious with just a
cursory glance at his website http://www.crispintickell.com/
Sir
Crispin has been or still is the chairman of: the Advisory
Committee of the Darwin Initiative for Survival of the Species, the
UK Marine Biologists Association, the International Institute for
Environment and Development, Earth Watch Europe, The Climate
Institute of Washington, DC; and he was or is the president
of: the Royal Geographical Society, the National Society for Clean
Air, the Gaia Foundation, and the Gaia Society for Research and
Education in Earth System Science. This Gaia Society is Sir Crispin's
personal contribution to the Earth Goddess, as it is dedicated to
creating a cult around the ideas and personages of eco-spiritualists
James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis.
"Gaia
has no particular tenderness for humans. We are no more than a small,
albeit immodest, part of her." – Sir Crispin
Tickell
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Prince
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, co-founder,
former President and current Patron of the World Wildlife Fund for
Nature (WWF). The Prince has been deeply involved in the green
movement since its inception. In 1971 he founded an organisation
called 'The
1001 Club: A Nature Trust'
to fund the activities of the WWF. This secretive Club contains quite
a few Club
of Rome members. The
Prince appears to adhere strongly to the Deep
Ecology
philosophy that considers humans to be nothing more than a
feral pest species that must be strictly controlled.
“In
the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly
virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.“
- Prince Philip, in his foreword to 'If I Were an Animal'
“It
is now apparent that the ecological pragmatism of the so-called pagan
religions, such as that of the American Indians, the Polynesians, and
the Australian Aborigines, was a great deal more realistic in terms
of conservation ethics than the more intellectual monotheistic
philosophies of the revealed religions.“ - Caring
for Creation, conference of the North American Conference on Religion
and Ecology
“I don't claim to
have any special interest in natural history, but as a boy I was made
aware of the annual fluctuations in the number of game animals and
the need to adjust the cull to the size of the surplus
population.“ - Preface to Down
to Earth by HRH Prince Philip
“We
talk about over- and underdeveloped countries; I think a more exact
division might be between underdeveloped and overpopulated. The more
people there are, the more industry and more waste and the more
sewage there is, and therefore the more pollution.“
- address to Edinburgh University Union
“If
the world pollution situation is not critical at the moment, it is as
certain as anything can be that the situation will become
increasingly intolerable within a very short time. The situation can
be controlled, and even reversed; but it demands cooperation
on a scale and intensity beyond anything achieved so far.“
- The Fairfield Osborne Lecture by HRH Prince Philip
“Human
population growth is probably the single most serious long-term
threat to survival. We're in for a major disaster if it isn't
curbed--not just for the natural world, but for the human world. The
more people there are, the more resources they'll consume, the more
pollution they'll create.“ - interview with HRH
Prince Philip
“The object of
the WWF is to `conserve' the system as a whole; not to prevent the
killing of individual animals. Those who are concerned about their
conservation of nature accept that all species are prey to some other
species. They accept that most species produce a surplus that is
capable of being culled without in any way threatening the survival
of the species as a whole.” - The Chancellor's
Lecture, Salford University
There is even a tribe in Vanuatu
who consider Prince
Philip to be a living god.
When told about this the Prince remarked that it was a
splendid idea and sent the tribe several portraits they could
worship, and has since visited them. Very strange!!
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Steven Schneider, Stanford Professor of Biology and Global Change. Professor Schneider was among the earliest and most vocal proponents of man-made global warming. He is most famous for stating that climatologists should only present the most dramatic and frightening scenarios and find their own balance between truth and lies. He has been a lead author of many IPCC reports, and was the editor of " Scientists on Gaia" in which he states "the Gaia Hypothesis has now become established in mainstream science." In 1988 also organised the first international conference to discuss "Gaia and Science".
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Sir
Richard Branson, multibillionaire and founder of the
Virgin group of companies. Sir Richard has certainly jumped on board
the Global Warming bandwagon in a big way. According to Branson
during a brief discussion over breakfast with Al Gore, "my
views on global warming were changed 180 degrees."
That Al guy sure must be persuasive! Branson has since pledged to
donate three billion dollars (!!) to "fund the fight against
climate change." Branson has also launched his 'Climate
Challenge' which offers a prize of $25 million to anyone who can
remove carbon dioxide fro the atmosphere. The panel of judges for
this challenge are Al Gore, James Lovelock, Sir Crispin Tickell, Tim
Flannery and James Hansen.
"It will have to be a mix
of the best solutions from all these areas that will win the battle
to keep CO2 levels below those at which Gaia will strike back at some
stage, and kill the problem - in this case us ." –
Richard Branson interview
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Dr Tim Flannery, Evolutionary Biologist and very well known environmental activist. He is the Australian version of Jane Goodall. Although Dr Flannery has no training in anything remotely related to climate science he is one of the worlds most vocal alarmists. He travels continuously around world giving lectures on 'the Climate Catastrophe' and often refers to Gaia as a sentient super-organism. His website is http://www.groveatlantic.com/timflannery.html
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Ted
Turner, multibillionaire and founder of CNN. Turner is
deeply involved in the Global Green Agenda. He donated more than a
billion dollars to the UN which was specifically tagged to fund the
IPCC. Turner personally conceived and produced 'Captain Planet' an
edu-tainment cartoon designed to brainwash our children.
"Gaia,
the spirit of Earth, awakens from a century long sleep to find the
Earth in peril. She summons five teenagers, the Planeteers, from
around the globe, and gives each of them a ring which controls an
element of nature - Earth, Fire, Wind, Water - and a special power,
Heart, which allows them to use their new powers wisely and
compassionately." -
http://www.turner.com/planet/mythology/index.html
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I could go on forever, listing literally dozens of other Club of Rome members who refer to the Earth as a sentient divine being called Gaia and are also very actively involved in the Climate Campaign. The Cult of Gaia and Global Warming are intimately entwined. In my next article, the Green Web, I will describe the vast network of organisations these men have set up to push through their nefarious agenda.