Gaia:-

Greek word for the Earth Mother Goddess.

GAIA THEORY

This is the theory that planet Earth is a self-regulating organism, it was put forward by the British biologist James E. Lovelock in the early 1970's. Lovelock accepts that he was not the first to come up with this theory as in 1958 Alfred Redfield also offered the idea of the planet controlling a homeostasis. His main hypothesis was that the whole planet is biologically controlled by self regulation of all living things on planet Earth.

The belief is that humans along with all other life forms contribute too and are affected by all other life forms, this in turn creates a homeostasis. Those that do not support this theory believe instead that the Earth was created and is maintained by serendipity ? (happy coincidence), it is for the Gaia theory that our Ecology section is put under this heading along with recommended sites. The whole team at Mystical World Wide Web support any organisation that is attempting to correct some of the destructive nature of "Man and Commerce".