One of the first researchers to propose the planet having a bigger impact in paranormal phenomena than we give it credit for was Ivan T. Even the patron saint himself (Charles Fort) in his introduction to Lo! (1931) predicted that: “Someday there may be organic science or the interpretation of all phenomenal things in terms of an organism that comprises all”. Among researchers of Forteana, there have always been a few who suspect strange manifestations –from lights in the sky to all sorts of things that go bump in the night– have something to do with the planet itself. With the case of Gaia, New Agers regarded it as scientific ‘proof’ that the Earth is not only alive, but also endowed with some sense of planetary consciousness Lovelock was deeply against such ‘mystical’ interpretations and rejected them publicly.īut New Age ‘tree-huggers’ are not the only ones who embraced Gaia and ran with it. In 1972* Lovelock proposed such an idea when he conceived the whole planet Earth as if it were a giant superorganism, with its myriad of complex biological and non-biological systems acting in tandem as a single entity towards a state of delicate balance.Īnother inconvenient thing with ideas that change the paradigm, is they often take a life of their own and move in directions not intended by their original creators. The second sign is in how simple and obvious it feels to younger generations. The first sign of how potentially revolutionary an idea will be is measured by how much it is rejected at the time it is proposed. The family of the UK scientist reported last week that he had just died peacefully on his 103 rd birthday. Such is the case of the Gaia hypothesis, which was originally proposed by polymath and environmental pioneer James Lovelock. When it comes to scientific ideas, most of them are forgotten almost as soon as they are published in a peer-reviewed journal but there are precious few of them which serendipitously arrive at just the exact moment and time, and those are the ones that manage to change the whole world.
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