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The second group, the “Earth-Religion Group,” is much more cautious in its
approach to research. These people are concerned about inter-relationships between
biomes and want to know what effect any experimentation is going to have at a local
level as well as the regional, hemispheric, and global levels. Regardless of whether
any individual in this group believes that the Earth is a sentient being or not, he
or she has a “feel” for the idea that any single change does not occur in isolation,
but that one change results in everything being changed to some degree. These
folks often scream loudly at congressional hearings that an environmental impact
statement is either needed or is incomplete, that animals are in need of protection
from man, or that unchecked nuclear testing on the environment is a threat to all
life. This group has done much to improve not only the living conditions of man
but those of all organisms. In general, this group has done more than any other
first because it is very active at the national level, and secondly because it is already
large and growing in numbers every day.
The third group is almost completely unknown except in the so-called “backwards
Third World countries” where shamanistic or animistic practices are still prevalent,
yet this is the group which will be dealt with most specifically in this chapter.
The central idea is that man does not live on earth but on Middle-earth (Middle
World in the terms of neo-shamanism; Midgard in ON) which is situated between an
Upperworld and a Lowerworld. This Middleworld or Midgard does not nor can not
exist in isolation but is dependent upon the Upper- and Lowerworlds for sustenance.
In more modern terms, it could be said that “earth” is but part of a greater whole.
A modern, scientific analogy is that this world that we call the Earth belongs locally
to the solar system, regionally to the Milky Way galaxy on a broader scale, and to
the Universe on the broadest of scales. Additionally, there is no single point where
“earth” stops and the rest of the solar system begins. Elementary particles, photons,
neutrinos, and electrons, travel from the sun to the earth which in turn interacts with
moon and neighboring planets gravitationally; comets and asteroids travel about on
a larger scale. The Hubble telescope has revealed to us that the solar system is but a
minuscule archipelago of planets and planetoids floating in galaxy-sized seas of gas.
This is accepted by most of the scientific community regardless of the group they
belong to. Not only is Earth part of a larger whole but its edges are continuous with
the larger whole as well. In fact, everything that is acknowledged by the second
group is also acknowledged by this third group but the idea that effects, results,
repercussions and reverberations are not only felt upon the planet but throughout
the entire Universe to some degree at least. Even though these scientists usually
accept quantum physics and chaos theory viable models for explaining the workings
of the universe, they still have a difficult time moving from the idea that the universe
a “sterile thing” to the idea that it is “alive.”