Californian here with a healthy blowing of raspberries: Lived through both Bay Area (1989) and Northridge (1994) quakes in same house. Both gave me a healthy respect for Mother Gaia when she rolls over on your ass.

Someone who is obsessed with Japan/Japanese Culture/Anime, etc. and attempts to act as if they were Japanese, even though they're far from it. They use Japanese words but usually end up pronouncing them wrong and sounding like total assholes. You can find alot of these faggots clogging up the forums of Gaia Online, hanging out in the international aisle of the supermarket, or crowding the manga section of your local bookstore.
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I love this show.

If you want to know about the important scientific research that lead to the theory of global warming, read "The Weather Makers" by Tim Flannery. It deals only in straight fact and refers to the earth as "Gaia" only once to make a point.

That being said: One of the coolest things I think that has ever been said about global warming came from Michael Crichton in an essay at the back of his book "State of Fear", which he took a lot of shit for, because people said he was painting environmental activists as dangerous violent radicals.

Now, follow me here. At the end of the book, he does an essay about eugenics. (basically that we can breed out human flaws and create a superior race.) Back in the 1800s, the theory of eugenics was supported by almost every prominent scientist. Black, white, etc. NOW it's considered to be racist and completely wrong by almost every prominent scientist.

I believe that global warming exists but the point is: getting too carried away without having a good base of knowledge can do more harm than good. And if you ask almost anyone about global warming (if you've done any serious non-pamphlet research) you'll find that they know very little about the facts behind it. Just like the people in this video.

I subscribed today just to post this...

I've listened (and loved) Banco De Gaia Mostly from compilations in the past. This song however, has got to be the most beautiful thing I've heard in years.

Thank you for the post!

"When I was in my teens and early twenties I read a lot of books about Buddhism, mysticism and similar subjects as I searched, like you do, for some deeper meaning to life than was being peddled by the consumer culture in which I had grown up. One recurring subject in many of these was Tibet, a mysterious country full of priests and monks, secret traditions and spiritual understanding, which was always written about in almost mythical terms as if it were more a legend than a real place somewhere north of India. I was fascinated by this ancient and inaccesible land where initiates could apparantly fly and yogis would be buried alive for days only to be dug up again alive and well after practising ancient techniques of bodily control, and I started to search for more books about the country, it's people and their beliefs."

- Banco De Gaia

Continued at http://www.banco.co.uk/tibet/

I had some wonderful trips to Banco De Gaia's music, the saddest and the happiest moments.

Quantummushroom is confusing religion with the belief in God, which are not the same thing.

There has always been a belief in 'the other', 'the cosmic attractor', 'the goddess', and even the worship of the mushroom, the moon and mother earth/Gaia. This is religion in the ancient shamanic sense and is more than 12,000 years old. It is almost certain that it has its roots in the psychedelic experience and is **boundary dissolving**.

Religion as we experience it today has only existed for 2,500 years and is a social control mechanism employed by governments everywhere in the world. With the decline of religion in most of the western world, governments have now invented 'terrorism' as the fear factor. Religion in this sense is **boundary building**.

Existentialism as proclaimed by Nietzsche is a third 'way' that denies both the very real religious/psychedelic experience AND the existence of a god, goddess, or higher cosmic attractor. Atheism does not necessarily equal existentialism, again Quantummushroom is confusing these things.

The third confusion here is 'kill the religion and you kill the civilization'. Almost right - kill the religion and you kill the culture would be more accurate.

Killing religion as Neitzsche says would lead to the death of culture and a descent into chaos. We know something today that Nietzsche didn't know, a little mathematical theory called Chaos Theory which is likely the most important discovery since the wheel. From the natural chaos a new order would arise, one free of culture and boundaries. Chaos is the source of imagination and all creation.

Religion is not based on faith - it is based upon the religious experience. The very real power of this experience has been seized upon and hijacked, and turned into something which takes a lot of faith to swallow, whilst retaining all of its original social power.

Finally, the US education system being crap has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with socialism. I agree with QM that socialism is facism in slow motion. I live in a country where people have fought and died for socialism and we have one of the best education systems in Europe. The reason the US education system is crap is because it is entirely culture bound.

Banco de Gaia ALWAYS gets upvote from me!!

*dances around the room*

In reply to your comment:
“I think you do not understand the principles of evolution. Nature did not *do* anyting and even if it did so, it would not do something "so that". Evolution is a process of natural selection, you make it sound like some nature-goddess like Gaia thought "Oh, let's make onions in a way that predators have to cry when trying to eat them."”

Living things are not designed, but Darwinian natural selection licenses a version of the design stance for them. We get a short cut to understanding the heart if we assume that it is 'designed' to pump blood. Karl von Frisch was led to investigate colour vision in bees (in the face of orthodox opinion that they were colour-blind) because he assumed that the bright colours of flowers were 'designed' to attract them. The quotation marks are designed to scare off mendacious creationists who might otherwise claim the great Austrian zoologist as one of their own. Needless to say, he was perfectly capable of translating the design stance into proper Darwinian terms.

I think you do not understand the principles of evolution. Nature did not *do* anyting and even if it did so, it would not do something "so that". Evolution is a process of natural selection, you make it sound like some nature-goddess like Gaia thought "Oh, let's make onions in a way that predators have to cry when trying to eat them."

Living things are not designed, but Darwinian natural selection licenses a version of the design stance for them. We get a short cut to understanding the heart if we assume that it is 'designed' to pump blood. Karl von Frisch was led to investigate colour vision in bees (in the face of orthodox opinion that they were colour-blind) because he assumed that the bright colours of flowers were 'designed' to attract them. The quotation marks are designed to scare off mendacious creationists who might otherwise claim the great Austrian zoologist as one of their own. Needless to say, he was perfectly capable of translating the design stance into proper Darwinian terms.

I think you do not understand the principles of evolution. Nature did not *do* anyting and even if it did so, it would not do something "so that". Evolution is a process of natural selection, you make it sound like some nature-goddess like Gaia thought "Oh, let's make onions in a way that predators have to cry when trying to eat them."

Wow, nice edit. Harrison Ford, Sean Young, Rutger Hauer, even Daryl Hannah all in their prime. It's interesting to see where these actors went from here!

On the music, I remember first hearing and buying Mezzanine while in Istanbul for a few months. It made for interesting music to pass the time while on overnight hydrofoil and bus outings, coupled with the likes of DJ Keoki, John Coltrane, System 7, Jesse Cook, The Prodigy, Banco de Gaia, DJ Shadow, and a few others... I had kind of a surreal summer! (b^-^)b

An inconvenient crock of absolute shit!

"Global Warming, is a tick, upon the hairy, un-groomed ass, of Gaia, poised to fist-fuck into oblivion, the short-armed, reachers, attempting to excise her, before identifiing her, as a malignant carcinoma."
-Choggie Kendall

Gotta give it up to the methane camp-Keeping more cows than one needs causes noxious gas-to have to deal with locally and otherwise-So do people living in concentrated areas, starting fires, and pockets of methane in landfills. Forest fires from lightni9ng strikes, volcanic eruptions,(and steadiy fuming of the same) Gaia's seapage from under the ocean and into the air. Does not our effulgence pale in comparision? Show me some hard data which will unequivically smash seasoned common sense? Fer crissakes, even the tree huggers will agree, more carbon dioxide means more lush foliage!