Gaia: A Primordial Spirit

The earth has always been looked at in various cultures as the all-giving mother. She is revered and even personified as a beautiful goddess and even though she is given many names throughout various periods and cultures, there is a striking similarity between them all. I for one believe that the ancients were right in their conclusions of a life giving goddess. Not only believe them, but I experienced her for myself during a psilocybin experiment. 

During my psilocybin experiment #1, I witnessed infinity. It was life-changing, to say the least, but something happened during the comedown of the experiment that truly baffled me. After coming back from infinity, I laid on my couch just marveling at the colors and euphoria that I was feeling. As I gazed at my ceiling, I began to see a woman forming in the space between me and the ceiling. Her abdomen and stomach started to form, and then her breast, then her head and legs, and then her hair formed and I can only describe it as an old oak tree the way her hair fanned out across my living room. She didn't say anything, she just gazed at me and I gazed back. I felt this extreme sense of love and oneness with nature while she was there and it sent me down a rabbit hole of research on this beautiful goddess.

Gaia, as she is mostly known by, was the Greek goddess Mother Earth, and all of the Olympian gods came from her. She is considered a primordial being, and is, according to the beliefs of various cultures, an ancestor of the universe itself. Even Zeus, the king of the Gods, is descended from Gaia. 

Amongst the indigenous people of Sikkim, a state in India, are the Lepcha people. Their traditional, syncretic religion is called Mun, and their chief goddess is none other than.... Nozyongynu: The all-loving mother goddess. 

When one hears the word Papa, they might immediately think of a male figure, but once upon a time this word was not synonymous with "dad." The ancient Polynesians that resided on the Island of Hawaii called their chief goddess Papa who almost exactly resembles the greek god of Gaia and the Lechan goddess Nozyongynu. 

Who is this primordial feminine spirit that so many ancient religions  referred to as the life-giving mother? Even though 1000's of years ago when world travel was nonexistent, there seems to be a striking similarity between the various religions and cultures when pertaining to this spirit. Today we just refer to her as "Mother Earth" and even non-religious/spiritual people use the term. No matter what she is called, she seems to have made herself present throughout the evolution of humans on this planet, and she seems to have an interest in people under the influence of psychedelics, including myself. This begs the questions: Have we as humans been eating these psychedelic substances for millennia and describing what we see under the influence as gods? Or is there some truth behind these visions and these gods/goddesses actually exist in other realms, only to be perceived when our ego dissolves away while under the influence of psychedelics? I tend to lean toward the latter, and after experiencing her for myself, I look at nature through a completely different lens now. Maybe there is more to the universe than what we can readily see and perceive.

The Cosmic Machine awaits us all...