The world will become peaceful, beautiful and abundant
IF WE CARE FOR OUR EARTH, GAIA

Our earth, Gaia, was personified as an old woman wearing shabby black clothes. She always had her arms outstretched as if asking for something, and thus she walked haltingly down the busy streets of a large city. She was largely ignored by the smart urbanites who passed her by. They always walked swiftly and turned their heads, for they did not wish to be distracted from “important business”. Others took pity on the old woman and placed a coin or loaves in her outstretched hands, but this did not seem to satisfy her. The pained expression on her face never changed.

As Gaia became more and more crippled, she was no longer able to reach the pedestrian precincts of the inner city, and so she sat forlorn on the outskirts where very few people passed her at all. One day a black limousine slowed down and stopped beside her. The window opened and someone threw a huge gold coin into her lap. Then the car drove off.

This seemed to be a breaking point for Gaia: she flung the coin high up into the air screaming “I DON’T NEED GOLD: I NEED LOVE!”. As she screamed with pain and rage, she transformed herself into a huge black whirlwind which tracked all over the earth’s surface to places where great damage had been done – open mines, polluted rivers, desecrated countryside. When she saw these places she wept bitterly, and wherever she passed, the whirlwind spilt the ground creating deep fissures and earthquakes.

When all places of destruction and violation had been visited and purged and cleansed, Gaia was able to rest. She chose a small green hill covered in meadow, and she slept for a long time. The outer mantel of an old woman dissolved, and Gaia mutated into a beautiful young girl who smiled in her sleep, dreaming of a new world where LOVE IS EVERYWHERE.