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> `We come now to the idea of the Gaeia Universe, where the whole of the
> Universe would be a single living entity of which all mankind is barely an
> organelle. But unlike the organisms of Earth, the elements of the
> Universe, energy and matter, are not connected by the bloody and battering
> interaction of consumption that we experience on Earth, but by the same
> forces of physics and mechanics which govern the aforementioned
> astronomical principles. The concept of pantheism proposes an additional
> connection, one of an overarching divine presence. In this divinity, mind
> and matter are one, and all things in the Universe are evenly
> connected'' --B.D. Abramson