From an interview with David Perkins on one of my favorite podcasts, Conspirinormal. (Don’t let the name scare you, Adam Sayne has featured some of my most enlightening and sometimes challenging conversations on the web.) David Perkins, who is most well known for his research into cattle mutilations, presents an alternative to the crunchy granola conception of Gaia. Instead of limiting Gaia by picturing her as Mother Earth, Perkins’ expanded view appreciates Gaia’s “survival strategies” in the larger context of a space age mythology:
1:23:00 - And so I think one of our survival strategies is to get off the planet ultimately, and then Gaia, perhaps, this is totally speculative…its goal is to keep life teeming. And what life does is it fills up every nook and cranny that it can possibly fill up in our biosphere; from the most extremophile things that live in volcanic vents, to things that tardigrades that are living in our atmosphere. Things that nothing should be able to live (in). That life will fill up every single space available to it, that’s its nature. In our case, if we get hit by an asteroid, and now we consciously know this, we can lose every bit of DNA that’s been thrust forward on this planet, and it will be gone forever… So if you were thinking like Gaia, you’d better like prime these humans to get it’s act together to spread this DNA out…If Gaia is priming us to become a spacefaring civilization which it appears to me that it is, and in that case, we can see that things like UFO’s and mysterious mutilations, and the whole range of paranormal phenomena are basically keying us for that eventuality.
BTW that’s Adam and Serafiel’s 376th podcast!!! They’ll be hosting the 2021 Strange Realities conference again this year, October 15-17 with a streaming option. They pivoted seamlessly to streaming for last year’s conference when other larger conferences fumbled, so it’s worth checking out.