Gaia refers to the Mother Earth as a living spiritual entity, the first deity born out of the chaos, as per ancient Greek civilisation. There have been lost civilisations that believed in the earth as a living spiritual being, which opened doors to a mutual adaptive process within all the life that develops and flourishes upon earth. It is a philosophical, or rather mystical, approach that certain civilisations across the world adopted. Later, with the advent of scientific materialism, Earth started being treated as dead matter meant to be exploited by mankind for its selfish and utilitarian purposes.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
