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Gaia, the Planetary Religion : the Sacred Marriage of Art and Science University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014 1-1-1994 Gaia, the planetary religion : the sacred marriage of art and science. Doctress Neutopia University of Massachusetts Amherst Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_1 Recommended Citation Neutopia, Doctress, "Gaia, the planetary religion : the sacred marriage of art and science." (1994). Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014. 5144. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_1/5144 This Open Access Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact [email protected]. GAIA, THE PLANETARY RELIGION: THE SACRED MARRIAGE OF ART AND SCIENCE A Dissertation Presented by DOCTRESS NEUTOPIA Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF EDUCATION February 1994 School of Education GAIA, THE PLANETARY RELIGION: THE SACRED MARRIAGE OF ART AND SCIENCE A Dissertation Presented by DOCTRESS NEUTOPIA Approved as to style and content by: o W. J.Jackson, Dejan 1 of Education Copyright by Doctress Neutopia 1994 All Rights Reserved DEDICATION GAIA The World Soul: Past, Present, and Future ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My profound thanks to dame Phyllis Rodin for engaging me in long deep conversations about the life-force. I would also like to thank my committee members: Dr. Robert Baker for encouraging me to do a traditional work of scholarship; Dr. Jack Wideman for supporting my efforts after searching for one long year for an outside member; and especially Dr. Robert Wellman for chairing the committee and taking such exceptional interest in my work. Also thanks to Charles Frances Carroll who edited the manuscript and coined the word "lovolution." Finally, thanks to all my friends, visible and invisible, wherever you are! Friendship is the outgrowth of true education. v ABSTRACT GAIA, THE PLANETARY RELIGION: THE SACRED MARRIAGE OF ART AND SCIENCE FEBRUARY 1994 DOCTRESS NEUTOPIA, B.A., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST M.A., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Ed.D., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Directed by: Professor Robert Wellman As the human race approaches the 21st Century, the world's spiritual, political, social, economic, educational, and scientific philosophies appear out of balance with the emerging global consciousness brought forth by today's advancing technologies. Former President Bush's New World Order is really the same old nation state order of international anarchy. All the ancient problems seem to have reached a critical point. Now, a critical idealism in education, which is a call for spiritual action, is necessary in order to have the power to bond like-minds to cure our ancient social diseases. The scientific and social movement which scientist James Lovelock named the Gaia theory, named after the Greek Goddess of the Earth, is on the verge of creating world-wide evolutionary change. My dissertation attempts to help create a Gaian philosophy of planetary education based on love between the sexes by analyzing the function of epic poetry. vi TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS . V ABSTRACT.vi CHAPTER 1. THE PURPOSE OF EDUCATION.1 Introduction . 1 Background to the Study.7 Aim of the Study.16 Guiding Questions.18 2. A NEUTOPIAN ALTERNATIVE: TRANSFORMING THE GLOBAL SHOPPING MALL.23 Introduction.23 The Need for a Long-term Vision.24 The Good City.26 Slavery to the House.27 A New Communal Architecture.30 Planet Metropolis.31 Lust for Isolation.33 The Alienation of the Built Environment.35 An Ecological Revolution.36 The Neutopian Vision.39 A Holistic World View.41 Where are the Social Healers?.42 Neutopia vs. the Global Corporations . 44 Time for Millenarian Activity.45 The Role of the Prophetess/Prophet.49 Summary.53 3. NEUTOPIA: A FEMINIST THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE. ... 54 Introduction.54 The Division of Space.57 Making History.59 Creating a Balanced System of Child-Rearing ... 65 The Wall Around Paradise.67 Ancient Totalitarianism: Chinese Architecture. 68 The Industrial Revolution and the Home.72 The Connection-Separation Question.75 Women and the Architectural Profession.79 Summary.86 4. ARCHITECTURAL ARCHETYPES.87 • • Vll Introduction . 87 Our Earliest Dwellings . 88 The Primitive Hut.89 The Trap.. The Structures of Power.. The Goddess Civilization.95 The First Temples.. Archetypal Theory.103 Megalithic Architecture.105 The Column.. Summary.. 5. THE FAILURE OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE AND THE VISION OF ECOCITIES.116 Introduction.116 The Rule of Symmetry.116 Slaves to Market Forces . 118 Visions of Ecocities . 126 Intelligent Architecture . 132 The Need for a Lovolution.13 3 World of Arcologies.136 Summary.140 6. HOW CHILDREN VISUALIZE HOME: A STUDY OF AN ARCHETYPE.142 Introduction.142 The American Dream.142 Universal Patterns.147 The Image of Home.149 The Changing Laws of Art.153 Drawing Development.156 Logos and Mythos.161 Mythos and Love.163 The Origins of Art.165 Primitive and Modern Artists.166 The Collective Wisdom.174 Summary.177 7. THE FUNCTION OF EVOLUTIONARY LOVE.178 Introduction . 178 The Ways of Aphrodite and Eros.180 A World of Juno and Genius.185 The Metaphysics of Sex.187 Poetry as Leader.191 The One World Mind.194 Summary.198 • • • Vlll 8. THE VIRGIN MOTHER AND THE DIVINE CRONE.199 Introduction . 199 Breaking the Incest Barrier . 199 The Divine Role of the Crone.201 The Relationship Between the Hera and the Hero 203 Returning to the Garden.209 Men's Part in Reproduction.210 Mother Mary and Mary Magdalen.213 The Secret Sexual Knowledge . 217 Christian Clones . 219 The Brain Cells of Gaia.222 Power of Ideas.225 Gaia is the Supreme Being(s) 229 Summary.232 9. WORLD-ARRANGING BEAUTY . 234 Introduction . 234 The Organic World.234 The Steady-State Vs The Ever-Growing Model of Development . 238 Will We Have a Metamorphosis?.241 A Call for a Love Magician.248 A Royal Marriage of True Minds.250 The Position of the Philosopheress/Philosopher 254 The End of History.256 Summary.260 10. THE INFORMATION INVOLUTION.262 Introduction . 262 The Oral Defense.262 The Internet Connection . 265 The Global Network Academy . 270 The Architectural Plan of UU-GNA.275 The Suppressive Regime of UU-GNA . 277 An Alternative: Neutopian Transversity .... 279 Student-Teacher Relationship . 281 The Mission of Neutopian Transversity . 282 The Neutopian Administration . 286 Architectural Plan of the Neutopian Transversity 287 The Neutopian Rituals . 290 Summary.290 BIBLIOGRAPHY . 292 ix CHAPTER 1 THE PURPOSE OF EDUCATION Introduction The overwhelming problems of the world have brought us to the verge of species' extinction. To overcome such extreme problems in human and environmental welfare reguires radical changes in our life-styles, family relationships, world ethics, and general way of thinking about life. We must move in a direction opposite to the destructive force of world capitalism. In The Nation. Kirkpatrick Sale writes, What would it take to accomplish the serious, wrenching, full-scale readjustments that in fact are necessary to save the earth, including reduced standards of living, consumption and growth; severe population reduction; and a new, modest, regardful relationship with the earth and its species? Who is going to carry this literally vital message to the American people? And when? For the time, as every new crisis lets us know, is later than we think (595). It is the task of the educator to direct us to a more evolved state of consciousness where we can begin to plan a solar-powered feminist civilization, or what I call, Neutopia, where the ancient ills of racism, sexism, classism, and the like have been eliminated. What are the educational tools and who are the educators who can bring an awakening of this worldwide magnitude? The German philosopher, G.W.F. Hegel, in his work On the Arts states, Poetry's chief task, it has been said, is to bring to consciousness the powers of our spiritual existence: all the to and fro in human passion and emotion or that runs tranguilly through our thoughts—the full range of human ideas, behavior, productivity, and all else that 1 pertains to the world's destiny or divine governance. In this respect, poetry has been and is still mankind's [sic] primary and most universal teacher. To teach and learn means to know and experience for one's self what is (144). The poetic mission of education, to know thyself, has been corrupted by the greed and short-term gains of the military/industrial complex, so much so that "civilization" is in a state of chaos. People have lost sense of the meaning of life. War, crime, and oppression dominate the 24 hour news reports. An oligarchy, i.e., government by the dominate clique of wealthy and politically powerful families, channels the capitalistic ideology through education and the mass media. As the current situation continues to deteriorate, the question is: are the wisest, most noble people with the best judgment, abilities, and sense of global ethics in charge of education and the media? Certainly, the answer must be negative, since educators and the media have not revolutionized our world into a just social order, but are being used to stupefy the public in order to maintain the destructive consumer behaviors of the status quo. Now, it seems as though we live in a kakistocracy, a government by the worst people who, lacking long-term vision or social imagination, suppress enlightened visionaries, the artistic and scientific mythmakers. Mechanistic Neo-Darwinism and its technologies have become a brutal enemies of the arts, humanities, and organic sciences. The mystical, biospiritual parts of humankind's nature are being swept out the doors of our institutes of higher learning.
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