“Could this broad movement provide a cosmological underpinning for an ecocivilization? In Becoming Gaia: On the Threshold of Planetary Initiation, the philosopher Sean Kelly suggests that our planetary crisis might have the potential to catalyze a new form of planetary awareness: a “Gaian consciousness” characterized by an awakening to our deeper nature as sentient manifestations of the living Earth, or Gaia. From this perspective, Gaia itself is envisaged as the ultimate locus of belonging and spiritual participation, with the world’s conventional religions as metaphysical tributaries offering specific viewpoints grounded in a deeper, shared nexus of meaning. This expanding planetary consciousness is paralleled by a similar scientific trajectory. “ — Lent, Jeremy. EcoCivilization: Making a World That Works For All. Melville House, 2026. p.322.