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Gaia’s Dance: The Story of Earth & Us Kindle Edition

by Elisabet Sahtouris (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Gaia’s Dance is Earth’s own enticing adventure story covering billions of years. Looking now through a telescope powerful enough to see Earth from a planet a few thousand light years away from us, we might see an ancient Greek storyteller relating the creation story of Gaia’s Dance. Evolution biologist Elisabet Sahtouris takes us through the scientific story of evolution showing parallels with the ancient story while unfoding it scientifically to reveal how our own amazing bodies trace their roots to ancient bacterial cooperatives and how the essence of biological evolution is a repeating maturation process in which youthful competition gives way to mature cooperation. Learning how our own smart molecule proteins manage our cellular economies shows how we ourselves can navigate the perfect storm of crises we face and mature quickly into a healthy, cooperative human future.

Comments on Gaia’s Dance:

Elisabet's vision of evolution as an endlessly repeating cycle of maturation from competition to cooperation at all levels reinforced the same beliefs I had acquired through my stem cell research. Her research and profoundly important conclusions mesmerized me. Elisabet's vision and beautiful mind resolve massive complexities into elegant simplicity.
—Bruce Lipton, pioneer in epigenetics, author of The Biology of Belief, Spontaneous Evolution and The Honeymoon Effect

A splendid book!
—Jean Houston, founder of Human Potential Movement and Mystery Schools; author of The Wizard of Us, along with 25 other books

In Gaia's Dance, Sahtouris leads us to experience the difference it makes when we see Earth not as a machine, but as a living being. If we all made that one, profound shift, the world would be transformed.
—Betty Sue Flowers, editor of Global Scenarios for Shell Oil, and books including Campbell's The Power of Myth, Jaworski's Synchronicity, and co-author of Presence; Human Purpose and the Field of the Future.
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    November 30, 2014
  4. Grade level
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About the Author

Elisabet Sahtouris PhD (www.sahtouris.com ) is an internationally known evolution biologist, futurist, author and speaker. With a post-doctoral degree at the American Museum of Natural History, she taught at MIT and the University of Massachusetts, contributed to the NOVA-Horizon TV series, is a fellow of the World Business Academy, and an advisor to Ethical Markets. Her venues include the World Bank, UN, Boeing, Siemens, Hewlett-Packard, South African Rand Bank, Caux Round Table, Tokyo International Forum, Xynteo TPT, the governments of the USA, Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands, Sao Paulo business schools, State of the World Forums, Bahrain banking conference, Sri Lanka Design. Author of EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution; A Walk Through Time: From Stardust to Us; and Biology Revisioned with Willis Harman

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00QFK4C1C
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 30, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 581 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 162 pages
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  • Pam Fitch
    5.0 out of 5 stars Yet another great author ringing the school bell. Time to get up. Time to wake up. Time to grow up. Let's go people!
    Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2023
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    The Time is Now. One for all and all for one. We've got this. Let's go people. What have we got to lose?
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  • Sherra Aguirre
    5.0 out of 5 stars This is a very important little book with a big ...
    Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2018
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    This is a very important little book with a big message. Elisabet Sahtouris, evolution biologist, tells the story of the earliest life on the planet, its evolution over billions of years, and how we humans as a very young species have a lot to learn from mother Earth. This epic tale for adults, lyrical and captivating, is spun as though she were telling a bedtime story to children. It makes the point that by following Gaia's example humanity can solve its most pressing and potentially devastating problems. Gaia's dance is a must read!
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  • sandy
    5.0 out of 5 stars I know see.
    Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2016
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    I attended a PTA meeting 30 years ago, and the speaker talked about how every child can learn it was just finding the right piece to unlock the puzzle. She projected on a screen a jumbled puzzle. Then she said, "cow". In a blink of an eye a cow appeared. That is what Elisabet Sahtouris book has done for me. I had the puzzle pieces just could not see the dance. Bless you.
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  • Richard Ohlrogge
    5.0 out of 5 stars The way the world should be seen!!
    Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2020
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    Sahtouris has formulated the concepts needed to allow humanity to alter its relationship with all that exists. This is more important today than it has ever been in the past!!
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  • Julian English
    5.0 out of 5 stars Brillliant view of our universe.
    Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2019
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    A must-read for every world citizen.
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  • Dean Challes
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2017
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    From God's mouth to Elisabet's pen.
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  • Johnsson JAN
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2015
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    A "must-read" for all human beings!
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  • Michael Dowd
    5.0 out of 5 stars A priceless and important read for teens and adults
    Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2015
    I first read Elisabet’s Sahtouris' beautifully written book, Gaia’s Dance, in manuscript form decades ago, and loved it. I found the manuscript in a box I had in storage a few years ago and read it again. I still love it!

    Few, if any, books take our current and best scientific understanding of Earth's history -- a.k.a., the Great Story, epic of evolution, or Big History -- and communicate it so clearly, playfully, and inspiringly.

    This well-told tale deserves a wide readership. I highly recommend it to everyone 10 years of age or older.

    I imagine my late mentors, Lynn Margulis and Thomas Berry, celebrating the publication of this book.

    Bravo, Elisabet!
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  • Liz Scott
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great read. Buy it!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 2, 2016
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    Everyone should buy this book. Beautiful read and good education for some i imagine.
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