After humans landed on the moon and we saw our planet from afar, Campbell recognized the necessity for new mythologies to be born. He said:
*The only myth that is going to be worth thinking about in the immediate future is one that is talking about the planet, not the city, not these people, but the planet, and everybody on it....When you see the earth from the moon, you don't see any divisions there of nations or states. This might be the symbol, really, for the new mythology to come. (The planet) is the country that we are going to be celebrating.
Thomas Berry* concurs when he says: It’s all a question of story...We are in trouble… because we do not have a good story. We are between stories. The old story, the account of how we fit into it, is no longer effective. Yet we have not learned the new story.
Which brings me back to CHOOSING. How do I, how do we, choose to live on this teensy planet? We, the evolutionary newbies living here, are also the dominators, the manipulators, the destroyers of life systems so intricate that they are still beyond the understanding of modern science. But we are also the consciousness of Gaia, the awe-filled ones, the meaning makers and the lovers of life.