The Grand Imperative of the Occupy movement is “Abolish Empire and Establish Earth Community.”1 The working preamble to their declaration of independence notes the newly created community will not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, sex, or anyway people want to have sex. They also claim not to discriminate against religion, a claim no doubt believed by many in the movement, but this cannot be true and at the same time be true for the spirit of the emerging Earth Community. The spirit behind the Occupiers’ earth community is one part New Age; which has some very divisive things to say about the religious.
Actually, the grand imperative might well be translated: ‘Occupy – Join or Die.’
The Occupy movement draws attention to its authority to create a world community by citing a “spiritual awakening,” and to its ability to usher it in on a “critical mass” of this shared spirituality now being attained.2 To understand what this spirituality demands requires we recognize the Occupiers’ Earth Community is a Gaia Community.
The goddess Gaia is the life force of the earth and the mother of all creation because she allowed humans to evolve. Apart from those experiencing the Occupiers’ spiritual awakening are bad humans who deplete the earth’s resources, and threaten her life with pollution and climate change (still means anthropomorphic warming). Although they are often industrious and hardworking, they are selfish because they resent having their property confiscated and given to those who won’t work.
The Occupiers’ concept of social justice can fix the inequity problem, but it cannot reconcile the bad people.
