Positive Chronicles - East of eden by Dr Kailash Vajpeyi "Man is
no longer to be the measure of all things, the center of the
universe. He has been measured and found to be an
undistinguished bit of matter, different in no essential way
from bacteria, stones and trees. His goals and purposes, his
egocentric notions of past, present and future; his faith in his
power to predict and through prediction to control his
destiny—all these are called into question, considered
irrelevant, or deemed trivial." When Leonard B. Meyer yanked man
down from the exalted status assigned him by the Judeo-Christian
tradition, in his 1963 book, The End of Renaissance?, he
triggered off a radical shift in the relationship between man
and nature. Today, that understanding goes variously by the name
of Gaia or Deep Ecology. The Gaia hypothesis postulates that
Planet Earth is a living organism that adjusts and regulates
itself like any other organism and that for 3.5 billion years,
microbes, plants and animals have co-evolved with th