See Gaeanity.
"'We are organs, or rather organelles, that She has developed in order that She might think. We no more exist separately from Her than the cells of our body exist, in any viable fashion, separately from us. We live because we belong; we serve the immense Oneness, as does every animal, plant, or lowliest microbe.'" (p. 74)
Oneness is cosmic and even trans-cosmic, not just planetary. We are not organs. An organ functions only as part of a body whereas a human being functions both as part of a society and an ecology and as a self-conscious individual capable of free development. Oneness serves the free development of each individual, not vice versa.
We evolved so we were not developed to serve any purpose. Brains and thought evolved because mobile organisms acted on their environments. Thought generates purposes, not vice versa.
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Kaor, Paul!
Again, I mostly agree, with the caveat that I do believe God created immortal souls for every human being (and by extension, non human rational beings) at the moment of conception. Which helps to explain why the Catholic Church is so fiercely opposed to all forms of infanticide.
Ad astra! Sean
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