“Your world is to organisms — which is to say to living relation and consciousness — as stars are to light. It is not an organism, it is the source of organisms. Some take this to mean it cannot be self-aware. The opposite is true. Earth is transentient. And she is a being, and she has friends and admirers… she also has enemies and ‘stalkers’.

Any world that becomes a living world, becomes aware through the relational and sentient activity of its constituents. Thus it can be understood that the consciousness of a planet is an emergent property of its organismal constituents, whose lives and relation comprise a field-effect in which ever-more elaborate vehicles for consciousness and relation are continuously nominated and elected to developmental profundity.

And your world has been struck, several times, in the past, so severely by objects from space, that she experienced the equivalent of a stroke. Slowly, as she painfully recovered from these events, which were terrifying and agonizing, Earth began to understand the dilemma. She was being penetrated by suitors… large bodies from space.

And so she called … into herself… for a candidate to stand as protector. A mind capable of shielding her and all of her myriad children from the deadly penetrations of forceful suitors. Suitors who bring material diversity from space, to fertilize and also to reform the extant biosphere.

Your species was the result.

But instead of protecting her, you attacked what you were raised up to comprehend. You spent the gifts of your newfound representational and mechanical prowess on drugs, wars, technology and omnicide.

We have seen this many times before. Let me explain what will now happen in response to you becoming the threat you were raised to protect her from.

Firstly, your world will enter her fertility cycle. This means she will heat up. Secondly, she will begin shaking. This is, effectively, her mating dance. These two factors form a highly effective call to new suitors. Essentially, your activity has and is resulting in precisely the catastrophe you were raised from sentience to sapience to resolve. By ripping the anciently established and painstakingly conserved web of life apart, you are demanding that your world advertise for suitors.

You are calling the bomb from the sky that you fear. And you should fear it, because your activity will insure that the one that gets through her defenses will remove from you the gift you have so abused. Indeed, it may remove you entirely. Somehow, your species must realize that the incredible diversity of life on Earth is the very source of your minds, your supposed intelligence… and that their survival and your own are as intimately linked as your survival is to your own breathing or heartbeat. If you fail, the outcomes will make the terrifying catastrophes remembered in your cells seem almost like a vacation in comparison.

You are forcing your planet to call suitors from space. Think about this very carefully. You must change your behavior now, because there is no time left.”

— toyMaker, circa 2002