permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>]

Do you hold Lovelock's Gaia concept, and the theories of other advocates 
of this view of our Earth's geo-electro-bio systems,
as still accurate and useful?

I do and have wholeheartedly embraced the Gaia Concept. It was very 
perceptive of Toby to include Gaia in the title of his famous book;
it opens many doors for inquiry as does permaculture itself. As Mollison 
said: "The only limit to possibilities for a permaculture design is the 
imagination of the designer".

Other food for thought:

preternatural:

From Wikipedia:
"The preternatural or praeternatural is that which appears outside or 
beyond (Latin præter) the natural. In contrast to the supernatural, 
preternatural phenomena are presumed to have rational explanations that 
are, as of yet, unknown.

The term is often used to distinguish from the divine (supernatural) 
while maintaining a distinction from known and understood nature in any 
given culture and time period. For instance, in the Abrahamic religions, 
the angels, both holy and fallen, are endowed with preternatural powers. 
Their intellect, speed, and other characteristics are explained to be 
beyond the capabilities of humans, but still limited or finite."