Many indigenous traditions and modern spiritual frameworks view Earth as a living, sacred entity. In these traditions, the planet is often called "Mother Earth" or Gaia, possessing a collective life force, consciousness, or planetary spirit that connects all living things.

Does the earth have a soul? Certainly. The earth represents the Mother aspect of the Divine. It is on earth that Matter and Spirit will find their absolute fulfilment through their reciprocal help and complete union. Matter will see through the eye of the Spirit's vision. Spirit will flower by awakening and energising Matter to become a perfect basis of physical immortality and human transformation on earth.

Each Human and Each Thing in The Universe has a Soul. The difference between the Souls of Things and the Souls of Humans is a matter of their Degree of Evolution.

The concept of Earth as a living organism is most notably formalized by the Gaia hypothesis (or Gaia theory), developed by scientist James Lovelock and microbiologist Lynn Margulis in the 1970s.