This essay is of supreme importance. First, it calls us to think with open minds about fundamental aspects of life. It challenges our attempts to verbalize concepts that do not readily lend themselves to verbal reduction.
Considering the concept of original Source, the One Mind, the Creative Essence, God, it’s sole source of material to use for creation was/is itself.
Life and consciousness resulted indicating life and consciousness is an essence of original source. That being the case, it seems reasonable to conclude that all creation is living and shares some degree of conscience mind. When created substance gathers together into a self organizing unit it has become an organism. Such is our conscious organism Gaia.
Evolutionary selection applies to a myriad of living organisms, but there are great self organizing creatures such as Gaia that compete only with themselves.