Talk:Gaia, Inc.

relationship to GaiamTV

So what exactly is the connection between Gaiam and GaiamTV. (The latter seems to be owned now by the former, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lime_TV)? Thanks 84.174.57.23 (talk) 19:46, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

GaiamTV is a video subscription service offered by Gaiam at gaiamtv.com and through Roku players. GaiamTV is managed directly from the Gaiam corporate office in Colorado.Kemery720 (talk) 21:52, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

PROD

A PROD tag was added noting that the article was rated as a stub and that it needed work. I agree it needs work... every single article I have ever read on the site needs work. Notability might be a reason for deletion, but it will need to go through the deletion process. Killing an article because it needs work is not an ideal approach to growing the encyclopedia.Unfriend14 (talk) 15:17, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Real name

Gaiam? GaiamTV? - Was confused by believe that Gaiam TV is a division of Gaiam which has since spun off into its own company (Gaia). Placed a blurb in the intro. If I'm wrong, no objection to changing it back. --CNMall41 (talk) 00:50, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

Gaia and Nazca, Peru 3-fingered/toed mummy

Someone might want to monitor this story and add it, or add a link to it, in this article if it turns out to be a major discovery and not a hoax:

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2017/06/23/hoax-or-not-3-fingered-humanoid-mummy-reportedly-found-in-peru-sparks-skepticism.html Phantom in ca (talk) 05:56, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

Gaia has a 2nd free video about "Maria", the mummy, at: https://www.gaia.com/lp/unearthing-nazca-members/

Phantom in ca (talk) 06:27, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

Content ratios

I's struggling to find evidence that yoga is the largest content type on the site. Yoga videos seem to comprise <25% of its content (series, films, articles, topic categories, featured front page content). T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 03:21, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

User of the descriptor pseudoscience

It's been raised a few times in the edit history (example) as to whether the topics covered by Gaia constitute pseudoscience or not. The topic list from gaia.com/topics (below) contains a large number of topics that would be uncontroversially described as pseudoscience.

• Afterlife
• Aliens
• Alternative Realities
• Ancient Civilizations Decoded
• Ancient Egypt
• Ancient Lost Technology
• Angels
• Ayurveda
• Be The Change
• Breathing
• Cabal
• Cancer — Alternative Views
• Channeling
• Chakras
• Chemtrails
• Conscious Parenting
• Contact Experiences
• Crop Circles
• Disclosure
• Divination
• Dream World
• Earth Day
• Eastern Spirituality
• Emotional Healing
• Energy Healing
• Financial System
• Finding Happiness
• Forbidden Science
• Heart-Centered Living
• Holographic Universe
• Illuminati Symbols
• Indigenous Cultures
• Inspirational People
• Inspiring Documentaries
• Intention & Co-Creation
• Longevity
• Manifesting Success
• Meditation for Beginners
• Mindfulness
• Mind Potential
• Nutrition
• Occult
• Origin of Men
• Pain Management
• Pharmaceuticals
• Pineal Gland
• Plant Medicine
• Psychedelics
• Psychic Abilities
• Sacred Geometry
• Sacred Relationships
• Sacred Sites
• Science & Technology
• Secret Space Program
• Shamans
• Spiritual Alchemy
• Spiritual Teachers
• Sound Healing
• Stress Relief
• Sustainability
• Universal Consciousness
• World Religions
• Yoga Off the Mat

Video adverts for the company currently also push some pretty fringe conspiracy theories, which it might be reasonable to move to the lead sentence. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 02:14, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

Removing non encyclopedic/relevant content from Gaia section

Removing the non-encyclopedic, unsourced, and really non relevant content about cancelled/added shows. Not sure why that was even in there unless those hosts trying to get their names placed. TyScienceGuy (talk) 20:33, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

follow-up - is the slander lawsuit info relevant to this page or should it also be removed? TyScienceGuy (talk) 20:36, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

I'd originally included it since it was one of the news items that kept being referred to when I searched the company in google news and there's a similar section in the discovery channel article. About 50% was on the company valuation, and the other half on content was on its content. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 00:57, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

Needing tidyup and rebalance of programming

The programming section was still a bit promotional and contained extraneous information (e.g. etymology of metaphysics and attribution to Andronicus of Rhodes is unnecessary). I've pruned the section back a bit to refocus on what the programming actually contains. However it's still quite unbalanced, focusing on the less controversial examples and missing information on the more common topics. E.g. currently doesn't mention aliens, however this is a large portion of gaia's content (both ancient aliens theories and contemporary UFO and crop circle topics. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 01:16, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

Pseudoscience

Someone needs to explain why they called Gaia TV "pseudoscience" wtf? That's how we get problems in the world using those terms! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.220.212.20 (talk) 17:21, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

No problem, see the section above for exactly the requested explanation. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 01:35, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Lead section : no mention of spirituality, meditation, Western esotericism or the occult

Hi dear contributors,

From the lead section of this article, I can read this : "Gaia, Inc., formerly Gaiam, is an American alternative media video streaming service and online community focusing on fringe-science and yoga. Its brands include Gaiam TV which changed its name to Gaia in 2016. The site contains video and written articles on yoga, psychedelics and pseudoscience. Hosted media topics focus on fringe theories, conspiracy theories, and alternative medicine.

I have nothing against those terms, but I am suprised not to find any mention of the terms spirituality, meditation, Western esotericism or the occult in the lead section.

For example, meditation is a main category of its own in this media and does not fit in any category listed in the lead section : meditation is not fringe-science nor yoga (they are similar but not equivalent) nor psychedelics nor pseudoscience (there are scientific studies in The Lancet about its benefits) nor fringe theories nor conspiracy theories nor alternative medicine (it is in a modern way, but meditation is actually an ancestral spiritual practice).

If you agree with me, it would be appreciated to include some of those terms in the lead section.

Sincerely, Xavharel (talk) 20:08, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

Oh this site is definitely a cult. Watch the Love Has Won documentary! Definitely the madness this information leads to!!! 2601:483:4502:30C0:B507:2EF:2C9:860C (talk) 06:31, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Structural changes to streaming services/programming section

Hello all! I have finished copyediting this article. In addition to this, I made several significant edits to the streaming services and programming section. First, I noticed that each wikilinked word at the beginning of each bullet point was defined in a sentence. I removed these definitions with the justification of WP:TOPIC, but this could be up for debate. In addition, I have combined the conspiracy theory section with the streaming services/programming section, since conspiracies are a part of Gaia's programming. I would be happy to discuss any of these changes. In addition, if someone else would like to contribute to this section (especially involving the bullet-point structure), that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!! Ecoevergreen (talk) 21:50, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

George Noory?

Why is George Noory from Coast to Coast AM brought up in the conspiracy theory section? Is he part of GAIA? It doesn't say. Seems out of left field how his name is just dropped out of the blue. 75.128.51.223 (talk) 16:26, 10 January 2024 (UTC)