Not just mother earth. Yogis have discovered in Samadhi (meditation trans) since ages that the universe itself is a giant body with us are like cells in it. Macrocosm is same as microcosm. http://omswami.com/2015/06/the-greatest-secret.html

This experience cannot be gain in a lab setting – you yourself are the lab, meditation is the tool and quieting the mind is the process to experience this.