Issue: Cultural evolution

The Cosmic Prank: Recognition, Physics, and the Adolescence of Symbolic Consciousness

We searched everywhere for what was already holding us. Physics, consciousness, and love all reveal the same pattern: there is no outside, only reality recognising itself through countless apertures. The cosmic prank is separation itself—an adolescent phase of consciousness that mistakes the whirlpool for something other than the stream.

Read More

The Recognition: When Science Meets the Mystics

When contemplative wisdom and scientific inquiry converge, both reveal the same truth: existence is fundamentally relational. The boundaries between self and world, mind and matter, are provisional conventions within an undivided whole. Our crisis lies not in ignorance but in forgetting this—our task is to remember and reorganise accordingly.

Read More

Competition’s Restless Sibling: A Developmental Understanding

This essay re-examines competition as a developmental force in nature and culture. Tracing five layers—from biological evolution to symbolic consciousness—it argues that competition, when held within relationship, sustains life’s creativity, but when severed from it, becomes destructive. Humanity’s task is to mature this energy within relational wisdom.

Read More

Growing Up or Scaling Down: A Developmental Alternative to Degrowth

Humanity’s challenge is not to scale down, but to grow up. Growing Up or Scaling Down reframes degrowth as a developmental shift—from extraction to participation, from adolescent expansion to mature stewardship—inviting a future grounded in relational intelligence, cultural transformation, and the felt experience of belonging within life’s unfolding whole.

Read More

Time to Grow Up

We’ve reached a species-level threshold — like adolescence on the edge of adulthood. For 10,000 years, symbolic intelligence has fueled growth through extraction. Now the choice is stark: mature consciously or collapse. Our great work is to channel human brilliance into regeneration — not by returning, but by evolving together.

Read More
Verified by MonsterInsights