For sixty years, I thought Doreen supported my work. In truth, her quiet, relational intelligence sustained the network that made all understanding possible. What I sought “out there” was already present “right here.” Recognition is not discovery—it’s awakening to the pattern that was holding us all along.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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