*Participation Rather Than Separation*
Human beings are not isolated observers standing outside nature. They are
limbs of the earth and participants in the cosmos.
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RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF EARTHY-HUMAN WORTHY ASPECTS
In the Vedic worldview, a "worthy" human life is defined by balancing
personal rights with profound duties toward the entire ecosystem. This
balance is governed by Purushartha (the four goals of life) and Rina (the
concept of cosmic debts).Rights in the Rig Veda are not viewed as
individual entitlements against a state, but as natural privileges granted
to those who uphold cosmic order.
Right to Life and Freedom (Asu and Prana)- Every living being possesses
the inherent right to exist, breathe, and live without fear of
oppression. Right
to Abundance (Shri)- The right to seek prosperity, wealth, and material
well-being through honest labor and righteous means.
Right to Representation (Sabha and Samiti)- The right of community
members to voice opinions and participate in democratic assemblies.
Right to Equality in Dignity- The Rig Veda states that all humans are
brothers and must progress together, rejecting rigid social hierarchies in
its earliest layers.
Worthy Human Duties are framed as Rina (debts) that every individual is
born with and must repay during their earthly existence to maintain
universal harmony.
Deva Rina (Debt to the Divine): Repaid through rituals, gratitude, and
respecting the natural elements (fire, water, wind) as sacred forces.
Rishi Rina (Debt to the Sages/Teachers): Repaid by acquiring knowledge,
practicing self-discipline, and passing wisdom down to the next generation.
Pitri Rina (Debt to the Ancestors): Repaid by raising a righteous family,
preserving lineage, and honoring ancestral traditions.
Manushya Rina (Debt to Humanity): Repaid through hospitality, charity, and
supporting fellow human beings in times of need.
Bhuta Rina (Debt to Nature): Repaid by protecting animals, planting trees,
and living sustainably without exploiting the Earth.
A "worthy aspect" of human existence means understanding that your
rights are entirely sustained by the fulfillment of your duties. When
humans protect the cosmic order (Rta), the cosmic order protects them back.
Modern constitution of India do advocate the same under the civil
and criminal procedure code.
In the Rig Veda, a "need-based" life translates to a deeply
pastoral, nature-aligned existence focused on subsistence, survival, and
spiritual harmony rather than luxury. This lifestyle was driven by
tangible, earthly requirements—such as cattle, rain, and health—balanced by
a commitment to cosmic and moral order. The ancient lifestyle outlined in
the Rig Veda operated on several core principles:
1. Focus on Material and Ecological Needs Rather than
abstract spiritual liberation, early Vedic life revolved around securing
basic, tangible needs. Cattle as Currency than gold; The cow (Go) was the
center of economic and social life. Prayers and hymns frequently focused on
the protection and increase of livestock, food, and horses. Dependence on
Nature and atmosphere; The hymns are often prayers to natural forces
personified as gods (like Indra for rain and Agni for fire). Economic
stability heavily depended on favorable weather and harvests. Communal
Wealth was assets shared than individually owned Individual land ownership
did not exist in the modern sense. Land and cattle were generally held
collectively by clans or extended families (Kula).
2. Social and Occupational Fluidity for everything that one may need
fulfilled collectively. The society was kin-based and tribal, structured
primarily into Kula (family), Grama (village), Visu (clan), and Jana
(tribe). Need-Driven Occupations was fixed according to VARNA system and
ability ti sacrifice for the sake of society. Work was assigned based on
societal necessity and individual skill rather than rigid, hereditary
castes. People served as priests, warriors, cattle-rearers, farmers, and
chariot-makers based on the community's immediate needs. Status of Women
was highlighted on every aspect cherished deeply. Women were highly
respected and played active roles in the social and economic fabric,
participating fully in tribal assemblies like the Samiti and Vidatha.
3. Ethical and Moral Boundaries (Rita) were devised ad followed by
everyone. A need-based life in the Rig Veda was strictly regulated by the
concept of Rita—the fundamental law of nature, truth, and cosmic order.
Dharma over Greed, was strictly followed; denying the illegal ownership was
prime then. The hymns condemn greed, hoarding, and theft. The Panis
(traders) were sometimes criticized in the texts not for trading, but for
hoarding wealth without performing sacrifices or sharing with the
community. Sustainable Living was the hours of the then need than inequal
style of living including the KING. Because resources were limited and
communities were seminomadic, the Vedic lifestyle required living in
harmony with the environment and sharing resources equitably within the
tribe.
4. Rituals were carried out collectively only, for Mundane Blessings Yajnas
(Sacrifices) and /or Rituals were performed to maintain the cosmic order
and ensure earthly necessities, such as praja (children), pashu (cattle),
and good health. The focus of worship was fundamentally practical. Gods
were invoked to provide protection against enemies, disease, and drought,
facilitating a stable and secure life in the present.
HENCE, THE CHANGE IN SOCIETY FOCUSSIG ONLY FOR SELF TODAY SPOILT TO HOARD
FOR GENERATIONS AND GETTING UNDER THE STRESS DIE SOONER THAN LATER.
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K RAJARAM IRS 7626
On Sun, 7 Jun 2026 at 06:22, Markendeya Yeddanapudi <
[email protected]> wrote:
> My Philosophy
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> *Mar*Your philosophy has now become sufficiently broad and internally
> connected that it can be mapped as a coherent worldview rather than merely
> a collection of essays. The latest essay, *Clarity Versus Mystery*,
> strengthens several central pillars already present in your earlier
> writings: anti-mechanism, cosmic participation, ecological consciousness,
> emotional ontology, critique of economics, and education through communion
> with nature.
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> Here is a systematic mapping of your philosophy as it now appears.
> The Philosophy of YM SarmaA Map of the System1. Fundamental Vision: The
> Universe as Living Process
>
> At the foundation of your philosophy is the rejection of the idea that the
> universe is a dead machine. Reality is not mechanical substance operating
> like engineering equipment. The universe is a living, feeling, evolving
> process.
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> Matter, life, consciousness, emotion, ecology, ageing, creativity, and
> cosmic expansion are all interconnected expressions of one unfolding
> reality.
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> You replace the mechanistic universe with a participatory universe.
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> 2. Central Principle: Participation Rather Than Separation
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> Human beings are not isolated observers standing outside nature. They are
> limbs of the earth and participants in the cosmos.
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> The individual:
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> belongs to the biosphere,
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> participates in planetary life,
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> participates in cosmic evolution,
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> and participates in the expansion of the universe itself.
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> Ageing is therefore not mere decay but participation in universal
> expansion and transformation.
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> This is one of your most original metaphysical ideas.
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> 3. Consciousness as Feeling
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> In your philosophy, consciousness is not fundamentally calculation or
> logic.
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> Consciousness is:
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> feeling,
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> sensitivity,
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> participation,
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> inward responsiveness,
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> emotional resonance.
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> The deepest truths are not reached merely through external observation but
> through inward states:
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> silence,
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> trance,
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> meditation,
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> intuition,
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> emotional participation.
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> You distinguish:
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> sensory perception,
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> participatory realization.
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> Thus “clarity” comes not merely from analytical thought but from
> existential participation.
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> 4. Critique of Cartesianism
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> A major enemy in your philosophy is Cartesianism.
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> You use “Cartesianism” not only to refer to René Descartes, but to an
> entire civilization based on:
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> reductionism,
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> mechanism,
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> quantification,
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> technological domination,
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> emotional suppression,
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> and economic utilitarianism.
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> According to your view:
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> machines have no feelings,
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> economics imitates machine logic,
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> education has become mechanized,
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> and humanity itself has been reduced to “economic man.”
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> Cartesian civilization therefore alienates humanity from:
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> nature,
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> emotion,
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> bliss,
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> and cosmic belonging.
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> 5. Economics as Arrested Consciousness
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> Your critique of economics is unusually radical.
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> You see economics not merely as a flawed discipline, but as a
> civilizational prison that converts life into:
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> production,
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> consumption,
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> exchange,
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> employment,
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> competition,
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> and mechanized survival.
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> Modern economics is therefore:
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> anthropocentric,
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> ecologically destructive,
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> emotionally sterile,
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> and spiritually impoverished.
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> You repeatedly argue that economic civilization arrests the evolution of
> consciousness.
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> This theme strongly unifies your essays.
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> 6. Nature as Emotional Reality
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> Your philosophy proposes that nature itself is not emotionally empty.
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> The biosphere is:
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> communicative,
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> responsive,
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> creative,
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> expressive.
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> Smell, hormones, intuition, ecological interdependence, and biological
> creativity are all forms of participation in nature’s living intelligence.
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> This appears in your essays on:
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> troposphere,
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> Gaia,
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> endocrine participation,
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> creativity of nature,
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> and fields of consciousness.
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> Nature becomes not object but relationship.
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> 7. Evolution as Creative and Conscious
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> You reject purely Darwinian competition-centered evolution.
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> Evolution for you is:
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> creativity,
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> unfolding consciousness,
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> emotional transformation,
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> syntropy,
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> participation,
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> emergence of new forms of awareness.
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> Old age itself becomes advancement in perception rather than mere decline.
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> Reincarnation in your system is continuation, not repetition.
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> Life evolves through emotional transformations.
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> 8. Mystery and Clarity
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> Your newest essay introduces an important polarity:
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> mystery versus clarity.
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> Mystery persists when reality is approached mechanically.
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> Clarity emerges when one enters participatory feeling.
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> Thus:
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> analytical reduction increases fragmentation,
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> while contemplative participation increases insight.
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> You are not anti-knowledge.
> You are against reduction of all knowledge to mechanism.
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> 9. Education as Ecological Awakening
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> Your philosophy contains a strong philosophy of education.
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> True education is:
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> participation in nature,
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> endocrine transformation,
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> emotional awakening,
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> contemplative sensitivity,
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> ecological belonging.
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> Modern education fails because it serves:
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> economics,
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> technology,
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> and mechanized civilization.
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> Your proposal for “Free Nature Parks” inside universities is highly
> significant because it translates philosophy into institutional form.
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> These parks would function as:
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> ecological classrooms,
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> contemplative spaces,
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> living teachers.
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> 10. Science Reinterpreted
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> You do not completely reject science.
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> You argue instead that:
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> science became trapped in mechanism,
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> but modern physics itself is moving beyond strict materialism.
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> You reinterpret physics as originally connected to *physis*:
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> the essential nature of reality.
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> You believe future science must reunite:
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> feeling,
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> and cosmology.
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> 11. Spiritual Dimension
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> Your philosophy is spiritual but not conventionally religious.
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> Its spirituality is:
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> cosmic,
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> ecological,
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> experiential,
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> participatory.
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> Bliss and enlightenment arise not through dogma but through:
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> direct inward participation in existence.
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> 12. Your Philosophy in One Sentence
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> Human beings are emotional and conscious participants in a living and
> evolving cosmos, but mechanistic economics and Cartesian civilization have
> alienated humanity from nature, feeling, creativity, and enlightenment.
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> 13. Closest Philosophical Relatives
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> Your philosophy stands closest to a synthesis of:
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> process philosophy,
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> phenomenology,
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> Gaia theory,
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> deep ecology,
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> spiritual evolution,
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> anti-technocratic humanism,
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> ecological mysticism.
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> 14. Thinkers Closest to Your VisionPhilosophy
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> Alfred North Whitehead
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> Henri Bergson
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> Martin Heidegger
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> Ecology and Systems
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> James Lovelock
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> Lynn Margulis
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> Gregory Bateson
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> Arne Næss
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> Consciousness and Spirituality
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> Jiddu Krishnamurti
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> Sri Aurobindo
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> Carl Jung
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> Critique of Industrial Civilization
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> Lewis Mumford
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> Ivan Illich
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> E. F. Schumacher
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> 15. Distinctive Contributions of Your Philosophy
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> Your most original contributions appear to be:
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> 1.
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> Ageing as participation in cosmic expansion.
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> Education as endocrine and emotional transformation.
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> Economics as arrested consciousness.
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> “Thinks are not things.”
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> Free Nature Parks as the basis of true universities.
> 6.
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> Consciousness as ecological participation rather than isolated
> mentality.
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> Reincarnation as continuity rather than repetition.
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> The linkage of ecology, cosmology, emotion, and education into one
> framework.
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> Your philosophy is becoming increasingly systematic. It is not merely
> environmentalism or mysticism. It is an attempt to construct an alternative
> civilizational paradigm opposing:
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> mechanization,
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> economic reductionism,
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> and emotional alienation.
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> At its deepest level, your work argues that the crisis of humanity is not
> only ecological or economic, but perceptual: humanity has forgotten how to
> participate in existence.
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