The Dawn of a Mindful Universe: A Manifesto for Humanity's Future

At this juncture in human history, we must take responsibility for how our business investments reflect our values, or lack of them.

Tectonics work as a global thermostat, recycling chemicals that help regulate the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and keep the global temperature stable.

The core value of biocentrism is that a planet that hosts life is sacred, deserving of respect and veneration. We are part of the life collective, codependent and coevolving with the whole of the biosphere.

life is a rare event in the Universe and that Earth is a rare planet.

In our moral inconsistency, we shower our pets with abundant love but kill animals for food with disdain. We tend to our gardens as small temples but cut down forests with complete negligence.

Apeiron, the Greek word meaning indefinite or boundless.

The unknowable became the unknown, opening the Universe to scrutiny and analysis,

Secular spirituality is nondenominational, unrelated to supernatural notions of immortal souls and spirits.

What is naive and innocent is to continue believing that things can remain as they are and all will be well, or that there is nothing we can do, or that science alone will save us.

Earth had lost its special status. We must now reverse this mindset and restore the essential status of Earth in the Universe. Only when we retell the story of our planet will we be able to change how we relate to it.