This new story connects us with life and the Universe, placing us as part of a biosphere that exists only because the Universe has allowed us to be,

Life is matter with intentionality.

The MINDFUL approach to consumerism:

There are two major obstacles to change, two great walls to be brought down. The first is our current narrative that places humankind above all other forms of life, as masters of the planet.

Given the first single-celled organisms, no one would have predicted dinosaurs.

Take away our oxygen-rich atmosphere, take away our protective magnetic field, take away the slow drift of tectonic planets, take away our large Moon, take away our shielding ozone layer, and life as we know it wouldn’t exist.

(1) Inorganic chemistry → (2) Simple organic chemistry → (3) Biochemistry → (4) First life (protocells) → (5) Prokaryotic cells → (6) Eukaryotic cells → (7) Multicellular life → (8) Complex multicellular life → (9) Intelligent life.24

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

the first home we should think of is our planet, the home we share with all other creatures.