"When you're in right-relation, what feels good is good."
"When you're in right-relation, what feels good is good."
"When you're in right-relation, what feels good is good."
"When you're in right-relation, what feels good is good."
I am a neurodivergent scientist who helps people improve their lives by transforming their limiting identities, narratives and habitual ways of thinking. I do this through a fun process of cosmic self-discovery, healing, and empowerment.
I show people how to engage personally with the Creative Life-Force of nature (that I call Oika) in daily life. I also try to help people feel the sense of happiness, hope and belonging that nature provides. I believe knowing and feeling our shared origin and fate, and living them as a personal reality, will ultimately translate into a better public and planetary reality.
Through a lifetime of ecological immersion, nature has taught me how to see the Creative Life-Force that binds and animates the world. Drawing on ecological principles and the science of cosmic evolution, I have developed Oika as a living philosophy and source of essential wisdom for our time.
I invite you to explore this work through my social media, films, podcasts, public talks, and collaborative projects.
Note: On this site I talk about soft and fuzzy things like “feelings,” “joy,” “beauty,” and “hope”. But make no mistake, I am also an advocate for “hard” science and practical, emergency responses to global issues such as climate change, the toxification of land and water, overpopulation, stupid land-use decisions, hyper-extraction for hyper-consumption and biodiversity loss.
As a geologist, I have grappled with drastic change, multiple mass extinctions, and I have seen how “objective” nature can be. I know that no species, no matter how clever or prolific, gets a free pass to be hubristic and ignorant (which are synonyms) in the long game. So while I may be invoking the squishy and affective part of the problem that we call the human mind, I am also for pragmatic science-based solutions - now.
That said, no amount of technological response to the symptoms of how we think actually changes the way we think (which is ultimately the source of all our problems). So count me as thoroughly in the BOTH-AND camp. It's BOTH all hands AND all minds on deck. I only advocate for joy and hope if we can also get beyond merely generating knowledge and begin cultivating joyful wisdom with it. Without joy and wisdom we are (and should be) hopeless.
Rich Blundell
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