WHat is Oika?
Oika is about understanding and recovering the innate ecological intelligence of humans and human organizations through direct relationship with living systems. Drawing on a coherence of scientific knowledge and intuitive understanding, Oika facilitates personal, professional and institutional development through collaborative projects across business, education, wellness, artistic and scientific fields.
At its core, Oika works to restore the innate but lost coherence between mind and nature—recognizing that consciousness itself springs directly from nature through neurophenomenological entanglement, and that our current mental health crisis, ecological destruction, and existential alienation all stem from the Cartesian fiction that separated mind from world. This "wrong relationship" has inevitably led to wrong decisions.
Oika presents a new indigeneity—not a romanticized return to pre-modern consciousness, but an evolution beyond the modern/pre-modern binary altogether. True indigeneity emerges when we recognize ourselves as local expressions of Earth's intelligence awakening to itself.
Oika consciousness draws wisdom from the entire 13.8-billion-year story of cosmic creativity while simultaneously grounding that wisdom in immediate, embodied relationship with particular places and living systems. This is indigeneity as evolutionary achievement rather than historical condition—a stance made possible only by integrating the depths of scientific cosmology with the immediacy of ecological participation.
This is more than personal development. The restoration of mind-nature coherence becomes species-level evolutionary imperative. When affection and attention flow toward the living world, ecological intelligence reflects back into human consciousness, restoring the latent relational intelligence we've always possessed but systematically suppressed through educational and cultural systems that treat neurodivergence as disorder rather than a source of ecological intelligence.
Through the Road Trip's place-based interventions across diverse bioregions, Oika will model this new indigeneity as a lived practice—one that honors ancestral wisdom traditions not by appropriating their forms, but by accessing the same creative intelligence through continuity, relationality, and entanglement with the more-than-human world. Oika reveals that the medicine for the metacrisis already exists in the field of nature itself, waiting to be accessed through humans in right-relationship.
It's not about what you know, it's about what you notice.
Dr. Rich Blundell
Oika first principles
1. CONTINUITY - No separation between you and the cosmos that created you
What it means: Your consciousness isn't isolated but continuous with the same creative intelligence that builds galaxies and orchestrates ecosystems.
How you feel it: Standing under the stars, at the ocean's edge, on a mossy boulder, or with your hands in the soil, you recognize the same creative force that formed the cosmos also flows through your own awareness.
The practice: Contact epistemology—touching rocks, tasting honeysuckle, noticing light, projecting consciousness into the relational space around you.
2. RELATIONALITY - Intelligence emerges through right-relationship, not mere transaction or computation
What it means: The universe operates through relationship at every scale—from cosmic microwave background radiation creating the first ecosystems of light to human consciousness emerging through connection.
How you recognize it: "Wrong relation" reveals itself through heartbreak, anxiety, and ecological destruction—all symptoms of disconnection from life's creative flow. Right-relation creates through beauty and joy.
The practice: Learning to feel the difference between right and wrong relationship, letting nature be the arbiter of what serves life's flourishing.
3. ENTANGLEMENT - Your consciousness extends beyond your skull into living relationships and from them
What it means: Through sustained contact with what you love, your identity becomes distributed in relational space rather than trapped behind your eyes.
How you access it: Acknowledging how the Earth's diverse ecosystems generate human consciousness naturally extends the self into the world.
The practice: Letting love guide knowing and radical affection—projecting love toward trees, rocks, and landscapes, then feeling intelligence reflected back from the living world.
The future is beautiful...or there isn't one.
Dr. Rich Blundell
Why Oika is Revolutionary
It's Lived Philosophy: Not just concepts but embodied practices that immediately restore your felt sense of belonging to the cosmos.
Scientifically Grounded: Every principle emerges from rigorous scientific knowledge filtered through grounded interpretation and direct ecological relationship.
Addresses Root Cause: Heals the ontological wound that creates both individual suffering and planetary crisis by remembering who you really are.
Perfect for Our Moment: Provides the relational intelligence needed for thriving through beneficial AI development, ecological healing, and species-level maturation.
The Oika Experience
When you practice these principles, something profound shifts. The world stops feeling like a collection of separate objects "out there" and reveals itself as a continuous field of creative relationship. You discover you're not IN nature—you ARE nature awakening to herself. This isn't mysticism. It's the recovery of human intelligence as Earth's own self-awareness, grounded in evolutionary biology, paleoanthropology, ecology and expressed through conscious participation in the cosmos that created you.
The result: Self-care becomes world-care. Technological decisions become ecological decisions. Individual healing becomes planetary healing.
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