The more you understand how you (and the world) came to be, the happier and healthier you (and the world) will be.
Oika unites cosmic science with creative engagement to deepen understanding and ground participation. When we embody and en-mind deep-time natural science, we access the joy, gratitude, and creative power of nature. Through facts and play, we can find the meaning and purpose, to enact a more beautiful future.
Curiosity, Wisdom and Happiness in Transformative Times
Oika is a scientifically informed, spiritually inspired and culturally creative response to the spectrum of crises threatening the flourishing of life on Earth.
In the face of the constellation of maladies known as the “metacrisis,” Oika presents a new paradigm to experience, relate, understand and thrive.
The Oika Paradigm is grounded in the integrated concepts of:
- Ontological Continuity - ultimately cosmic in breadth, but most relevant today from planetary to personal scales through Earthling Theory.
- Ecological Dynamics - nature’s intelligence expressed through right-relationship and made palpable to humans as the Creative Life Force.
- Enactive Neuroscience - how 1 & 2 naturally led to human consciousness and provide a potent transformative force when experienced by human intelligence as psychic-entanglement.
Iterative integration of these concepts make up the principles and practices of Oika and also constitute a trademarked training curriculum that is the basis for Oika® Certification.
An Ecosystem Driven by Creative Life-Force
Oika is activated by and dedicated to reciprocal economic and ecological thriving. Oika Cultural Creatives are a globally integrated but loosely organized body of individuals who have come into organic affiliation with each other through an appreciation for the intelligence of nature. We humbly seek to align with the Creative Life-Force of nature through Oika as a living philosophy of principles and practices.
Our priorities revolve around health and healing, personal and planetary prosperity, creativity, technology, religious and spiritual sovereignty, human and nonhuman dignity, the discoveries and methods of non-overly reductive science, deep-time, wisdom traditions, empathy, and justice of all kinds. We see beauty and sustained happiness as indicators of right-relationship with the world. We are committed to seeking, aligning with, cultivating and expressing right-relation with nature through the principles and practices of Oika.
We Seek Others
This website is a portal into the principles, practices, and cultural ecosystem of Oika. The ideas, projects, and offerings on this site are manifestations of Oika philosophy and thus reveal the continuity of the Creative Life-Force. As it flows through these ideas, projects, and offerings, it spills into the world, spreading a consciousness that co-creates, participates, and generates a more beautiful future.
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The future is beautiful...or there isn't one.
Dr. Rich Blundell
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