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Psychic Schema (Symbiotic)
Measured Outcomes
The Inner Flourishing: Psychological and spiritual effects of symbiotic living.
🔮 Sustainability Theorems
A cross-domain analysis of Political, Economic, Cultural, and Ecological theories.
Political Theory
Meaningful Participation
Economic Theory
Purposeful Work
Cultural Theory
Cultural Celebration
Ecological Theory
Re-enchantment
Re-enchants the inner world with purpose and belonging—circulating meaning through ritual, story, and awe.
📑 Observations
Establishing a triage containing observations of social experience.
🪞 Self-Enquiry
What would my life look without bullshit jobs where meaningful participation leads to purposeful work that enables Re-enchantment through a SolarPunk cultural celebration?
🩺 Diagnosis Questions
1. Do people experience life as meaningful?
2. Is work connected to purpose and community?
3. Does the world feel alive and sacred?
Related Variables
- Meaning and purpose surveys
- Work satisfaction connected to community impact
- Spiritual and cultural participation
"The whole world is a canvas for the divine. See the divine in every leaf, in every drop of water." — Adi Shankara
🩻 Targeted Organ
The Inner Garden
Capacity for Enchantment
🧾 Rationale
To create a culture where people experience life as inherently meaningful and interconnected.
💉 Extraction/Cultivation
Rituals of gratitude, purposeful work, and celebrations of cultural diversity.
😷 Defense/Propagation
Cultural Flourishing: The natural resistance to nihilism that arises when life is experienced as a participatory celebration.
❌ Tetrad Analysis
- Object of Perception: Inner Experience
- ENHANCES: Meaningful participation; purposeful work; cultural celebration; re-enchantment
- OBSOLESCES: Nihilism; "bullshit jobs"; cultural homogenization; disenchantment
- RETRIEVES: Participatory consciousness in modern context
- REVERSES INTO: Life experienced as continuous participatory celebration
📝 Partial Diagnosis
Collective Aliveness: The cultural psyche exhibits meaning, purpose, celebration, and enchantment—a sense of belonging to a living world.
⚗️ Research Repository
🔮 Engagement Circle
🧊 Life Course
🎓 Case Study
Burning Man as Temporary Autonomous Zone (1986-present)
Despite its contradictions, Burning Man demonstrates elements of regenerative psychic schema through meaningful participation in collaborative art-making, purposeful work through gift economy principles, cultural celebration of creativity and self-expression, and temporary re-enchantment of desert landscape through community ritual and imagination.
Sources:Burning Man Project | Black Rock City Census | Journal of Applied Philosophy Studies
📚 Literature
"The Re-Enchantment of the World" by Morris Berman (1981)
Berman's analysis of how modernity created disenchantment and his exploration of participatory consciousness provides framework for understanding how meaningful participation, purposeful work, and cultural celebration can restore wonder and connection to the living world.
