Regenerative Temporality
Measured Outcomes
The Great Rhythm: Time is sacred, cyclical, and multi-generational as a medium for wisdom accumulation and the patient work of regeneration.
🔮 Sustainability Theorems
A cross-domain analysis of Political, Economic, Cultural, and Ecological theories.
Political Theory
Seventh Generation Principle
Economic Theory
Long-term Capital
Cultural Theory
Intergenerational Dialogue
Ecological Theory
Ecological Time
Invests in deep time—circulating responsibility across generations through seven-generation thinking and ecological rhythms.
📑 Observations
Establishing a triage containing observations of social experience.
🪞 Self-Enquiry
What can I do today that will make sense in 100 years? What legacy of healing can I contribute to?
🩺 Diagnosis Questions
1. Does the system become wiser and more resilient with time?
2. Are there mechanisms for knowledge and wisdom to accumulate across generations?
3. Does the system operate at nature's pace rather than technology's acceleration?
Related Variables
-Multi-generational planning institutions
-Cultural continuity indices
-Ecological regeneration timelines
"The one who sees all beings in the Self, and the Self in all beings, has no hatred by virtue of that realization. He passes from death to death who sees the Self as many." — Isha Upanishad (On the unity that transcends time)
🩻 Targeted Organ
The Womb of Time
Capacity for Long Now Consciousness
🧾 Rationale
To make decisions that honor our ancestors and protect our descendants for seven generations.
💉 Extraction/Cultivation
Intergenerational dialogue, long-term institutions, and governance based on natural cycles.
😷 Defense/Propagation
Temporal Sovereignty: Defending the slow, patient work of regeneration against the demands of short-term extraction.
❌ Tetrad Analysis
- Object of Perception: Time / The Future
- ENHANCES: Long-term thinking; intergenerational responsibility; patience; wisdom accumulation
- OBSOLESCES: Short-termism; emergency thinking; future discounting; cultural amnesia
- RETRIEVES: Cyclical time of traditional cultures integrated with modern planning
- REVERSES INTO: Time experienced as abundant, allowing patient work of regeneration
📝 Partial Diagnosis
Temporal Abundance - Each moment contains all time; patience as power
⚗️ Research Repository
🔮 Engagement Circle
🧊 Life Course
🎓 Case Study
The Long Now Foundation
Building a 10,000-year clock and fostering long-term responsibility
📚 Literature
"You Are the Happiness You Seek" by Rupert Spira (2022)
Rupert Spira's most accessible and direct explanation of how life moves through us as experience.
