Monadic Politics

By Jon Eden Khan

Monad: from the Ancient Greek μονάς (monas) meaning 'unity', and μόνος (monos) meaning 'alone'.

In Singularity, are dedicated to a radically different approach to politics, leadership, and governance.

One that we call ‘monadic politics’.

Monadic politics has its foundation in the invincible nature of the human spirit. That there is a power in the core of the human heart that can change the world.

This is the current of spirit in the core of every heart.

Some of the global wisdom traditions describe it in terms of a sacred darkness. Examples include the radiant darkness of Christian mystic, Meister Eckhart, the black light described by the Persian philosopher, Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi, the luminous darkness described by Sufi mystic, Ibn Arabi, the Nun of the Ancient Egyptians, or the dark void of Kali that is the source of all power described in the Indian tradition.

This darkness has nothing to do with Judeo-Christian associations of darkness with shadow or evil, but rather with the pre-creational darkness that is the source of all life.

In the language of today’s cosmology, we might describe it like a black hole in the core of every being, impregnated with the will, love, and creativity of the One Source, which when online in a person is the source of true power.

Politics is always about how human beings choose to channel power, and monadic politics is about calling on the current of spirit in the core of every heart as the basis for a radically new approach to politics, leadership, and governance.

Starting on this basis fundamentally transfigures our perspectives on the major issues of our time - global economic instability, rising inflation, international wars, the ecological crisis, geo-political conflicts, exponential tech, and pervasive culture wars.

The nucleus of spirit at the core of our being is beyond all separation, schism, and difference.

Experiencing it even for just a moment reveals the root nature of reality as inherent unity, totality, indivisible life, and opens us to identification as that One.

This vanishes the illusions of separation that drive all conflict, polarisation, tribalism, and schism. The kind of which that have become so endemic in our systems of politics, leadership, and governance.

Of course, the other layers of our humanity are still there. We still have personal preferences, things we deeply care about, feelings, and embodied experiences that are often awkward and a bit messy. This is no instant and final enlightenment. But something in us is fundamentally changed.

When this is our starting point, it naturally produces approaches to political engagement that start with the indivisible living whole rather than the fractured parts. That’s why in Singularity our starting point is planetary, being focussed on the health, needs, and thriving of the Earth as one.

Unlike politics today, which is so often fuelled by knee-jerk reactivity, normalised polarisation, and endless mental arguments, monadic politics is a practice.

Opening to the current of spirit in the core of the human heart requires our full dedication, presence, and the vulnerability of surrendering to being lived by a reality so much greater than ourselves.

It asks that we come to the core of our own being, give our consent to the death of the illusion of separation, and make ourselves available to the pulse of spirit that resides there.

When this surrender is authentic, there is a rush of remembrance of the One at the core of all creation through our heart. We are charged with a pulse of its power and inherent freedom.

Sometimes as the power of this reality washes through us, it breaks us open. In such moments it can surface the grief, rage, and fear that come with the illusion of separation in a great upwelling of feeling. We are then asked to create space to feel this pain and welcome its medicine that can reconnect us with the truth of things.

This approach is not an endless peeling of the layers of the onion of our collective issues. It is an instantaneous flash of the indivisible One at the core of our own being – in all beings, the Earth, and cosmos – and the experience of being charged with its current of sacred will, love, and creativity.

Imagine if the UN general assembly began with this practice.

Imagine if the sessions of parliaments around the world began with this practice.

Imagine if the arguments around aid trucks getting into Gaza began with this practice. 

Imagine if this was the foundation for approaching the most divisive issues of our time - economic inequality, religious conflicts, racial inequality, wars such as Russia-Ukraine, Israel-Palestine, Sudan and Myanmar, immigration, gun control, etc.

Of course, there are critical steps to being able to stably live from this place beyond the practice described here that require healing, trust building, and meaningful action to enact the needed changes.

And, starting with this radical, at-the-root disposition of surrender, to open us to the reservoir of true power in the core of our heart as the basis for how we then show up politically, is the basis of leadership in Singularity.

It is the basis of monadic politics.