Source-Centred Planetary Governance
By Jon Eden Khan
Today, as our political systems fracture, the post-WW2 world order crumbles, as economic inequality stretches our societies to their limit, and the ecological crisis escalates, humanity is experiencing a existential crisis.
Singularity is anchored in the recognition that at the root of these challenges is a worldview that is in its death throws. A worldview based on separation, materialism, and ethnocentric tribalism.
For humanity to successfully navigate and thrive beyond the present crisis, we are going to have to break through into a radically new worldview. One that replaces the story of separation with one of fundamental unity at the root level, that celebrates our vibrant diversity from there, and anchors new systems on this basis.
This is why Singularity takes its stand in the one Source-Reality revealed in the heart of every global wisdom tradition through time as the basis of the planetary governance that must come in the future.
Ultimate Reality - The Ground of Being
For millennia, spiritual practitioners across cultures and traditions, from Buddhist and Hindu yogis and yoginis, to Sufi, Christian, and Kabbalist mystics, have awakened to the same realisation:
That the true nature of existence is one indivisible and self-evidently divine Source-Reality that transcends, embraces, and is arising as the whole incredibly diverse universe.
This Ultimate Reality is variously known as God, Brahman, Paramshiva, Dharmakaya, Buddha-Nature, Allah, the Self, Primordial Consciousness, Ein Soph, or other names.
Traditional religions often defend the uniqueness of their presentation of it, whilst also maintaining a strong dualism between it and humans.
Yet in the mystical core of these traditions, while there are sometimes differences in how this Reality is experienced and described, those who have awakened to it repeatedly share their conviction that this is the same fundamental Ground of Being that ultimately all traditions of awakening are pointing to.
This Reality is completely beyond the limitations of time and space, and ultimately neither evolves or realises itself. It’s expression within time and space does though.
Indeed, it is the Life-force of this Source-Reality that broke forth at the very beginning in the Big Bang; which then coalesced as primordial black holes at the centre of the earliest galaxies; which ignited in the hearts of suns; which solidified on rocky planets like Earth, to then rise through every level of the evolutionary process, from single cell organisms to more complex organisms, to plants, fungi, animals and eventually humans, where today, more and more beings are awakening to their true nature as this ever-present Reality and its evolutionary Life-force.
This allowing a radically new culture to start to emerge on the planet that starts with a recognition of the essential divinity of all existence rather than denying or eternally striving towards it.
A Post-Western Enlightenment Re-Integration of Politics and the Sacred
This is hugely significant. Since the Western Enlightenment church and state have been differentiated in the Western world. Without doubt, this represented an evolutionary advance that massively reduced the ability of our religious institutions to commit incredible injustices under the banner of state-power. And of course, this differentiation is still in place in many parts of the world where religious leaders and institutions still wield huge political influence. Blasphemy can be punishable by death in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Homosexuality is punishable by death or public execution in Iran, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria. Public dancing is generally banned in Iran.
Dogmatic religion absolutely should not hold political power. The Western Enlightenment liberated so many human beings from that tyranny. And yet, Singularity’s position is that the core perennial realisation held in the mystical heart of our global wisdom traditions should be at the centre of the coming politics, and that on this basis, humanity is ready for a post-Western enlightenment re-integration of politics and the sacred.
Indeed, this is a fundamental need of our time.
Our political, social, and economic institutions are operating through a colonialist, corrupt, pathologically capitalist, extraction-based paradigm that is fuelled by ethnocentric, tribal religions and atheistic nihilism that selfishly operates without care or concern for future generations.
This paradigm is destroying the Earth.
Singularity’s position is that at the root level, politics, leadership, and governance needs to be realigned with the radical truth that dedicated practitioners and contemplatives across traditions and times have always returned with:
That humanity and the Earth are sacred expressions of the Life-force of the One Reality, which is in the early stages of awakening to itself here, with the living pulse of this awakening calling humanity to take our place in harmony with and service to the life-spheres on the planet.
This is the foundation for the planetary governance Singularity stands for and is dedicated to support the landing of by 2050. And importantly, Singularity doesn’t advocate for this as simply another mental worldview to take the place of an old one, but rather as a living experience available to everyone. The life-current of Source can be felt in the core of any open heart. No theology or religious debates necessary.
Toward Awakened Planetary Governance
Singularity is based in a recognition that the entire Earth is one expression of the Life force of this one Source, which is now in the earliest stages of coming online and starting to awaken to itself through humanity.
Starting on this basis plugs us back into what matters most in life, what is truly life-giving, healthy, and coherent with the sacred pattern of life itself.
It allows us to experience the vast diversity of human cultures, nations, ethnicities, and communities, the different kingdoms and life-spheres of the Earth, as well as the planet itself as a celebrated expression of one sacred and indivisible Life.
It provides a foundation of intrinsic, ever-present Unity upon which we can begin to truly heal the systemic, international, and intercultural injustices and traumas that are the legacy of the culture of separation and colonialism that have been dominant for so long.
And it allows us to sense something of the incredible specialness of Earth in the wider cosmic context, as one expression of the Life-force of the Ultimate Ground, which is now starting to awaken to itself in all the beauty, power, and vulnerability of deep embodiment.
For Singularity, the future planetary governance must be awakened global governance. That means it must be enacted by beings whose illusions of separation have been washed through by a genuine awakening to the radical indivisible Unity at the heart of all apparent difference, who are anchored in the One Life at the heart of the Earth and all humanity, and who are available to serve all life on this foundation. Nothing less than this will be required for humanity’s governance structures to meet and thrive beyond the massive challenges of our time.
If the future planetary governance can be founded on this basis, humanity will begin to be able to step into its true dignity, as an emerging cosmic species, and in service to the wider kingdoms of life on this majestic Earth.