Would you appreciate if the physical space where you live, reside, and conduct your daily activities, the community of people and beings with whom you coexist, enhanced the consciousness of evolution, growth, flourishing, and cyclical fruition?
Could this anticipatory vision be achievable so that the areas of life are addressed with this focus, perceiving evolution as fulfillment?
For instance, would it be valuable for you to participate in the development of economic initiatives from the paradigm of optimal complementarities instead of today’s comparative competitiveness?
“There is strength in numbers,” says a proverb that the renowned Romanian poet Vasile Alecsandri transposed into the verses of the emblematic poem “Hora Unirii,” published in 1856, later turned into a song that became a political manifesto for the unification of Romanians from three separate principalities into the state structure we now call Romania.
“Where there’s one, there’s no power, In need and pain, Where there are two, power grows, And the enemy does not thrive!” Through this stanza, Vasile Alecsandri motivates the unification of many with the declared purpose of protection against an enemy, a predator, with the goal of survival.
This is the specific evolutionary model of that moment, unity for survival, a model that humanity has successfully applied since the first human beings deemed it fitting to share a cave to survive more efficiently than before.
Whenever a “deadly” danger required it, people allied to face it and shared “need and pain” and disbanded when the danger passed and the main focus shifted to another form of survival, “I have more than the other to be safe/survive.”
We are still largely tributary to dual thinking systems, created out of the need for survival, although the situation is different; the real need has mostly passed, and the survival focus is fantastically maintained by ourselves, often “helped” by the intentional manipulation of a few.
Survival is nowadays a dual and immature perception of a person immersed in the daily mental race between pleasure and pain, between prey and predator, between good and evil.
In this thinking paradigm, we are competitors, we have created and organized ourselves through comparative competitive systems, although the biology of the human being, Life, and universal laws show us that the situation is one of complementarity, symbiosis, and optimal collaboration between interdependent factors.
Professor and researcher Suzanne Simard has demonstrated through her research the interdependence between different tree species, which support and enhance each other’s development, opening a path for science towards what some ancient spiritual teachings uphold, namely Life, Existence understood as a dynamic natural continuity, with the quality of being without a definite beginning or end, in a continuous, incorporable change.
„Simard found that “fir trees were using the fungal web to trade nutrients with paper-bark birch trees over the course of the season”. For example, tree species can loan one another sugars as deficits occur within seasonal changes. This is a particularly beneficial exchange between deciduous and coniferous trees as their energy deficits occur during different periods. The benefit “of this cooperative underground economy appears to be better over-all health, more total photosynthesis, and greater resilience in the face of disturbance”
„Simard identified something called a hub tree, or “mother tree”. Mother trees are the largest trees in forests that act as central hubs for vast below-ground mycorrhizal networks. A mother tree supports seedlings by infecting them with fungi and supplying them with the nutrients they need to grow.
She discovered that Douglas firs provide carbon to baby firs. She found that there was more carbon sent to baby firs that came from that specific mother tree, than random baby firs not related to that specific fir tree. It was also found that the mother trees change their root structure to make room for baby trees.”
Professor and biologist Alan Rayner defines the concept of Natural Inclusion as the mutually inclusive, co-creative, receptive-responsive relationship between intangible spatial stillness and energetic motion in the being, becoming and evolutionary diversification of all material bodies, including our own.
He says that “ Natural inclusion is a fundamental evolutionary process, evident from our actual life experience, which both inverts and radically expands beyond Darwin’s abstract concept of ‘natural selection’, which he called ‘the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life’.
We can become aware of natural inclusion when we view life as an expression of natural energy flow in open space, not a competition in a closed box.”
Dr. Anamaria Sanduță clearly and determinedly shows that no organ or cell in the human body competes with the others but functions in a complementarity that serves the whole body and beyond.
Similarly, Dr. John Demartini has defined the theory of personal values as a hierarchically mapped and highly complex personalized perception system by which we make decisions and determine our existence, different from the complex of subjective social values and idealisms and actually determined by the same evolutionary factors of natural inclusion.
Therefore, if we learn to move beyond survival, dual thinking systems, and the stages of childhood and adolescence dependencies, towards the independence of young adulthood associated with the consciousness of our own power, we can glimpse the position of mature thinking, which perceives interdependently, knowing that it is an evolutionary, universal, dynamic, complex, inseparable, and all-encompassing process.
We are used to seeking proximity and association with those “alike,” with whom we feel comfortable; we rejoice when we are “on the same page,” when we are easily understood, only to later discover that we are equally “misunderstood,” different in thoughts, expressions, and the way we perceive life, and we do not see how therein lies the opportunity to become fulfilled by completing the opposites and perceiving the completeness of Life.
It is the same illusory quest for sweet security, which holds firm until we enter comparison and competition in what we perceive the same and defense and rejection in what we perceive differently, another way of fighting for survival.
The more we can learn, understand, and deeply integrate that the very competition for a leading position is an unrealistic illusion that does not take into account the complexity of life’s interdependence, and that precisely in the difference that completes lies “ease,” “abundance,” “magic,” “sustainability”, the more viable businesses we will develop, among other things, and the closer we will be to the economy of infinity.
It is a complex process, far from being easy, that requires determination, confidence, and a constant re-understanding of evolution.