We know that we are one humanity within one biosphere on one round planet.
What’s ahead of us is a leap of identity—to live as conscious parts of the planet and as Earth itself.
To move from knowing to sensing to being. Without losing our individual selves, we can widen it to become everything we belong to. To be one and many.
You are Planet Earth
A. Introduction
About the importance of becoming aware as planet Earth, if we humans and the biosphere are to flourish during the next billion years. Additionally, a brief introduction to the Wider Embraces method, along with some questions about who you are and what you might gain from this book.
A.1. Our Next Evolutionary Leap
September 12, 2025
We know that we are one humanity within one biosphere on one round planet. What’s ahead of us is a leap of identity—to live as conscious parts of the planet and as Earth itself. To move from knowing to sensing to being. Without losing our individual selves, we can widen it to become everything we belong to. To be one and many. Read more.
A.2. The Practice – Unconditional Belonging and Collective Perspectives
September 12, 2025
This book is not a practical guide on how you can become aware of your wider Embraces; it’s about the insights that have emerged from the practice. However, a brief introduction to the Wider Embraces practice will help you understand the source of the ideas. Read more.
A.3. Is this Book for You?
September 12, 2025
Now you’ve got an overview of the Wider Embraces method and what this book is about. Before you spend more time reading, let’s figure out if this book is for you. We live in an attention economy, and I don’t want to waste your precious time. Read more.
B. The Past – Forgiveness
Forgiveness is about how we deal with the past in the present moment and how it will affect our future.
As long as we are stuck in the past, we are stuck in a future determined by our past. To take our next evolutionary step, we have to broaden our circles of solidarity, forgive our collective past, and adopt a new view on expansion and exploitation.
B.1. Time is an Ice Factory
December 14, 2025
Before we dive into forgiveness, we need to sort out time. What are the different properties of the past, the now and the future and how does that influence our thinking and actions? Read more.
B.2. Four Paths to Forgiveness
December 14, 2025
Forgiveness is crucial if we are to become one humanity living together, inside one biosphere on one planet. When entertaining grievances, blame, shame, and guilt, we are divided and locked in roles determined by the past. I’m not advocating for an airy-fairy superficial forgiveness. None of the paths to forgiveness I lay out below is easy. But necessary. Letting go of the past and starting over now, and now. This section focuses on forgiving our collective past, what we have done to other groups of humans, and especially what we have done to all life on Earth, to the whole Biosphere. Read more.
B.3. All the Coal and Oil – The Unfair Setup
December 14, 2025
We were told to get VR glasses for the Virtual Deep Ecology seminar, so I did. On the day of the event, I sat down at my computer and soon found myself as an avatar around a campfire with a strange-looking group of other avatars. A snake lurked in the shadows, and the forest stood dark and high around us. We were asked to think about how we humans treat the planet and sense into our emotions around it. I went with our burning of coal and oil, and to my immense surprise, I ended up in the opposite corner from the expected ‘we humans are bad’, and I came back with deep forgiveness in my heart. Read more.
B.4. Dancing with Expansion, Exploitation and Increasing Complexity
December 14, 2025
Coming soon. Read more.
C. The Future – Healing the Splits
Chapters about how we could transcend and heal some of the splits inside our human culture: We vs. them, nature vs. culture, and religions vs. science.
D. The Now – Our Wider Embraces
Chapters about navigating and sensing into the scientific worldview. Moving from intellectual knowing that you are a physical, biological, and cultural being, to experiencing your deep belonging to everything you are part of. You are held unconditionally by all your wider Embraces!
E. You are Planet Earth
Final chapters about how we are expressions of Life on Earth and how we can move forward, hopefree. Becoming a planetary-aware humanity. Or a humanity-aware planet?
Appendix
Wordlist and the formal definition.
Stina’s Journey to the Wider We, and her background and sources of inspiration.
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I look forward to reading each chapter as they emerge.
Sounds both somewhat familiar and completely intriguing.
I love the way you describe this Stina, your words and the journey they weave parallel my own journey in and through and with the Wider We