Cosmos Is Not Human-Centric

The posture toward the wider field: we are a participant in creation, not its centre and not its measure.

The claim is modest and its consequences are not. If the cosmos does not orbit the human, then human interests are not the criterion by which the whole is evaluated, and a great deal of inherited thinking has to be re-founded. The corpus states the same thing at several scales: beyond our tribe is humanity, beyond humanity is Earth, beyond Earth is universe, and beyond universe is the ineffable mystery breathing life into all of it. Each step is a demotion of the centre and an enlargement of the relationship.

It is load-bearing as the corrective that keeps the whole enterprise from becoming a better anthropocentrism. Omniconsideration means total consideration of ØNE and All, not of us; a seat for living systems and a seat for future generations at a body's table are this posture made structural; Kinship with all beings and Inter-Kingdom Relationship are it made personal. Without it, Stewardship slides quietly back into ownership with better manners.

Its companion name in the corpus is cosmic wildlife — the reminder that whatever else exists out there is alive on its own terms, neither a resource nor a threat by default, and owed the same recognition of sovereignty we ask for ourselves. The same posture governs how the field is entered: no subjugation in either direction, which is what the named treaty of non-subjugation points at.

In the Game it is met close to home long before it is met cosmically. A Cell that gives the land, the water, and the unborn a voice in its own decisions is practising this. So is a player who asks, before a move, whether it makes life more like Heaven for all current and future generations of life — the compass question's full form, which does not stop at people.

Also called: Cosmic Wildlife Stands on: Cosmos · The Cosmic Story · Omniconsideration · Reverence Opens onto: Kinship · Inter-Kingdom Relationship · Living Systems Member · Stewardship · Star Nations · The InterCosmic Treaty Of Non-Subjugation In play: table · beyond Sources: The LIØNSBERG Pattern Language, synthesized, §The Cosmos And Non-Human Intelligence (draft) · All Patterns — Master Consolidated Inventory, §4.14 · Pass The Flame, Ch. VI (Epiphany One) — lionsberg.wiki · the seed text The DNA of Heaven, Parts III and XI. Open: Named as a Pattern with no body; the articulation above draws on the corpus's ecological and governance commitments, which are firmer than anything written under this name.