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Why Pluriverse

regeneration is always pluriversal

The concept of a Pluriverse originated with the Zapatistas in their decolonial vision of a world where many worlds coexist harmoniously. It's not just a decolonial vision, but an imaginary of radical hope. Embracing and nurturing the vision of a pluriverse allows us to reimagine a world beyond nation-states, geopolitical power imbalances, and artificial borders.

A pluriversal world invites us to see ourselves as Earthzens—citizens of Earth first. It challenges us to deconstruct the dominant narrative and listen to the overlooked voices offering alternative visions of counter-hegemonic futures.

This vision expands our perspective, moving us beyond isolated and often conflicting worldviews toward a sense of planetary unity. I call this world-sensing. A pluriverse isn't an abstract concept—it's our natural state of existence.

My work focuses on presenting pluriversality as an alternative to the dominant narrative that has shaped civilization for over five centuries. Reimagining and rebuilding a pluriversal world is essential for regeneration.

The Pluriverse

A Pluriverse is 'a world where many worlds fit'. The vision of a pluriverse recalls and reinstates the very truth of our existence. It is predicated on Relationality, Decoloniality, Nonduality, and Democratic Participation.

It rejects the imperial-colonial project of a 'universal narrative' as capable of encapsulating this pulsating, vibrating, entwined, and living world. It is a vision of a world beyond anthropocentrism, growthism, resourcification, and mindless consumerism.

It is an invitation to reimagine a world where cultures collide--not in competition but in curiosity, collaboration, and co-creation. It is an entanglement of many epistemologies, ontologies, and cosmologies. This convergence and synergy have the power to lead to the emergence of higher orders of complexity, elegance, resilience, and regeneration.

Seen through the lens of the Eurocentric, hegemonic worldview and its economic monomyth of infinite growth, the notion of a pluriverse may seem utopian or naive, or both. However, holding a pluriversal vision and nurturing the stories and narratives that are already reconstituting the world is crucial in these times of planetary collapse. As we stand on the brink of polycrisis, rapidly devolving into a metacrisis, a radical vision of pluriversal futures is one way to move out of this hegemonic matrix and cage.

The notions of Separation, Supremacy, and Hierarchy were imposed as an imperial-colonial project. This project has morphed and shapeshifted over the past five centuries from direct invasion and conquest to neoliberal capitalism manifesting as globalization and neocolonialism. The underlying narrative has remained unchallenged and unchanged. It has effectively become invisible and thus more insidious. This hegemonic narrative has permeated every facet of our existence from economy to ecology, education to healthcare, politics to spirituality. The hegemony is predicated on power, profit, and privilege for a few at the cost of Life itself.

The diagram is a rough illustration of how more than 500 years of imperial-colonial imposition have led to a polycrisis, and a profound crisis of meaning. The antidote to this, I believe, is to seek alternative narrative(s) that have always existed but have been deliberately delegitimized, rendered invisible, and suppressed through various means.

The Myth of the Normal

Today's normal and business as usual are built upon centuries of extraction, exploitation, expropriation, and exclusion. These have taken many forms from direct ethnocide and genocide, ecocide and epistemicide to eco-apartheid, displacements, and dispossessions of the most vulnerable from their lands. The ravaging and pillaging of Global South has been given fancy names like progress, growth, and development. The commons have been appropriated by a cartel of billionaires; profit has been privatized, and the cost borne by the poorest. This illusory narrative is now falling apart; the myth of progress has spectacularly failed. And the myth of the normal is busted.

The myth of the normal, thus, begs the questions:
What is normal?
Who is it normal for?
Who defines the parameters of normal?
Whose stories are used to exemplify normal?
What undergirds the foundations of this normal?
What does progress and development mean for the dispossessed, displaced, disinherited?

As the hegemony crumbles, its Eurocentric narrative of self-proclaimed exceptionalism, superiority, and universality stands exposed. The facades of growth and progress have fallen away; our civilizational trajectory defined by an economic monomyth is floundering. The era of changes underscored by the same narrative of supremacy, imperialism, and hierarchy is giving way to a Change of Era. We are at a point of discontinuity. A portal has opened up. And new stories are wafting in. The foundational narratives are being rewritten. We are all witnesses to the reshaping and reframing of history.

The emergent futures herald radical transformations of metaphors, values, beliefs, stories, and paradigms. The many movements dotting the planet, the marching bodies, the bridge-builders and storytellers are harbingers of alternative visions. They have already moved us beyond the matrix into the cracks and crevices, into the fissures and fault lines that have always existed on the superficially smooth surface of hegemony.

If you put your ear to the ground, you can hear the rumbles and roiling beneath as the crevices widen. And new ways which are also age-old ways emerge to regain their rightful places. The metropole is shrinking and dissolving into the whole. As it should.

This dissolution of the hegemony is going to be violent and vicious. The hegemony will lash about in its death throes much like a dying dinosaur that doesn't recognize its end is near. Hence, the need to keep the vision of a pluriverse alive, build the capacities and skills needed to nurture and nourish the nascent and emergent futures, and hold space for the new to be born.

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As we traverse this liminal space between stories, the journey requires thoughtful preparation. The path is neither easy nor well-laid. It is a path to be made by walking. The risks are many. The rewards are great.

Those who step into this liminal space will need a set of skills, tools, and capacities as compasses on this Path of Transition.
Questions are our compasses.
Radical Imagination our guide.
Collective Imaginaries our blueprint.

What is the essence of a world that contains multitudes of narratives — a world where many worlds fit?
How can we collectively build the capacities for radical imagination and fearless imaginaries?
What are the founding principles and values of a Pluriverse?

Should you wish to undertake this pilgrimage, I offer some tools, guidelines, and frameworks. If you or your organization(s) wish to become future ready, build capacities for just transitions toward regenerative futures, or begin a journey of transformation, get in touch.

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An example of a hegemonic chain of extraction, expropriation, and exploitation in the name of development and green energy.

Change of Era

Every choice we make is a
vote for the future
we wish to inhabit, inherit,
and leave behind

We are moving into a Change of Era, where the foundational paradigms, metaphors, and narratives are shapeshifting, heralding very different futures. Whether we are aware of this shift or not. Even as the known world with all its paradigms of growth and progress collapses all around us, new narratives are rising from the cracks and crevices of this rupture. Joanna Macy called this The Great Turning.

This liminal space between two worlds--the old that is dying and a new that is painfully being born--is a space between stories. It is characterized by extreme dissonance, violence, polarization, fracture, confusion, and chaos. While it is easy to feel the rumblings of chaos, what gets lost is the fiercely tender work being done to midwife different possible futures, the birthing of new stories.

The arrival of the new has never been easy. The work of midwifing, mediating, facilitating, and bridge-building is happening all over the world from students' encampments across universities to the protests of young Afghan girls for their right to education.

The new narratives are already being scripted. History is rupturing and reshaping in real time as the imperial-colonial hegemonic empire crumbles. We are the witnesses. How we bear witness matters. Bearing witness is no easy task. It requires humility, integrity, and a rigor of observation that cuts through rampant propaganda. We are also the amanuensis. And it becomes our sacred work to become scribes for emergent possible futures.

In this moment, it is crucial to engage in radical reimagination, deliberate community building, and developing the capacities required to nurture and nourish the soils from which the seeds of the future can emerge.

As Arturo Escobar writes, 'there is still much in life that refuses to yield to the ontology of devastation and to the vacuous notion of progress'. It is this vibrant hybrid music that the vision of a pluriverse honors and applauds.

And the wisdom and vision for possible futures will come from the edges, margins, borders--the unheard, unseen, unacknowledged voices deliberately delegitimized and rendered invisible.

Change of Narrative(s)

Who gets to tell the stories? Whose stories are heard?
Who will be the storytellers of emergent futures?

"It is easy to forget how mysterious and mighty stories are. They do their work in silence, invisibly. They work with all the internal materials of the mind and self. They become part of you while changing you. Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world." ~Ben Okri

The world is discarding the trappings of a single hegemonic monomyth and is moving towards webs and weaves of many narratives, many stories. The imposition of a narrative has always been an apparatus of control. And now the vestiges of that narrative are being rejected. The new narratives are emerging from unseen, unexpected, and unbidden corners.

Stories are our compasses giving us a sense of coherence and direction as we navigate our lives. They form the foundations of civilizations. The stories we tell, recall, and repeat matter. Today, the story of infinite growth on a finite planet has brought us to the brink of planetary collapse. A story rooted in Supremacy of certain cultures and civilizations, Superiority of certain bodies, Separation from Nature, Others, and Self, and a Denial of all limits have created a world where 1% thrive at the expense of the rest. Therefore, the stories we tell matter. As our civilization stands on the cusp of transition, stories matter exponentially more. The stories we hear, gather, and disseminate are crucial in these times of world-building. Exponentially more important in a uber-connected and tech-driven world.

Stories build for us a lucid web of understanding which then act as our guides in decoding the world and its messages. They literally codify the world for us. The stories we tell ourselves have immense power but this is often forgotten because they are invisible, pervasive, and appear in myriad forms.

For more than five centuries, a singular Eurocentric hegemonic narrative has been imposed on the rest of the planet as an imperial-colonial project. It has defined every aspect of life from politics to society, education to healthcare, ecology to economy. It no longer works. The economic monomyth spawned an extractive, exploitative, and exclusive economy that is devouring the planet for the benefit of a few. It has led to a cult of individualism that has killed communities and fractured societies. Extreme consumerism has created a vacuous world devoid of spiritual grace. And the machinations of its propaganda has deluded millions. However, none of this is working.

As the hegemony disintegrates into incoherence, the lost stories are reappearing from the shadowy, ignored, and invisible corners of the world. The hegemonic propaganda is failing and flailing about ever more wildly. They have lost the narrative war. Hegemony functions through propagating certain narratives and suppressing alternative visions and imaginaries. Therefore, the hegemony desperately tries to control the Narrative. This Change of Era is not only being fought through wars but also through narratives. And the narratives are shifting. Radically.

We are bearing witness as history is being remade and reshaped, as the old narrative of supremacy and separation flounders, and myriad other stories appear from the cracks and crevices of hegemony's fault lines. The cracks are hidden pathways that evade attention till they become wide enough, deep enough to completely fracture the carefully constructed facades of delusions and diffractions.

These emergent narratives inhabit multitudes of spaces, appear in many garbs, and rapidly spread via hidden alleys and pathways traversed by ordinary folks. This is how a pluriverse is co-created. Outside of established and endorsed power structures and status quo, a pluriversal world is slowly taking shape. New narratives and imaginaries are bringing forth different possible futures.

They claim no superiority or universality. They are contextual, local, partial. These stories form mosaics and constellations of epistemologies. And thus represent the abundant diversity of an entangled world.

“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms,” wrote Muriel Rukeyser.

We have to invite the unseen, unheard, unacknowledged voices, and look for the hidden narratives in the edges and margins, rising through the cracks and crevices of a fractured, polarized, wounded world. In them lie the healing powers of regeneration.

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