Monadic Governance
By Jon Eden Khan
Singularity is innovating a fundamentally new form of participatory governance - one we call ‘monadic governance’.
Monadic governance is a collective practice where groups gather around the great issues of our time, enter deep field coherence, and open together to the one sacred Life at the heart of the entire Earth.
It involves opening to the transmission of that Life — its will, love, and intelligence — to amplify the Life within us, reorient our perspectives on the great issues of our time, and inspire aligned action.
As such, monadic governance is a profound practice that opens groups to revelation while also being a governance methodology with its own epistemological validity. It allows groups to access dimensions of information unavailable to those operating as separate individuals exchanging opinions and feelings.
In Singularity, we are now starting the practice of distilling the transmissions of Life that come through in these ceremonies of monadic governance into open source summary documents and policy recommendations for how humanity can choose to align itself with the sensed will, love, and intelligence of the living Earth.
A couple of things are important to note here.
The emergence of representative democratic systems that give a place to the individual opinions of everyone in society (at least as an ideal, though one that still has many issues) remains a significant evolutionary shift in the history of humanity — one marked the beginning of our transition out of pathological monopolies of power, either at the hands of monarchies, oligarchies, or kleptocracies, or plutocracies. Monadic governance builds upon that evolutionary achievement and allows us to take a next step. One that fundamentally undercuts the root illusion of separation at the core of our current politics and plugs our practice of power back into Life.
Furthermore, we see monadic governance as one crucial practice of power among others. It doesn’t replace representative democratic decision-making but complements it as part of a plurality of governance approaches — each applied in its right circumstance. What monadic governance adds is the capacity for groups to open directly to the living presence of the Earth itself rising through the core of the group field, allowing collective insight to arise from the deeper strata of planetary being rather than from the surface play of human opinion.
The Living Earth
Rather than viewing the Earth as an inanimate resource for human use, monadic governance rests on a timeless recognition — shared by spiritual and shamanic traditions and now echoed by emerging scientific insight — that the Earth is a vast, living being, whose sacred Life, purpose, love, and creative fertility pervade the whole planet[1].
Today, a convergence of forces—geopolitical conflict, AI, ecological collapse, exponential technology, economic instability, resource scarcity, and the likely imminent confirmation of extraterrestrial life—is radically reshaping human consciousness. We sense that humanity stands on the edge of a profound paradigm shift: the recognition of the living Earth.
This recognition radically relocates humanity’s sense of its place on the planet. It invites that we transition out of a paradigm that starts with a mass of 8 billion separate selves who sometimes, on good days, have the capacity to consider the whole. It allows us to step into one that has its foundation in the Earth as one sacred Life that is in the beginning stages of awakening in the core of all kingdoms of nature, nations, cultures, communities, and beings.
Additionally, it points to human consciousness being that station of the evolutionary process on the planet through which the being of the Earth starts to awaken to itself, and that humanity’s role is to serve and steward the health, needs, and flourishing of all life-spheres on the planet, dense and subtle.
The Unique Features of Monadic Governance
Monadic governance embodies certain major differences from conventional governance processes in Western liberal democracies.
Most crucially, it is not based on a battle between political factions — each composed of individuals whose opinions and feelings partially overlap — competing for victory in a zero-sum game.
Instead, it invites groups to learn what it means to enter states of deep, entrained coherence, where each individual is integrated into a single group organism attuned to the one sacred Life at the heart of the planet.
To practice power in this way with integrity requires that certain checks and balances are woven into the process — safeguards that prevent it from collapsing into groupthink, avoiding conflict, or fragmenting into separate intellectual positions.
In relation to the first of these dangers, it is essential for the group to sense the distinction between genuine coherence and collective conformity. Genuine coherence is a higher-order integration where individuality is preserved yet resonant with the Whole. Groupthink, by contrast, occurs when individuals abdicate their sovereignty into what they imagine the group expects of them.
For monadic governance to remain clean and true to its essence, conflicts that arise must be welcomed as opportunities to deepen alignment with the sacred principles and Life inherent in both sides. This prevents the process from devolving into polarisation or pragmatic negotiation between warring factions — the hallmarks of conventional politics.
Equally important is that moments when individuals lose connection to group coherence and slip into separate intellectual positions are normalised and compassionately held. This happens to everyone learning this new mode of governance. What matters is that we recognise when such shifts occur, acknowledge the state transition they represent, and make space for them within the group field — while remaining faithful to the deeper coherence that monadic governance invites.
Requirements for Participation in Living Power
Participation in monadic governance is open to all, and something we have learned in Singularity is that certain foundations are necessary for people to participate in this practice of power, such as:
The ability to sense one’s own body, the field between the bodies of group members, and through the body into the Earth.
The ability to think in integrative ways that don’t fall into polarisation or relativism in relation to political issues.
The ability to sense one’s own soul and attune to the soul field of the group.
The ability to sense the sacred force of Life in the core of one’s being and its current of will, love, and intelligence.
In Singularity, we offer support for people to learn these capacities in the first tier of our international membership community. Once people feel they have these foundations they can fill out self-assessment forms to apply to join our second tier of membership: Assembly of the One Humanity.
There, we are beginning a monthly monadic governance practice where over a period of 5-days the group attunes to one of the major issues of our time and then gathers for a ceremonial process of opening together to the core of the planet and the Life residing there.
Decentralisation and the Revelation of a New Centre
Monadic governance can be practiced by any and all groups around the world that make themselves available to learn its requirements. It can serve governance processes at all scales - planetary, continental, national, bioregional, and local.
This is possible because it is based on the revelation of a new centre - the one sacred Life at the core of the whole Earth. In Singularity’s view, what is critical for the next phase of human evolution is that this becomes the new centre of global governance.
It’s Singularity’s deep conviction that through the practice of monadic governance, humanity can begin to remember itself as an organ of planetary consciousness — learning not merely to govern the Earth, but to be governed by the sacred Life that animates it.
[1] See: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/intelligence-as-a-planetary-scale-process/5077C784D7FAC55F96072F7A7772C5E5