On Neurodivergence: The Human Blueprint to SATORI EARTH
Updated: Sep 29
Happy Full Moon in Aries . I have more to write specifically around this igniting and initiatatory full moon. Before a post on this astrological event — just a note for this point in time:
I’ve had these two earlier reflections on neuro-divergence, education, health and the human blueprint — written in 2023 and 2024 — PINNED to my Facebook page for a while — these have become part of the philosophical foundations of the work I am building today.
18 October 2023
“Neurodivergence is an evolutionary response to a harsh, conformist culture that has normalised prolonged hyper-vigilance and hyper-production for centuries.
When neurodivergence becomes so common and widespread, perhaps we should stop treating it as something wrong with the child, and instead start re-examining an outdated educational system that is incompatible with — and unresponsive to — our natural wiring as human beings.
It is our nature to be diverse, creative, robust, social multi-dimensional beings. We are not machines; we are human beings.
Normalised conformity in learning environments and culture is outdated, non-responsive, irresponsible, and has done enough damage.
On the level of sustainability as a species, we need new, more sustainable systems — systems designed to respond to and optimise our natural blueprint.”
— Nic Anderson, 18 October 2023
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25 March 2024
“Our existing systems in education and health are missing the heart — and the Soul’s fundamental needs — in their working model.
There is a call for a new way of Being. A paradigm shift that heralds the emergence of new, sustainable, holistic systems that recognise and respect the human being’s original blueprint.
These new systems must be anchored in self-connection — as opposed to the historical models that have normalised self-disconnection, prolonged hyper-vigilance, and hyper-production.
Isolated cases of ill-health do not necessarily point to systemic issues. Yet the global burnout, and the widespread mental, physical, financial ill-health we now face, clearly point to a tampering with our natural blueprint.”
— Nic Anderson, 25 March 2024
A note from September 2026
Reading these words - these two quotes
- again now, I can see how much of what would eventually become SATORI EARTH was already here.
This quick scape-goat trend on neurodivergence has gotten out of hand and I have so much more to say here.
What began as an inquiry into the human blueprint — and into the systems that either support or disconnect us from our own nature — has gradually taken physical form through my work with Nic Anderson Earth , and through the evolution of CCALFA — Co Create Art Learning Foundation Australia — into SATORI EARTH .
The questions remain much the same.
What happens when we begin with the human being rather than the system?
What happens when we recognise diversity, creativity, sensitivity, relationship and individual nature not as inconveniences to be managed, but as fundamental aspects of being human?
And what might our systems of learning, health, community and culture look like if they were designed around the human blueprint rather than asking human beings to continually override it?
These questions have been traveling with me for years.
They have informed my work with children and young people, mentoring, art, the Soul Blueprint, embodiment, nervous-system awareness, and my continuing exploration of the systems and cultures we create around ourselves.
SATORI EARTH is one expression of that inquiry becoming lived practice. It has a physical home here on the land on the Sunshine Coast, but the work itself is not confined to the land. It continues through creativity, learning, mentoring, conversation, collaboration and community — both here and further afield.
The inquiry continues.
The difference is that it now has somewhere to live - SATORI EARTH.
And these quotes that used to be pinned to my Facebook wall whilst I built SATORI EARTH's infrastructure - now find a new home here in my online Journal.
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