Living a Biotheist Life
Biotheism is not just a worldview—it’s a way of being. It’s how you wake up. How you relate. How you eat, think, share, and evolve. It’s about aligning with life not only in theory, but in practice. Not through commandments, but through conscious, adaptive participation in the systems you’re part of.
Living as a biotheist means treating life as sacred—not with rituals, but with responsibility. It means noticing patterns. Honouring interdependence. Acting with curiosity, humility, and care. And above all, it means doing this with others.
Because life is relational. Complexity requires community. No cell, no organism, no idea thrives alone.
The Power of Groups
If you do one thing to live a more biotheistic life, form a group. A biotheist circle. A salon. A shared dinner. A walking club that reflects together. Create a container—loose, informal, local or virtual—where you can explore these ideas with others.
Biotheism flourishes in dialogue. In feedback. In emergence.
Gather regularly. Discuss the Commitments. Choose a Milestone as a theme. Share your experiences and your doubts. Be flexible. Let the group evolve. Start small. But start.
Everyday Practices of a Biotheist
Here’s an evolving list of ways to live more biotheistically. You don’t need to do them all. Let it inspire you to create your own path:
Personal Practices
Begin each day with a reflection: Where am I in the web of life today?
End the day asking: Did I strengthen or weaken my connections today?
Keep a journal of complexity: record feedback loops, emergent patterns, and unexpected synchronies in your life.
Practice stillness—not as escape, but as a tuning-in to systems larger than yourself.
Accept not knowing. Sit with uncertainty instead of solving it.
Read outside your field—especially biology, systems theory, and ecology.
Revisit your beliefs every year. See what still fits.
Relational and Group Practices
Start a Biotheist circle. Share readings, ideas, and experiences.
Host an “emergence night”: each person brings an example of emergence from life, science, or experience.
Volunteer in community-led projects that decentralise power.
Replace debates with systems mapping—trace the forces behind an issue together.
Build rituals around feedback. Celebrate mistakes that led to growth.
Practice mutual aid—not as charity, but as structural interconnection.
Practical Life Behaviours
Grow a garden—or even a single plant—and observe it closely.
Compost. Watch decay become fertility.
Choose regenerative or circular economy products where possible.
Learn about microbial life. You are not one body—you are a colony.
Let go of a need to control. Experiment with collaboration and co-creation.
Step back in meetings. Let quieter voices shape the outcome.
Walk the same path every week and notice what changes.
Digital & Cognitive Practices
Unsubscribe from content that flattens complexity.
Follow thinkers who challenge your worldview.
Build digital spaces that decentralise authority and encourage emergent dialogue.
Turn off notifications—reclaim your attention as an emergent resource.
Ecological and Global Practices
Study ecosystems not just as science, but as spiritual metaphor.
Support biodiversity protection—locally and globally.
Join or support efforts that build global resilience through community networks, open knowledge, or decentralised tech.
Explore non-anthropocentric ethics. Let other species matter.
Philosophical and Reflective Practices
Once a month, revisit a Milestone. Reflect: How does this show up in my life now?
Ask: What systems am I sustaining? What systems am I disrupting?
Use emergence as a lens for spiritual questions: What is meaning? What is God? What is enough?
A Life in Alignment
You don’t have to be perfect. You don’t have to do everything. Living a biotheist life is not about purity—it’s about coherence. About slowly bringing your actions, values, relationships, and attention into harmony with the living systems you are part of.
It’s not about saving the world. It’s about becoming a more honest participant in it.
And it begins, simply, with attention.