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domain: architecture
tags: [harmonism, architecture-of-harmony, ecology, climate, energy, nature, sovereignty, dharma, logos, epistemology, information-war, media, permaculture]
content_layer: applied
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published: "2026-05-17"
updated: "2026-05-19"
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# Climate, Energy, and the Ecology of Truth

*Applied [[Harmonism]] engaging the climate and energy discourse — its genuine ecological dimension, its capture as a control vector, and the Harmonic alternative. Part of the [[Architecture of Harmony]]. See also: [[Ecology and Resilience]], [[The Epistemological Crisis]], [[Governance]], [[Architecture of Harmony]].*

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## Two Truths Held Simultaneously

The climate and energy discourse is one of the most heavily manipulated domains in the contemporary information war. Understanding it requires holding two truths simultaneously — a capacity that the managed perception apparatus is specifically designed to prevent, because its entire architecture depends on forcing every position into a binary: you are either "with the science" or a "denier."

The first truth: the human relationship to nature is structurally disordered. A civilization that treats the natural world as inert matter available for extraction — the implicit ontology of industrial modernity — will degrade every ecosystem it touches. This is not a hypothesis. It is the observable consequence of three centuries of industrial activity conducted under a metaphysics that denied nature any dimension beyond the physical-mechanical. Topsoil depletion, ocean acidification, freshwater contamination, biodiversity collapse, microplastic saturation of every biological system on the planet — these are real, measurable, and consequential. They do not require computer models or institutional certification to perceive. Anyone with functioning senses and access to land can observe the trajectory.

The second truth: the mainstream climate narrative has been captured as a vector for centralized control. The same elite influence structure documented in [[The Epistemological Crisis]] — the concentration of financial, institutional, and mediatic power that shapes perception across every domain of Western life — has seized the legitimate ecological concern and weaponized it. Carbon taxes, energy rationing, mobility restriction, industrial policy dictated by unaccountable transnational bodies, the systematic elimination of small-scale agriculture in favor of corporate food systems, the forced adoption of technologies (electric vehicles, heat pumps, smart meters) that increase dependency on centralized grids — these are not ecological solutions. They are control mechanisms dressed in ecological language.

Refusing either truth produces a distorted position. The person who denies ecological degradation because the narrative around it has been manipulated has thrown out the genuine concern with the manufactured framing. The person who accepts the full mainstream climate package because they perceive real ecological problems has swallowed the control apparatus along with the legitimate science. [[Harmonism]] refuses the binary. Both truths are operational. Both must be named.


## The Ontological Root

The ecological crisis, at its root, is not a policy failure or a technology failure. It is a metaphysical failure — a consequence of the ontology that has governed Western civilization since the [scientific revolution](https://grokipedia.com/page/Scientific_Revolution).

[[Harmonic Realism]] holds that reality is inherently harmonic — pervaded by [[Glossary of Terms#Logos|Logos]], the governing organizing principle of creation — and irreducibly multidimensional, following a binary pattern at every scale: matter and energy within the Cosmos, physical body and energy body in the human being. The natural world is not inert matter arranged by mechanical forces. It participates in this same harmonic structure — animated by the same living energy that constitutes the human energy body. The forest is not a collection of biological machines. It is a living system with its own vital dimension — its own [Qi](https://grokipedia.com/page/Qi), its own energetic coherence, its own intelligence that expresses through the incomprehensibly complex web of relationships between root systems, mycorrhizal networks, water cycles, microbial communities, and atmospheric exchange.

The [[Wheel of Nature]] centers on Reverence — not resource management, not sustainability metrics, but ontological recognition of the living reality of the natural world. This is not sentiment. It is a metaphysical claim with practical consequences. A civilization that relates to nature from Reverence does not need carbon regulations to restrain its behavior. Its behavior is already constrained by the recognition that the natural world is sacred — not in the diffuse, feel-good sense of contemporary environmentalism, but in the precise sense that it participates in [[Glossary of Terms#Logos|Logos]], that its order is an expression of the same cosmic harmony that orders human life, and that to degrade it is to degrade the fabric of reality in which the human being is embedded.

Every serious ecological tradition understood this. The Andean relationship to [Pachamama](https://grokipedia.com/page/Pachamama) — the living earth — is not folk belief. It is applied ontology: the recognition that the earth is a living system to which the human being owes [[Glossary of Terms#Ayni|Ayni]] — sacred reciprocity. The Chinese tradition's understanding of landscape through [feng shui](https://grokipedia.com/page/Feng_shui) — the reading of Qi flows in the land — is not superstition. It is the application of vital-energetic perception to the organization of human habitation within a living environment. The indigenous land stewardship practices that survived colonization and now attract academic attention as "traditional ecological knowledge" are not primitive antecedents to modern environmental science. They are applications of a richer ontology — one that perceives dimensions of the natural world that the materialist framework cannot access.

The ecological crisis will not be solved by better technology applied within the existing ontology. It will be solved by a change of ontology — a civilizational recognition that the natural world is alive, intelligent, sacred, and owed reciprocity. Everything practical follows from this recognition: how we farm, how we build, how we generate energy, how we relate to land, water, soil, and the living communities we share the earth with.


## The Captured Narrative

With the ontological ground established, the capture can be named precisely.

The mainstream climate narrative — the one disseminated through the [IPCC](https://grokipedia.com/page/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Climate_Change), mainstream media, government policy, and institutional science — is built on a genuine core (human industrial activity has measurable effects on atmospheric composition and climate systems) wrapped in a layer of manipulation that serves interests entirely unrelated to ecological health. Understanding the scale of this capture requires examining both the suppression of scientific dissent and the policy architecture being constructed under its cover.

The manipulation operates through several mechanisms.

**Monopolization of the problem.** The narrative reduces the ecological crisis to a single variable: atmospheric carbon dioxide. This has the effect of making every ecological concern expressible as a carbon number, which makes it regulable, taxable, and tradable. The actually complex, multidimensional ecological crisis — topsoil loss, freshwater contamination, biodiversity collapse, endocrine disruption, microplastic saturation — disappears behind the carbon metric. These problems are harder to monetize, harder to centralize, and harder to use as levers for institutional control. They are therefore marginalized in favor of the one problem that admits a centralized solution: carbon regulation.

The scientific consensus itself is far less settled than the institutional narrative permits the public to perceive. The [World Climate Declaration](https://clintel.org/world-climate-declaration/), signed by over 1,600 scientists and professionals including Nobel laureate [John Clauser](https://grokipedia.com/page/John_Clauser), states plainly: "There is no climate emergency." The declaration does not deny that climate changes — climate has always changed — but challenges the catastrophist modelling, the suppression of natural variability data, and the political instrumentalization of climate science. That such a declaration, signed by credentialed scientists across dozens of countries, receives virtually zero mainstream coverage is itself diagnostic. The function of "scientific consensus" rhetoric is not to describe the actual state of scientific opinion but to foreclose inquiry — the same epistemic closure mechanism documented in [[The Epistemological Crisis]].

**Centralization of the solution.** If the problem is atmospheric carbon, the solution is carbon regulation — and carbon regulation requires centralized monitoring, centralized taxation, centralized allocation of emissions permits, centralized industrial policy. Every proposed solution moves power upward: from the individual to the state, from the local to the transnational, from the community to the administrative apparatus. Cap-and-trade systems, carbon credits, emissions monitoring infrastructure — all require institutional intermediation at scale. The [small farmer](https://grokipedia.com/page/Smallholding) growing food in harmony with the land is invisible to this framework. The [permaculture](https://grokipedia.com/page/Permaculture) practitioner restoring degraded soil sequesters more carbon per acre than the industrial farm — but the sequestration does not register in the carbon trading system because it does not flow through institutional channels.

**The policy architecture beneath the narrative.** What distinguishes climate capture from other domains of narrative management is the scale of the control infrastructure being assembled under its cover. The "climate emergency" framing — a term of political urgency, not scientific description — serves as the justification for a comprehensive architecture of restriction that touches nearly every dimension of sovereign life. The pattern is consistent: a genuine ecological concern is identified, then policy proposals are advanced that address the concern only incidentally while concentrating institutional control over populations.

The mechanisms are specific and interconnected. Programmable digital currencies — promoted as "efficient" and "green" — enable authorities to restrict purchases by carbon score, expiration date, or geographic radius. "15-minute city" planning frameworks, presented as urban design innovation, contain enforcement provisions for restricting vehicle movement beyond designated zones. Agricultural policy justified by emissions targets systematically eliminates small-scale and family farming — the Netherlands' forced nitrogen reduction, Sri Lanka's catastrophic organic-only mandate, and the broader push to replace animal husbandry with laboratory-produced alternatives all follow the same structural logic: displace the sovereign producer in favor of the centralized supply chain. Dietary mandates framed as "planetary health" converge with the interests of the same corporations positioned to profit from synthetic food production. Travel restrictions tested during pandemic lockdowns are being proposed as permanent "carbon budgets" per citizen. The language varies; the structural direction is invariant — from sovereignty toward dependency, from local control toward centralized administration, from the human being as agent toward the human being as managed unit.

The speed at which "climate lockdown" moved from conspiratorial fringe to mainstream policy discussion — a concept that was literally unthinkable in 2019 and normalized by 2021 — reveals how rapidly the Overton window shifts when emergency framing is accepted. Each emergency expands the precedent for the next. The structural analysis here is not conspiratorial but architectural: these policies are publicly documented in [UN](https://grokipedia.com/page/United_Nations), [WEF](https://grokipedia.com/page/World_Economic_Forum), and government white papers. The capture is not hidden. It is simply presented as benevolent.

**Suppression of dissent.** The binary framing — "believe the science" or be labeled a denier — forecloses the precise analysis that [[Harmonism]] conducts. The person who says "ecological degradation is real, but the mainstream climate narrative is captured" cannot be placed in the binary. They are therefore forced into the "denier" category by default, because the framing does not permit a position that affirms the ecological concern while rejecting the institutional apparatus built around it. The social cost of this misplacement is deliberately high — professional ostracism, funding withdrawal, platform removal — which ensures that the binary holds even among those who privately perceive its falsity.

**Technology lock-in.** The "green transition" as promoted by governments and transnational institutions channels investment toward technologies that increase dependency on centralized infrastructure. Electric vehicles require charging networks controlled by utility companies. Heat pumps require grid electricity whose pricing and availability are set by regulators. Smart meters enable real-time monitoring and remote control of household energy consumption. Solar panels — genuinely useful for household sovereignty when paired with battery storage and local inverters — are most often deployed in grid-tied configurations that route energy through the same centralized infrastructure, with the household as a producer-consumer under the utility's terms. The pattern replicates what [[Technology and Tools]] documents across every domain: ownership converted to dependency, sovereignty converted to subscription.

**Weather modification as unacknowledged variable.** A dimension almost entirely absent from mainstream climate discourse is the existence of operational weather modification technology. Cloud seeding has been practiced by governments since the 1940s; the [UAE's](https://grokipedia.com/page/United_Arab_Emirates) national rain enhancement program, China's [Weather Modification Program](https://grokipedia.com/page/Rainmaking) (the largest in the world, employing tens of thousands of personnel), and the US military's long history of atmospheric research are not classified secrets — they are publicly documented programs. The question that the mainstream narrative cannot afford to ask is straightforward: if governments possess and actively deploy technology that modifies weather patterns at regional scale, to what degree are the observed changes in weather being attributed to "climate change" actually the downstream effects of deliberate intervention? This is not a claim that all climate variation is artificial. It is the observation that a variable known to exist and known to be operational is systematically excluded from the models used to justify the policy architecture described above. The exclusion is not accidental. A variable that complicates the narrative is a variable that threatens the policy apparatus built upon it.

**Distraction from causation.** The narrative directs attention toward consumer behavior (drive less, eat less meat, fly less, reduce your carbon footprint — a term [invented by BP](https://grokipedia.com/page/Carbon_footprint)'s advertising agency) while the industrial and military sources that generate the overwhelming majority of ecological damage continue without meaningful constraint. The individual is made to feel responsible for a problem that is structurally produced by the same actors who fund the campaigns urging individual responsibility. The function of "personal carbon footprint" rhetoric is to redistribute guilt downward while protecting the institutional sources of ecological degradation from accountability.


## The Architecture Beneath the Capture

The capture documented above is one half of the structure. The other half is a parallel architecture — a set of operational vectors deployed by largely the same actors who fund the captured narrative — that does the actual ecological damage while public attention is absorbed by the carbon question. The pattern is structurally consistent across vectors: the captured narrative provides the cover, the parallel architecture executes the harm, and the same foundations and financial structures sit upstream of both.

**Bioengineering as agricultural and public-health intervention.** [Oxitec](https://grokipedia.com/page/Oxitec), funded substantially by the [Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation](https://grokipedia.com/page/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation), has released genetically modified *Aedes aegypti* mosquitoes in Florida, Brazil, and multiple other jurisdictions under public-health framings. Engineered-tick and gene-drive research — designed to spread genetic modifications through wild populations — proceeds at foundation-adjacent institutions with limited public oversight. Gain-of-function virology — institutionalized at the [Wuhan Institute of Virology](https://grokipedia.com/page/Wuhan_Institute_of_Virology), [EcoHealth Alliance](https://grokipedia.com/page/EcoHealth_Alliance), Galveston National Laboratory, and a network of allied facilities — operates at the boundary of agricultural research, public-health intervention, and biological-weapons development, funded by the same foundational and governmental networks that promote synthetic protein as climate solution. The architecture treats living systems as substrates for engineering, with global health and food security as the cover stories.

**Seed monopolization.** The consolidation of agricultural genetics into three corporations — Bayer-Monsanto, Corteva (DowDuPont), and Syngenta-ChemChina — places control over the genetic foundation of the human food supply in fewer hands than at any point in agricultural history. The Gates Foundation's [AGRA](https://grokipedia.com/page/Alliance_for_a_Green_Revolution_in_Africa) initiative has spent two decades displacing traditional African seed systems with patented hybrid varieties dependent on purchased inputs, despite documented failures on the model's own productivity terms. The [Svalbard Global Seed Vault](https://grokipedia.com/page/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault), presented as preservation, functions as centralized repository under institutional control. The pattern: heritage genetics distributed across millions of sovereign agricultural communities replaced by patented varieties owned by a handful of corporations whose loyalties run upward to financial markets rather than downward to land and people.

**Solar radiation management.** Stratospheric aerosol injection research — funded directly by Bill Gates through Harvard's [SCoPEx](https://grokipedia.com/page/Stratospheric_Controlled_Perturbation_Experiment) program and parallel initiatives — proposes deliberate atmospheric modification to "manage" sunlight reaching the earth's surface. The research operates publicly; broader operational deployment is contested but not unsupported by atmospheric observation. National-scale cloud-seeding programs, already addressed in the prior section, establish that operational weather modification is real and ongoing; SAI extends the same engineering posture to planetary scale. The deeper structural claim: the same technocratic mindset that produced the ecological crisis is being deployed as its solution, treating the atmosphere itself as a substrate for institutional intervention rather than as a living medium whose order is to be honored.

**Electromagnetic saturation.** A vector almost entirely absent from mainstream ecological discourse: the continuous-exposure regime created by cellular tower buildup, 5G millimeter-wave deployment, smart-meter networks, satellite constellations (Starlink, Kuiper, and parallel projects), wireless infrastructure inside every home, and the high-current electromagnetic environments of electric vehicles — particularly Tesla cabins, where battery packs sit beneath passenger feet and inverter circuits surround the seating area, with independent measurements showing exposures substantially elevated above internal combustion vehicles and extending into the back seats where children typically ride. The peer-reviewed literature on biological effects (the [REFLEX](https://grokipedia.com/page/REFLEX_study) study, the [BioInitiative](https://grokipedia.com/page/BioInitiative_Report) Report, the work of [Martin Pall](https://grokipedia.com/page/Martin_L._Pall) on voltage-gated calcium channel disruption, and a broader research literature systematically marginalized by industry-aligned standards bodies) is substantial. Electromagnetic pollution is the bioenergetic dimension of the ecological crisis — the saturation of the energy body of the biosphere with frequencies that disrupt the harmonic order of cellular and ecosystemic function. [[Wheel of Health]] addresses this at the individual scale; the ecological dimension extends to every living organism within the exposure field.

**Food adulteration.** [Glyphosate](https://grokipedia.com/page/Glyphosate) residue saturates nearly every non-organic food substrate. mRNA delivery platforms have been developed for livestock and crop applications, with deployment varying by jurisdiction. Synthetic-protein ventures — Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods, lab-grown meat startups — are funded by the same foundations and capital networks driving the climate-emergency framing. Ultra-processed food saturation is engineered for addictive consumption patterns. Microplastic contamination is present throughout the food supply. The food supply has become an industrial-chemical-pharmaceutical hybrid whose effects on human metabolic, reproductive, and neurological function are now visible in fertility collapse, metabolic-disease prevalence, and neurodevelopmental-disorder rates that would have been unthinkable two generations ago.

**Water contamination.** [PFAS](https://grokipedia.com/page/PFAS) forever-chemicals in nearly all municipal water supplies; pharmaceutical residue from a heavily medicated population entering watersheds; [fluoride](https://grokipedia.com/page/Water_fluoridation) added to municipal water under public-health framings whose underlying evidence base is contested in the scientific literature itself; agricultural runoff carrying glyphosate and synthetic nitrogen; microplastic saturation. The water cycle is degraded not only by the structural disruptions named earlier (deforestation, wetland drainage) but by chemical contamination of the water itself — and water, more than any other substance, carries the energetic signature of what it contains.

**The actors.** Naming what the broader article references as elite concentration of influence: the [Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation](https://grokipedia.com/page/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation) as the primary philanthropic node directing capital toward bioengineering, geoengineering, seed capture, and synthetic-food ventures; the [World Economic Forum](https://grokipedia.com/page/World_Economic_Forum) as the convening architecture for the technocratic-managerial program; [BlackRock](https://grokipedia.com/page/BlackRock), [Vanguard](https://grokipedia.com/page/The_Vanguard_Group), and [State Street](https://grokipedia.com/page/State_Street_Corporation) as the financial substrate channeling capital toward ESG-aligned enterprises and away from non-aligned firms; the foundation-NGO apparatus ([Rockefeller](https://grokipedia.com/page/Rockefeller_Foundation), [Open Society](https://grokipedia.com/page/Open_Society_Foundations), [Wellcome Trust](https://grokipedia.com/page/Wellcome_Trust), and allied vehicles) executing the operational layer. These are not abstract systemic forces; they are named actors operating named programs documented in public filings. [[World/Diagnosis/The Globalist Elite|The Globalist Elite]] catalogues the broader architecture; what this section names is the specific ecological-vector deployment.

The convergence is the point. The same architecture that funds the [IPCC](https://grokipedia.com/page/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Climate_Change), the climate-emergency media campaigns, and the Davos policy machinery also funds the GMO mosquito releases, the SAI atmospheric research, the synthetic-protein ventures, the smart-meter rollout, the seed consolidation, and the pharmaceutical platforms deployed through agricultural and public-health channels. The carbon narrative is the surface; the parallel architecture is the substance. Refusing the surface narrative without seeing the substance leaves the actual destruction unopposed.


## The Harmonic Path

The ecological path that [[Harmonism]] envisions follows from its ontology, not from the mainstream narrative. It does not begin with carbon metrics. It begins with Reverence as the central pillar of the [[Wheel of Nature]] and builds outward through the seven peripheral pillars of humanity's relationship with the living earth.

**Local stewardship over global regulation.** The [[Architecture of Harmony]] places Ecology as one of the eleven institutional pillars, operating according to its own Dharmic logic. Ecological health is achieved through local relationship with land, water, soil, and ecosystem — not through distant regulatory bodies setting targets based on models. The farmer who knows their soil, the community that manages its watershed, the bioregion that maintains its forest — these are the agents of ecological health. Centralized regulation is, at best, a blunt instrument; at worst, a capture mechanism. Subsidiarity applies to ecology as forcefully as it applies to governance: the people closest to the land are best positioned to steward it.

**Permaculture and regenerative agriculture.** The [[Wheel of Nature]]'s first pillar — Permaculture, Gardens, and Trees — names the practical foundation. [Permaculture](https://grokipedia.com/page/Permaculture) is not an alternative farming technique. It is an applied ontology: the design of human habitation in harmony with natural systems, modeled on the patterns that ecosystems themselves use to maintain resilience and productivity. Regenerative agriculture — which builds topsoil, sequesters carbon, restores biodiversity, and produces nutrient-dense food without petrochemical inputs — is the ecological practice most suppressed by the mainstream narrative, because it distributes productive capacity to local communities and reduces dependency on the industrial food system.

**Energy sovereignty.** Solar panels on your roof, paired with battery storage and local inverters — not grid-tied and not metered by a utility — constitute genuine energy sovereignty. Small-scale wind. Micro-hydro where geography permits. The principle from [[The New Acre]]: own the means of energy production or the means will own you. The "green transition" as promoted by institutional actors replaces fossil fuel dependency with grid-electricity dependency — which is not a transition to sovereignty but a transition from one form of capture to another.

**Indigenous and traditional ecological knowledge.** The Andean, Chinese, and Indian cartographies all contain sophisticated understandings of human-nature relationship that predate industrial ecology by millennia. These are not "alternative perspectives" to be cited in the margins of environmental policy documents. They are applications of the correct ontology — the one that perceives nature as living, intelligent, and sacred — and their practical guidance on land stewardship, water management, seasonal rhythm, and ecosystem relationship is more aligned with genuine ecological health than any policy paper produced by a transnational institution.

**Water over carbon.** The fixation on atmospheric CO₂ obscures what may be the more consequential ecological variable: the [water cycle](https://grokipedia.com/page/Water_cycle). Deforestation, wetland drainage, soil compaction, and the channelization of rivers have disrupted regional water cycles at a scale that affects climate, agriculture, and ecosystem function far more immediately than atmospheric composition changes. Restoring the water cycle — through reforestation, wetland restoration, soil regeneration, and the cessation of industrial-scale water extraction — may be the single most impactful ecological intervention available. It is largely absent from the mainstream narrative because it cannot be regulated through carbon markets.


## The Convergence of Crises

The climate discourse is not an isolated domain. It is one node in the larger information war documented in [[The Epistemological Crisis]]. The same elite concentration of influence that manages perception in health, education, economics, and culture manages perception in ecology — using genuine concerns as leverage for centralized control, suppressing dissent through social pressure and institutional gatekeeping, and channeling solutions toward technologies and policies that increase dependency rather than sovereignty.

Seeing this convergence is not cynicism. It is structural analysis — the same diagnostic lens that [[Harmonism]] applies to every domain. The pattern is consistent: identify a real problem, capture the narrative around it, propose solutions that concentrate power, pathologize anyone who questions the concentration. Climate is one instance. Health is another. Education is another. The epistemological crisis underlies them all — because when the apparatus that certifies truth has been captured, every domain of knowledge becomes a potential vector for the same dynamic.

The resolution, as in every domain, is sovereignty. Epistemic sovereignty — the capacity to evaluate ecological claims on their own merits, without deferring to institutional certification. Material sovereignty — the capacity to steward one's own land, produce one's own food, generate one's own energy. Political sovereignty — the capacity to govern one's bioregion's ecological relationship locally, without deference to transnational regulatory bodies. And ontological sovereignty — the capacity to see nature as it is: living, sacred, owed Reverence and [[Glossary of Terms#Ayni|Ayni]], and requiring not management but relationship.

The earth does not need a global carbon budget administered by technocrats. It needs communities of sovereign human beings who perceive its living reality and relate to it accordingly — from the ground up, rooted in the land, guided by the accumulated ecological wisdom of the traditions that lived in harmony with it for millennia before the industrial machine began its work.

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*See also: [[Ecology and Resilience]], [[Wheel of Nature]], [[The Epistemological Crisis]], [[The New Acre]], [[Technology and Tools]], [[Governance]], [[Architecture of Harmony]], [[World/Diagnosis/The Globalist Elite|The Globalist Elite]], [[World/Diagnosis/The Financial Architecture|The Financial Architecture]], [[World/Frontiers/The Global Economic Order|The Global Economic Order]], [[Glossary of Terms#Ayni|Ayni]], [[Glossary of Terms#Dharma|Dharma]], [[Glossary of Terms#Logos|Logos]], [[Applied Harmonism]]*
