Until a century ago—very recent in light of the two-and-a-half-millennium history of Hippocratic medicine—most doctors worked in small communities in which they represented an important resource. That is, doctors would come with a wide social network, broad education, and ongoing contacts with outside centers of learning. At the time of the Lunar Men, the group of innovators who powered the industrial revolution, some doctors were inventors, others pursued sciences, and Darwin’s grandfather wrote romantic notions of evolution. He was a doctor when doctors could be curious, capable, and looked to for help by everyone, poorest to richest.

In my fictional Restoration Series, a small, highly competent group of diverse seekers that includes doctors lives and works together to restore the body of life and to innovate and change to better serve life on earth. With time, they form a creative way of living into evolution, recovering agentic personal skills of all kinds, and forming, eventually, residential habitat restoration clinics and communities where patients heal with their habitats.

If you were to form such a clinic at this point in history, it—and you and your co-founders—could be a resource to a particular habitat to which you and medical, spiritual, veterinary, plant pathology, and other passionate carers of evolve live could become integral to future survival and thriving. The idea is not to function like a machine, or to serve your tools; it is to share purpose and meaning and vision, and to effect them continuously, adapting them as you learn more from your living context. A network of such clinics, each with its own vision and all sharing lessons learned, could each keep their interventions small, adaptable, and easily replaceable when a better way of habitat integrated living emerges.

Industrialism will then become a part of the necessary past that sustains top-down networks of trauma care and regional centers of learning. It will also foster a better understanding of space and each, and devise suitable responses to asteroids, like the DART project, and ways to predict and respond to changes inside the earth, such as the flipping of the magnetic poles.

In community, many minds can join to create shared processes of living that cooperate with and resume evolution. Begin by gaining embodied experiential learning through doing, and hone it by examining its effects on shared being, becoming, and doing. This could bring wonderful knowledge to the practical aspects of caring for and curing your species as one species and one life. With emergence, portable wealth that doesn’t know any better to flow toward death can become a small goal of a practice in which your life wends its way toward a living future for evolved life on earth.