Jessie Lydia Henshaw

Jessie Lydia Henshaw has unique insights to share based on her
diverse background. Growing up surrounded by scientists and
educators, she studied physics but recognized the need to
understand systems holistically over time. Her studies led her to
architecture, where she pioneered solar building and microclimate
research.





Through meticulously monitoring energy flows in houses, Jessie
discovered that energy moves through organization, not just
abstract numbers. This realization launched her into the fields
of general systems theory and recognizing nature's patterns. She
saw that all growth systems, from the smallest cells to entire
civilizations, proceed through explosive, extractive growth
before shifting resources toward maintaining stability and
continuity when contexts change.





Applying this lens, Jessie perceives that civilization has
perfected tools for multiplying power while losing sight of
impacts on surrounding contexts. Now, an overpowering economic
system steers itself according to profits alone toward inevitable
limits. For Jessie, true wealth integrates reasoning and
feelings, allows healthy potential to emerge from small
beginnings, and freely completes one's journey from immaturity to
mature engagement with the world.





An economic system respecting nature would distribute some
profits to relieve accumulated crises and use some to proactively
steer toward societal well-being beyond growth. Jessie also sees
wisdom in returning to the roots of words to reveal original
intents linking mind to nature. This fosters cohesion over
artificial divisions and misunderstandings.





If civilization's survival instincts could encompass more than
individual lives, the actors dominating the global economic
system might recalibrate to emphasize retaining internal cohesion
before risks of fragmentation destroy cultures. Listening deeply
to Jessie's thoughtful perspective gives hope that through open
discourse, common ground supporting human and natural well-being
can be rediscovered.