We live in a time when adaptation is celebrated as wisdom. We are told to “be resilient,” to “cope” with the turbulence of climate disruption, geopolitical fragmentation and digital acceleration. But adaptation alone is survivalism, not creative flourishing. A civilisation that only reacts is one that shrinks its imagination to fit the given. To regenerate our world, we need more than resilience: we need “crealectic intelligence”, a collective capacity to think and act with the creative pulse of reality itself and not just analytically.  

Philosophical health and crealectics are urgent practices for systemic transformation. Philosophical health means cultivating harmony between our meanings, values and actions. It’s the inner ground without which outer change collapses into incoherence. Crealectics is a method of holistic innovation that follows the rhythm of life itself, and that has been implemented for instance in the Swedish green energy corporation Vattenfall. Together, they form what I call the CIPHER model, an acronym for Crealectic Intelligence and Philosophical Health for Enriched Realities. 

From possibility to compossibility  

For two centuries, industrial civilisation has mastered the art of making things possible. We put satellites in orbit, gene-edited crops in fields, and billions of smartphones in global pockets. But we have been less skilled at asking whether these possibilities are compossible, whether they can coexist harmoniously with other life systems and futures.  

We now face what I call planetary incompossibility: systems that clash, technologies that fracture, societies that fragment. The very tools that connect us also divide us; the very innovations that extend life also endanger it.  

The crealectic method invites a different orientation. It asks us not only “what can we do?” but “what can we do together without cancelling each other out?” In G.W. Leibniz’s terms, compossibility is the art of composing a better world, rich in compatible differences, poor in inner contradictions.  

The inner dimension of regeneration  

Too often, systemic change is imagined as external: new technologies, new policies, new financial instruments. These matter, but they rest on fragile ground if the inner dimension, the way we think, feel, and orient ourselves, is neglected.  

Philosophical Health, a now international network of research and practice I founded five years ago, proposes to explore six senses that form the soil of regeneration: bodily sense, sense of self, sense of belonging, sense of the possible, sense of purpose and philosophical sense or worldview. If these are depleted, confused or poorly aligned, we are like farmers sowing seeds in sterile earth. If they are cultivated, then systemic transformation can take root.  

This inner work is not narcissistic self-help. It is the most political act, because our personal incoherences scale up into collective incoherences. Healing our philosophical health is a way to re-enchant our sense of being part of a shared planet and ignite our desire to co-create a planetary civilisation. It is a way to shift from autopilot survival to intentional inter-creation.  

Lessons from practice: energy and imagination  

These ideas are not only theoretical. At Vattenfall R&D in Sweden, I apply crealectics in workshops with engineers and managers, combined with the philosophical health approach in personal dialogue. Facing the challenge of fossil-free energy, they realised that technical fixes alone were insufficient. What was missing was a shared orientation, a “fossilfreedom” consciousness that could weave technological, ecological, and social dimensions into compossible futures.  

In these workshops, when participants practice “resetting,” they experience a rare pause from the metrics-driven tempo of corporate life. In “crealing,” they reconnect with the joy of imagining and feel their existential creativity without premature evaluation. In “profusing,” multiple “unimpossible” ideas are made to abound. “Compossibilising” helps them distinguish which paths could actually harmonise across scales. And “realising” prunes insights into concrete steps.  

Beyond brainstorming, this is about cultivating an existential rhythm aligned with the creativity of life itself, an integration of the all-too-usual fragmentation between person, earth, work and society.  

Why this matters for The Fifth Element  

The Fifth Element calls us to rethink research, foster intergenerational collaboration, and imagine regenerative enterprises. I believe crealectics and philosophical health directly serve this mission, and the feedback from their applications in corporate, educational or personal contexts is immensely positive. The CIPHER model (Crealectic Intelligence and Philosophical Health for Eudynamic Realities) can help us shift from problem-solving to world-crafting, from fragmented data to compossible realities. It can enable regenerative enterprises by ensuring innovation is not only profitable or possible, but compossible with planetary health. It can reconcile worldviews among cultures and communities by cultivating philosophical health as a shared language of meaning and universal purpose. Crealectics is at its core creation for social transformation, by recognising that imagination and existential creativity is not escapism but the first act of regeneration. As artists have known for centuries, the “real is creal” – a creative flux.  

A call to re-enchant thinking and creating as a way of healing  

If the anthropocene is the era where human impact dominates Earth systems, we need the regenerocene: an era where human and non-human life flourish through mutual and eudynamic recreation. This cannot be engineered by technology alone. Nor will it be decreed by policy alone. It must be composed, daily, through our choices, institutions and imaginations. And for that, we need methods that resist oversimplification, embrace complexity and cultivate wonder.  

Crealectics is one such method: a way of aligning innovation with compossibility, and compossibility with philosophical health. It is a call to remember that philosophy is not an ivory-tower pastime but a planetary practice of healing and “intercreating.”  

Thinking, at its heart, is a form of creative care, a source of energy, a planetary practice of health–health understood not just as absence of disease but as collective joie de vivre.