Relational Becoming: Creativity, Time, and the Karma of Emergence

This essay explores the metaphysical and ethical implications of relational ontology, focusing on the dynamic interplay of creativity, time, and karma. Moving beyond substance-based metaphysics, it argues for a worldview in which reality unfolds through relations and latent potentials. Drawing on process philosophy, quantum theory, and contemporary thinkers such as Barad, Deleuze, and Barbour, the essay conceptualizes time as emergent, creativity as ontological, and karma as a field of relational consequence rather than linear causation. It suggests that emergence, dissolution, and mutual co-constitution define existence, calling for a participatory ethic grounded in awareness of our embeddedness in relational fields.