"Sharing is not a sacrifice but a celebration, an act of love that has an immediate ripple effect, sending happiness back to the giver, multiplied many times. Like the walking iris, our momentary, everyday acts of kindness permeate the community with a sweet and spicy scent." As a founder of the EcoVillage at Ithaca in the Finger Lakes region of New York, Liz Walker has had ample experience in the processes of actually building community. Her conclusion is that weaving the social fabric takes … Continue reading

You might think that in order to be competitive you need to be ruthless; showing no compassion for your opponent. But Dr Bruce Lipton reveals how it’s the opposite that’s actually true. As he explains, the original definition of competition is ‘to strive together’. If you play tennis and you’re really good, you don’t want to play with somebody who’s not good. It’s not going to help you do your game any better at all. You want to play with someone who’s better than you. If you want to improve, … Continue reading

"Technologies of Reunion contribute to the reunion of human and nature, mind and body, thought and emotion, matter and spirit, modern and ancient, masculine and feminine. They reunite all that which has been made artificially separate or even placed into opposition in the civilization of separation. "I am offering the vision of Institutes for Technologies of Reunion as a next step beyond the “intentional community.” Like ourselves, a community thrives when it has a mission, a reason for … Continue reading