Emergent Communities

We are laying the tracks for a comprehensive redistribution of awareness. All around the Stanford campus, people are discussing the same things: Sustainable living, local agriculture, community activism, and the general widening of our mental and spiritual habitats.

This blog will function as a forum to illustrate the diligent and organized ideas of its contributors; hopefully, with time, it will chronicle the growing of a movement.

This movement begins with one's own heart. In accepting the vastness and urgency of our current situation: the accelerating disintegration of the natural world by industry, a crisis of energy, clean water, and food, a spiritual bankruptcy taken root in the hearts of a consumer population raised on the promises of material satisfaction and given no tools whatsoever to ask essential questions. That these problems exist is not enough. We have heard about them. It is not enough simply to continue this depressing conversation.

The true effort will be in creating communities of encounter that finally allow us a space to propose the questions that have to this point never been served, and to build a web of support and service that will remind us that we are indeed working for one another.

How did we get here? What do we care about? Do you accept your power as a creative being of light? What is necessary for a true listening? What is necessary for education? Where do we go from here?

These questions will serve as the ground for the true exchange, one that bears within it the amazing power of our most basic social contract: the thing that will cure our disease is where our greatest joys meet the worlds greatest needs, and when we witness, body to body, the collective capacity of our donated love and support, we will understand the steps that need to be done.

The mission is to connect the dots. To find the message that has been living between the lines, those stories that our ancestors will not let us forget.