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Tara Henry's avatar

Well said! Exactly why it’s most important to cultivate trust in our internal gps - our intuition - than anything else!

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Tom Morgan's avatar

Spectacular. Syntropy needs to be better known but they tell me it even keeps getting taken off Wikipedia...

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sam langer's avatar

Love this! We practice Syntropic agroforestry on our farm and deeply resonate with this philosophy as a way of life and sense making.

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Lauren Capelin's avatar

Expressing so beautifully the emergent thoughts I have been contemplating recently. And so much in my field is jumping out at me to reverberate these same themes.

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claudia becker's avatar

Most important.

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Niklas Limacher's avatar

Beautifully expressed and on point! 🙏🏼👏🏼

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Emma Duke's avatar

Yes yes yes yes yes. This is it.

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Chitesh's avatar

A bang on writing!!

Something which draws oneself immediately in the present.

It Solves all mental hustle and put you there to work in the present.

The work through our presence, the work on land and not on some space where every distracted soul is operating in society. The work which is a dive into us! heals us! at the same time addresses all distractions of this complex society we are living..today..

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Paul Acciavatti's avatar

Thank you for this. Would love links if you have time!

I’m close enough to the Hudson valley to want to learn more about these communities and “Christian Alexander” AND “the primary school” doesn’t return anything relevant.

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Nicolas Michaelsen's avatar

Thanks for wanting to go deeper. there was a typo, I meant Christopher Alexander. Check out https://www.patternlanguage.com. His work on pattern languages and placemaking feels, to me, like the future speaking through patterns, even if he never said it quite that way.

The “upstate” reference came from a conversation with a friend who’s building something there; I didn’t name specifics to avoid leaving others out. But it gives me a good idea for a future post that highlights particular places more directly.

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Aparatha's avatar

Nicolas - love your writing. It's also quite syntropic and synchronous that YouTube recommended Christopher Alexander to me yesterday. Paul - I searched for "intentional communities in the lower hudson valley" in Google and it came up with a good number of results. I am considering moving up to that area as well - I grew up in NYC and live in Houston now.

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Nicolas Michaelsen's avatar

Thank you so much :)

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Paul Acciavatti's avatar

Thank you! Subscribing to get a fuller sense of the whole space

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Linda Kaun's avatar

Wow... I love stumbling onto your work. Thank you! So much is crumbling and shifting to a whole new world... you've helped me put words to these ideas.

"We are no longer builders of futures. We are stewards of emergence. Listening posts for the possible.

Hope, then, is not located in distant utopias or perfected systems. It is found in the fidelity of attention. In attunement to what is most alive. In the courage to act not from certainty, but from coherence."

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AGB's avatar

Amazing article. So true as a climate person for the last 25 years. So much needed now to sense and follow the attractors to the future which we need to follow.

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