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The Lindisfarne Association (1972–2012) was a nonprofit foundation and diverse group of intellectuals organized by cultural historian William Irwin Thompson for the "study and realization of a new planetary culture". [1]

83 relations: Alfred North Whitehead, Amory Lovins, Arthur Zajonc, Asia Society, California, Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, Celtic animism, Church of the Holy Communion and Buildings, Crestone, Colorado, Cultural history, David Abram, David Spangler, David Steindl-Rast, Dorion Sagan, E. F. Schumacher, Elaine Pagels, Esalen Institute, Evan Chambers, Evan Thompson, Francisco Varela, Gary Snyder, Geomancy, Gnosticism, Greco-Roman mysteries, Gregory Bateson, Hazel Henderson, Hermeticism, Internet, Interpublic Group of Companies, James Lovelock, James Parks Morton, Jane Hirshfield, Joan Halifax, John D. Rockefeller III, John Michell (writer), John Todd (Canadian biologist), Kabbalah, Kathleen Raine, Keith Critchlow, Ley line, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne Gospels, Luis Maria Baca Grant No. 4, Lynn Margulis, Mary Catherine Bateson, Maurice Strong, Michael Murphy (author), Nancy Wilson Ross, New Alchemy Institute, Ozarks, ..., Paolo Soleri, Paul Winter, Petro-Canada, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Process philosophy, Pythagoreanism, Ralph Abraham (mathematician), Richard A. Falk, Robert Lawlor, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rusty Schweickart, Sacred geometry, San Francisco Zen Center, Sidney Lanier, Sim Van der Ryn, Soft energy path, Southampton, New York, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Stuart Kauffman, The New York Times, Think tank, Tibetan Buddhism, Traditional Chinese medicine, United Nations, Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson, Western esotericism, William Irwin Thompson, Yoga, York University, Zen, Zentatsu Richard Baker, Zia Inayat Khan. Expand index (33 more) »

Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher.

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Amory Lovins

Amory Bloch Lovins (born November 13, 1947) is an American physicist, environmental scientist, writer, and Chairman/Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute.

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Arthur Zajonc

Arthur Guy Zajonc (born 11 October 1949, Boston, Massachusetts) is a physicist and the author of several books related to science, mind, and spirit; one of these is based on dialogues about quantum mechanics with the Dalai Lama.

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Asia Society

The Asia Society is a non-profit organization that focuses on educating the world about Asia.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Cathedral of Saint John the Divine

The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine is the cathedral of the Episcopal Diocese of New York.

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Celtic animism

According to classical sources, the ancient Celts were animists.

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Church of the Holy Communion and Buildings

The Church of the Holy Communion and Buildings are historic Episcopal church buildings at 656-662 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) at West 20th Street in the Flatiron District of Manhattan, New York City.

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Crestone, Colorado

The Town of Crestone is a Statutory Town in Saguache County, Colorado, United States.

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Cultural history

Cultural history combines the approaches of anthropology and history to look at popular cultural traditions and cultural interpretations of historical experience.

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David Abram

David Abram (born June 24, 1957) is an American philosopher, cultural ecologist, and performance artist, best known for his work bridging the philosophical tradition of phenomenology with environmental and ecological issues.

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David Spangler

David Spangler (born January 7, 1945) is an American spiritual philosopher and self-described "practical mystic." He helped transform the Findhorn Foundation in northern Scotland into a center of residential spiritual education and is a friend of William Irwin Thompson.

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David Steindl-Rast

David Steindl-Rast OSB (born July 12, 1926) is a Catholic Benedictine monk, notable for his active participation in interfaith dialogue and his work on the interaction between spirituality and science.

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Dorion Sagan

Dorion Sagan (born 1959) is an American author, essayist, fiction writer, and theorist from Madison, Wisconsin.

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E. F. Schumacher

Ernst Friedrich Schumacher (19 August 1911 – 4 September 1977) was a German statistician and economist who is best known for his proposals for human-scale, decentralised and appropriate technologies.

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Elaine Pagels

Elaine Pagels, née Hiesey (born February 13, 1943), is an American religious historian who writes on the Gnostic Gospels.

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Esalen Institute

The Esalen Institute, commonly called Esalen, is a non-profit American retreat center and intentional community in Big Sur, California, which focuses on humanistic alternative education.

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Evan Chambers

Evan Chambers (born 1963, in Alexandria, Louisiana) is a composer, traditional Irish fiddler, and Professor of Composition at the University of Michigan.

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Evan Thompson

Evan Thompson (born 1962) is professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia.

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Francisco Varela

Francisco Javier Varela García (September 7, 1946 – May 28, 2001) was a Chilean biologist, philosopher, and neuroscientist who, together with his teacher Humberto Maturana, is best known for introducing the concept of autopoiesis to biology, and for co-founding the Mind and Life Institute to promote dialog between science and Buddhism.

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Gary Snyder

Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American man of letters.

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Geomancy

Geomancy (Greek: γεωμαντεία, "earth divination") is a method of divination that interprets markings on the ground or the patterns formed by tossed handfuls of soil, rocks, or sand.

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Gnosticism

Gnosticism (from γνωστικός gnostikos, "having knowledge", from γνῶσις, knowledge) is a modern name for a variety of ancient religious ideas and systems, originating in Jewish-Christian milieus in the first and second century AD.

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Greco-Roman mysteries

Mystery religions, sacred mysteries or simply mysteries were religious schools of the Greco-Roman world for which participation was reserved to initiates (mystai).

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Gregory Bateson

Gregory Bateson (9 May 1904 – 4 July 1980) was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician, and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields.

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Hazel Henderson

Hazel Henderson (born 27 March 1933 in Bristol, England) is a futurist and an economic iconoclast.

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Hermeticism

Hermeticism, also called Hermetism, is a religious, philosophical, and esoteric tradition based primarily upon writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus ("Thrice Great").

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Internet

The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.

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Interpublic Group of Companies

The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (IPG) is an American publicly traded advertising company.

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James Lovelock

James Ephraim Lovelock, (born 26 July 1919) is an independent scientist, environmentalist, and futurist who lives in Dorset, England.

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James Parks Morton

James Parks Morton (born January 7, 1930) is a retired Episcopal priest and founder of the Interfaith Center of New York.

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Jane Hirshfield

Jane Hirshfield (born 24 February 1953) is an American poet, essayist, and translator.

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Joan Halifax

Joan Jiko Halifax (born July 30, 1942) is an American Zen Buddhist teacher, anthropologist, ecologist, civil rights activist, hospice caregiver, and the author of several books on Buddhism and spirituality.

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John D. Rockefeller III

John Davison Rockefeller III (March 21, 1906 – July 10, 1978) was a philanthropist and third-generation member of the prominent Rockefeller family.

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John Michell (writer)

John Frederick Carden Michell (9 February 1933 – 24 April 2009) was an English author and esotericist who was a prominent figure in the development of the Earth mysteries movement.

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John Todd (Canadian biologist)

John Todd (born 1939) is a biologist working in the general field of ecological design.

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Kabbalah

Kabbalah (קַבָּלָה, literally "parallel/corresponding," or "received tradition") is an esoteric method, discipline, and school of thought that originated in Judaism.

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Kathleen Raine

Kathleen Jessie Raine CBE (14 June 1908 – 6 July 2003) was a British poet, critic and scholar, writing in particular on William Blake, W. B. Yeats and Thomas Taylor.

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Keith Critchlow

Keith Barry Critchlow (born 16 March 1933Cf. Debrett's People of Today entry for Prof. Critchlow) is an artist, lecturer, author, and professor of architecture in England, and a co-founder of the Temenos Academy.

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Ley line

Ley lines are apparent alignments of land forms, places of ancient religious significance or culture, often including man-made structures.

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Lindisfarne

The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is a tidal island off the northeast coast of England, which constitutes the civil parish of Holy Island in Northumberland.

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Lindisfarne Gospels

The Lindisfarne Gospels (London, British Library Cotton MS Nero D.IV) is an illuminated manuscript gospel book probably produced around the years 715-720 in the monastery at Lindisfarne, off the coast of Northumberland, which is now in the British Library in London.

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Luis Maria Baca Grant No. 4

The Luis Maria Baca Grant No.

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Lynn Margulis

Lynn Margulis (born Lynn Petra Alexander; March 5, 1938 – November 22, 2011) was an American evolutionary theorist and biologist, science author, educator, and popularizer, and was the primary modern proponent for the significance of symbiosis in evolution.

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Mary Catherine Bateson

Mary Catherine Bateson (born December 8, 1939) is an American writer and cultural anthropologist.

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Maurice Strong

Maurice Frederick Strong, (April 29, 1929 – November 27, 2015) was a Canadian oil and mineral businessman and a diplomat who served as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

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Michael Murphy (author)

Michael Murphy (3 September 1930) is the co-founder of the Esalen Institute, a key figure in the Human Potential Movement and author of The Future of the Body and other books on topics related to extraordinary human potential.

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Nancy Wilson Ross

Nancy Wilson Ross (November 22, 1901 – January 18, 1986) was an American novelist.

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New Alchemy Institute

The New Alchemy Institute was a research center that did pioneering investigation into organic agriculture, aquaculture, and bioshelter design between 1969 and 1991.

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Ozarks

The Ozarks, also referred to as the Ozark Mountains and Ozark Plateau, is a physiographic region in the U.S. states of Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kansas.

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Paolo Soleri

Paolo Soleri (21 June 1919 – 9 April 2013) was an Italian architect.

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Paul Winter

Paul Winter (born August 31, 1939) is an American saxophonist who founded the Paul Winter Consort.

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Petro-Canada

Petro-Canada is a retail and wholesale marketing brand of Suncor Energy.

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1 May 1881 – 10 April 1955) was a French idealist philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of Peking Man.

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Process philosophy

Process philosophy — also ontology of becoming, processism, or philosophy of organism — identifies metaphysical reality with change and development.

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Pythagoreanism

Pythagoreanism originated in the 6th century BC, based on the teachings and beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers, the Pythagoreans, who were considerably influenced by mathematics and mysticism.

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Ralph Abraham (mathematician)

Ralph H. Abraham (born July 4, 1936) is an American mathematician.

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Richard A. Falk

Richard Anderson Falk (born November 13, 1930) is an American professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University.

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Robert Lawlor

Robert Lawlor (born 1938), Deborah Lawlor, Auroville Today, March 2003 is a mythographer, symbologist and New Age author of several books.

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) is a philanthropic foundation created and run by members of the Rockefeller family.

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Rusty Schweickart

Russell Louis "Rusty" Schweickart (also Schweikart; born October 25, 1935) is an American aeronautical engineer, and a former NASA astronaut, research scientist, U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, as well as a former business executive and government executive.

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Sacred geometry

Sacred geometry ascribes symbolic and sacred meanings to certain geometric shapes and certain geometric proportions.

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San Francisco Zen Center

San Francisco Zen Center (SFZC), is a network of affiliated Sōtō Zen practice and retreat centers in the San Francisco Bay area, comprising City Center or Beginner's Mind Temple, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, and Green Gulch Farm Zen Center.

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Sidney Lanier

Sidney Clopton Lanier (February 3, 1842 – September 7, 1881) was an American musician, poet and author.

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Sim Van der Ryn

Sim Van der Ryn is an American architect.

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Soft energy path

In 1976 energy policy analyst Amory Lovins coined the term soft energy path to describe an alternative future where energy efficiency and appropriate renewable energy sources steadily replace a centralized energy system based on fossil and nuclear fuels.

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Southampton, New York

Southampton, officially the Town of Southampton, is a town located in southeastern Suffolk County, New York, partly on the South Fork of Long Island.

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Stockbridge, Massachusetts

Stockbridge is a town in Berkshire County in western Massachusetts, United States.

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Stuart Kauffman

Stuart Alan Kauffman (born September 28, 1939) is an American medical doctor, theoretical biologist, and complex systems researcher who studies the origin of life on Earth.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Think tank

A think tank, think factory or policy institute is a research institute/center and organisation that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology, and culture.

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Tibetan Buddhism

Tibetan Buddhism is the form of Buddhist doctrine and institutions named after the lands of Tibet, but also found in the regions surrounding the Himalayas and much of Central Asia.

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Traditional Chinese medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a style of traditional medicine built on a foundation of more than 2,500 years of Chinese medical practice that includes various forms of herbal medicine, acupuncture, massage (tui na), exercise (qigong), and dietary therapy, but recently also influenced by modern Western medicine.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.

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Wendell Berry

Wendell Erdman Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer.

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Wes Jackson

Wes Jackson (born 1936) co-founded the Land Institute with Dana Jackson.

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Western esotericism

Western esotericism (also called esotericism and esoterism), also known as the Western mystery tradition, is a term under which scholars have categorised a wide range of loosely related ideas and movements which have developed within Western society.

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William Irwin Thompson

William Irwin Thompson (born 16 July 1938) is known primarily as a social philosopher and cultural critic, but he has also been writing and publishing poetry throughout his career and received the Oslo International Poetry Festival Award in 1986.

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Yoga

Yoga (Sanskrit, योगः) is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India.

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York University

York University (Université York) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Zen

Zen (p; translit) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty as Chan Buddhism.

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Zentatsu Richard Baker

Zentatsu Richard Baker (born March 30, 1936), born Richard Dudley Baker, is an American Soto Zen master (or roshi), the founder and guiding teacher of Dharma Sangha—which consists of Crestone Mountain Zen Center located in Crestone, Colorado and the Buddhistisches Studienzentrum (Johanneshof) in Germany's Black Forest.

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Zia Inayat Khan

Pir Zia Inayat-Khan (born 1971) is a scholar and teacher of Sufism in the lineage of his grandfather, Inayat Khan.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindisfarne_Association

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