THE GEOGRAPHY OF COMMUNITY INTENTION: We Are What Our Neighbors Eat!

Abstract

Much of our subtle communication involves speaking through music and visual arts. In the present presidential address we talk and sing on a theme that embraces the geography of community intention--we are what our neighbors eat. We discuss that theme at a group level, in the first person plural. We focus on the building of community for mystically inclined scientists and scientifically inclined mystics. In our discussion of kommunityi we turn to a traditional contemporary view of how geodemography looks at communities; our plea is that we not allow this technology to be used only for selling widgets. There is enough transcendent information and surrogate measures in existing databases to help us understand and build effective holistic health communities, and we would welcome suggestions. We are using this technology to sell pluralism. So, on a daily basis what seems to matter is not what we do every day, but what we do 333 days a year, plus or minus 33. We need new ways to form and reform the neighborhoods and communities that can set the group intention to facilitate the moving of our evolution to the next level, while thoroughly enjoying and appreciating the level we are leaving. Gaia will survive. Those of us who can change rapidly enough to khart the waters never sailed beforei will also survive. Bon voyage!