Seeds of Renaissance
Manifesto

A Manifesto for Civilizational Renewal

For all the living beings whose heart burns to see a new world emerge.

Collage of people walking through cloud toward a torn opening onto a yellow field
Fig. 1Walking toward the field. Collage, artist to be credited.

Human civilization has always been a story of transformation, of old worlds dying and new ones being born. We are living through such moments. The crises of our time, ecological, political, social and spiritual, are not separate emergencies to be managed one by one. They are the symptoms of a civilization whose foundations are cracking. And as in every great turning, crisis carries within it the seed of rebirth.

We are a movement called to bring forth a renaissance.We are seed-bearers pioneering a world that works for everyone.We create a new world through our work.We are the bridge between the dying past and the future unborn.

So what will be this Renaissance we are seeding? It is yet to be known but we answer to the call of a dawn, calling us to value interbeingness, awakening to the wisdom of the whole, inner-evolution and dancing with the richness of complexity.

We gather once a month on a Global Connection Call, open to anyone who feels this call too.

Life as an art. In this soil we plant the seeds of a Renaissance.

  1. Our work is a practice of hope, because where there is hope there is action and where there is action there is vitality, life and change.
  2. Our work is mystical, political, ethical, spiritual, religious and artistic.
  3. Our work expresses the good through community, the truth through wisdom and beauty through art.
  4. Our work is to calm our inner landscape so we can listen deeply for the whole which we are always part of.
  5. Our work is to create a space to be with the unknown and the possibility of creation that comes with it.
  6. Our work is to witness joy, darkness, hope, sadness, tragedies and miracles and for those to guide us into living wisdom.
  7. Our work is to inquire and listen for a world that works for everyone and everything.
  8. Our work is to let go of and develop what is needed for a renaissance to be born.
  9. Our work dances with the shadow to integrate them, so we are no longer run by them and take responsibility for the suffering it has caused to others.
  10. Our work is to inquire into the nature of reality through embodied empirical practices and rigorous thinking, as the quality of our thinking leads to the quality of our speech. We seed the future with our words.
  11. Our work honors our ancestors’ efforts whilst learning from their mistakes.
  12. Our work stands to liberate ourselves from nihilism and relativism and to go beyond the limitation of the superiority, equality and inferiority complex.
  13. Our work is a demonstration of the power of vulnerability with others and authenticity with oneself.
  14. Our work is a practice of being with our cognitive dissonance and freeing ourselves from the painful shackles of our discriminating biases.
  15. Our work is understanding and compassionate while being expressed and unapologetic.
  16. Our work is contemplative and activist at the same time.
  17. Our work is to sit in silence together, pray and activate our oracular bodies with rituals in an embrace to mother earth.
  18. Our work remembers joy as transformative practice and so we have the inner fuel to pass through times of darkness.
  19. Our work explores impermanence and eternity in touching the ultimate dimension and linking it to the relative world.
  20. Our work is in the emerging interbeing.
  21. Our work is life as an art.