Emergent Wisdom for the Community of the Future
What if the problem is not that we don’t know how to build better systems…but that we have forgotten how to listen?
The Inquiry
Sacred Systems aims to contribute to our evolving understanding of what it takes for communities to thrive, by integrating the ways of the ancient village, with systems thinking, embodied mysticism and lifeforce leadership.
What does it take for communities to thrive, while serving Life?
How might we design our community systems around sacredness and reciprocity?
What can we learn from the ancient village?
What would it look and feel like when our societies are equally fit for male and female bodies?
Our Questions
Our Lens
Sacred Culture
Relationship to Self & Others.
Where communal rituals of celebration, grief, and healing keep us in connection with the sacred, and we practice the fine arts of collaboration, communication, and sharing power & responsibility.
Sacred Land
Relationship to the more-than-human world.
Where regenerative practices, embodied deep ecology & Earth based spirituality meet; where our relationship with the Earth is rich & sensuous, and tending to the Earth becomes an act of devotion, a prayer, and an opportunity to give back.
Sacred Economy
Relationship to Resources & Gifts.
Sacred Economies function like forests: Nothing is wasted, everything is shared, the flow of gifts & resources foster relationships, and prosperity is measured by the health of the whole system.
Lifeforce
Relationship to Life.
The community of the future unlocks lifeforce as a core organizing principle. Lifeforce flows through and interconnects all three systems, thus inviting life’s intelligence to guide us to new and yet unknown ways of living and thriving. Men & women serve life by unleashing their polarities and thriving in their differences.
- What drives us -
“Sacred Systems was born from my deep longing for the sacred Village, and for being surrounded by others who hold a similar dream in their hearts. It’s one of many responses to an ever deepening cry for change. For a rebalancing of feminine and masculine polarities. For a return to our connection with the Mother. For belonging, meaning, connection and direction in a world that’s lost its way. For sacred systems, in service to Life.”
- Lineke Heus, Source
- Welcome to our growing community -
Participate in gatherings & conversations where we explore sacredness in community, Lifeforce as teacher & guide, uncertainty as an essential stage to an emergent future, and polarity as a source of creative potential- rather than conflict.