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City of Light Vision
A personal view
Eileen's guidance was that we would be first a community, then a village and then a City of Light. So what might this look like? Within the City of Light there are a thousand mansions, including the Foundation, a University, an ecovillage and organisations such as Ekopia, NFD, Shambala, Newbold, The Arts Center... and the wider community represented by the NFA Community Association.
At one level the City is a loose federation of organisations, because:
- People like to belong to and identify with organisations having up to a few hundred members, where they can know and relate to most others.
- Each organisation can specialise in its vision and what it does best, and develop the appropriate culture, funding model and management structures.
- Growth is then by cellular division, or else spinning off specialised activities.
At another level we are all one, manifestations of the same Spirit or Group Soul expressed through each of us uniquely. And we share a set of spiritual values, and a spiritual vision commonly expressed as being a Centre of Light for personal and planetary transformation.
Clearly the NFA has a key role to play in this, supporting, enabling and where appropriate holding the wider community, and managing certain activities for the common good. And the NFA also needs to participate as an equal with others in the community wide umbrella organisation that is just starting to emerge, and which could embrace all in the local area who share our spiritual values and vision.
We can build, we are building, inside and then outside, a City of Light, a New Heaven and a New Earth.
(c) Revd. John Wragg - Interfaith Minister, 1st December 2008
