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The Heart Map

The path of the heart.

The architecture of a Heart Community or Possibility Village, from context and codex to village life, economy, and the game that builds it. Every possibility, woven into one map.

What lives here

A living orientation for love in action.

The Heart Map gathers the shared language, practices, principles, tools, and living models that help us move from inner awareness into life together. It begins within, with how we perceive, choose, heal, and relate, then follows loving awareness outward into radical responsibility, community, stewardship, governance, exchange, land, and village-making. It is not a doctrine or a finished blueprint. It is an evolving orientation system: a way to locate ourselves, discover a doorway into practice, and learn how love becomes action, culture, and structures capable of holding life.

Purpose

A collective is organized for educational, spiritual, and beneficent purposes, for the upliftment and enlightenment of all people and the betterment of life on Earth.

Context

Radical Responsibility is the primary Context.

Context is the agreement-based framework for every human interaction. The Space determines what is possible; the Context determines the qualities of the Space. A Heart Community's relationship to consciousness and responsibility is Radical Responsibility: being inescapably responsible for the level of responsibility being taken in any time and any space.

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In whose Space or Place is this conversation taking place?

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Who is each person representing? Themselves, or some authority?

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Whose Space is this? Who has Authority to select the Context?

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Do we agree on a single Context, or is this a Mixed-Context Space?

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Are all those with relevant Authority here?

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Does each person have equal Authority here, or a spectrum?

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Is this unrestricted Collaboration, or is someone being paid to be there?

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What is the Purpose of this interaction?

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Are we playing a finite game or an infinite game?

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What central Distinctions are being used? Are any forbidden?

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What is the currency of the Space?

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What are the Rules of Engagement here?

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How will the Space be navigated?

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What power structure is used? Pyramidal, Circular, Toroidal?

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Who has Status here? Are there employees?

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Are Feelings and Emotions differentiated in the moment they arise?

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What Principles are at work? Shadow or Bright?

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Is it possible to be a Victim here?

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Is it possible to Win or Lose? What resources are scarce?

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How many of the 5 Body intelligences are called in?

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In which culture is the Point of Origin anchored?

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Are Beliefs given any credence here?

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Are Assumptions given any reality here?

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Are Expectations given any power here?

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Is Emotional Reactivity given space here? How is it handled?

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Is there a meeting structure agreed upon?

The Heart Community Map.

Codex

Whole Permaculture, declared

Whole Permaculture includes the inner permaculture of distinctions, maps, thoughtware, and initiatory processes that facilitate the evolution of consciousness, so inner reactions share the regenerative elegance of a permaculture garden.

Village life

Four archetypal lineages hold the village.

Earth Guardian

The sword of clarity

Earth Guardians use the intelligence and energy of archetypal feelings to make clear distinctions and protective boundaries. Their warrior energy comes directly from Gaia. They hold and guard the integrity of the Context and the Codex, the rules of engagement. They are the kaitiaki, guardians who protect the village because this is who they are. Part of their work is to say who comes in and who needs to go, and to facilitate that transition with the Village Weavers and the Evolutionaries.

Village Weaver

Listening and speaking from the heart

Village Weavers navigate the flows of life. They are the healers, nurturers, communicators, and lovers, caring for what deeply connects us to each other and to archetypal Love itself. They are the invisible glue of the village, weaving people together from instinct and skill. They know who should talk to whom and make it happen. They welcome people in and care for the rituals of birth and death.

Evolutionary

The wand of declaration

Evolutionaries pay attention to the finest details, noticing where reality cracks and how it can be repaired, or where it ends and how it can be extended. They are the magicians, shamans, healers, researchers, and edgeworkers, grounded in the void of nothingness in which all possibilities are possible. They provide the transformational processes for the village, deepening its context with the Gameworld Builders.

Gameworld Builder

Radical responsibility for the whole

Gameworld Builders take the bigger perspective and the practical overview, using all four feelings to flow power. With playful designs, the gameworld thrives inside and interacts productively with others by exchanging value. They build new and only-needed gameworlds from nothing. They are the visionaries, and the administrators and carers of the infrastructure and back-end of the gameworld.

Structure

A forest and a Tree of Life.

The affiliation and organismal structure of a Heart Community follows a biomimicry model: roots, trunk, branches, leaves, and mycelium. Each layer plays its part in holding the whole.

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Roots

The Foundational Trust, the deep ground the village grows from.

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Trunk

The Land and Community Trust, holding land and community in stewardship.

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Branches

Local churches, sanghas, spiritual communitites, organizations, and groups.

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Leaves

Local kirtan, music, and artist groups, the visible life of the village.

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Mycelium

Informal groups on Signal, Discord, WhatsApp, Telegram, the connective tissue.

Rules of engagement

The culture of Radical Responsibility.

We work in circles with spaceholders and context holders, calling decisions through direct access to nonlinear possibility. There are no employees, no absentee landlords, no franchises or copyrights or inheritance.

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The context of our culture is Radical Responsibility. Irresponsibility is an illusion.

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We work in circles with spaceholders and context holders, calling decisions through direct access to nonlinear possibility and including the wisdom of resistance.

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We meet using Torus Technology until everyone knows what to do next.

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Proposal and contribution earn and reward in proportion to validatable impact.

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There is no currency exchange. There is no such thing as profit. Manufacturing is cradle-to-cradle.

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Time is not money; time is time. Money from other nation-states has no value here.

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Land is not owned; it is cared for. Buildings are not owned, they are cared for.

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We are kaitiaki, guardians, stewards. Earth cannot be monetized because we are the Earth.

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Education does not conform to a curriculum. Each child knows for themselves.

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Ongoing adulthood initiatory processes drenched in archetypal love are at the core of our world.

Economy of exchange

Archearchy economics.

The ones at the bottom of the economic gravity-well have the authority to assure resources are not hoarded at the top but flow through every account. This is like the Subak system of Bali, where rice terrace caretakers at the bottom of the mountain assure water flows through every field at the right time, because that insures the best outcome for the whole village.

A manifestation of Tri Hita Karana, drawing together the realms of spirit, the human world, and nature. Creative collaboration is our currency, and it has no exchange rate with the currencies of other nation-states.

Bright principles

A collective's Bright Principles are the archetypal forces of clarity and possibility we call into the spaces we hold. Without distilling them, and choosing to be the space through which they do their work, who are we working for?

Bill of Rights & Wrongs

A Yin and a Yang, held together.

A Heart Community recognizes the rule-of-law of modern civilization as a failed construct, and so abides by a Bill of Wrongs as well as a Bill of Rights, operating under Natural Law.

Bill of Rights

  • Keep the peace.
  • Love others as you would be loved.
  • Do no harm.

Who I am, we are.

Bill of Wrongs

Forbids modern civilization's rule of law that does not honor loving kindness.

Forbids ownership of land.

Forbids ownership of mineral or organic resources.

Forbids monetizing natural capital.

Forbids corporate personhood.

Forbids copyright and patents.

Forbids hiring employees or working as an employee.

Forbids hierarchical power structures.

Forbids win-lose games.

Forbids externalizing environmental or social costs.

Forbids profit.

Forbids financial gambling in any form.

Forbids renting money at interest.

Forbids absentee ownership, landlords, and franchises.

Forbids toxic wastes and weapons of mass destruction.

Forbids disposables.

Forbids beliefs.

Values

Forty-two ways a village says what it loves.

Even when values go unnamed, a collective's living values appear in its ordinary behavior. These are the declarations a Heart Community chooses to hold consciously.

01I honor virtue

02I benefit with gratitude

03I am peaceful

04I respect the property of others

05I affirm that all life is sacred

06I give offerings that are genuine

07I live in truth

08I regard all altars with respect

09I speak with sincerity

10I consume only my fair share

11I offer words of good intent

12I relate in peace

13I honor animals with reverence

14I can be trusted

15I care for the earth

16I keep my own council

17I speak positively of others

18I remain in balance with my emotions

19I am trustful in my relationships

20I hold purity in high esteem

21I spread joy

22I do the best I can

23I communicate with compassion

24I listen to opposing opinions

25I create harmony

26I invoke laughter

27I am open to love in various forms

28I am forgiving

29I am kind

30I act respectfully of others

31I am accepting

32I follow my inner guidance

33I converse with awareness

34I do good

35I give blessings

36I keep the waters pure

37I speak with good intent

38I praise the Goddess and the God

39I am humble

40I achieve with integrity

41I advance through my own abilities

42I embrace the All

"Finite-game players aim for eternal life. Infinite-game players aim for eternal birth." — James P. Carse

Network

A network of autonomous zones.

The Heart Community embodies a network of ecovillages, ashrams, possibility villages, nanonations, Gaian gameworlds, communities, collectives, gatherings, projects, and more. Far more people than we might imagine are living part of their lives in temporary, nomadic, or permanent autonomous zones.

Temporary Autonomous Zones (TAZ)

Festivals and fairs. The village blooms for a weekend or a season, then disperses, seeding what it touched.

Nomadic Autonomous Zones (NAZ)

Roving groups of healers, initiators, performers, and trainers who carry the village with them as they move.

Permanent Autonomous Zones (PAZ)

Intentional communities and ecovillages. The village rooted in place, held in trust, lived across years.

Network of LightNuMundoEcovillages.orgFoundation for Intentional CommunityBlack SheepFindhorn EcovillageGrassroots EconomicsReVillagerSEEDSHypha

HeartCraft

The game that builds the village.

HeartCraft is a massive multiplayer game whose players build a Gaian Gameworld using a regenerative model built on ancient wisdom with modern tools. As players play, geography, culture, rules, governance, and budgets are encoded into a real-world Possibility Village. The final mission is on-the-ground completion, with rites of passage cocreated while playing together.

If you win, we all win. This is Winning Happening.

Each Gaian Gameworld comes preloaded with

Bill of WrongsBright PrinciplesContextCodexDistinctionsEconomy of ExchangeFlagNetworkPurposeRules of EngagementValues SystemVillage ModelOperating ModelCoGovernance ModelPlayer Initiations
The Flag of Planet Earth.

Flag

The Flag of Planet Earth.

Seven rings form a flower, a symbol of life on Earth, linked to show how everything on our planet is directly or indirectly connected. The blue field is water, essential for life, and the oceans that cover most of our surface. The outer rings form a circle for Earth as a planet, the blue surface the universe that holds it.

Village

How communities tend place, resources, councils, livelihoods, and relationship as they mature.

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Definitions

The language of possibility, from Whole Permaculture to Nanonation, gathered as a living glossary.