Editing Lindisfarne Association (section)

=== Incorporation and first years in New York ===

Lindisfarne was incorporated as a non-profit educational foundation in December 1972. It began operations at a refitted summer camp in [[Southampton, New York]] on August 31, 1973.{{sfnp|Collins|1982|p=23}}

From 1974–1977 Lindisfarne held an annual conference "to explore the new planetary culture" with the following themes:{{sfnp|Collins|1982|pp=23–24}}
* Planetary Culture and the New Image of Humanity, 1974
* Conscious Evolution and the Evolution of Consciousness, 1975
* A Light Governance for America: the Cultures and Strategies of Decentralization, 1976
* Mind in Nature, 1977

''Earth's answer : explorations of planetary culture at the Lindisfarne conferences'' (1977) reprints some of the lectures given at the 1974 and 1975 conferences.

The Lindisfarne Association was first based in Southampton, New York in 1973 and then in Manhattan at the [[Church of the Holy Communion and Buildings]] which was leased to Lindisfarne from 1976–1979.