Editing Lindisfarne Association (section)

==Goals and doctrine==
The Lindisfarne doctrine is closely related to that of its founder, William Thompson. Mentioned as part of the Lindisfarne ideology are a long list of spiritual and [[Western esotericism|esoteric]] traditions including [[yoga]], [[Tibetan Buddhism]], [[Chinese traditional medicine]], [[Hermeticism]], [[Celtic animism]], [[Gnosticism]], [[Kabbalah|cabala]], [[geomancy]], [[ley lines]], [[Pythagoreanism]], and ancient [[mystery religion]]s.{{sfnp|Collins|1982|pp=14–18, 34–35}}

The group placed a special emphasis on [[sacred geometry]], defined by Thompson as "a vision of divine intelligence, the logos, revealing itself in all forms, from the logarithmic spiral of a seashell to the hexagonal patterns of cooling basalt, from the architecture of the molecule to the galaxy."<ref>{{harvp|Thompson|1978|p=138}}, quoted in {{harvp|Collins|1982|pp=21–22}}.</ref> Rachel Fletcher, [[Robert Lawlor]], and [[Keith Critchlow]] lectured at Crestone on the application of sacred geometry, Platonism, and Pythagoreanism to architecture.{{sfnp|Collins|1982|pp=52–53}} The exemplar of these ideas is the Grail Chapel in Crestone (also known as Lindisfarne Chapel), which is built to reflect numerous basic geometrical relationships.{{sfnp|Collins|1982|pp=55–106}}

Lindisfarne's social agenda was exemplified by the "meta-industrial village", a small community focused on subsistence and crafts while yet connected to a world culture. All members of a community might participate in essential tasks such as the harvest. (Thompson has speculated that in the United States, 40% of the population could work at agriculture, and another 40% in social services.) The villages would have a sense of shared purpose in transforming world culture. They would combine "the four classical economies of human history, hunting and gathering, agriculture, industry, and cybernetics", all "recapitulated within a single deme."{{sfnp|Collins|1982|pp=127–131}}

The "Meadowcreek Project" in Arkansas, begun in 1979 by David and Wilson Orr, was an effort to actualize a meta-industrial village as envisioned by the Lindisfarne Association. This project received funding from the [[Ozarks Regional Commission]], the Arkansas Energy Department, and the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation.{{sfnp|Collins|1982|pp=134–136}}<ref>"[http://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/sustainability-model-zmaz82mazglo The Meadowcreek Project: A Model of Sustainability in the Ozarks]", ''Mother Earth News'', March/April 1982.</ref>

The villages would be linked together by an electronic information network (i.e., what today we call the [[internet]]). Thompson called for a counter-cultural vanguard "which can formulate an integral vision of culture and maintain the high standards of that culture without compromise to the forces of electronic vulgarization."<ref>{{harvp|Thompson|1978|pp=71–72}}, quoted in {{harvp|Collins|1982|pp=113, 118–122}}.</ref>

According to the Lindisfarne Association website, Lindisfarne's fourfold goals are:
# The Planetization of the Esoteric 
# The realization of the inner harmony of all the great universal religions and the spiritual traditions of the tribal peoples of the world.  
# The fostering of a new and healthier balance between nature and culture through the research and development of appropriate technologies, architectural settlements and compassionate economies for meta-industrial villages and convivial cities.
# The illumination of the spiritual foundations of political governance through scholarship and artistic communications that foster a global ecology of consciousness beyond the present ideological systems of warring industrial nation-states, outraged traditional societies, and ravaged lands and seas.

Thompson has also stated the United States has a unique role to play in the promotion of planetary culture because people from all over the world mingle there. Lindisfarne sought to spread its message widely, through a mailing list and through book publications of the Lindisfarne press.{{sfnp|Redenius|1985|p=255–256}}

Journalist [[Sally Helgesen]], after a visit in 1977, criticized Lindisfarne as confused pseudo-intellectuals, citing for example their attempt to build an expensive fish "bioshelter" while overlooking a marsh with fish in it.{{sfnp|Helgesen|1977|p=82}}