Blueprint for a New Renaissance
Catalyst for a New Culture
"New Mexico has become a node in a network of people the world over who are beginning to question some of science’s most deeply entrenched faiths. I found that rather than hop a plane to the West Coast, the East Coast, or another continent, I could sit like a spider in the middle of this web and wait as Santa Fe attracted some of the most interesting thinkers in the world."
George Johnson. Fire in the Mind (p. 4)
A Renaissance in Science, Art, & Spirituality
Blueprint for a New Renaissance is a community-wide project of Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico, with its roots so deep in historical cultural and geological mystery. Taking science, art, and spiritual wisdom beyond their siloed barriers – to where they weave together again, as they were naturally meant to be.
Reaching back to wisdom and experience that is our precious cultural topsoil and reaching forward beyond this bankruptcy of materialism and the us-versus-them at any cost dead end we find ourselves. Right or left we all sense this stuckness – and the longing for meaning and wisdom. We just have different “hot button” issues that manifest our fears and lostness.
Creating a Renaissance in science, art, and spiritual wisdom. Recruiting artists, scientists, spiritual and cultural elders regarding revival of the wisdom of our cultural heritages and discerning our collective destinies in light of where we go from here as a community in this high desert enclave – and in the greater community of all of our global cousins.
The connection of regional talent across disciplinary boundaries sharing in the cause of a new cultural Renaissance provides a uniquely new context for artistic expression having a significant impact in the world at large. There are historical precedents. Like the Paris of a hundred years ago, the creative talents of here may join in focused and meaningful collaboration of creative and cultural innovation. For technical innovation is not enough. Our problems are not solved by inventing more tools. Rather, our problem is we have forgotten what tools are for – we have forgotten what people are for.
At a time of cultural chaos and disruption, when cynicism, fear, and anger seem to have taken over, the time is ripe for such a Renaissance of innovative, artistic expression, sparking an exciting sense of vitality and hope that we have a magnificently new future ahead of us.
The Global Renaissance - Beyond New Mexico
On the ground level, the New Renaissance is a catalyst for the collective synergy of Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico. Yet that coherence simultaneously resonates with wider and wider circles of coherency that are interconnected and mutually influential, from the local to the national to the global in mutually creative resonances.