Recovering the Sacred Pattern of Common Life
I’m introducing my new book, Recovering the Sacred Pattern of Common Life, building on the ideas in Birthing the Symbiotic Age. It substantially expands the six-part series I shared here on Substack a few months ago, with much new material. I’d love your feedback. What resonates? What challenges you? What’s missing? And what do you think of the title?”
At its heart is a simple realization: the good is already here, but much of it remains fragmented by our beliefs, identities, and worldviews. Through ten discoveries, I explore how we can reconnect that good and give Divine Love social form in our communities, economies, and politics.
Here is what I've discovered:
We do not need another model. There are already thousands of community-building approaches, systems, and models.
The pattern is not mine. It is not my idea. It is not new, but ancient.
History has already shown us the way. A lineage of movements and communities has demonstrated how more relational, whole communities can actually be built.
The good work you are already doing matters. We do not have to reinvent the wheel. We need to recognize and reconnect the good that is already here.
It can begin with one person. It does not require money, a formal organization, or permission from anyone to start.
I offer a new way to see the whole community you already belong to, and how you can help reconnect its disconnected parts. It begins with belonging before agreement, recognizing the good in people whose worldviews differ from our own.
Together, we can recover the coherence of the whole and meet the challenges of our time.
Please share your thoughts in the comments or email me directly at richard@richardflyer.com
Below are links to all Ten Discoveries:
You can read the book sequentially, from Discovery 1 through 10, or browse the discoveries below and choose a topic that interests you. Just click the Discovery title to begin reading.
Discovery One: The Good is Already Here
I’m Already Doing It!
The Good is Already Alive
The Separation I Carried Within
Trying to Change the System From Within
Islands of Coherence
The Relationship Precedes the Network
Do We Need Another Movement?
Discovery Two: The Coherence is Already Here
The Spiritual Source of Coherence
Love as Structure
Discovering Coherence Across Difference
Virtue is the Bridge Between Heaven and Earth
Spiritual Coherence Precedes Systems Design
Discovery Three: The Blueprint is Already Here
The Lineage of the Ancient Blueprint
The Pattern Across Civilizations
The Spiritual Ground of Political Transformation
Turning the World Right Side Up
Living in Truth
Discovery Four: How Love Bridges Worldviews
How Our Worldviews Become a Boundary
What Comes Before Agreement?
Belonging Before Agreement
All You Need Is Love?
Love Must Be Lived
How Cultural Recovery Renews Common Life
Discovery Five: How Divine Love Takes Social Form
The Parallel Polis: Building Another Social Reality
Entering the Life of the Community
The Third Way: Beginning Where You Are
From Whole Community to Commonwealth
Fractal Community Empowerment
From Attraction to Activation
What If Change Begins Everywhere at Once?
Discovery Six: How Love Orders Our Relations
Making Room for the Whole
Protecting the Space Between Us
How Love Becomes Embodied
The Missing Link: Love Needs Pathways
Becoming a Uniter Instead of a Divider
From Holding Space to People Power
Discovery Seven: How Love Becomes Social Architecture
Living Experiments With Common Life
The Coherence of the Whole
From Islands of Coherence to Whole Communities
The Community as a Social Ecology
Discovery Eight: How Love Enters Economic Life
The Economy We Already Share
A Relational Path to Economic Change
Transforming the Logic of the Everything Industrial Complex
How Love Enters Exchange
How Love Circulates Through Economic Life
The Heart of the Marketplace
Building the Virtuous Economy
Discovery Nine: How Love Becomes People Power
The Politics of Separation
The Third Way: People Power from Below
The Power of Connecting the Good
The Power of the Whole
A Whole-Community Parallel Polis
From Movements to the Whole Community
The Ancient Blueprint Is Already Here
Discovery Ten: The Whole Community is Already Here
Remembering the Whole
The Whole is Already Here
The Quiet Revolution is Already Underway
Showing Up for the Whole Community
Pouring New Wine Into New Wineskins
When Divine Love Breaks Through
Please share your thoughts in the comments or email me directly at richard@richardflyer.com
I thought about this in 1968..building a community starts with the basics...a healthy loving family. It grows from there. It is very disturbing today, because of so many mentally disturbed people created by the Food Industry and the Medical Industry's products, which have damaged the bodies and brains of so many. The biggest industry today, is the Sickness Industry with its lifelong treatments. It is very difficult to have loving thoughts, when one is suffering from poor health.