We first started experimenting with sacred intentions when we helped start TaborSpace 
, a community space created in Portland.
Ten years ago we opened the doors. It was an experiment guided by an Audacious Aspiration: what might happen if you opened to the community a beautiful, but underused church building, inviting people in for creative activities. A place of co-creation, for reimagining what it meant to be church, to be in sacred, loving relationship with others.
We knew we had to ground the effort with an important intention, something that held a deeper truth. We called it a _sacred intention_.
So we defined it: to create a place of _unconditional belonging_ – where connection could build the fabric of authentic relationship.
With that intention, we launched, creating a wonderful coffee shop and began to build an organization that allowed the space to be used by others. Today, there are more community events held in TaborSpace than any other space in Portland – over 3,000 a year.
Two years later, the experiment expanded when that same intention was used to launch the Rosewood Initiative in the part of Portland that was considered, by many a wasteland of humanity, a forgotten edge of Portland that abutted Gresham, another city. A place with the highest crime rate in the region.
So again, we sought to create a space of unconditional belonging. Now, year later, a vibrant community has emerged with increasingly new opportunities for those in it.
And so it was when we embarked on the Dayton Experiment . This time, we claimed a new sacred intention, that of _unleashing the creative genius_ of every student, each and every teacher. And it became real.
The same power of intention that Ward Cunningham used when he original developed the wiki. That platform that went on to enable Wikipedia, the largest repository of human knowledge ever created – called by some, the last best place on the internet.
We are left to wonder, then, about the power of these intentions to manifest new realities.
Might these sacred intentions act as strange attractors from which new Fractal Patterns emerge from chaos? That chaos which is the void known by some as dark energy, dark matter. That emergence that creates, what Whitehead might call, the "occasions" of matter, unfolding Graceful Expansion.
All emerging from the void where mystery flows. Mystery, much like a higgs boson, around which matter begins to form and become shaped, with other emergent matter, into patterns. Patterns of order, fractal patterns.
Here we sit on the emergent edge of a reimagined science. But also within the deep waters of old sacred wisdom. For this mystery has been probed for thousands of years by those reflecting deeply on our human experience, by Brahmans, by Buddhists, by Jewish scholars, by ancient Zoroastrians. All of whom recognized emergence that flows from an unknowable source.
Are we, perhaps, closing a circle?
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