Are You One?

Paul Ray and Sherry Anderson ten years ago wrote the book, "Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World". In it they describe the characteristics of that group within our midst they call the "cultural creatives" (CCs). Chances are you are one of them.

The values shared by the CCs, according to Ray and Anderson, are:

• Authenticity, actions must be consistent with words & beliefs
• Engaged action & whole process learning; seeing the world as interwoven & connected
• Idealism & personal activism
• Globalism & ecology
• Women's/children's rights
• Altruism
• Self-actualization
• Spirituality

Because of these values, CCs often feel alone in their worldview. Secular society has seemingly veered off course into a realm of "ME First" and profit-based values. Traditional religion serves very few of them because of what they consider to be its outdated mores and medieval/magical tenets. With no sense of belonging to a greater community, the CCs usually just "do their own thing" and live life as best they can. Sound familiar?

The good news is that there is a greater incipient community of CCs that are recognizing the value of coming together, sharing ideas, gathering an intentional circle of like-minded seekers and feeling safe and welcome, regardless of their beliefs -- and you can be part of it!

Living Water Unity is one such community. We have lots of opportunity to get to know each other, to be exposed to new ideas and to share our experiences with like-minded individuals. Yes, you might even run into an old friend or make a few new ones.

Our Wednesday evening programs, broadly titled "Sacred Encounter", are a few of the examples of new experiences in which you can explore YOUR worldview and test YOUR ideas in the laboratory of your own life.