Healing Biotope Meme

Imagining life in regenerative balance with the biosphere is one of the greatest cultural challenges and adventures of our times. The core intention of the Healing Biotopes Plan is to establish a network of future sites dedicated to exploring the social, ecological and technological foundations of this new culture.

The Grace Foundation is committed to gathering and offering resources for the manifestation of these future sites and their research. Additionally, we feel the creation of the “Healing Biotope meme” itself to be a crucial contribution to the transformational movement of today, offering a perspective to political activism beyond resistance. Using creative ways to spark this conversation is a key focus of ours, and more than this, it is core to our mission. In this regard, The Grace Foundation also serves as a platform for think tanks. Therefore, we have made creation of the “Healing Biotope meme” a discrete funding line of the foundation. We are curious about the ways in which this task may be approached by applicants, by ourselves and by friends in the global community in the years to come.

Meme:

“Memes are stories, songs, habits, skills, inventions and ways of doing things that we copy from person to person by imitation. Human nature can be explained by evolutionary theory, but only when we consider evolving memes as well as genes. It is tempting to consider memes as simply “ideas,” but more properly memes are a form of information.”
– Dr. Susan Blackmore in her essay ‘The Power of Memes’, www.susanblackmore.co.uk

“Memes are self-replicating thought-forms, like thought-viruses. Memes can be either potentially fear-based and negative, or inspiring, empowering, and positive. Memes are instruments with which we, knowingly or unknowingly, create our reality.”
– Paul Levy in his book ‘Dispelling Wetiko’, www.awakeninthedream.com