In a myriad of ways, Americans are opting for quality of life over quantity of stuff. Millions are swimming upstream against the consumer culture. In short, we want a life, not just a job and all the trimmings. We are creating options for gracious living amidst the tawdry, prefabricated fixtures of MacWorld. Connections are happening both face to face and in cyberspace.
Practitioners are urban, suburban and rural.
Most are as at home on the Web as on the phone. Everything from our music to our genes reflects an emergence of a global culture that is diverse, rich, varied and very interesting. This movement, though, is very different from past ones. It seems to have less to do with agendas and more to do with some sort of organic multiplication of a set of life-centered values. The command center seems to be in some sort of spiritual understanding people have developed through traditional or non-traditional study and practice.