The Name: New Earth Institute

Throughout this piece, I have use the word institute instead of school because the word SCHOOL in our culture evokes so many associations and expectations, as well as provoking strong gut reactions. We tend to assume this school will resemble the school we know from our own personal experience. I am determined it won’t; INSTITUTE is the best I’ve come with. I chose “institute” mainly because our experience of institutes is limited, or non-existent, leaving us relatively free to create an original image that reflects our aspirations and yearnings for a creative place of learning.

Similarly its name calls for a NEW EARTH. That represents our highest vision of a beautiful world, pristine in its nature, inviting in its beauty. It represents a state of mind characterized by awareness of our intimate loving connection with all things organic and inorganic, with sky and universe. It represents harmony and beauty, our true home. We are blessed because the Gila Valley and the Gila wilderness already reflects this vision. It is our intention that New Earth Institute will help transform the consciousness of the whole world.