About | The Fountain

What Is The Fountain ?

Imagine a global economic system truly aligned with care for the earth and the whole of life for the benefit of current and future generations, guided by the ancestral wisdom and technologies of cultures that have lived this way for the larger course of human history. This is the work of The Fountain.

There is growing awareness of the extraordinary wisdom originally developed and perennially sustained by the world’s ancestral indigenous peoples – peoples whose cultural genesis can be traced back thousands of years.

It is in the return to the sacred origins and principles of this ancestral wisdom – calling for the unification of all peoples with the earth – that a return to balance and sustainability is to be found. The vision of The Fountain, and the extraordinary sacredness of its origin and seed, is of partnership between sharing original teachings, conscious collaboration, and being in action to activate sacred economics and sacred lands.

Through the deep understanding, experience and relationships contained in its ecosystem, The Fountain exists to catalyse this journey to reconnection and ultimately to unification through its vision, mission, and values.

The path forward is to restore a global economy of reciprocity inspired by nature and the sacred – bringing together conscious investors, philanthropists, whole system entrepreneurs, leaders on transformational economics and finance and holders of indigenous ecological knowledge. A multi-disciplinary, intercultural exchange united in service to the earth and future generations.

The Time is Now

… for us to remember who we are. For humanity to transform the extractivist economic and financial system that bankrupts people and the planet for short-term gain, and power that corrupts, into one that is sacred, within which all beings thrive.

The state of the world today is the result of hundreds, if not thousands of years of dis-harmonious, fragmented, and highly destructive ways of interacting with each other and with the earth, much of this trauma the by-product of a shift to a global economic structure that relies on endless resource exploitation and constant growth simply for its own perpetuation.

Meanwhile indigenous people who constitute only 4% of the world’s population are the ancestral guardians of 80% of the Earth’s remaining biodiversity. It is no surprise that many of us are starting to turn to such traditions who know how to live in balance and reciprocity with the Earth and each other, and have been doing so for millennia, to understand how to live well, and how to help them continue to do so.

Mission, Vision, and Values

Our Vision

We envision a restored global economy of reciprocity inspired by Nature and the Sacred in which all beings thrive.

Mission

Our mission is to enable collaborative action that bridges the original principles of ancient cultures into a new vision for sacred economics in service to sacred lands.

Our Values

The Fountain’s work is inspired and guided by the original principles including: Reciprocity | Respect | Responsibility | Relationship

Milestones

2012 Fountain founded

2013 First Fountain Council Gathering

2013 Unity Concert series begins in South Dakota

2015 Pagamentos partnership and programme begins

2016 First House of Original Thought built in Colombia

2017 House of Original Thought built in Ecuador

2018 Elders Gathering in Colombia

To-date the Fountain Fund has flowed $1,000,000 and much more in solidarity, relationship and in kind support services to its partners and initiatives.

The Fountain is a fiscally sponsored project of The Center for Sacred Studies, a 501c3 organization. All US donations are tax deductible.