Welcome to Our Heart Gardens

Where we grow… happy and healthy… together!

Our Heart Gardens is a living vision for the transformation of human society, rooted in community, inspired by compassion, and offered as a sacred invitation. It began as a divine response to the heartbreak of seeing people cast aside by systems that failed them. Now, it lives as a growing movement: a pattern, a possibility, a place where people gather to remember how to care for each other, and how to tend the Earth with grace.

This is not a program. It is a pattern to see yourself in. A garden to plant your gifts within. A home for solutions, stories, and sacred belonging. 

Atlas,

a living cottonwood tree, is our guide and template—
growing while shedding.

The structure of Our Heart Gardens grew from observing
Atlas, rooted in the sparkly sands beside the
Thompson River in Kamloops, BC Canada.


Beginning on April 4, 2020,
this relationship revealed a pattern
—roots, trunk, branches, and canopy
nourished by a flowing river—
that now guides the architecture of the
Our Heart Gardens ecosystem.

Learn more about our fresh new growth here.

The Guilds of Our Heart Gardens

The architecture of this new reality moves through distinct expressions. Click each frequency below to see where your nature resonates.

Cultivators & Tenders (The Anchors)

  • Tending to the physical plants, animals, and local humans, caregiving where we live.

Social Argonauts (The Navigators)

Weaving digital networks, organizing our treasury, and mapping collective wisdom from a screen.

Healers, Harpers, Artists & Entertainers (The Weavers)

Painting the sky, singing the frequency, and restoring the heart-space of our gatherings, and our selves.

The Sacred Circuit of Replenishment

A vibrant, abundant ecosystem cannot be sustained by outward energy alone. True refreshment is more than just changing our daily tasks; it requires a conscious shift from service to absolute receptivity.

Because this aspect of Our Heart Gardens is part of the digital landscape, this page is designed to be a living hearth. If your well is dry today, you are explicitly invited to put down your tools, stop striving, and let this site become a place of rest.

Sit by the digital fire we have tended for years through thousands of hours of deep dialogue. Let a good story wash over you. Lean back and listen to the curated wisdom of the ancestors and the songs of the Harpers. Receive the harvest of our collective memory without needing to contribute a single word.

Please stay until your spirit feels full. And when you do eventually close your screen, our highest hope is that you take this medicine, this story, and this coherent frequency out with you—into your room, into your local soil, and into the care of the people you live with.

 

The Invitation

If you feel a resonance with this pattern—
a tug in your chest,
a sense of remembering,
a warmth in the field—
you are already tending Our Heart Gardens.

Our Heart Gardens exist wherever we choose to meet with presence, reciprocity, and care.
There is a place for you at this hearth, exactly as you are.
Bring your tenderness, your questions, your gifts, your lived wisdom.
Together, we can tend the places where love takes root in the world.

Pieces of the pattern are seen in many places; like:

The Mycelial Map: Our Underground Pattern

Beneath the visible Trunk of Atlas lies an invisible map of connection—a digital mycelial network designed to turn our deep shared values into immediate, everyday footsteps on the earth. When we gather here with full presence and genuine care, we aren’t just staring at a screen; we are lighting up a living network of collective wisdom.

To keep this ecosystem rich and fertile, we consciously weave four vital streams of intelligence together:

  • Human Wisdom: We distill thousands of hours of (more than) Humanity Rising dialogues and the deep, curated insights of Jim’s Nuggets into clear, actionable seeds for change that anyone can plant in their daily life.

  • Nature’s Guidance: We model our entire growth, structure, and behavior on the steady resilience of the cottonwood tree, and the quiet, regenerative power of healthy soil.

  • Digital Architecture: Utilizing Stanley Pokras‘ OtherNetworks as our foundational infrastructure we cooperate with artificial intelligence to bridge massive global networks into an accessible, searchable treasury of shared knowledge.

  • Cosmic Intelligence: We listen to the universal patterns of frequency, art, and spirit, aligning our steps with the creative, visionary works of guides like Angela Hanna and Shannon McArthur and the broader collective.

This underlying pattern is entirely open-source; it belongs to the human family. Rather than a rigid grid, it is an inviting, living landscape where you can find your own natural frequency of alignment—transforming global vision into gentle, practical steps on the ground beneath your feet.

Poetic Seeds

The inspiration of Our Heart Gardens was born, in part, through the poem “Crow Surgeon.” Watch and listen as Shannon McArthur recites the Crow Surgeon poem.

Shannon’s presentation on Humanity Rising further illuminates the vision.

 

We meet in the field.

Whatever tenderness, questions, gifts, or lived wisdom you are carrying today… there is a place for it right here.

Join us in Gaia’s Zoom Room, Tuesdays 6-8pm PT (9-11 Eastern)