by David and Wilson Orr, was an effort to actualize a meta-industrial village as envisioned by the Lindisfarne Association. This project received funding from the Ozarks Regional Commission, the Arkansas Energy Department, and the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation.) The villages would be linked together by an electronic information network (i.e., what today we call the internet). Thompson called for a counter-cultural vanguard "which can formulate an integral vision of culture and maintain the high standards of that culture without compromise to the forces of electronic vulgarization." According to the Lindisfarne Association website, Lindisfarne's fourfold goals are: The Planetization of the Esoteric The realization of the inner harmony of all the great universal religions and the spiritual traditions of the tribal peoples of the world. The fostering of a new and healthier balance between nature and culture through the research and development of appropriate technologies, architectural settlements and compassionate economies for meta-industrial villages and convivial cities. The illumination of the spiritual foundations of political governance through scholarship and artistic communications that foster a global ecology of consciousness beyond the present ideological systems of warring industrial nation-states, outraged traditional societies, and ravaged lands and seas. Thompson has also stated the United States has a unique role to play in the promotion of planetary culture because people from all over the world mingle there. Lindisfarne sought to spread its message widely, through a mailing list and through book publications of the Lindisfarne press. Journalist Sally Helgesen, after a visit in 1977, criticized Lindisfarne as confused pseudo-intellectuals, citing for example their attempt to build an expensive fish "bioshelter" while overlooking a marsh with fish in it. Members Members of the Lindisfarne Fellowship have included, among others: ecological philosopher David Abram mathematician Ralph Abraham Zen Buddhist Zentatsu Richard Baker anthropologist Gregory Bateson anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson poet Wendell Berry geometer and art historian Keith Critchlow international law specialist Richard Falk physicist David Ritz Finkelstein Zen Buddhist Joan Halifax-Roshi economist Hazel Henderson ecologist Wes Jackson poet Jane Hirshfield political scientist Merle Lefkoff scientist James Lovelock physicist and "soft energy" advocate Amory Lovins biologist Stuart Kauffman biologist Lynn Margulis dean James Parks Morton author Michael Murphy philosopher/author John Michell dancer/anthropologist Natasha Myers spiritual teacher David Spangler religious scholar Elaine Pagels poet Kathleen Raine writer Dorion Sagan economist E. F. Schumacher astronaut Rusty Schweickart poet Gary Snyder United Nations undersecretary Maurice Strong architect Paolo Soleri monk David Steindl-Rast publisher/editor