Evolving Financial Consciousness & ICN
by Luke Healy
While this page will focus more primarily on these considerations from a collective, organizational standpoint, how we consider all of this on an individual basis in our lives is also foundational to how we participate in any economic system. We hope to make spaces available for further reflection, dialogue, and growth together in this area.
Our Approach to Funding
Spirituality and money usually have a tenuous relationship. And our own personal feelings around finances and spirituality are often complex, unconscious, separated, or even conflicted with our spiritual outlook.
As with all that we do at ICN, we seek to approach finances from the consciousness that we are striving toward. That means that we are always working to become more conscious in all our perspectives, relationships, and endeavors. This implies that evolving spiritually includes all facets of our lives, including finances.
As an organization, that means that we don’t want to just fall back on the modus operandi and default modes of financial viability for churches, spiritual organizations, or businesses. So far, this has come to focus for us in a few specific areas.
Evolution over growth
Community over content
Faith over the bottom line
Transmission over transaction