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Guiding people to Intentional Community living |
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You might think that communes are something that became extinct back in the sixties and seventies. Actually, many people live communally today, in intentional communities, Eco-villages, group marriages, co-ops, ashrams, co-housing groups, even in survivalist and radical religious colonies.
Communal living is an excellent choice for people who enjoy deep, intimate companionship with more than one person. It is often very difficult to form and maintain a healthy, mutually satisfying and beneficial relationship with the random assortment of personalities that comprise a typical family. An intentional community can be looked at as a "chosen family," in the respect that it is made up of people who came together intentionally based on "commonalties" other than biological (or adoptive) accident. An intentional community differs from a family in the important respect that no one in an intentional community will ever legitimately feel "stuck" with it. Thus, communal living can supply people whose conventional family relationships are dysfunctional or nonexistent with the best a family has to offer, a circle of connected, loving co-experiences with whom to share life.
There can be practical advantages to communal living. Often, a member of an expense-sharing group can live more cheaply than a single person can. People who live in group housing are freer to travel, as there are always going to be others about to water plants, take in the mail, pay the bills, keep company to those who stay behind, and so on. Most important, an intentional community is a social network. The chances are good that someone will usually be available to go out for lunch; to share a movie; to look over a final draft; to try the lunch seasoning; to listen to a cool idea; to join in on a magnificent undertaking; to take a walk in the sunset; to practice a sport or hobby; to fall in love with; to learn and to teach something to. Last but not least, maintenance chores are always more pleasant, and less demanding, when shared.
Obviously, communal living can never be as private as a person’s own home. However, parameters can be set to maximize the possibility that adequate privacy will be available for those who sometimes require it. People who need a lot of privacy probably do not belong in a communal setting. People who thrive on human interaction probably do.
Communal living is a remarkably viable means for enriching our lives with interpersonal adventure and fun. As a group we have the resources, practical and personal, to actualize the very best of what we can imagine. After all as a group we will know more than individually we could. The sharing and maximizing of resources will improve greatly our quality of life as well as healing our planet.
Instead of owning many of any one product, we will own less, but share a wider range of items. Communal living can be a potent and powerful medium for free, creative, experimental, sustainable, ecological, and fulfilling way of life.
By pooling our money, creativity, skills, assets, ideas and resources; and thereby supplying our basic needs through communal energies, we find there are both an abundance of all things available to us all, and an optimization in the efficiency of their use. For example, sharing the use of automobiles, and making a communal dinner each evening. One car can serve numerous people, thus requiring fewer of them; and not only does everyone get a wholesome, nutritious meal each night, but they also only have to cook and cleanup once a month, or less, for example and then only as part of a team.
We believe that together we will achieve things we never, in our secular lives would have dreamed of, for example: operating large natural, shops, bakeries, production of tinctures, teas and organic herbs, writing and performing music, publishing books, creating a seed bank, producing videos, setting up radio stations, promoting Eco-tourism, setting up a health center, and much more; the possibilities are endless. Operating a natural, organic food restaurant where everyone contributed their energy, and equally shared in the returns. While at the same time, contributing a service to the community as a valuable foundation in our lifestyle, coming out of the usury money orientation, which is antithesis of sharing and breeds fear of loss and distrust and moving into a money-less society. We will be changing the program from moment to moment, from one of the secular insecure world of getting-for-self, to a world of "Love, as Service Done". We put our sharing words and actions into the morphogenetic field for playback, and were automatically lifted to the higher consciousness of "all for one and one for all."
The aberrations in our relationships and in our society come from the conditioning each of us has experienced in this and/or other lifetimes, not to mention the brainwashing of upside down society by the media, the corrupt government and the powerful selfish multinationals on their greedy rat race. Positive conditioning by the right environment will create a new breed of peaceful, secure, loving beings. The big error is competition, which makes each the enemy of every other; and the backward, ungodly usury money system, which programs the people to be in a fearful, getting-for-self consciousness. Thus, the unnatural fear of lack and the self-defeating abnormality of judging one another and ourselves, when in truth, we are all subject to the perverse collective consciousness, programmed predominantly in duality and which the status quo communications media perpetuates. This limited consciousness has blocked us from being able to transcend into the knowing of our oneness with the all-knowing, omnipotent, omnipresent Universal Mind, which fills all space in a Universe of symbiotic perfection. |
Why does communal living make sense? |
