On Community

On Community

Avalon is about community. George Green described the ground crew. Michael St Clair described the radiant zone.
Bill Ryan and Kerry Cassidy have founded the Avalon project and provided a vision.

What we need now is guidance in the formation of a new social order. An alternate vision to the centralized
new world order being displayed to us. Instead of moving away from what we fear, we must instead move towards
where we want to be. What I believe that we want is a decentralized network of intentional communities, tribes,
or groups of people who work in harmony with each other. Where individuals are equals, where there is no hierarchy
as one would find in the military or a corporate organization. No single individual, no single community rules over
or has precedence over any other. Rather than being puppets on a string, micromanaged to the point of being told when
to jump and how high, this alternate vision conforms to what is found in nature. This alternate vision of community
harmonizes with Rupert Sheldrake's morphogenic field, which explains how a school of fish or a flock of birds each as
individuals can work together as a unit to turn the group en masse on a dime without the benefit of a leader. This is
the natural order of things, and nature will not be denied!

My wife and I opened our eyes three years ago. We are not very far down the road ourselves. I like to think we are
at that awkward in between stage. Debbie was grinding wheat to bake bread this evening. I took a shower. The paradox
is we used a mix of the old and the new to make this happen. She used an electric motor to grind the wheat. I used
the electric well pump to enjoy a hot shower. Yet the room is lit with kerosene lamps. It takes time to wean yourself
away from the corporate web. We are older - I'm in my fifties, and we lack the vitality of a Goran Krupp who lived
in a tent in the woods while working to save money to climb Mt Everest (Goran Krupp was the crazy man who cycled from the
Netherlands, climbed Everest without oxygen, then cycled home - he was twenty something and as hard core as they come!)

I do my best thinking in the shower. During my shower talk I reflected on a brief conversation I had with Shellie on the
topic of guidance. The vision is there but we lack guidance. My thoughts turned to a book I read several years ago by
Penny Kelly called Robes. In a series of visions back in the early eighties she was shown what is happening now. She predates
the ground crew and radiant zones by twenty years. In Robes, Penny describes the turmoil we are entering today. I have alluded
to parts of her message in many of my previous posts. My shower talk told me to talk about the communities described in Robes
along with other community models we have looked at in the last three years. An old chinese curse is that you should live in
interesting times. If the little men of Robes are correct, we are indeed privileged or cursed depending on your point of view.
If their vision was correct, and the centrists are defeated, nations shall be no more. The Republic of the United States of America
will be a nostalgic memory for the elderly (that's you twenty somethings) to tell your grandchildren about. The land mass of North
America will break up into logical regional units of commerce and trade, such as the Pacific Northwest including Western Canada.
Other nation states around the world will experience similar transitions.

In this thread I will present essays on various community models which have been successful in time, including but not limited to the Amish, The Hutterites,
and the Amana Colonies. That they are religious/spiritual organizations is immaterial. Their social structure and the pros and cons of each is what
I wish to examine. Take what is valuable and leave the rest. I shall also paraphrase Robes in this thread. The little men have much to say on the topic.