Disengagement

A Growing Vision

Natural Priorities

We are stepping into an ongoing world here that really does have its own natural world of priorities that are still yet to be discovered. We don't know what really comes first. But everyone should be able to live in a warm and snug home who has done what it takes to build one.

That is getting more and more difficult to do for some folks considering all the codes that the counties keep using to hold people down and to keep people from being able to provide for their own most basic housing needs without going deeply into debt just to pay for something that is way too expensive and does not really suit their needs.

That keeps the people in many ways from experimenting with the Eco-Logical Solutions that are so badly needed now. Simple things like Composting toilets become a huge problem with the fixed minds of those who would be content to thwart our every effort just to maintain the Status Quo.

That alone along with the exorbitantly high price of a conventional home and the huge Eco-Logical Footprint that it makes is a perfectly good reason for whole lot of people to want to break away from the wall street kings and form their own sustainable communities.

This will become more and more common in the near future as we begin to see a few things unravel in the cities as evidenced by the new millennium which has been marked by the collapse of the world trade center and the advent of a whole new level of senseless rioting, road rage and random acts of violence.

Dreaming Community

People need to see what it looks like and what it feels like and to do more than just to meet the people and look around. You need to be immersed in Eden for at least a few weeks to get the full experience and that is what we are going to be able to do.

We are going to be creating that possibility for a growing wave of interest that will follow us back to Eden every time we put on a big show in the city. There aren't too many other choices out there. That's why it's time to create some new ones. And a lot of that is going to fit right into our own community vision of a larger network of communities that could be called The Pleiades Eco-Village Network of which Eden is just one small part which in turn is just one small part of the Emerald Forest.

Eco-Village Retreat

We will be able to help make that happen for other communities as well and in other parts of the world. But that house in the city goes on the market now if you want to really do your part for Eden. Even that smaller community needs to be sold for Eden.

We are actually going to be doing much of this with the equity most homeowners have doing nothing right now but sitting around getting fat. Older folks who are almost through working are expected to have enough money to do something like this on that alone and whatever fixed incomes they may have which is more than enough for Eden.

Young folks must be able to bring enough energy and vitality if not large sums of money or outside fixed incomes. Self responsibility. That is how it can work. We can only work with things that do work not with things that don't work.

Earn Your Way

Otherwise there just aren't a whole lot of fast forwards laying around that you can just pick up and run all around with. We have to be prepared to trade one thing in for the other one here. We can't always have it both ways. We don't believe in that which is not true. But we do have a little help already set up in place:

Mendocino County

Places nearby or virtually anyplace else in California where both the higher price of land and the excessively restrictive county ordinances would eat us alive is something we have been wise enough to be able to avoid in our choice of Mendocino as one of the best places for this kind of community anywhere on the left coast of Northern California while still not being that far from major population centers.

Edenism

We will have good land too that is only cheap because it is deeply overlooked by the invasive city developers who are too greedy for their own good and so it remains long forgotten even by most Mendocino County folks who have to have it pointed out to them on the map for the most part and then they still can't figure out how you get there. And we do want to keep it that way so please don't blab off on us.

Community is Freedom

That is all for good reasons and we do have to ask you all to pick up the bill for everything and to clean up your own mess. It does go far beyond what most people have ever asked for and so we do feel we have a right to expect there to be some willingness to listen and learn.

We do expect people to want to keep on growing and expanding their level of involvement within their own lives and within this growing community. It is never going to be just another dead end job in the dead end world so many of us are trying to climb out of before we all sink into the Dark Ages of Doom and Gloom which will only last forever this time but that is way too long for us to wait just to get back to this place again.

Earth Changes

Some people may well want us to pin it all down like it was a product for sale. We will produce many such products for sale and trade within the community. But this is not primarily about that. I do understand the need for a certain amount of security and even the tendency to revert to a lower frame of mind when confronted with your last one way ticket to freedom. It is all so very common. That's why we have gone into so much of this in such great depth and detail to get the general understanding across if not the full impact of the Emerging Changes.

Consensus Democracy

Neighborhoods

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