Because it Takes a Whole Village
Eden is very organic
Nothing is ever going to be carved in stone here in its full entirety. But there are a few things that could be better understood. Membership is not about having. You can't buy it and you can't negotiate for it. Membership is a doing thing. Real membership should be seen as being in action and that needs to be proven on many different levels before we can call you a real member just like it would be with any of the tribes of native peoples around the world. No one is instantly approved of as a full member with the backing of the full faith of that community upon the very first day of their arrival. That would be nonsense.Keeping it Real
We do have a high sense of aesthetics and good Eco-Logical Design and we know what looks right and what feels right in the natural world and the way people approach this community has to be right too because we can tell when it is not right. People should be neat and clean and have good words to say and something real to contribute to this project. The need for more information does not constitute a contribution.We do have to consider peoples needs for a certain amount of personal space to have the feeling of freedom and to be able to do their best. We don't think it's natural for people to be living separately from the natural world or to think that they exist independently of this community.
We don't believe in completely disconnecting from the modern fantasy world of
art either where every kind of gimmick that is just another deviation from
beauty and that which is just a disconnect with truth is always thought to be a
brilliant new creation just because they cannot distinguish one thing from the
other due to wrong education.
Human Scale
We must learn to play a very central role in the unfolding of some of the still missing aspects of a normal life without alienating everybody so we do have a thin line to walk sometimes which leaves no room for truth because we don't want to come across as adamant or anything.We are among the new creators here in Eden of a new scale
of living called Human Scale Integration. And we will continue to exert more
than just a small influence on this small planet that we have found
ourselves born within and we may even have a new and influential role to
play here.
What Eden Is
Eden is not going to be a place where you put your money in when you come and then just take it out when you leave. This is about creating a new life and that is about good energy put into something that will outlive all of us as a way of giving something back. We are all going to be like benefactors for a better world.This is not an
investment opportunity any more than you can expect to be able to cash in on the
investments of time and the energy you may have put into raising your children
right. Sometimes
some of that does come back. But your place in any of the native tribes is not something you can
just buy and sell at will.
These basic understandings
are already set up here just to protect the integrity of this emerging community. It is
not about trade offs and negotiated settlements. We are certainly not about
business as usual here in Eden. Or supporting all the existing pre-expectations that need to be propped up indefinitely. That would only be a one way street right back to the world that we came out of and a reproduction of a system that just doesn't
merit that much of our attention since it is already becoming obsolete.
Easily Come By
Some people do want to be able to know that they can get in and get out of this thing very fast. That easy come easy go policy comes from an overly simplistic way of thinking that this is like a sell out to us. All the children do need to learn what it means to become a part of the larger Community. It's about growing up and becoming one of the True Edenites.We have seen things happen where some people tend to become upset over not getting their way about some little thing. And then they want to go stomping out the door making a lot of noise. We are committed to your absolute freedom. That's why we say that the door is always open. But please don't slam the door or leave a mess inside for others to have to clean up and that does include bad feelings that are used to poison the environment and ruin our habitat.
Walk lightly into Eden and walk lightly out of Eden.
Harmlessness. We do no harm to Eden. We do no harm to T either because T is in a
position of representing Eden and those who try to destroy T are hurting our
chances in Eden.
There will be some people who would like to invade our space.
Naturally. And we must be willing and able to handle some of them. And you must be able to help us to handle it. Because it has been found that you of all people have become
all too deeply implicated in some of this even if it has been through inaction.
We cannot expect people
to remain impractical dreamers for too long. We do have a little more than just a
sweet little dream here. And you could even say that we've got the beginnings of
a fairly well integrated vision. And so we do need to
have some way to control some of these losses so that we can survive long enough to be
able to implement that vision.
Voluntary Solidarity
We want to make it clear that everything that has been built in Eden will be left in Eden. That is what the understanding is. That's what membership really means here. We stand with Voluntary Solidarity. No one is allowed to poison the pot.A New World
Eden is in human scale. And that means we feed one person at a time. Eden first. Self last. This is how we live. This is something that we can only add things to not to take things away from. If you have nothing to add to it or would rather not add anything then do not do so. These are the things we live by.You would never take back a major contribution after it had already been given. And that is all you are really doing here in Eden. You have only been invited to a wedding here folks. And it truly is a grand and beautiful wedding that we had in mind for you and your participation is expected to be an honorable one. Only you are expected to be one of the contributing members this time and are not just here as a pointless onlooker as it may have been in the past.
We already have this much in place. And a lot more is coming too. And that makes some people want to act up a little. But please don't bring that kind of energy to the wedding feast. That would only be a disruption of the kind and elegant proceedings.
You will all have to marry up with Eden one way or the other. But Eden does not marry up with you. That is the big secret of all life on Earth. That is how it all works. We are members of our Tribe. We support our Tribe. Our Tribe is not all about us.
Why isn't Eden all enamored of us like our Mothers used to be? Because it has its own membership
to consider in an even larger community
called the Emerald Forest which in turn serves all Life on Earth which it serves and supports
as well and which we all must uphold.
Something True
It all belongs to the whole Community. It doesn't matter what it is whether it's on the homestead or in The Village or on a Farmsite waiting to be planted. It's all part of what we are putting into Eden. And all of Eden belongs to Eden and to nobody else.Eden is a well designed system that has a quality that will allow us to change with the natural conditions in which we are growing this fine and elegant new Tree of such great beauty and exciting potential and that is growing so wildly out of control that it could even threaten a lot of big city folks' misconceptions.
I hope you don't mind that cold wind blowing through from time to time. This is just the power of the spirit of Eden blowing through the canyons of devastation that it is as vibrantly alive now as it was ten thousand years ago.
You may choose to step forward
to give your gifts or not. Something like this is to be made from many contributions.
But you never try to use that as a wedge or a bargaining chip to force and to
destroy and to get your way into Eden.
Self Sufficiency
Things that are given and that are meant to be given will be given. Nothing else will even be accepted. There are limits to how much we will take. You can't buy power in Eden because it is not for sale.Most people know that they owe
so much now for all that they have already been given that in an entire lifetime they could never
do too much. And even if they could they wouldn't know how to go about it. Now you do know how
and we are going to do just that by focusing our intentions and multiplying
them.
Common Cause
It doesn't take a genius to figure some of this out. It all works by common sense and for a common cause. We are not the usual bunch of impractical dreamers you might have become accustomed to falling in with where you can easily hold sway over the crowd with some dazzling showmanship. In Eden nobody is taken in by such things.Resources
Everything we need flows through our open hands every day. This is not a secret. Most of our money is going to waste big time every week. But here we are really going to be doing something with that and for some older people that may really be the most important thing they can do with some financial resources they may have found themselves saddled with at this late stage in their short and almost meaningless lifetimes. Now it's time to give something back before it's Game Over time. Let's play a new game we can all feel good about.Support this community
Go ahead and write that check. Write up a big fat one. Surprise us all. That is something you really can do that would make a real difference. Make your choices known. Tell us what you want to do for this community. We are always glad to hear all about that. Become who you deserve to be. This really is your big chance become your self.We are not going to sever
any of our connections here. We use them all. We do think outside the box. We
do build outside of the box. I think you can see that much. But we are not
burning all our bridges here. That is still our Mother Culture out there and we do
still remain on good speaking terms with all of our friends in the natural world. And we are
certainly not about destroying everything in a spasm of self superiority. That would
not be Eco-Logical.
She is not going to be reviled and hated here in Eden. Not as a means of venting a lot of bad energy. Those who need that should go someplace else. But instead we are going to be changing a few things very gradually from inside the box.
I am sure you have seen
this kind of thing in action before. You may have wanted instant change. But nothing can really change until
the time is right.
It all works in some of the same ways that we are all quite familiar with
along with a few new things that may seem to be quite new and even
revolutionary.
Taking care of this land
That is what Stewardship is all about. In return you will find that you have been very well taken care of here in Eden. In Eden we do things right. For long term sustainability. This is not just about servicing peoples needs and then you die. It's about what we can do with the resources we already have or can reasonably generate just by making a few adjustments to the flowing waters that surround us all. It comes down here and it flows out there. Unless we divert that flow back into Eden it will largely go to waste.We create things for people.
We create these things
for you so you can live the way we think people should be able to live. Not like the life
that has been offered to so many and all in exchange for nothing.
We had something better in mind. And that is going to be both a very long
and meaningful life that does have a certain amount of Freedom built in with no
extra charge. But with greater Freedom comes greater responsibility.
Personal Responsibility
These things grow all by themselves just because we set them up to be what they are instead of something that they are not. Like a Tree. It grows out of its own natural energy. What would you pay for an extra 10 years of your life? Well some people as I have predicted might even live to be over 100 years old before they need to be buried in Eden.People will tend to live longer in Eden and your quality of life will be
that much
higher as well. A low impact burial among your friends in your home land tops it
all off the way it should be and costs a lot less.
How it Works
All we have to do is to stand back and watch this whole thing grow into its fullest fruition out of the naturally creative energies that normally flow right through us every day. These energies are safe when used as directed and actually compound when they are integrated like this into something even better than any of us have begun to anticipate.The power of the vision
If people have a chance to do what's in them it just happens because everyone is in support of that. But there is some need for some control. We are not all fully self responsible people yet. Some are old and some are young. Some are differently abled. Some are creative and can quickly understand other creative people. Others may be more practically minded and just like to do things in a very physical way with other people on the land.We are not all the same
Just the opposite
of what you might expect. Everything is supposed to be only one way and that is
the wrong way. That is
what we have been taught. But here everything works all
different ways which is more true to the real world. Everything changes and everything is still
going to remain the same. We must all accept that. One thing becomes another just by becoming what it is for the first
time ever over and over again. That is all this is about. We are just planting the seeds of real life
here on Earth as you would expect to find it anywhere else in the Universe.
Nothing is Ever Wasted
We go way out there with some of this and then it all comes all the way back home again just to see who is still with us. Take this any way you can. We will still work with many of the same assumptions that we are all very well accustomed to being saddled with as well as dropping a lot of stuff that we don't really need and then we can always pick it up again later on.A lot of things are fairly
well known and commonly misunderstood. We know how things tend to work already.
Some new things it is true can be added on to it but not too much at any one
time. Some small things can be taken away like some 300 to 500 people who
may have chosen to disengage from the main pool of the Dominant Culture. But
not too much at any one time can be changed so we do have to ask people to
respect that.
We may be able to cut
a little hole in the box but not too big so don't expect miracles.
Need alone does not make a very good home. What you give here you will get back in many ways. But
you give one thing and then you get
back another. Eco-Logical trade offs are not always in the form of negotiated
settlements. We don't get to request any lateral moves but we are allowed to
make all the lateral moves we may choose.
We do things out of a great
wealth and potentiality that we just cannot spend on most of the things that have been offered to us by a world that is going nowhere
and doing nothing for the most part that compares that much with Eden. We would really rather
be
putting our energy into something new and unknown than to support the
exploitation of the Earth and its peoples we see going on everywhere else we look.
What feels Right
Support your own people. Don't spend your money on keeping up with the rat race. And don't try to lead us here in Eden until you have learned to integrate your self into this project as one of those who can be counted on to uphold the vision and to back this community with the full faith of your personal energies and resources. - TTo Save the Earth
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