Beyond Hummers... Baby Boomers and more........ Your Input
Eric N. Best, Ph.D.
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Evolving Enlightenment via "Real" Community
Be part of a community of people who are moving beyond Fear, Scarcity, and Competition
into an environment based upon "TRUTH & LOVE".
Accelerate your own Personal Happiness & Joy,
while also contributing to the world.
This newsletter is a sharing / feedback system from you (your inputs) and from the increasing cracks in the cosmic egg evident in our larger culture. Immediately below is a FREE offer by Lynn McTaggart. Lynn wrote the fascinating book, The Power of Eight which is all about the extraordinary effects groups can have with collectively focusing their intention of a joint desired outcome. I wrote about her before on Sept. 25th, 2022
Here is a fascinating indicator of raising consciousness. Namely large scale awareness of "Beyond buying Hummers" and a "Beyond Greed" motivation as indicated by the Free offering of Lynne McTaggart here. A true gift for all of us.
After Lynn's freebie, there are several of your own stories shared here. Enjoy your fellow seekers insights and aspirations. The more we can share back and forth here, the more we/you create another step forward into whatever form of Real community you might be seeking. Enough others with your own brand of desire is always uplifting to encounter. Beyond uplifting, it can also be your step forward in creating and/or participating in the community of your dreams.
In Love & Truth,
Eric
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On 11/25/2022 7:18 PM, Foundation
for Intentional Community wrote: ( A relay of a request to
contact me, via an MG Ad, IC.com carries on
its website.)
 just wanted to thank you for what you described, it is very beautiful and when I find a corner of my own paradise, will definitely keep these goals in mind. have been looking for a group like this, just there is none so far in northern california that I have found yet, will persevere though and keep dreaming of a loving and joyful future for all. URL: https://www.ic.org/advert/an-extraordinary-community/ Contact: alexandria tomy ====================== Hi Alexandria, Thank you for your loving note. Let me suggest that if this vision is truly something that deeply touches you, resonates within on all levels; if this is true, then perhaps you are already a member of this 2nd Tier community... if not in physical fact, then in at least (and actually the first and most important initial aspect) resonance in heart, mind and soul. And perhaps you don't have to keep striving to find such in N. California. Write and introduce yourself some more. I'd love to connect more with you.  In Love & Truth, Eric Part of the key: "Tell the truth and support each others dreams!" ============================== alexandria tomy wrote: ============================== Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2022 3:33 PM To: alexandria tomy Subject: Re: [An Extraordinary Community] space of love. Hey Alexandria,
Good to get your note. You do sound as if you are fully engaged in your journey. Your timing is interesting in that I am about to put our an article in my MariposaGroup Newsletter. If you would like to provide 1 or 2 pics of yourself, to include with this piece you write here (or a modified form); I would be more than happy to include it in this next outgoing article. It will reach perhaps 300+ people and perhaps provide some contact with someone who resonates with you. Are you, like many, in a more or less constant challenge around living accommodations? I knew some live on the road so to speak, living/traveling in a RV for example. How do you handle it? And again, if the circumstance warrant it for you, you are invited to explore being part of a community here. Looking forward to 'seeing' you and hearing more. Love & Truth, Eric ============================ On 11/26/2022 5:53
PM, alexandria tomy wrote:
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 Hi Eric...just a quick hello. Am getting settles on my new place up in the mountains on the Cumberland Plateau..above Tracy city, TN! I love it...so grogeous...low taxes,...kind people. And my little village is wonderful...Everyone owns their own acreage, and helps each other, and we get together as desired. Beautiful. :) Blessings on your little community... Mary |
A Quaker community in the UK
On 11/24/2022 4:43
PM, Cindy Metcalfe wrote:
====================== Hi Cindy and thanks for writing. Sorry to hear that you have only two people left in your UK Intentional Quaker community. There is a definite ebb & flow at times in community ventures. And it sounds as if you have truly lovely accommodations / physical land and structure to offer. Yet in my own experience it is not the philosophical offering nor the physical offering that provides the spark to keep the dream alive. The seeming so called 2ndTier offering would be not one of philosophy per', nor grand physical location settings; but one of uplifting the innate "Life Purpose" within each of us. A 'goal' that usually will speak to each individual. When the group comes together initially with the clear and well stated purpose of deep, deep friendship among us all, of being Life Positive for all; it then more easily becomes attractive to all. Deep friendship among us all. Truly deeply knowing each other: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and the Beautiful. And yes this takes some time, sometimes more time than you or I would desire. But in my experience this path produces the greatest and most solid foundation for what ever your community desires downstream. As people become more and trusting, more energy is released from defensiveness. The energy is released from "lower order" concerns, i.e. safety & security --- both physically and psychologically; and rises up to the production of more love and creative expression. Both of which are tremendously appealing when experienced and create the natural & healthy desire for "more". I am only slightly familiar with Quaker philosophy. Yet I would suggest "Transcend" this philosophy and yet include the best parts of it in a new and more expansive, larger philosophy. This "transcend and include" growth insight is definitely part of a good 2nd Tier process. 2nd Tier community almost by definition includes the process of continual growth and higher and higher levels of development being made manifest. A new "circle" of knowledge, wisdom and love/truth is entered into and eventually this circle is filled up. At this point a pressure builds up to the breaking out, past the old circle boundaries into a much larger and 'new' arena / circle. This process is the essence of what life is all about. For example, we easily see this rapid learning in the experience of say a 4 or 5 year old child with good parents. Not perfect, but good parents, who provide the safety and security of food, shelter and loving companionship to their child. With those needs met, the child goes out say into the backyard of their home and under the watchful eye of a parent, plays and explores as their innate desire dictates. Tasting a rose petal. Making mud piles. Investigating a caterpillar ... and at times getting a minor 'ouch', say from a rose's thorn. The parent rushes out in response to the cry of pain. Comforts the child. And likely within 60 seconds of snuggling, kissing the hurt, and reassuring the child that all is ok; the crying stops... and then in another 30 seconds the child is off on some new exploration. Image what it would be like to be able to continue this process forward in life?! Not as a child, but a full grown adult who is both free and loved enough such that they can continue the 'wonderment' which the healthy child experiences. In my experience, the process for this is one of : It as simple as your ABC's, only it start with E and works it way back to A. It is.. Exploring, Discovering, Creating, Benefiting All. And if one of us, you or I .... or a group of us, are fully engaged in any one part of this process, then we will experience HAPPINESS. If we are fully engaged in two parts of this process at the same time, we will experience JOY. If we are fully engaged in three or more parts at the same time, we will experience literal ECSTASY !! If you would like, I can travel to UK and start up such a several week process for you. You would then take the process over yourselves. Or if you wanted to commit to such here, we could arrange such a gathering & process training for your group here, to take back to the UK. The best short hand prescription for real community I've come across is: "TELL THE TRUTH AND SUPPORT EACH OTHERS DREAMS!" In Love & Truth, Eric Hi Eric, Thank you so much for this support offered, and I can hope to gather enough Friends for this adventure. The insight you have given in ‘What makes Community’ has answered a concern moving forward and this will be shared with our re-visioning group. It is the aspect of ‘Life Purpose’ that is so intriguing. Reading your Community site stuff, it is clear how the tree planting to offset CO2 and resin collection provided income, pride and purpose for people and see that an innovative project idea on making a ‘Community Living’ could be a path that gathers people together and the change most in need of being made here. To explore, which I have already found brings reward in itself in opening up new possibilities. We currently use our land, and accommodation for guests to have personal or group retreats. Having no shortage of people wishing to do so. Yet hospitality service is hard work- and we are unable to find members enabled or willing to help with this mission. I have felt disheartened. A new innovative project will gather people behind it and so potentially re-generate Community, and the loving Friendship lost. At what point in our process of regeneration do you feel a 2nd Tier Community Event would be most helpful? As we move forward this information will help in mapping a journey from where we are to creating a thriving Loving Friendly Community, and how many people would you be expecting as an optimum for group training? In exploring your model it is quite clear to me how things have ‘gone wrong’ with how we have been living and working together and so heartening to have come across your enthusiasms for Community life. I see some light now in a potential way forward, finding a Project to work on that gathers people behind it- a life purpose. A re-visioning Meeting has been called for the beginning of December and I will put forward a proposal to explore seeking innovation ideas for generating income where feeling good is the work, using the resources we have in an effective way, and opening this exploration out to the network of Friends. Seeking to discover and get behind people and ideas that have the potential to serve in a wider context and to give them traction. This is to be done alongside creating a Community, that’s creating change in the World, where benefiting all is the goal. Sounds good to me-feeling the wonderment and curiosity and hopeful to find backing to enable you to come over, starting up the several weeks process of generating community. It is hoped so Eric! In Friendship Cindy Regarding your: Really enjoying my exploration of the Mariposa Group Intentional Community, amazing work. Yet have no dates to realize when stuff was written. Long, long ago.... in a place far, far away ! 😁 Its been a lifetime of learning. |
Denver Co-op
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11/15/2022 10:47 AM, Foundation for Intentional
Community wrote:
Hi Eric,I see your ad on IC. Are you seeking community, seeking members, or starting a conversation? They all sound interesting. We are looking for members for our expanding community now that we are finishing our main community space. Andrea URL: https://www.ic.org/advert/an-extraordinary-community/ Contact: Andrea Cunningham ==================================== On Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 07:56:00 PM
MST, Eric N. Best, Ph.D. wrote:
Many thanks for writing. I/we are in the process of building what I call "real" community here in N.E. Texas and seeking kindred spirits who deeply value Truth, Deeply loving Friendship as a primary value system to construct slightly before and in the process of actual physical building. So yes, we are seeking members, friends, and certainly in depth conversations about living and taking life upward at least one or two notches beyond our current culture. Brief background: I've had a passion about community for a long time. Visited some 22+ different communities across the USA. Have a background in psychology, science and a long, intensive meditation practice. In all of this and seeing many examples of what works and what doesn't work, learning from others, learning from my own experiences; I've come to the place of recognizing the true value of deep friendship among aspiring members as a critical foundation piece for the best chance of creating highly functional community. My own background in psychology, group dynamics, exposure to the community building work of M.Scott Peck, the insights gained by psychologist Bill Kauth (the founder of something like 1000 successful men's groups world wide) combined with insights from the intensive meditation practice; have all combined in the underpinning for the creation of The Mariposa Group community here. I'd love to hear more about your group and your desires. In appreciation, Eric ============================== On
11/20/2022 12:38 PM, Andrea Cunningham wrote:
Hi Eric,
Thank you for
writing back to me so thoughtfully. I like
your vision of community very much.
I was on IC to put
up an ad looking for new members for a
partially-started community. We have a big
house that is half full because I have been
putting in a big kitchen before we fill up
completely.
We have an initial
list of aspirations, which was included in
everyone's lease. At this moment it feels
like they have remained aspirational, which is
frustrating.
Here is that
writing:
The plan is for the house to become a non-equity building Co-op, which is a legal business entity for the self-governance of the community in which members do not build equity they can sell when they leave. The Co-op will then make decisions cooperatively for how the house will function, so some things will change as we decide how to make the house work best for the diverse people living here. The starting intentions include: · Communication with compassion. · Shared space and life. · Shared meals. · Shared staple foods which are non-GMO and Organic. · Group decision making. · Safe, inclusive space: queer and trans friendly, anti-racist, non-violent, and feminist. · The purchase of the house by the co-op in five years. · The expansion of the co-op, possibly to include other housing types (like separate apartments). · Weekly meetings. · We expect there will be a buy-in fee when the co-op becomes formal. We expect it might be between $500 and $1000 and will be refundable when moving out of the house. · We
expect to have one AirBnB room on the
ground floor. *** Now this is a really
creative idea for inclusion in
community, which I have never run
into before. Very neat. · Quiet hours are from 10:00pm to 8:00am. We are looking for community members who: · Want to live in a community not just have a place to sleep and eat. · Want
to live in a beautiful, clean, and
organized house and are willing to help
make and keep it that way. Residents
should expect to spend 12 hours per
month towards this goal. ***
Nice !! · Are curious, compassionate, flexible, and open to living with others who will undoubtedly have different ideas about many things. · Are interested in pioneering a new co-op. There will be work involved to get there. · Are responsible and communicative. · Embrace enthusiastically that living in community requires introspection and personal growth. · Are not struggling with substance use issues or untreated mental health issues. We may have room in our community one day to support a member who does, but here at the beginning, we feel the need to get our community stably on its feet first. · Are not joining the community as a way of running away from something. The community is in the process of becoming. We will be starting with three - six month leases to figure out how the community will work best.…
Andrea
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PM, Andrea Cunningham wrote:
*** I would imagine she would be a good wisdom source.
 . What a lovely
old brick house. Looks solid ! :>)================== In response to my sending along some pics of the MG community space here: My house which I built myself. A life long dream of mine to do.   . .
May I have your permission to use your material here as an included item in my next Mariposa Group Newsletter? It is a lovely example of community building. Eric |
 Hi Eric- Thank you for your note. I appreciate so much that you’ve said- and for the most part I definitely am saying Yes to life! You seem much more theoretical and philosophical than I am, however. I love that you built your own house, so that’s cool. I certainly feel that community is of utmost importance- especially the nuclear family, but I’m also in the camp that we must spend much of our time in a calm stare so we can inside. Currently, I feel that too much ‘community’ propagates us to look outside of ourselves too much - finding our answers with others. For me, working out our life’s questions internally is key, looking within ourselves . Our connection with ‘source’ provides access to all our answers. This balance is, for me, is the stable ground I seek and within which I thrive.  So sorry for the delay. I forget to check this. I’ve been traveling snd have several friends & family visiting g over the next week but I will write you at your email in a week or so. Thank you for your very thorough reply 😊 Yes, that’s my tiny house up on my 40 acres in northern AZ. I’m working on a self sustaining compound. Talk soon! Teena |
The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world
that no longer exists."
"Real" Community
"Creating a Culture that works"
In A Very
Natural / Nature Based Environment !!
True Financial Security, Deep
Interpersonal Friendship & Comfort,
A Pleasing Inquiry into living Life fully, Sustainably,
Psychologically Healthy & Successfully
done right now, here on earth... with Fun & Play !
I invite you to explore this with us.
https://www.ic.org/advert/an-extraordinary-community/
... Once we learn to live together, we
cannot live alone.
Real
community.... our natural 'social ecology' !!
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