We invite you to the winter gathering of Estonian ecovillage network 10.-12. Jan 2014

[Kadri Allikmäe]

Dear friends in the Baltic Sea area,

Following the tradition, there will be a winter gathering of Estonian ecovillages movement on January 10-12, 2014. This time we'll meet at Himmaste schoolhouse (house of Rosma school's primary classes) in Põlvamaa. Eating and lodging will be at the same place also.

The topic of our winter gathering, "ABC of community life", fits well in the basic school house. As there have been a number of both successful and unsuccessful attempts to create communities, it is a good time to discuss, what there is to learn from it, from mutual relatsionahips and processes. 

Everybody is welcome, both the ones with experience with community initiatives and people who are simply interested in preparing for creating a community or who are simply interested in these subjects.

Another topic will be "winds of change in education".
As several people from our movement have had a possibility to educate themselves in foreign communities, we'd like them to share their experience and present some basic tools for everyone wishing to start, join or who already belongs to a community initiative or project.
This time we especially welcome youth and teenagers who are interested in community mindset, to hear their visions and ideas about life and education, to understand what is important for them and what they feel. Please forward this information to young people near you.

FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT REGISTERING AND OTHER PRACTICALITIES FOLLOWS SOON!

Who wishes to contribute as a volunteer or help organizing the gathering in any way (we plan to prepare food together, so all vegetables and produce are welcome), please contact the main organizer Kristina Paśkevicius (kris...@kogukonnad.ee).

[Heikki Attila]

Dear Kadri, Dear All,

thank you fro Being!

I first thank Kadri because withouy her collecting money from our friends for me. I would not be here and I would not be sending this letter. I would be outside this level - many call it dead. I happened to create a disharmony in my body called cancer. Because I am a yogi and meditate daily, I did not care enough of my well-being on this physical level after being in operations or activities on psychical and spiritual realms. Even more often I was loosing time-space and the limits of my mind being not any more me. On that level beyond forms we are all ultimately one. So I avoided death the last moment. Still western medicine is only able to give me chemotherapy that means terrible toxins. I have been strong enough - thanks to support of my friends to refuse of these. Normally these are given until one is in the coffin. So please feel my gratitude to you - everyone! We are all one!

I would like to join you and tell some experiences of our school: Kestävän elämäntavan kiertokoulu, which have been quite active since some 1998 or so. We tried to make it a GEN-Europe wide school called Traveling School for Sustainable Lifestyle. But it did not get funding. A child of this might be Traveling School of Life, which my friend Max initiated in the Czech Republic. I highly recommend this to all you being less than 26 years old.

If I happen to be around, I wish to join you. But at the moment it seems that I will be somewhere south to balance the second rising of my cancer. I put it down already between January...March 2013 on Himalayas between 1900 and 2300 meters practicing a lot of meditation and some cross country hiking around nearest mountains. There the fire element is still rather clean - which we need for life or healing our selves. Here this element is totally too contaminated starting from 50Hz up to Wireless communication. The more we have this the more difficult finding harmony is. Now I live in a wooden block house having less of this incredible noise with not always benevolent information in it. So I will travel most probably on the deserts or mountains of South India or Himalayas Dharamsala or perhaps in Peking when it gets warmer to fix the hole in my bone made by one metastase. This hole prevents me sitting much. I do not accept pain relief.

Most important: If I am not able to join this utmost important occasion, I wold like to share you this knowing someone does not like this and knowing that if we do not meet and discuss matters of conflict, we are soon in a dead end sect:

If there is a community having a strong guru and all others repeat what guru says in his ultimate wisdom. All is OK until one sheep does not say Bääää. There starts the troubles, another member of the community might join. So guru must send this person out as soon as possible or even hurt the person physically, emotionally or mentally. And please believe gurus have skills for this. Unfortunately these gurus are like fakirs and certainly have not always the most benevolent agenda. I have left one community due to this reason. The guru promised to cut my beard and hair and burn my cloths and so on. He started to burn himself inside while I needed to protect myself from his attacks - and in this case the fire he sends to my mind is reflected in 7 times more powerfully. I can imagine how it hurts - poor guru. One of my mistake was walking to this community some 32 km instead all other driving full speed with their fancy cars to relax in meditations guided by guru. The entire community was shaken - a crazy foreigner walks to the community not being busy to practice meditations!

My friend had a similar experience in another large and piece-promoting community. He was supposed to study permaculture.  He repeated the words exactly according to the words of guru in his email. He did not know that using email the controllers in next room copy every his message. Next day he was in front of kind of inquisition or tribunal. He repeated the words of guru and asked: Do you not listen your guru at all? This is exact words of your leader, are they not. He was not sent away. But next day the Internet was cleaned of all information concerning this gurus background being in jail due to pedophilia. After this day he was not any more allowed to speak to anyone in the community especially the youth - he had a kind of guard working as a partner.

I would also share something more contructive.

The more I have needs and I have wants, the less I am able to live in a community. In the book Ecovillage Living you can find an easy test, if I am able or ready to accept my self living in a community:

 I am allowed to choose three things I wish to have until I leave this world. For me It is 1) diet that suits for my invalid body, 2) time and space for meditation and 3) I leave open for the moment while not living in a community.

In all other matter or areas of life I must be flexible, if not then I am not ready to live in a community.

I would also share another thing:

Most often communities buy a piece of land having a huge house for living and practicing dance, yoga, art, what ever comes up. This is never a good base for a community. Community is or at least should be based on common interest and values like gardening, well-being of children, taking care of elderly persons, living ascetically, enjoying life with minimal consuming etc. The glue of a community must be mapped on early steps already. Many leave the process and new will join. Next important is to choose conflict resolution method. In Finland I always recommend sauna - it releases tension and stress and creates harmony inside outside. Next on the list is perhaps not the property or the house and the site. But it still is important. The micro climate is utmost important within it. Why not make life too difficult having the coldest place around to have harvest if a good summer comes. Last but not least is the fact that life can be struggling or life can be dancing of joy in a community.

Blessings

Heikki - a pathological optimist

2013/12/11 Kadri Allikmäe <katariina...@gmail.com>

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Kiitos, että Olet! Thank you for Being!