A comprehensive model for creating intentional communities that integrate #healing, #sustainability, and #CooperativeLiving.
#Community #Permaculture #Polycrisis #Collapse #ClimateAction
| Website | https://integrationcenter.org |
| Resources | https://integrationcenter.org/resources/ |
Truly regenerative investment turns financial capital into natural, social, and spiritual capital.
So it does NOT provide financial returns. Instead, regenerative investment returns a better future.
Here is a way to convert financial capital into a better future for yourself, while also building community and healing the biome.
The Resources page of the Integration Center links to content on #NaturalDesign, #governance, #anthropology, #economics, #psychology, #health, and #psychedelic #integration.
The first section links to the site contents... explaining how all those different topics interrelate. :)
Children should be in classrooms.
Farming is for peasants.
Waste is inevitable.
Modern culture holds on to these kinds of myths even though they are harmful to our #health.
Even the concept of #exercise is a relatively new myth.
Rights make sense politically, but not spiritually.
In this vast and ancient cosmos where all living beings die, no individual being has a right to anything.
From a spiritual standpoint, life is a privilege. It is THE thing we get to do, no matter how it plays out.
Thriving within a healthy community on healthy land is the ultimate manifestation of that privilege.
Anything beyond that is luxury.
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A contemplation on #humility #spirituality #gratitude
Many rural #cohousing initiatives assume a warm climate, where people walk outside between buildings.
These are two early-draft designs for modularly-expandable cohousing buildings that are comfortable and navigable even in the height of winter.
Also with winter in mind, these are designed for passive solar. All units point in the same direction.
Is there anything an individual can do to have a real impact in the face of the #Polycrisis?
This article explores the options, and suggests an effective path to pursue.
Polycrisis response planning toolkit for Integration Centers.
(Information is specific to Integration Centers, but much of it has broader value.)
Approaching #healing from the Andean model of mind, body, heart, spirit.
Healing individuals, society, and nature as one unified process.
The idea of centering health, and mental and emotional health in particular, in community seems wise:
> founders of a new Integration Center follow this multi-stage business plan to acquire a parcel of land, develop a permaculture design for the land, set up an educational/healing retreat center there, and grow an ecovillage around that retreat center.
Simon Forman