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"You make the world you want to live in and people will want to join you."
"You make the world you want to live in and people will want to join you."
~ Peter Sellars ~
For the first time in history the world is ready for One Community. In the words of Dr. M. Scott Peck, The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace, "It is our task--our essential, central, crucial task--to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures. It is the only way that human evolution will be able to proceed." Genuine community is the solution to the key issues of our day (conflict, resources and the economy) and the genesis of new thinking and ideas necessary for our evolution tomorrow. Never before in history have we needed and been ready for community more.
Many realize that the current system, if not broken, is at least very flawed. Looking at the collapse of our financial institutions, the bitter divisiveness within our government and nations, and the rising cost and scarcity of resources paints a grim picture with a predictable outcome. We live, work and socialize in places without community, without genuine connection, without being able to fully express who we are and what we've experienced to get here because the safe space doesn't exist to open up about these things.
We pay for what we think is convenience and a sense of security with our freedom and our quality of life. As the price of food, gas, electricity and water rise we work harder to keep up and find ourselves with less and less time to do the things that really mean something. Personal expression, stimulating interaction, and family time are sacrificed to drive time, increased work hours and standing in line. Our environments have no soul, no beating pulse of energy and vigor and we know less and less about the people around us, interacting mostly from necessity rather than true desire, caring or interest because we live in a system of separation.
At the end of each month we pay our bills and prepare to repeat this process, trusting in our retirement 20 or 30 years away because we have never made the decision to do something different. At the end of each month we look back at what? At the end of each month how have things changed significantly for the better in our lives and in the world? At the end of each month how have we grown or evolved as an individual in any significant way that impacts our family or our society? What are we doing about it?
One Community is the Solution.
One Community is the answer to these questions and these problems because it demonstrates that communication, technology and human values have evolved enough to do something different. The internet has put the ingenuity of the world's thinkers at our fingertips with creative minds hungry to collaborate. Technologies for both food and energy self-sustainability are affordable and easy to implement and people, regardless of their opinions on the longevity of our current system, recognize the rising costs associated with it and want to do something different. Most importantly, people are starving for meaningful interaction, quality relationships, and an opportunity to make a difference in their own lives, the lives of their families, and ultimately the world.
Genuine Community provides the safe and inviting environment a person needs to transcend your history, your fear, your weaknesses and your ego because by definition it operates beyond these things. Anyone who has ever played in a band or on a team seamlessly working together has felt the cohesion of community. Anyone who has ever experienced the explosive growth and development of a project where everyone's contribution was more important than any individual's self has tasted the creativity and camaraderie of community. Anyone who has ever been a part of a crisis where everyone let go of their egos, their judgements, and their desire to 'fix' one another in favor of working together has shared in the love and connection of community. The game, song, and project of One Community IS community because we look around and know that we are in the middle of a crisis of humanity and we are committed to doing something about it.
The time is now because we can't afford to wait any longer and people don't want to anyway. People are evolving and empowering themselves through the teachings and messages of amazing leaders like Oprah, Robbins, Tolle and others as what was once radical thinking becomes demonstrably true and common understanding. A life that previously seemed to be happening TO us is now seen more and more to be happening THROUGH us as we recognize the subjectivity of our reality because our perspective is not just different, it is unique! Realizing that no two people have the same experiences to draw on we finally understand that it really is possible for us to have dialectic opposite views on things and still all be right... we can agree to disagree when necessary!! We no longer need to win because there is nothing real to defend since perspectives will always be different... even when we think they are the same.
We can now ask ourselves a different question: what do we really want? Do we want to continue to depend on a system of inflation for our necessities or does it make more sense to become self sufficient? Do we like the amount of time we spend working, traveling to and from work, shopping, etc or would we rather create something more efficient? Do we spend as much time as we'd like with the people we care most about, and care most about us, or would we like more? Do we trust the current system for our retirement enough to invest another 10, 20, 30 or more years in it or should we create a different plan? Do we trust the current system for our health to invest another 10, 20, 30 or more years in it or should we invest ourselves in something different? Are we happy with our jobs, our lives and our contribution or would we like something more?
The people who are clearest on the answers to this new question, "what do I really want," are the people creating One Community because the answer starts with "community." We are working together to create the most beautiful and abundant community we can imagine with the goal of sharing this gift with the world because we have experienced that even visiting genuine community can transform your life.
"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
~ Helen Keller ~
If you are drawn to join this community, you will.
