Re: ecovillage and sustainability

Tom said
> Right you are, Ken; in fact I am looking now for communities that have
>more built-in adaptive flexibility and personal autonomy than those I have
>visited. The irony, of course, is that another side of me, equally strong,
>thoroughly enjoyed both of the above-mentioned places and the people I met
>there. But I seem to have this inner schism--a yearning for eco-spiritual
>community, and a >constitutional aversion to external authority over my
>personal life choices.

This is where a significant number of "boomers" and "cultural-creatives"
are.Buddhist,transactional theorist, philosopher, Ken Wilber goes into the
whys & wherefores of this in one of his books-seeing the situation as
central to one of our difficulties in accelerating our own individual &
species evolutionary processes. This is often why we leap to embrace
concensual decision making(and get "stuck") and look for non-hierarchial
communities & organizations(which are often slow & inefficient) and tend to
mistrust/undermine genuine leadership when we find it. Wilber has some
rebuttals, but not sure if you/I would like them!

davidc

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