I just wanted to post this in the "general community info" section, because in the 2 years I've been searching, I always seem to hit an invisible wall. Guess what is it - the Collective consciousness' obsession with Lack and Limitation!
Wherever you go, there you are, right? The saying most definitely applies when you are "searching" for your home community.
I never bought into the whole "mortgage" thing. It never made sense to me. Sure, I'm 32, all my peers are doing it... its the Only Way! Right, well, becoming an indentured servant never really sat well with me. Also, I have never really liked living in a house long enough to stay there forever. So what is a gal to do?
I suppose go on an adventure! My ex-husband didn't quite like the idea of "living with strangers" , hence the "ex" part
But for me, it sounded fascinating. I love the idea of living with others so that I am able to witness all parts of ME. Believe me when I say this, when you live in community, you are "married" to those people too. I mean, you can always leave, but all the shadows, all the things we try to hide from everyone, all the masks we wear in society, inevitably come out and masks come off. There is no way getting around it, unless you hermit out and avoid people, but even then, its either surrender to the community vibe or leave.
After avidly searching for our "home" for 2 years now, I'm convinced that ALL INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES ( and I'm serious ALL OF THEM) are still steeped in Old Paradigm Hierarchy Consciousness.
I am Open to Anyone challenging me on this one. Find me a community where there is no "ownership", no rent, no bills, no having to work specific hours a week just to live (as an indentured servant) "freely" on the land, none of it. MARK MY WORDS - it does NOT EXIST (as I write this 7/18/13), yet.... Why is this? Could it be that the majority of the world population believes that there is a purported "authority" above them? Could it be that they have been programmed and conditioned to believe that they "owe" another (bank, government, whatever) just to LIVE?
It all stems down to that one belief - and its a world wide epidemic! I mean, look at the Anastasia Communities! Why do you think that the PTW "passed" all those "laws" preventing people from living together in community! Because we are more powerful united together as a collective, then living apart - separated by fences. The PTW even bombed civilian villages in the middle east in the '90s (Bill Brockbrader tell all) to break up the local reality communities!
Seriously, it's the final key... Living in community Free from debt slavery, and accessing our value.
Oh and one more thing, If you are not willing to look at your inner crap pile, community living is not for you. Nothing personal, it's just inevitable. Your crap will come up, one way or another, and its either - look at it, process it, change, and grow, or scadaddle.
But if you do scadaddle - remember, wherever you go, there you are!!