Mindful Mondays Episode 5: The Importance of self-sustaining, sovereign communities in a melting economic system.
The Importance of self-sustaining, sovereign communities in a melting economic system.
I cannot stress enough the importance of self-sustainable, thriving communities with no centralized authority.
In a free and open community, there is no such thing as poverty, capitalism, socialism, communism, or democracy: there is only humanity, and it is raw and exposed. It is vulnerable, like this child.
When there is a problem in a free and open community, it is looked at and addressed as a community, it is not shunned.
Technology and innovation is not suppressed.
People are not fined for having a garden in their front yard
In a self-sustaining community, permaculture could thrive; providing every individual with their own dietary needs.
In sovereign communities, we could grow and harvest everything we need, when we need it, including free energy, healthy water, and all types of creation modalities including everything you can imagine because if everyone was born into having basic needs and resources, and centralization did not exist, innovation would sky-rocket.
A self-sustainable community could develop a resource based economy, as seen in the Venus Project, creating an entirely different way of life than that of the monetary rats race.
This also would entail a community sharing plan where resources and commodities are shared, either outright or under specific circumstances.
image coutesy of The Venus Project
One important factor that enhances the argument for the need of such communities is the fact that there cannot be true diversity and thrival without equality.
Equality comes through a well structured society. The societies we live in today are full of holes.....and it's no wonder why we keep getting hailed on.
There would be far less consumption in such communities and no need for money, although exchange may still be necessary.
Everything that is needed to sustain life is provided by the natural forces of the universe. All we need to do is tap into it, and turn on the
unlimited potential hidden inside the labyrinth-like kaleidoscope of our inner selves.
Yet with the coming economic crisis and financial meltdown of the world (which is happening, and - even if it wasn't yet - is inevitable with our current designed-to-fail $ystem), those of us living in centralized control infrastructures like cities, will be hard pressed to fulfill our basic needs.
Just take a look at the recent crisis in venezuela , people are waiting in lines for days for simple rations, the government has declared a state of emergency, and supermarkets are being raided, all due to an economic crisis.
Could this economic turmoil spread globally? Could it catch the west off guard?
What happens when we are being led into a slaughter by our governments?
Look at occupied palestine. Look at Syria. Look at the destruction.
[ > Satellite images by DigitalGlobe via Unitar-Unosat ]
Syria
2010
2014
Occupied palestine
[Img-cred: AFP – Mohammed Abed]
Look at the annual death toll caused by the United states policing system.
AMERICA's Corrupt Policing system
[Img-cred: vice news]
Vice news also claims that as of August 9 2015, POLICE in AMERICA had killed at least one thousand eight hundred americans since michael brown's famous death.
As "average" law abiding citizens, we are being treated as livestock; what better ingenious way to take back our sovereignty than to build and occupy self-sustaining communities?
Wjere we can do what we like without oppression because it is OUR LAND.
We could protect ourselves by building an inter-connected network of these communities, like such:
image coutesy of The Venus Project
We have a right to live in peace and freedom on this planet, regardless of whatever orwellian doublespeak is used to defend NWO and corporate government law.
We need to prepare for the retaliation of this collapsing regime.
It would be wise to expect and prepare for the worst.
What will you do when your government bans water and food “hoarding” ?
When your basic needs are rationed?
When martial law is declared?
What will you do?
What can you do at that point?
Those who have taken the initiative will be wishing that people had taken their lives into their own hands, sooner.
Yet the majority will continue to look away from the truth, as manipulated, infiltrated civilizations always have.
The creation of self sustaining communities is a step towards the decentralization of LIVING, and decentralization of innovation.
Decentralized simply means uncontrolled, it means anarchy, it means freedom.
When Governments come to ration our food and Martial law comes to take over our streets, we will need sovereign communities. We will need to build rejuvenation camps for refugees fleeing this violence.
So far we have seen the rise of squatting communities, tent cities, and transition towns, but none of this is remotely satisfactory.
People need to come together and create legal, off the grid living in sustainable environments, with funded legal support teams, crisis workers, engineers, organizers, spiritual leaders, organic farmers, scientists and much more.
These communities can exist without fiat currency and could thrive off of community and individual creation, and through exchange of goods and services.
Of course, if one wanted one could still have money, but it would not be needed because money represents a world full of lack where your abundance is limited to paper bills...and such a system is false, as it has been set up by man, not nature.
In order to build a functional world out of this semi messed up planet, we need to take some big steps, and create an interconnection of communities spread throughout the globe.
Yet it all starts with us as individuals. With YOU
We need to take action, and stop giving energy to global control systems.
We need to TAKE BACK WHAT IS OURS.
We need to build our own infrastructure, we need to save, and un-$lave ourselves.
Why are we investing in systems that are non-essential, via paying taxes and tuning into the fear matrix?
Why do we participate by paying taxes on free land?
Why do we live in these grids?
What can we do as individuals to transition into a healthier world?
We can take back control of our environment, as individuals.
The air, the soil, the laws, what the land is used for, the water, the energy, security, attitudes towards life; everything needs to be changed.
Andvwe need to be the catalysts towards change; us awakened ones.
So how do we do it??
We have to create pocket sized communities, something innovative yet simple.
Something that could spread across the globe like wildfire.
For example: a service that buys and leases out land to those who wish to organize a sovereign community, with a department specific to aiding in the development of self-sustainable infrastructure, and a participating organization to build sustainable, green houses and buildings, such as adobe homes for example.
[img-cred: http://naturalhomes.org]
We would need to set up processes that would allow for swift and gentle transitioning into these communities, and only the spiritually ready should be able to move in (or those that are harmonious with their environment.)
These communities would be akin to green villages, with a completely sustainable infrastructure.
There would need to be a process for one to go through after purchasing or leasing the land as in some form of test or application that would decide whether or not that individual is prepared to organize and
co-create a sustainable community.
After the houses (made out of hemp or bamboo, or some other bountiful ,material) and energy, water infrastructure is built the next step would be adding the finishing touches.
For example, would you want a free marketplace of exchange in the dead centre of your community, or a large scale community garden where one can take, plant and grow food?
Why not both?
Would you like to add a population limit?
What kind of security would you need? (For example: force field, protection of lawful rights in court by a legal team etc.)
And what would be the application process that people applying to become an inhabitant of your community would need to go through?
How extensive would the tests be? How can you ensure that good people will be the only ones accepted into your community?
Would there be any basic regulations, for example, no nudity in public places?
Or would you prevent all manner of laws and regulations to be passed?
And what about community events? Would you have a public space where the community could practice group meditation and / or yoga, thai chi, or other rituals?
Would you want to create a service to help with removing the citizenship and birth certificates of your communities inhabitants?
Would you make that a needed step before moving in?
What sort of council should decide if people are doing a good job raising up their communities?
How extensive should an overview be?
How far is the breaching of privacy and how far is too little observation?
These are the questions that would need to be answered.
Of course, as time goes on, we can correct our mistakes (rather than ignoring them).
It does not even matter if we fail, for failure is a huge part of success, a needed first step.
how far could we go with this?
Personally, I am a dreamer.
I can already see us developing floating (anti-gravity), underwater, domed, and underground communities, whether it is 100 years or 1000 years into the future.
But we must begin NOW.
Dont you agree?
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A good beginning. On and large scale, one must have a good idea first, then develop that good idea intellectually very deeply before measurable progress is made, even when frenetic action occurs along with that development (and that frenetic action often winds up counter-productive, even when absolutely necessary at the moment).
I have been a member of an intentional community for decades, do you have specific experience in such an environment? My experience and interest has taught me that there is no true self-sustaining on the small scale, because small communities do not have the resources to bootstrap recovery from disasters, often not even surviving them. This is a completely natural process that human civilization has entirely and artificially short-circuited through the centralization- that is not a bad thing, to my way of thinking. That large collectives bring a tremendous amount of negative tendencies is as much "human nature" as all the positive qualities.
So, it seems there's an inevitable collision between the positive and negative energies in any endeavor, and the greater the endeavor, the more pronounced the collision, even in the absence of naturally-occurring challenges.
I'd argue many of the points of your definitions of 'de-centralized'- primal tribal societies are completely decentralized, but many (most, if you examine closely) still included all kinds of mayhem and oppression, just much limited in scope compared to what "advanced" civilizations can pull off.
If land is free, we can't own it as individuals any more than collectively.
:)