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BONDING AND BRIDGING – CREATION AND GROWTH OF
BONDING AND BRIDGING – CREATION AND GROWTH OF INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES
This paper examines the state of IC’s and what it wall take to create the vision of Starhawk, then grow it, clone it, replicate it in as many ways a possible so that the resulting intentional communities become the norm rather than the exception. Of primary importance is the mindset of the IC members. We have been taught from birth that “It’s all about me”. My house, my car, my spouse, my kids, my church, my income, my debts, my, my. The “ME” has to change to “WE. The mindset has to change to “It’s all about us.
Despite the vanity and self-centeredness of the “me” mindset, there are bonds and bridges which can be formed which change the fundamental relationship among the good folks. Not all bonding and bridging will lead to Starhawk’s goal, but there are plenty which do. A survey of “social glue” suggests some of them. i
Since the caveman days, survival has dictated that clans, tribes, communities raid their neighbor’s camps, kill the men and take the women, children and goats. Then came the kings, dictators and potentates with only slightly more civility. Now we have the oligopolies, global corporations, governments whose member have been bought by and are controlled by the elite. What chance, then, does the vision of Sharhawk have to succeed?"Community. Somewhere, there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power. Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free."
- Starhawk, "Dreaming the Dark"
This paper examines the state of IC’s and what it wall take to create the vision of Starhawk, then grow it, clone it, replicate it in as many ways a possible so that the resulting intentional communities become the norm rather than the exception. Of primary importance is the mindset of the IC members. We have been taught from birth that “It’s all about me”. My house, my car, my spouse, my kids, my church, my income, my debts, my, my. The “ME” has to change to “WE. The mindset has to change to “It’s all about us.
Despite the vanity and self-centeredness of the “me” mindset, there are bonds and bridges which can be formed which change the fundamental relationship among the good folks. Not all bonding and bridging will lead to Starhawk’s goal, but there are plenty which do. A survey of “social glue” suggests some of them. i
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