Saturday morning conference calls
- UpwardSpiralChurch ... Art and Mickey in Denver: looking to start something similar to SolSeed, but not with similar ultimate aims
- Spiriata ... Lion and friends in Seattle in process of developing an Intentional Society
2010 get-together being planned with kindred groups
- What sort of groups are we looking for?
- Stacey ... forum for intentional community ... I like the Open Space format ... open to lots of topics and lots of different people (community binds it together)
- Boni ... I'd like to think about it
- Shelley ... not in many groups
- In what way would a book club be kindred?
- Interested in topic ... maybe learning things to share with us
- Ben ... advocacy groups ... not intentional societies but share some similarities
- Stacey ... unclear about what you want to attract ... definition of "kindred?"
- Brandon: groups that "exonerate or appreciate the differences of others" and aren't trying to convert everyone else
- Stacey : is kindred as characteristics, or is it a way of being? open to everyone?
- Shelley ... invite Unitarians
- Share something
- Possibility and Life ... "Groups that radiate life"
- What group doesn't?
- Probably not AboutUs
- Groups that "exonerate or appreciate the differences of others" and aren't trying to convert everyone else
- Improve people's lives
- Improve the planet
- Potentially traveling to other worlds
- Bob the predetator: I think the starships should be built using green technology
- Ideas that contribute to the previous three (philosophy, religion, etc)
- Living together in community (touching all aspects of life)
- Don't need to embrace all three
- Stacey thinks book club meets with criteria for kindred spirits. I don't see the criteria as specific enough to define what the group wants to attract.
- Groups that would consider us kindred (appreciate our kookiness) ... do we think they are worthy of having the spirit of discernment
- Stacey sees possibility and life as all-inclusive.
- Local or global group?
- Trending toward living together ... is that an intention or a long term goal?