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Forming Formed: 2011
This page last updated:4/27/2012
Transcendent Seeds of Paradise
California
(Currently looking for land in California or Arizona or elsewhere)
 We have reached a critical time in the evolution of the human species and the health of the planetary biosphere. We are currently facing a wide variety of escalating environmental, financial, political, economic and human rights challenges. Now is the time for action for those who would choose to consciously create a future that is beneficial for all life.
Transcendent Seeds of Paradise is an emerging eco-village and artistic community designed to facilitate sustainable, innovative, fun and inspiring ways of living and evolving. This endeavor will develop, integrate and provide models of creative sustainability that will aim to:
1) Encourage and support the enrichment, creativity, enjoyment, and freedom of human individuals and communities. 2) Protect and enhance the health of all species and ecosystems. 3) Provide a multifaceted system of social and environmental support networks designed to enable communities to easily survive, and even thrive during ecological and economic challenges and catastrophes. 4) Increase individuals leisure time and options for social interactions, recreational opportunities, creative development and transformation, spiritual exploration, meaningful endeavors and wonderful experiences. 5) Signficantly reduce financial needs for individuals and families while providing a wide variety of options for enjoyable financial sustenance at, or near home. 6) Provide tools and support to help individuals create and manifest their dreams.
7) Facilitate artistic and technological expression and innovation 8) Optimize individual and environmental health. Greatly reduce exposure to toxins and stress. Provide easy access to a wide variety of health facilitating activities, environments, practitioners, and systems. 9) Explore and develop respectful, compassionate, and mutually beneficial relationships with each other and with the other species of life with which we share this planet. 10) Encourage the development, exchange and integration of ideas, information and technologies. 11) Transition individuals and societies away from the exploitive, consumptive, competetive, dominator, and self destructive relationships with each other and nature in which our culture and our species is currently entangled. Transition our species towards cooperative, sustainable, mutually beneficial, creative and celebatory ways of co-evolution that will enable us to survive and thrive as we grow into ever more enjoyable, healthy and beautiful ways of living.
Rather than an organization that only provides information, classes and workshops to help people transition towards a more sustainable lifestyle, this endeavor will allow and encourage people to very easily actually experience and participate in these lifestyles, for as long as they like.
Transcendent Seeds of Paradise endeavors will be geared towards local self reliance as well as building networks of supportive interdependence. Long term goals will be to create a network of eco-village/eco-communities/sanctuaries/eco-resorts that will be designed to maximize individual and community life enjoyment, fulfillment, health, self expression and self growth. This alliance will experiment, develop, practice, integrate, and teach ways of living which will help individuals and other communities to transition towards more sustainable, ecologically benevolent and fun ways of living. This community will also be a template and resource of a wide diversity of sustainable lifeways that will provide a safety net to enable individuals, families, communities, cultures and countries to survive through various upcoming ecological, economical, political, and cultural challenges and changes.
 
Contact:
Rand Guthrie

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This page last updated:4/27/2012
 
Visitors Accepted
Visitor Process: The best way to visit is to first help me to manifest a physical location for this eco-village. Please explore your personal vision of a sustainable and fun community with your imagination any time you feel like it. Visualization is a vital initial step in creating future realities. We change the future by changing our dream of it. This is a great time to envision a compassionate, sustainable, fun, and beautiful future and to help it grow into reality.
Network Affiliations:
Fellowship for Intentional Community
Statement of Housing Non-discrimination:
Our community does not discriminate in regards to housing based on race/color, national origin, religion, sex/gender, family status (i.e. having children, not having children, or being pregnant), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, ancestry, source of income, age, creed, personal appearance, political affiliation, HIV infection, military/veteran status, unfavorable military discharge, gender identity or expression, receiving public assistance, or being the victim of domestic abuse.

Population
Open to new members:
Yes
(We aim to be as inclusive as possible and encourage many people to join this endeavor)
Government
Decision Making:
By consensus
Identified Leader:
No
(Everyone who wants to will participate in decisions. We seek to avoid any hierarchical power structures.)
Labor and Money
Financial Style:
Partial income sharing
Open to Members with Pre-existing Debt:
Yes
Labor Contribution:
(There will be a variety of options for participants to contribute labor or not depending upon how much shelter and food support each individual needs from the community)
Join Fee:
No
Regular Fees:
No
Land and Buildings
Other
Land Owned By:
(Community land trust with options for private homestead properties adjacent to the community)
Food, etc.
Percentage of Food Grown:
(Will aim to grow most of our own food)
Share Community Meals:
(As often as members feel like it)
Dietary Choice or Restrictions:
(Aim towards diets which are compassionate towards other creatures and beneficial for the environment)
Dietary Practice:
Primarily vegetarian
Tobacco Use:
Seldom used
Social Factors
Common Spiritual Practices:
Yes
(Community will encourage common and uncommon spiritual practices)
Which Spiritual Traditions(s):
Ecumenical (includes "all religions")
Educational Style(s):
Other
(Ideally lots of options for education from home school to Waldorf style educational models)
 
 
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We happily link to the following organizations, all of whom share our strong commitment to promoting community and a more cooperative world:
Cohousing The Federation of Egalitarian Communities - Communes Coop Community Cooperative Sustainable Intentional North American Students of Cooperation Global Ecovillage Network
Special thanks to the sponsors of our Art of Community Events.
Bryan Bowan Architects California Cohousing NICA Wolf Creek Lodge