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This page last updated:4/14/2013
40daysshakers
San Diego, California,
United States
 A Faith for Today from 1747 to the present.
I am the worlds youngest Shaker since 1995 and spent two and a half years at the community in Maine.
I am attempting to form a community at my house on a golf course in suburban San Diego CA. Our theology is both progressive, liberal and extreme in the conservativeness of dedication required to live the Christ life. We no longer require celibacy and communal finances.
I would describe myself as Shaker Zen practitioner who appreciates love and compassion but I find labels odious not all that helpful. I value honesty highly but have noticed it tends to get you crucified.
I believe on Christian non resistance to violence as a better way in this present dispensation.
Br. Ted said it best:
Pacifism
We strive daily to put into practical terms, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." The central teaching of the New Testament is quite simply love, the love of God for man and that of man for God as evidenced in the life and death of Jesus of Nazareth. This same love was always and is today the very cornerstone of Shakerism. For us as followers of the Christ we feel we show that peace as pacifists. This does not mean merely refusing to bear arms against another, it also requires us to never feel bitterness, never to feel any desire for revenge, but always to seek only the highest good of every person no matter what they may do to us. We further believe in the practice of universal Brotherhood as well as equality for all, the Shakers being forerunners in applying this to our daily life over two hundred years ago.
Shakerism is not, as many would claim, an anachronism; nor can it be dismissed as the final sad flowering of nineteenth century liberal utopian fervor. Shakerism has a message for the this present age--a message as valid today as when it was first expressed. It teaches above all else that God is Love and that our most solemn duty is to show forth that God who is love in the World. Shakerism teaches God's immanence through the common life shared in Christ's mystical body. It values human fulfillment highly and believes that we fulfill ourselves best by being nothing more nor less than ourselves. It believes that Christian love is a love beyond disillusionment, for we cannot be disillusioned with people being themselves. Surely God would not have it otherwise for it is in being ourselves--our real selves--that we are most like Christ in his sacred oneness.
In Peace
Brother Douglas
 
Contact:
San Diego, California 92128 United States
Phone: 858-487-4549
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This page last updated:4/14/2013
 
Statement of Housing Non-discrimination:
Our community is a legally sanctioned church or religious organization and living in our community is restricted to members of that religion as allowed by law. Our religion does not discriminate based on race, color, or national origin. Housing in our community is non-commercial (i.e. not intended to make a profit).

Population
Members(adults and children):
1
Non-member Residents:
0
Open to new members:
Yes
Government
Decision Making:
By a group of elders or other leaders
Identified Leader:
Yes
Leadership Core Group:
Yes
Labor and Money
Financial Style:
Members have independent finances
Open to Members with Pre-existing Debt:
No
Labor Contribution:
Expected
(Common prayer time)
Join Fee:
No
Regular Fees:
Yes
(600 per month)
Land and Buildings
Suburban
Land Owned By:
Individual community member(s)
Number of Residences:
1
Cohousing:
No
Food, etc.
Percentage of Food Grown:
none
Dietary Choice or Restrictions:
We all share a common diet
Dietary Practice:
Primarily vegetarian
Alcohol Use:
Prohibited
Tobacco Use:
Prohibited
Social Factors
Common Spiritual Practices:
Yes
(Millennial laws 1747-1890)
Which Spiritual Traditions(s):
Quaker
(Christian, Quaker, Shaker, Zen)
Educational Style(s):
Public schooled
Cohousing Details
Cohousing Status:
Forming
Square Feet in Common House:
1750
 
 
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