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Tamera - alternative community in Portugal"Only tribes will survive" Vine Deloria jr. / Native American The original community of human beings was not the family but the tribe. The community is the bed for all human life including family. Community is the organ of the whole which had been wounded the most. If we want to put into practice a sustainable ecological humanism we have to re-develop its foundation: a place amongst humans where children, men and women feel at home. From this base a stable peace and an authentic ethic will arise. Community and being an individual is not a contradiction: authentic individualism can only be developed on a seedbed of trust. Living in community means to live on a communitarian base instead of a private one. Maybe this is the most radical change of paradigms which is thinkable. ... In 1995, Tamera was founded .... Their long-term research in the fields of science, sociology and spirituality led them to formulate the “Plan of the Healing Biotopes”. This plan states the building up of replicable ecological, technological and socially sustainable model settlements in different parts of the world. Humanity will only survive when it leaves the destructive systems of violence. This will only be possible if there are effective and sustainable models within a global context – functioning and nonviolent in all areas of human life. A new orientation is needed for economy and technology as well as for love and sexuality, for communication and community, for research and consciousness. Dieter Duhm: "The patterns of order of the human society shall agree with the patterns of life and creation. Without harmony between biosphere and socio-sphere, between human and universal life, the healing of the earth will no longer be possible. This is why it is necessary to build up model settlements and future communities where this harmony can be investigated and put into practice. People are needed who are willing to place their lives at the service of this task." http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=60&L=0 |
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