Circular Communities Vision
Regenerative … Restorative … Reciprocal … Sustainable … Compassionate … Biodiverse … Eco-centric … Evolving maturation … Visionary … Imaginative … Relational … Spiritual … Intelligent … Socially Engaged … Creative … Cooperative … Coexisting …
As a result of Sacred Drifting upon 6 Continents, intimately connecting with various cultural communities and Earth-spaces, and bearing witness to the radical shifts in consciousness, catastrophic climate destabilization, and social inequalities presently taking place on Earth, a vision for Circular Communities arose and continues to expand.
Who are we? What are we? Why are we here?
A vision is not the manifestation. It is a blueprint, a map if you will, that needs to be Danced Awake by the Collective. When the seeds of a vision are planted, all the necessary elements need to be drawn towards the vision in order for it to manifest.
The human condition is complex and it will need compassionate attention in order to change the direction in which humanity is headed.
THE PHYSICALITY OF THE VISION
Architectural Drawings of Circular Communities (click here)
Hakka Circular Communities-YouTube
In 2017, Visionary, Lisamarie Coyote Windwalker, intending to design the Circular dwelling that rose through her conduit, decided to look up circular dwellings on the Internet for a pattern; up popped the Dine/Navaho Hogan, which was not the image she received, and the Chinese Hakka. To Lisamarie’s surprise, the Hakka was exactly the image that arose in the vision for the Circular Community, plus or minus several details!
The enormous circular dwelling in her vision included the following:
1. Circular Earthship/Hakka inspired construction with green/garden roofs, solar panels, green exterior walls, and an atrium in the south for growing food, medicinal herbs, flowers, and mushrooms through all seasons.
2. 3 – 4 stories high
3. Entrances/Passageways in four directions; size depending on Earth-location.
4. Each resident or couple would have a private dwelling on each floor. Elders or those with physical limitations would have access to a ground floor space. Families would occupy a space that would have multiple floors depending on the size of the family.
5. Communal Kitchen/Dining area
6. For the Circular Community that Lisamarie envisioned, the open-air center would hold a Zen monastery, a kiva a.k.a. a sound chamber, a sweat lodge and gardens.
7. For other Circular Communities the open-air center may be used for what that community would call for. For example: The Lakota of Pine Ridge may want to have a ceremonial fire in the center where the community eats and does ceremony together, or, perhaps a place to protect the buffalo. In South Africa, the center could be for trade or community or ceremonies…
8. The Earth-spaces around the Circular Community dwelling would be for growing food, cultivating bio-diverse forests, mycelium, aquifers, ponds, marshes, fruit orchards ect.
At some point in the continuum of Earth, most likely beyond our lifetime, the vision calls for many Circular Communities arranged in a Fibonacci Pattern.
Fibonacci Numbers in Nature
In geometry, a golden spiral is a logarithmic spiral whose growth factor is φ, the golden ratio. That is, a golden spiral gets wider (or further from its origin) by a factor of φ for every quarter turn it makes.
Alan Watts-We have to live in boxes
Alan Watts-Life is a Dance of Pattern
-Window is a transparency…(it is sight, life)
-Door is invitation…
-Home is a dream in our life of only one time…
-Architecture is a Life Interpretation…
-GIO PONTI-Architect
Earthship Biotecture-Radical Sustainable Buildings
". . . the Earthship is the epitome of sustainable design and construction. No part of sustainable living has been ignored in this ingenious building."
https://www.earthshipglobal.com/
Earthships: self-sustaining homes for a post-apocalyptic land
EARTHSHIP GLOBAL by Michael Reynolds
The things we need to address for everyone to have a life:
• Building with Natural and Reclaimed Materials
• Thermal/Solar Heating and Cooling
• Solar and Wind Electricity
• Water Harvesting
• Contained Sewage Treatment
• Food Production
Bio-Veda Academy
Alosha, in South Africa (Bio-domes, water conservation, sustainable living…and more)
Examples of Current and Historical Sustainable Communities
Auroville
Auroville Earth Institute (earthen architecture):
http://www.earth-auroville.com/vaulted_structures_introduction_en.php
Recommended 2022 Documentary:
Going Circular: https://curiositystream.com/video/4002
Haudenosaunee/Iroquois –Long Houses
Examples of large permanent community dwellings of First Nations on Turtle Island
(North America)
http://indians.org/articles/iroquois-longhouse.html
https://quatr.us/nativeamerican/iroquois-architecture-native-americans.htm
Longhouses were not measured by feet. They were measured by camp fires. Although each family had its own assigned place in the longhouse, fire pits ran down the middle of the longhouse for heat and for everyone to share to use for cooking. A longhouse might be referred to as 10 fires long, or perhaps as 12 fires long.
It doesn't sound like much when you count by fires. But longhouses were really long - they could be over 200 feet long, 25 feet wide, and 25 feet high. That's huge! To get an idea of how big they were, measure the distance from floor to ceiling in your own house.
You can imagine something that big took a lot of work to build. And it did. It took work and teamwork.
Catal Hoyuk-an ancient partnership society
(Riane Eisler’s The Chalice and the Blade: Highly recommended text)
http://www.catalhoyuk.com
CIRCULAR COMMUNITY BIODIVERSITY VISION
THE ONE STRAW REVOLUTION by MASANOBU FUKUOKA
Call it “Zen and the Art of Farming” or a “Little Green Book,” Masanobu Fukuoka’s manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of cultivating the earth reflects a deep faith in the wholeness and balance of the natural world. As Wendell Berry writes in his preface, the book “is valuable to us because it is at once practical and philosophical. It is an inspiring, necessary book about agriculture because it is not just about agriculture.”
Trained as a scientist, Fukuoka rejected both modern agribusiness and centuries of agricultural practice, deciding instead that the best forms of cultivation mirror nature’s own laws. Over the next three decades he perfected his so-called “do-nothing” technique: commonsense, sustainable practices that all but eliminate the use of pesticides, fertilizer, tillage, and perhaps most significantly, wasteful effort.
Lost Crops of Turtle Island article:
https://source.wustl.edu/2019/12/lost-crops-could-have-fed-as-many-as-maize/
MYCELIUM RUNNING…How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World by Paul Stamets
6 WAYS MUSHROOMS CAN SAVE THE WORLD
https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_stamets_6_ways_mushrooms_can_save_the_world
MY MUSHROOM BURIAL SUIT AND DECOMPICULTURE:
https://www.ted.com/talks/jae_rhim_lee_my_mushroom_burial_suit
THE INFINITY BURIAL SUIT
Chemical Farming & The Loss of Human Health - Dr. Zach Bush
Groundwork: Laying Foundations For a Sustainable Culture
Groundwork is a non-profit that is broadening the conversation about climate change to include cultural causes and cultural solutions to climate change.
https://www.layinggroundwork.org/
Re-greening the desert with John D. Liu | VPRO Documentary | 2012
Farming the Desert - How To Turn The Desert Green
TREE SISTERS…CALLING ALL WOMEN
THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES by Jean Giono
FOREST PRIMEVAL…THE NATURAL HISTORY OF AN ANCIENT FOREST
by Chris Maser
THE MIRACLE WATER VILLAGE (INDIA)
AURORA - The Seed [NatGeo Earth Day Eve 2021] (21/04/21)
DIVIDE & RULE - The Plan of The 1% to Make You DISPOSABLE - Vandana Shiva :
FILMS:
THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM
https://www.biggestlittlefarmmovie.com/
SEED…THE UNTOLD STORY…Which future will you grow?
GOING CIRCULAR
https://curiositystream.com/video/4002
COWSPIRACY
AKIRA KUROSAWA’S DREAMS
WHEN VOICES MEET DOCUMENTARY
FANTASTIC FUNGI
PSYCHOSPIRITUAL CULTIVATION and EVOLUTION OF COMMUNITY AND EARTH TOGETHER
All around the Globe individuals and communities are “waking-up”/maturing, hearing the call of Earth, and acting upon this call…
THE DREAM OF THE EARTH by Tomas Berry
“If the supreme disaster in the comprehensive story of the earth is our present closing down of the major life systems of the planet, then the supreme need of our times is to bring about a healing of the earth through this mutually enhancing human presence to the earth community. To achieve this mode of pressure, a new type of sensitivity is needed, a sensitivity that is something more than romantic attachment to some of the more brilliant manifestations of the natural world, a sensitivity that comprehends the larger patterns of nature, its severe demands as well as its delightful aspects, and is willing to see the human diminish so that other lifeforms might flourish. “
NATURE AND THE HUMAN SOUL…Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World.
JOURNEY OF SOUL INITIATION…A field Guide for Visionaries, Evolutionaries, and Revolutionaries… BY BILL PLOTKIN
What is the Earth-Mother asking of us at this time in our evolution together?
SHE IS SPEAKING THROUGH US. ARE WE LISTENING? ARE WE HEARING HER?
“Addressing the pervasive longing for meaning and fulfillment in this time of crisis, Nature and the Human Soul introduces a visionary ecopsychology of human development that reveals how fully and creatively we can mature when soul and wild nature guide us. Depth psychologist and wilderness guide Bill Plotkin presents a model for a human life span rooted in the cycles and qualities of the natural world, a blueprint for individual development that ultimately yields a strategy for cultural transformation. If it is true, as Plotkin and others observe, that we live in a culture dominated by adolescent habits and desires, then the enduring societal changes we so desperately need won’t happen until we individually and collectively evolve into an engaged, authentic adulthood. With evocative language and personal stories, including those of elders Thomas Berry and Joanna Macy, this book defines eight stages of human life — Innocent, Explorer, Thespian, Wanderer, Soul Apprentice, Artisan, Master, and Sage — and describes the challenges and benefits of each. Plotkin offers a way of progressing from our current egocentric, aggressively competitive, consumer society to an ecocentric, soul-based one that is sustainable, cooperative, and compassionate. At once a primer on human development and a manifesto for change, Nature and the Human Soul fashions a template for a more mature, fulfilling, and purposeful life…”
ACTIVE HOPE … How to Face the Mess We’re in without Going Crazy
by Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone
BRAIDING SWEET GRASS …Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
SAND TALK…How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
by Tyson Yunkaporta
SAVAGE GRACE…Living Resiliently In the Dark Night of the Globe
by Andrew Harvey and Carolyn Baker
“Andrew Harvey and Carolyn Baker confront us with the life and death reality of the global crisis and the fact that four crucial strategies must be employed not only to survive the dark night, but to inhabit our bodies and our lives with passionate authenticity, honesty, vigilance, community, compassion, and service. These strategies are Reconnection, Resistance, Resilience, and Regeneration. Deep and unprecedented reconnection with self, others, and Earth must be our mission, regardless of the outcome.”
Bernie Glassman’s INSTRUCTIONS TO THE COOK
Utilizing ALL the ingredients of our lives and creating the supreme meal!
https://zenpeacemakers.org/bernie-glassman/
DARK EMU…Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture
by BRUCE PASCO
“In this seminal book, Bruce Pasco uncovers evidence that long before the arrival of white men, Aboriginal people across the continent were building dams and wells; planting, irrigating, and harvesting seeds, and then preserving the surplus and storing it in houses, sheds, or secure vessels; and creating elaborate cemeteries and manipulating the landscape. All of these behaviours were inconsistent with the hunter-gather tag, which turns out to have been a convenient lie that worked to justify dispossession.
ANIMALS of the FOUR WINDOWS … Thinking, Sensing, Feeling and Imagery
by Eligio Stephen Gallegos, Ph.D
DAVID WHYTE
Highly Recommended Audio Books by David Whyte:
The Poetry of Self Compassion
Clear Mind Wild Heart
DR. CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES
http://www.clarissapinkolaestes.com/
Highly Recommended Audio Books by Dr. Estes:
Mother Night…Myths, Stories and Teachings for Learning to See in the Dark
The Dangerous Old Woman…Myths and Stories of the Wise Woman Archetype
OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT…RITUAL, MAGIC, AND INITIATION IN THE LIFE OF AN AFRICAN SHAMAN
by Malidoma Patrice Some
CHARLES EISENSTEIN
https://charleseisenstein.org/
Author of CLIMATE-A NEW STORY
Professor Jem Bendell
Strategist & educator on social & organizational change, now focused on Deep Adaptation
https://jembendell.com/
DEEP ADAPTATION- A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy
by Jem Bendell
Downloadable PDFs available here.
Deep Adaptation Q&A with Charles Eisenstein hosted by Jem Bendell:
Thandie Newton: EMBRACING OTHERNESS, EMBRACING MYSELF
https://www.ted.com/talks/thandie_newton_embracing_otherness_embracing_myself
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF MENTAL ILLNESS? …with Ekhart Tolle
UBUNTU CONTRIBUTIONISM
A Blueprint For Human Prosperity by Michael Tellinger is an interesting understanding of the ‘human predicament’. I don’t all together resonate with all of Michael’s ideologies/attitudes, yet, there are deeply important points to pay attention to and implement into a Circular Community. https://www.ubuntucontributionism.org/
We are co-creating a blueprint for a new social structure, a new system, a new reality, without the need for any violence, opposition, resistance, or conflict. All the socio-economic structures of our individual countries have failed us dramatically. Every day we witness a continued assault on our people and the world around us, orchestrated by the global elite who have taken control, of every aspect of our existence. Every single one of us, rich or poor, is born into life-long slavery and bondage from which there is no escape under the current system. Most of us know that the system we are born into does not serve humanity, but very few of us know what to do to change it.
We can no longer sit idly, watching the destruction of our people, our communities, our countries, and our human potential, by greedy corporations supported by governments with no remorse for their actions, or accountability to the people they are supposed to serve. We can no longer sit silently, hoping that someone will do something to stop this assault on our liberties and future prosperity. It has fallen on the shoulders of the common people, to unite and create a new way…a new system…a future filled with abundance and prosperity for ourselves and our children. We are creating a totally new system free from economic slavery… where we turn competition into collaboration… a new social structure where we all benefit from our collective efforts and individual talents… a new world where people are put before profits, and the resources & materials are used to enrich all our lives. Welcome to the world of UBUNTU and Contributionism.
Maropeng; the cradle of humanity
https://www.maropeng.co.za/content/page/about
“The 47, 000-hectare site has unearthed the best evidence of the complex journey which our species has taken to make us what we are – a place of pilgrimage for all humankind. It is not only a place of ongoing scientific discovery into our origins, but also a place of contemplation – a place that allows us to reflect on who we are, where we come from and where we are going-“
THIS IS A TIME OF ANCESTRAL HEALING! A TIME TO PURIFY AND CLEAR THE KARMA OF THE PAST! WE ARE THE ONES TO WALK THIS SACRED PATH…TO DANCE THE DREAM AWAKE, ON BEHALF OF THE SANCTITY, INTEGRITY AND WHOLENESS OF THE NEXT SEVEN GENERATIONS OF SENTIENT BEINGS, GRANDMOTHER EARTH AND THE COSMOS!
VISIONARY RECAPITULATION OF CIRCULAR COMMUNITIES
Creating/Building Compassionate, Viable, Sustainable Earth and Cosmic-Centric Communities
Large circular regenerative sustainable communal dwellings with ample entrances in the East, South, West and North. Each family/person has equal living space and the center of the Circle is for preparing meals, ceremony, artisan creation and trade…
Healing and Whole-ing from the wounds of the current and ancestral past; Meditation, Music Therapies, Counseling, Somatic Liberation Movements/Healing Therapies a.k.a. TRE, Wim Hof Method, addiction, drug & alcohol recovery programs and meetings, Ceremony/Rights of Passage…
“Artists are not dreamers, as you believe; they are terrible realist. They do not transpose reality into a dream; but a dream into a reality, written, drawn, musical, architectural.” -GIO PONTI-Architect