intentional communities

Buckle up queers and prepare for a new episode of Q4Q! In this episode, Haley is joined by Esther Bley of @QueerAnimation to share some stories of cults, queer communes, and personal ads from people searching for a little bit more than a partnership. Will you decide to worship at the shrine of Pussy, or become a husband of Christ in Boston’s gayest monastery? The possibilities are endless.  

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Cover art by Bekah Rich. Music by Kaz Zabala.

Sources: 

ROBINOU. “QUEER COMMUNAL KINSHIP.” In Queer Communal Kinship Now!, 79–148. Punctum Books, 2023. http://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.2353823.7. Accessed November 2023.

Mack Moore, “What is the difference between a cult and a commune?” Quora comment, ca. 2019. Accessed November 2023.

Elizabeth Yuko, Cult or Commune? How Utopian Communities Turn Dangerous, Rolling Stone, November 10, 2016. Accessed November 2023.

Stephen Vider,  “The Ultimate Extension of Gay Community”: Communal Living and Gay Liberation in the 1970s, Gender & History. Volume 27, Issue 3. November 2015. Accessed November 2023.

 Kaliflower Commune - Wikipedia

 Radical Faeries - Wikipedia

 Faeriefilm by Eugene Salandra that you can watch on Queer Animation

Lavender Hill: A Love StoryProducer/Writer: Austin Bunn | Cinematographer/Editor: Bob Hazen

Gorsline, Robin Hawley. “Queering Church, Churching Queers.” CrossCurrents 49, no. 1 (1999): 111–14. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24460524.

Charles Manson's Hollywood, Part 8: Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski — You Must Remember This

Ads:

Outweek (NYC), 26 December 1990

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GAY (Houston, TX) 19 July 1971 

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RFD Issue 73 Spring 1993

Just Out (Eugene, OR) 30 March 1984

Sentinel USA (San Fran, CA) - 11 Oct 1984

After a long break, I'm grateful to be sharing a new recording with Ethan exploring a wide range of topics, from how we can envision the more beautiful future our hearts know is possible, to grieving the world events, to IFS and trauma healing, and more. 

Ethan can be reached at (207)-338-5719. 
The Possibility Alliance mailing address is:
85 Edgecomb Road
Belfast, ME 04915

Tucker Walsh can be reached at possibilitynowpodcast@gmail.com 

Music by Gavin Leeper

Things we talk about in this episode

• Living at Earth worm- radical routes housing co-op.
• Humans as interdependent beings.
• Radical Routes- National Network of intentional communities.
• The importance of supportive Networks
• Mother Nature Project- International Project- Mother Nature Card Decks and Mother Nature Circles- Personal growth.
• A global need for gathering on circles for connection, healing and growth.
• Mother Nature Journey Course. Women coming together to learn and self-facilitate.
• Mother Nature Podcast.
• Mothers as Natural Leaders.
• Nature Connection at the heart
• Cultural Emergence Courses.
• Global Community and Shared values.
• Being on the land in Applewood - magical space.
• A CEED OF PEACE Personal Empowerment Programme.
• Applewood permaculture project

Links mentioned in this episode

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The music for this podcast is -Hermosa Dia by Ray Johnson

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Emmas links

Courses

Leading Mother Nature Circles FREE Online Course With Emma & Looby starts 18th April 

Mothers as Natural Leaders Course at Applewood with Looby & Emma 16th-17th September 2023

Mothers As Natural Leaders Course 2023 – Applewood Courses

A CEED of PEACE Course with Looby & Leona June 2023- June 2024

A CEED of PEACE Year Long Programme – Applewood Courses

PEACE - Peace Empowerment And Cultural Emergence Course 8th-13th August with Looby & Leona

Peace Course – Peace Empowerment And Cultural Emergence 2023 – Applewood Courses

ACE - Activating Cultural Emergence Course with Looby 30th June - 2nd July

Activating Cultural Emergence – ACE 2023 – Applewood Courses

Websites

Applewood Courses – Regenerating lifestyles, landscapes and livelihoods

https://cultural-emergence.com/

Mother Nature Homepage — Mother Nature

https://www.radicalroutes.org.uk/

Biography
Emma has had a varied career working for organisations supporting and creating community projects working for positive social and environmental change in the UK, including the Permaculture Association, a Women’s Centre and delivering Children and Young People's activities for borough councils. Since 2011 she has been living and working at Earthworm Housing Co-op, Herefordshire UK helping to develop their housing and land to be more environmentally sustainable where she also began her exciting mothering journey. In 2018 she joined Looby Macnamara working for Applewood Permaculture Centre. In her spare time Emma volunteers widely in her village , is on a learning journey of Cultural Emergence and is nourished by gardening, cooking vegan food and nature connection practices All these threads both manifest and feed Emma's continuing passion for creating community resilience to climate change and social inequality and bringing about positive social change

Jon’s web3 journey began at the end of the pandemic, when he invited friends that he’d only known online to his cabin in the Texas hill country. Ready to hear more about building Intentional Communities? Let’s dive in!

Key Takeaways:
What’s an Intentional Community? (01:12)
Recreate the cool college dorm experience (02:55)
Jon’s around the world ticket (07:03)
How did modern-day dating inspire Cabin? (08:27) 
Autonomy, Flexibility and Ragequit (10:05) 
Cross pollinating nomads and locals (12:19)
Balancing decentralization and leadership (14:25)
Minister of water the plants (18:48)
Not everyone is an extrovert (21:40)
Building vs. buying (33:05)
Scale at the rate of trust and community (42:00)

Additional Resources:
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Brynn Marie is “co- player” of mine, by “co- player, I mean “co- worker” but we don’t work, we play and make our job fun! Just like our job, we have a lot of fun in this conversation!

Brynn is such a free spirited soul. She has her own podcast focusing on mindset, wellness and fitness and is a yoga + fitness instructor.

In this episode we talk about about:

• Trusting the journey to your life goals.
• The fun is in the journey.
• Finding different ways to get in touch with yourself.
• Not having control of the outcome but knowing how to control the solution.

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Do you happen to be someone that thinks the dream of the white picket fence and the manicured lawn doesn't sound all that appealing?

Maybe you are the kind of person that would rather live closer to nature? Or in a place with multiple generations living together with shared amenities?

From off-grid and sustainable agrihoods to urban ecovillages and income sharing communes,  "intentional community" is quickly growing in popularity as a housing concept.

On this podcast episode, Cynthia Tina, co-Director of the Foundation for Intentional Community (FIC), talks about her initial interest in intentional communities and how that led her on a quest across the globe to visit as many communities as she could.  She was then able to dove-tail her passion for deep living into a career helping to support the growing movement.

With 40,000 unique people visiting ic.org each month, Cynthia says that intentional community is on the rise. Community types  vary widely across the world. Some are newer communities that may still have quite a bit of work to do to be fully established. Others have been around for decades and have been through multiple generations.

Cynthia's advice to those interested in this type of living is to first check out their directory of intentional communities and to take time to visit places of interest. While many people have the desire to found their own communities, she says that it can be a lengthy process typically spanning 4-7 years. Through the foundation you can also find resources and a host of educational opportunities to learn about all facets of intentional communities.

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Ethan can be reached at 207-338-5719. The Possibility Alliance mailing address is:
85 Edgecomb Road
Belfast, ME 04915

Tucker Walsh can be reached at possibilitynowpodcast@gmail.com 

Music by Gavin Leeper.

Ethan can be reached at 207-338-5719. The Possibility Alliance mailing address is:
85 Edgecomb Road
Belfast, ME 04915

Tucker Walsh can be reached at possibilitynowpodcast@gmail.com 

Music by Gavin Leeper.

Ethan can be reached at 207-338-5719. The Possibility Alliance mailing address is:
85 Edgecomb Road
Belfast, ME 04915

Tucker Walsh can be reached at possibilitynowpodcast@gmail.com 

Music by Gavin Leeper.

Ethan can be reached at 207-338-5719. The Possibility Alliance mailing address is:
85 Edgecomb Road
Belfast, ME 04915

Tucker Walsh can be reached at possibilitynowpodcast@gmail.com 

Music by Gavin Leeper.

After some short technical difficulties, I finally connected with today's guest, Helen Zuman, a tree-hugging dirt worshipper devoted to turning waste into food and the stinky guck of experience into fertile, fragrant prose. She holds a BA in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard and a Half-FA in memoir from Hunter College. Raised in Brooklyn, she lives with her husband in Beacon, NY and Black Mountain, NC.

She is the author of Mating in Captivity (She Writes Press 2018), a memoir of her five years, post-Harvard, in a cult with a radical take on sex and relationships. Mating in Captivity received a starred review from Kirkus, was named a Kirkus Best Indie Memoir of 2018, was a finalist in Creative Nonfiction for the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses’ 2019 Firecracker Award, and was both first runner-up in memoir and a finalist for First Horizon and Grand Prize honors in the 2020 Eric Hoffer Awards. Other work has appeared in The New Farmers Almanac, in Communities and Livelihood magazines, and on the Foundation for Intentional Community’s website (ic.org). 

Mating in Captivity: When recent Harvard grad Helen Zuman moved to Zendik Farm in 1999, she was thrilled to discover that the Zendiks used go-betweens to arrange sexual assignations, or “dates,” in cozy shacks just big enough for a double bed and a nightstand. Here, it seemed, she could learn an honest version of the mating dance – and form a union free of “Deathculture” lies. No one spoke the truth: Arol, the Farm’s matriarch, crushed any love that threatened her hold on her followers’ hearts. An intimate look at a transformative cult journey, Mating in Captivity shows how stories can trap us and free us, how miracles rise out of crisis, how coercion feeds on forsaken self-trust.

In addition to cults, we also talk about the journey to trust oneself, the "infinite growth myth," gift circles, her connection to a well balanced eco-village that is doing intentional living well and how she takes care of herself (no social media!). I can personally highly recommend her book even for those not remotely curious about how one gets pulled into a cult. It's extremely well written and uniquely empowering to hear some of the more difficult details of her story.

Looking for an intentional community or wondering about the health of one you're currently in? Helen's article may be of help to you. And if you do have friends, family or loved ones you fear are wrapped up in a cult, eh hm, political party, then Helen recommends some resources written by therapist and cult expert Steven Hassan. You can tune in to hear the best thing Helen's Mom did easing her exit from the cult mind-control.

Today's show was engineered by Nick Panken of Freedom Highway.

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On this episode we talk with Leo Murray, founder of socio-ecological enterprise Why Waste, a changemaker and thought leader, designer, performer, teacher, activist and visionary.

We explore his upbringing, sailing across the south pacific with his family, exposure to risks, his passion for the environment and permaculture, how to see oneself and others, the role music plays in his life as a DJ, touring around the world and exploring intentional communities, anxiety, depression and the role of technology in society.

Leo talks about what success means, exploring different cultures, happiness, responsibility and taking action, how he started his composting enterprise, how to have a positive impact, the polarization crisis, the importance of Te ao Maori and how do we go beyond sustainability.

For more about Leo follow him on Facebook and Instagram and https://www.whywaste.co.nz/.

Support the show.

Cloughjordan ecovillage: http://www.thevillage.ie/
For more information on the sustainability network in Ireland visit www.cultivate.ie/ 
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Internationally: Foundation for Intentional Communities: https://www.ic.org/ 

Forms of religious devotion are shifting — and there’s a new world of creativity toward crafting spiritual life while exploring the depths of tradition. Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie is a fun and forceful embodiment of this evolution. Born into an eminent and ancient rabbinical lineage, as a young adult he moved away from religion towards storytelling, theater, and drag. Today he leads a pop-up synagogue in New York City that takes as its tagline “everybody-friendly, artist-driven, God-optional.” It’s not merely about spiritual community but about recovering the sacred and reinventing the very meaning of “we.”

Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie is a rabbi and founding spiritual leader of Lab/Shul in New York City. He’s also the founding director of Storahtelling.

This interview originally aired in July 2017. Find the transcript and more at onbeing.org.

Forms of religious devotion are shifting — and there’s a new world of creativity toward crafting spiritual life while exploring the depths of tradition. Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie is a fun and forceful embodiment of this evolution. Born into an eminent and ancient rabbinical lineage, as a young adult he moved away from religion towards storytelling, theater, and drag. Today he leads a pop-up synagogue in New York City that takes as its tagline “everybody-friendly, artist-driven, God-optional.” It’s not merely about spiritual community but about recovering the sacred and reinventing the very meaning of “we.”

Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie is a rabbi and founding spiritual leader of Lab/Shul in New York City. He’s also the founding director of Storahtelling.

This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Amichai Lau-Lavie — First Aid for Spiritual Seekers." Find more at onbeing.org.

Mystic-Skeptic Radio produces programs such as Uncensored & Raiders of the Unknown. Some of the ongoing series are: Jesus The Israelite, Anti-Semitism Rising & Paul's Legacy (all available on our YouTube channels). In the past 8 years we have featured academics (Amy Jill Levine) , presidential candidates( Howie Hawkins), Commentators (Jay Michaelson) , Advocates (Vanessa Guillen), Scholars(John Dominic Crossan) and Holistic Healers (Rosemary Gladstar). We have taken deep dives on the topics of human trafficking, ancient civilizations, demonology and the occult, social movements, controversial topics and many of the current affairs affecting our society. Join us as as we explore the mystic-skeptic mind space…

Mystic-Skeptic Radio produces programs such as Uncensored & Raiders of the Unknown. Some of the ongoing series are: Jesus The Israelite, Anti-Semitism Rising & Paul's Legacy (all available on our YouTube channels). In the past 8 years we have featured academics (Amy Jill Levine) , presidential candidates( Howie Hawkins), Commentators (Jay Michaelson) , Advocates (Vanessa Guillen), Scholars(John Dominic Crossan) and Holistic Healers (Rosemary Gladstar). We have taken deep dives on the topics of human trafficking, ancient civilizations, demonology and the occult, social movements, controversial topics and many of the current affairs affecting our society. Join us as as we explore the mystic-skeptic mind space…

Mystic-Skeptic Radio produces programs such as Uncensored & Raiders of the Unknown. Some of the ongoing series are: Jesus The Israelite, Anti-Semitism Rising & Paul's Legacy (all available on our YouTube channels). In the past 8 years we have featured academics (Amy Jill Levine) , presidential candidates( Howie Hawkins), Commentators (Jay Michaelson) , Advocates (Vanessa Guillen), Scholars(John Dominic Crossan) and Holistic Healers (Rosemary Gladstar). We have taken deep dives on the topics of human trafficking, ancient civilizations, demonology and the occult, social movements, controversial topics and many of the current affairs affecting our society. Join us as as we explore the mystic-skeptic mind space…