October 25, 2010

I'm thinking today about how to help people awaken to their authentic selves, when they've created all these barriers to do so because of past trauma. I think a lot about Baltimore city and how to get neighbors talking to each other in ways that feel safe, how to help people organize, and what we all need for better communication. To me we need good communication skills to be able to cooperate and share resources. Even relatively open people who live on communes tend to blame one another, play out roles of victim and aggressor with full belief that those roles are true of one another. How to introduce ideas of taking 100% responsibility for your own experience, while helping people do the personal liberation work they need to do to be able to love one another?

If the average Joe on the street needs to do as much "healing" work as I've done to be able to live in cooperation, the task seems daunting! I've devoted 14+ years doing this stuff, most people may be willing to do a few weeknights.

I tend to think that people do need to do the personal liberation work to be able to effectively live in community. I've seen lots of communities where people are kind of sharing resources but still have their fiefdom. I want the whole enchilada, people living in total personal freedom, doing the work they love doing, being productive members of society, sharing resources to the point where everyone's needs are being met without destroying the earth, people in love with one another and the divine.

I hear that Living Classrooms is interested in a model that a school in Harlem uses where they are responsible for the children from birth through college, creating block by block neighborhood communities. I wonder if they are interested in an outside the box thinker like myself?