by Gene Marshall
OrganizingManual_BioregionalVillage Click for downloadable PDF“When we gather for a week …we propose to form ourselves in an exemplary life together, the sort of life we would wish for the whole Earth in the centuries to come. Some Native American peoples have set up what they called “ceremonial villages,” villages not meant to be lived in permanently, but set up temporarily for nurture, educational, and motivational purposes. This is a good image for what we intend to be in our seven-day encampments. We are something more than a conference of educational intent, something more than a congress or a council for political decision-making, something more than gathering for cultural experimentation. We are all those elements and more. We boldly wish to be a village of the 21st century social life we espouse. It is as if we have been sent back to this decade from some future time. We are attempting to live now, in spite of all our imperfections, the social life toward which we wish to move.”
from pg. 2 of the manual