Re: [UUPoly-L] Kerista anyone? (was Fed of Egalitarian Communities)

[polyfi@comcast.net]

Mike, thanks for sharing that story about your own experiences with forming intentional communities.
Have you written a book/booklet or anything about what you learned, taught any workshops on what you've learned?

IMO, we have to learn from others in this new frontier of polyamory.  We are writting our own social manuals, as we live it.  It's so sad that many will have to learn by the "seat of their pants" when history teaches us, that we MAY learn from our past mistakes.


One of the most successful poly communities, that I remember was Kerista of California.  I think someone wrote a book about them, as I recall, or I read a long story about them from the internet long ago.

Anyone have a link to that?
Dave

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> > I first learned about intentional communities about the same time I learned 
> > about polyamory, about 1993. I'm always surprised how many people say "it 
> > can't work", when they have been giving worksshops, and teaching people how 
> > to organize and live together since the early 1970's, if not longer. 
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> I started my first intentional community in 1965; it went on for 30 years, 
> until we consciously decided that the structure was not as flexible as we 
> wanted for life in the 21st century. I started another community with my 
> nesting partner Sarah in 2002, which is thriving. 
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> Twin Oaks started in the late 60's, and is still going strong with nearly 100 
> people. The Farm, started by Stephen Gaskin, is still going in Tennessee, with 
> 300-500 people. There are dozens of other examples from that era, as well as 
> many others that predate it by as much as 400 years. 
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> Michael Rios 
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