Purpose(s)
- To provide support and resources to people who want to create a better world–in which peace, love, joy, and hope are the norm, and society serves to empower its members—and who are willing to create that world in their own daily lives.
- To support members in creating a higher quality experience of life by engaging in practices that increase joy, and by shedding practices that decrease joy
- To provide affordable spaces to members for lodging, learning, healing, creative work, and business
- To provide shared resources for members’ use, such as learning materials, costumes, art materials and equipment, games, exercise tools, building tools, and whatever other equipment may be useful
- To sponsor and promote activities and events that increase joy.
- To sponsor and support activities related to the corporation’s purpose
Core Principles
- Joy. If you want to change the world, change the vibe. Delight, humor, comedy, and laughter are at the heart of this endeavor.
- Change needs a soundtrack: new rhythms and songs are essential if you want to change the vibe.
- Creation by transformation/evolution, (ex omnibus, not ex nihilo!): preserve and respect existing good, adding new direction, methods, etc. Creative, gentle change. Don’t mess with what is working well.
- Individual free will choice is of paramount importance and honored, not just tolerated
- Suffering is not necessary; we steer clear of behaviors and situations that cause it.
- Active creation: trying new things as a way of life and social organization. We avoid stagnation in all areas of life. We respect that every situation, organization, and creation will be useful for a time, then will either need to evolve or be “laid down.” Ideally, we’ll evolve as we go so that there will be few major disruptive endings.
- We need real, physical social community. Online and electronically mediated socialization is a poor, even damaging substitute, and we avoid it. Electronic devices are tools, not social mediators.
- Sustainability: Earth and human. We don’t take more than we give. We don’t overgive.
- Money is a neutral resource, like food, love, water, and material goods, not something we personally own and hoard from a fear-based motive. We don’t use it to influence or control others.
- Inclusiveness: no unmerited exclusion (surface or tacit) based on age, gender, appearance, class, race, politics, or style. Events may list behavior requirements necessary for participation to avoid unnecessary exclusion.
- We don’t engage in polarizing dialogue in common spaces. We support each other’s journeys and learning processes, whatever point each of us is at.
- This endeavor is a conscious social experiment, integrating all relevant cultural fields. It is a practice ground for creating a better society at all levels—physical, emotional, spiritual, and intellectual.
