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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: McLaughlin, Corinne. Builders of the dawn. Walpole, N.H. : Stillpoint Pub., 1985 (OCoLC)681460208 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Corinne McLaughlin; Gordon Davidson |
ISBN: | 0913299200 9780913299203 |
OCLC Number: | 12681033 |
Description: | 372 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
Contents: | The human yearning for community -- Benefits and purposes of community -- Problems and conflicts in community -- The roots of community: a historical overview and comparison from the early monasteries to the hippie communes -- The diversity of economic systems in communities -- New patterns of governance and leadership -- Innovative approaches to relationships, sex, and child raising -- New and timeless approaches to self-reliance and self-healing -- Ageless spiritual traditions in new age settings -- Guidelines for building communities -- The future of communities -- Community resources and addresses. |
Responsibility: | by Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson ; [foreword by David Spangler]. |
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Inspiring yet sobering
Almost accidentally, McLaughlin & Davidson created a masterpiece that should be required reading for all creative evolutionaries and future leaders. The authors were and are big-hearted innovators and expert leaders who lived their subject. Their quest was clearly guided by compassionate wisdom...
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Almost accidentally, McLaughlin & Davidson created a masterpiece that should be required reading for all creative evolutionaries and future leaders. The authors were and are big-hearted innovators and expert leaders who lived their subject. Their quest was clearly guided by compassionate wisdom and sincere aspiration to promote and encourage more effective relationship, community and cooperation for the good of all. This record of their journey of discovery provides all the nitty-gritty realities and issues through hundreds of interviews at communities in the USA and elsewhere. Their insightful realizations and recommendations are as sobering as inspiring. Having started my journey to and through many kinds of communes and communities in 1967, I found everything the authors experienced and wrote 100% authentic and critically important for anyone who wants a saner, Greener world and a sustainable future.
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