East Wind, Missouri
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East Wind has no powerful or charismatic leaders but
instead elects a three-person board of planners. These
people serve an 18-month term and are responsible for
facilitating meetings, nominating their own successors, and
helping to guide the community through proposals and
discussions. Decisions are made by majority vote, with
provisional members having a partial vote.
Every now and then—when we seem to be losing our
direction and getting bogged down in petty
differences—I sometimes wish we did have an
all-knowing, firmly gentle guru to take over this task of
building a new society. But East Wind is a community of
mind, not of spirit. We came together out of
dissatisfaction with the existing society. We're not here
by inspirational guidance but by deliberate decision. We
aren't waiting for the voice of God but are listening to
one another and to voices within, planning and testing
other ways of doing things and being together.
But wait! Does that sound too secular for you, too
difficult? We do, in fact, have revelations ... and
"miracles," too: seeing someone explain something calmly
and logically to an angry child who then acts
calmly and logically ... finding myself, who had never done
anything mechanical, changing a water pump ... knowing how
good, how much like "family" it feels as we 50 diverse
individuals gather together for a Thanksgiving feast.
It's possible! It's working! Maybe community is
more than a dream. Come and see for yourself... but please
write first (East Wind Community, Inc., Box MEA3, Tecumseh,
MO 65760) because space is limited.
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