The Natural Behavior Permaculture Project is a mindful intention to explore the natural human instinct as it was evolved by reality. Our genetic legacy tells the tale of a defenseless, balding mammal, once from the trees, but now thriving on the ground. Surviving through the power of cooperative social instincts which carried our ancestors through, we accumulated genes for ecological balance just as the birds, and the bees, and the trees around us, before language even emerged. Language abilities eventually introduced the potential for falsehoods to begin accumulating culturally until superstition gave our social instincts a shared fiction that institutions could control, and a dark age of lies began. Cultural learning can, and must, carry the great responsibility of passing down our growing body of discovered knowledge, but we are too easily blinded by fictions and broken from our native compassion by violent fears. While honoring the critical place for cultural learning and scientific discovery, we remember to remember that our instincts still carry precious wisdom written in our DNA by evolution and deep time. We listen deeply and playfully to the social space between ourselves in order to restore our native behavior and social instincts in loving, honest, and sustainable community with each other and for the well-being of all. In order to thrive in caring collaboration as a naturally social species, we honor the ancient wisdom of our biological evolution by awakening our suppressed human instincts to Empathy, Honesty, and Humility, rather than fear, fiction, or folly. To this end we nurture a philosophy of naturist communal polyamory, deeply principled ethics, and regenerative living.
We are united and motivated by our common value of EMPATHY above all, defined principally as “Communal Motivation” in the sense of care for our universal well-being across time and space. Second only to Empathy, we honor HONESTY concerning the sacred truth of the singular Reality, as self-defined by the corroborated objectivity of scientific rigor, rationality, and predictive value, to the exclusion of *any* supernaturalistic lies, ancient or modern. There can be valid space for an honest “spirituality”(psychology), and we hope to foster that, but if you are “spiritual” in a literally supernatural sense, or if you promote pseudoscientific fabrications of imagination without legitimate, corroborated discovery, this is not your community, as we see this as a form of dishonesty against Reality by elevating subjective imagination over the essential epistemic humility that underlies our productive curiosity for Reality(Source/Everything/One). Any fictional lie claiming to “know” the unknown by subjective means is explicitly unwelcome. Thirdly, we aim to encourage one-anothers’ mutual growth by fostering the developing HUMILITY of social permaculture philosophy and regenerative earth-friendly systems design in all aspects of our relationships and stewardship of earth. The goal is to create a special unique place for gathering around a shared respect for the authority of Reality, to the intentional exclusion of dangerously confusing superstitions that have held humanity hostage to lies. This may seem closed-minded and will exclude most people, but it is the primary reason this project exists for those few who want such Honest and Humble fellowship in a spirit of Empathy. Otherwise we could just go elsewhere and this special space would not be needed, but nothing like this seems to exist anywhere else in the world, so we are determined to manifest it. Those who believe various superstitions have their designated religious spaces, just as we join to create this space for those who do not. Please understand that this is not really negotiable for the purposes of this intentional community. This space is specially made available for those who seek refuge from fear, lies, and ego, among other things, which are outlined in more detail on the website.
We are united and motivated by our common value of EMPATHY above all, defined principally as “Communal Motivation” in the sense of care for our universal well-being across time and space. Second only to Empathy, we honor HONESTY concerning the sacred truth of the singular Reality, as self-defined by the corroborated objectivity of scientific rigor, rationality, and predictive value, to the exclusion of *any* supernaturalistic lies, ancient or modern. There can be valid space for an honest “spirituality”(psychology), and we hope to foster that, but if you are “spiritual” in a literally supernatural sense, or if you promote pseudoscientific fabrications of imagination without legitimate, corroborated discovery, this is not your community, as we see this as a form of dishonesty against Reality by elevating subjective imagination over the essential epistemic humility that underlies our productive curiosity for Reality(Source/Everything/One). Any fictional lie claiming to “know” the unknown by subjective means is explicitly unwelcome. Thirdly, we aim to encourage one-anothers’ mutual growth by fostering the developing HUMILITY of social permaculture philosophy and regenerative earth-friendly systems design in all aspects of our relationships and stewardship of earth. The goal is to create a special unique place for gathering around a shared respect for the authority of Reality, to the intentional exclusion of dangerously confusing superstitions that have held humanity hostage to lies. This may seem closed-minded and will exclude most people, but it is the primary reason this project exists for those few who want such Honest and Humble fellowship in a spirit of Empathy. Otherwise we could just go elsewhere and this special space would not be needed, but nothing like this seems to exist anywhere else in the world, so we are determined to manifest it. Those who believe various superstitions have their designated religious spaces, just as we join to create this space for those who do not. Please understand that this is not really negotiable for the purposes of this intentional community. This space is specially made available for those who seek refuge from fear, lies, and ego, among other things, which are outlined in more detail on the website.
We do not host casual drop-in visitors. There is an extended vetting process consisting of multiple meetings with the community membership after which the community will discuss internally. Only safe, mature, sincere people who align with the vision of the community will be considered. Requests for more information or meetings will be evaluated by how well they express their understanding of, and affinity to, the intention, so please review the listed website carefully and explain the specific reasons for your interest in this specific community in your inquiry. Inquiries that clearly do not understand our intentional values are not likely to receive a reply.
There are special gatherings that prospective applicants are invited to join for meeting and greeting in a safe space for applicants who feel they may be in alignment with what this project is trying to accomplish. Our community gatherings are not open to visitors until the current community agrees to add members on a case-by-case basis. For questions and inquiries please use the “Contact” option available on this IC.org listing. Anyone reaching out will be expected to have carefully read through the website linked in this listing which goes into more detail than is available here. Inquiries that overlook our key values are un-likely to receive a response. That website can be found here: https://sites.google.com/view/natural-behavior-permaculture
A few people (not elected by the broader community) make the major decisions.
Power and responsibility are shared relatively equally among members.
Members maintain separate personal finances with minimal sharing.
Labor: Encouraged or suggested
Members with pre-existing debt: Yes
We are practice a “Resource-Based Economy” of sharing what we can and prioritizing free and low-cost options for our needs. Instead of seeking to make maximum profit, which is not ecologically sustainable, we seek first to reduce any dependent need for money whenever possible. More about this economic concept can be found here: https://sites.google.com/view/naturallawresourcebasedeconomy
Garden(s), Fire pit
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