| Description |
1 online resource (167 p.) |
| Contents |
The Need For Spiritual Communities And How To Start Them -- Contents -- Publisher's Note -- Preface -- Part I: Intentional Communities: How to Start Them, and Why -- 1. The Time Is Now -- 2. Self-Realization vs. the Megalopolis -- 3. Intentional Communities and the Quest for Opportunity -- 4. Intentional Communities, Past and Present -- 5. How to Begin -- 6. Communal Economics -- 7. Communalism vs. Privacy -- 8. Education -- 9. Government -- 10. Rules -- 11. What Is Ananda? -- Epilogue (to Part I) -- Part II: The Story of Ananda -- 1. The Early Years -- 2. Land Ho! -- 3. My First Non-Home |
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4. Ananda Meditation Retreat -- 5. The Purchase of Ananda Farm -- 6. Communal Beginnings -- 7. Financial Problems -- 8. Lessons Learned -- 9. "Here and Now" -- Afterword -- Second Afterword |
| Summary |
Swami Kriyananda's network of Ananda communities has been hailed as the most successful in the world. Whether you are interested in communities from a philosophical perspective or from a practical one--and wish to form your own or join with others in doing so--this book will bring you hundreds of helpful insights into the process--starting a community, making it prosper even in difficult times, and seeing it continue into a bright future |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Ananda Cooperative Village
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Religious communities.
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Communities--Religious aspects--Self-Realization Fellowship
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Communities -- Religious aspects -- Self-Realization Fellowship
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Religious communities
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781565895553 |
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156589555X |
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