ASOCIACION GAIA
ASOCIACION GAIA The origin of this project comes from the voice of Gaia.
It is our own voice and impels us to wake up from the dream in which the
system has submerged us. This is how we have proposed to develop small
human settlements, based in communitarian, ecological and spiritual principles:
Eco-Villages. Residents and transitory inhabitants live in an environment
that is in total harmony with nature and the evolutionary process of life.
This does not deny reality, on the contrary, it connects us with a huge
network of people who are also working to lead the world.
The project encourages work as a communal ritual. It is a
space to contact our innerself, to create and collaborate with Gaia’s process.
Our deep aim at the Eco-Village is service, oriented to generate real solutions
for the global crisis and for an impoverished society as Argentina’s. This
is why these Eco-Villages will not be either places to run away from society
or set up small Edens. They will be places that will function as living
laboratories (lavore et ore). An attempt to transform the links with each
other, with work and with life itself.
The supporting pillars of the Eco-Village follows these principles:
coexistence, harmony, participation, democracy and tolerance. The Eco-Village
aspires to be a center of integration with the bio-region in which it is
settled. Each Eco-Village will be open to interchange with each other,
so that we can help one another in different aspects, as food, service,
construction, alternative energy, etc.
Eco-Villages do not intend to be a closed and self sufficient
system. For example, we are co-dependant on material elements and scientific,
technical and cultural knowledge. Each Eco-Village will be autonomous in
its decisions regarding the organization of tasks. The local administration
of houses, productive activities and common spaces will be organised and
administrated by the inhabitants themselves. At the same time, there will
be a co-operating spirit linking the different Eco-Villages. Special emphasis
will be laid on the development of habits, minimising the existence of
rules, since these narrow our minds.
Our intention is to provide a basis for group security based
on solidarity, as opposed to the competition that destroys human bonds.
Each land will belong legally to the association. This
is to avoid possible conflicts regarding the possession of the land, in
case any members decided to withdraw from the settlements.
Anyone integrated to the community process who decides to
build a house of his own will be able to do so and will be its custodian
while he desires. This will ease the relationship between communal and
individual living. Gaia Association will develop its own service projects:
a space for homeless children, a center of complementary therapies, development
of alternative schools and the University of Life. These projects will
be open to all who are interested in them.
There will be a system of scholarship for those who lack the
means to participate. Gaia Association will also develop a wide variety
of workshops dealing with specific subjects open to the community: eco-spiritual
basis, education, economy, etc.
Each Eco-Village aspires to be an Eco-Spiritual center
for our transformation. The goal of our path is to develop a way of life
that is in harmony with ourselves, with the rest of nature and with the
cosmic dance of life. If we manage to build our relationships in this particular
symphony, the project we have dedicated our lives to, is in the correct
path.
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