Town of 1000 Friends*

What I taught at Arcosanti is as simple and obvious it is a wonder it even needed to be stated: we have within us the summation of evolution and the task of life is to appropriate this legacy and to apply it. Unfortunately, the inertial momentum of past ages represented around us is an overwhelming distraction. Thus, the isolation technique employed, a monastic society of a week's duration. At Paolo's birthday, George expressed to me as a kindness that he wished his son might have access to the kind of ritual re--creation of evolution we staged for work shoppers in the 70s. Although this sentiment is appreciated, the truth is, any serious person gains this awareness gradually by sincere self-knowledge. How is it that we did not find a simpler method than the idiosyncratic and ambiguous Village on the Mesa? Perhaps not coincidentally, the Mesa is the name of my current residence perched at another edge of history overlooking the Pacific. The view from here is the one I will share from now on on this blog.