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The 3-year community experiment Monte Cerro
Sabine Lichtenfels
Monday, 1 May 2006, marks a historical date for
Tamera, a growing community in Portugal, a research model for a peaceful culture
without violence, with theme’s as: healing, new ecology and technology, love and
sexuality, etc. It starts the 3-year Experiment "Monte Cerro", creating real
life structures without fear and violence. In the framework of this project the
experiment “Monte Cerro” is to take place with 200 participants on the 134
hectares site of the Healing Biotope I Tamera from 01 May, 2006 on.
“Monte Cerro” is the (preliminary) name of the
experiment and the Portuguese name of the site where it will take place. The 200
participants of the experiment will live together, work together, and think
together for three years. The possibilities of the co-habitation of human beings
and the co-habitation between humans and nature will be researched. Thereby, all
questions of co-habitation – social organisation, roles of the genders, ecology,
ethics etc. – will be regarded in a new way. It is about the questions: How do
we create real life structures without fear and violence? Under what
circumstances could a human culture of solidarity emerge? Are there
possibilities for new solutions for the central issues of love, sexuality and
partnership? How does trust emerge? How does happiness emerge? How does a new
integration of the human world into the higher orders of life and creation
emerge?“
For me it is like a marvel that this project is now
underway. Another marvel is the fact that the opening celebrations with the
entire community can take place in the university hall. It was a year ago that I
had decided to go on pilgrimage to raise the money for this building.
The wooden floor is lacquered and a wonderful space embraces one as one enters
the hall. Until September of this year all planned building phases are financed.
From there on - for the last third of the total costs - we shall need further
financing.
We thank all those who have helped so generously so that the hall can be
realised. May the heavens reward their help.
The biggest of all these marvels however is the fact
that the young people who have completed their three years of study at the peace
school Mirja are now holding leading positions in Monte Cerro. Increasingly
these young people are taking on responsibility and fulfil leading duties. They
are between 22 and 26 years old, the same age I was when I joined the Bauhütte
and too was challenged to co-lead and help to develop the projects.
The fact that Tamera is developing into a project
for the youth gives me great hopes for the success of this project and that it
will continue to grow and prosper beyond its founders.
I thank for the guidance which has been granted to us during the past weeks and
months.
I thank for the trust and the power of growth. May Monte Cerro become a
contribution towards the unfolding of the forces of peace on this Earth.
As a text of empowerment, I have decided to publish
the "Rules of Order" which have been formulated by the bearers of the project
for the community. They are intended to guide us all, in both happy and
difficult situations. Maybe these rules serve also as a source of empowerment to
all the friends who accompany our project with loving thoughts from afar.
Rules of Order
1.You are present in a place of research for healing
and for peace work. Behave in such a way that your life serves both healing and
peace.
2.Become a witness of your thoughts. Talk, think and
act in such a way as to generate peace within you.
3.Sound is pure information, a new culture needs a
new sound. Therefore, do not make unnecessary noise and be in contact and
resonance with “the Whole”.
4.Central to the ethics of Tamera are three basic
rules:
Firstly: Truth, this means also in love.
Secondly: Mutual support.
Thirdly: Responsible participation in the community.
5.If you lie to each other or disguise yourselves in
front of each other you are turning into an accomplice of global war. Study and
follow the laws of transparency and truth. “At the bottom of truth all fear
disappears”. (Sources of Love and Peace, pg. 213)
6.It does not serve peace to suppress sexual
attraction. In Tamera you have the chance to deal with it in an unobtrusive and
thankful way and to learn how the game works. Shyness is no sin.
7.The private right of possession over others does
not exist, including over your partner or your children. They do not belong to
our selves, they belong to the World.
8.There is no tenure when it comes to love and
sexuality. In Tamera you are exposed to another erotic culture. It is not
allowed to demand anyone to fulfil your own wants and needs. The Eros is no
legal entity but a true gift.
9.Tamera does not promote fast contact and fast
sexual fulfilment. Take your time and understand what is meant by free
sexuality. Study the intellectual/spiritual basic thoughts of the project.
10.The power lies in the mind. The paradigm change
which is necessary for a new culture demands continuous mental/spiritual work.
Participation in Monte Cerro requires attendance to the regular SD-Forum and a
daily mental/spiritual hour. Full time students are obliged to take part in all
events of the education.
11.All beings and fellow-creatures are aspects of
ones own life. What we do onto them, will fall back on ourselves. Therefore,
treat them with care and never torment an animal.
12.Learn to build up energy within yourself and to
conserve it. Never act from affect.
In the project declaration Dieter Duhm describes in
detail the planed aspects of Monte Cerro.
http://www.tamera.org/english/index.html
Sabine Lichtenfels
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