A Gathering of our Tribe of Spiritual Healers and Light Workers
NorthEast Washington State, Washington, United States
- Updated on: Apr 26, 2025 (10 days ago)
- Created on: Sep 13, 2006 (over 18 years ago)
Mission Statement
We are Spiritual Healers and Light Workers combining our efforts to assist mankind during the difficult times ahead.
Community Description
<i>“It is possible that the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a community, a community practicing understanding and loving kindness, a community practicing mindful living.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh</i>
“A Gathering of Our Tribe of Spiritual Healers and Light Workers” is designed for the assembling of spiritual activists who desire to assist humanity in transcending the false notion that we are separate. It is to be an egalitarian type of community. To join it, one must first read the free ebook provided at: From Separateness to True Self-Realization: A Transitional Guide Designed to Stimulate a Spiritual Revolution. If you cannot find it by googling it, we can send you a link.
On this land, we have established food and energy self-reliant infrastructures, and you can view photos of these at the bottom of our ic.org listing. This IC could be comprised of residents who contribute to and participate in this way of life, living it with us in our rural, self-reliant community setting or be nonresidential, supportive members living elsewhere. We are seeking Co-Founders so that we can form a team of multi-generational project initiators capable of developing and maintaining an educational center by combining our efforts as Spiritual Healers and Light Workers.
<i>“Inter-dependence, of course, is a fundamental law of nature. Not only higher forms of life but also many of the smallest insects are social beings who, without any religion, law or education, survive by mutual cooperation based on an innate recognition of their interconnectedness.” ~The Dalai Lama</i>
The Dalai Lama points out what the average person aspiring to join an IC may be unaware of, which is about our interconnectedness and how our survival as a species depends upon our ability to cooperate. Therefore, it is important to acknowledge the need to educate ourselves so that we can accomplish this together and teach others how to do this as well. When one truly puts oneself into this effort, all personal considerations that are social and material in nature will easily fall into place as our relationships develop. It will then be unnecessary to struggle alone in an attempt to fulfill these needs.
The information one requires to prepare for the task of co-founding this IC is contained in The Co-Founders’ Primer. (Ask for it, and we will email it to you.) However, for these projects to be successful, please keep in mind that we need to begin with people who have evolved intellectually, spiritually, and emotionally enough to realize that the IC way of life offers them and the world healing alternatives. Humanity must find a way to escape the destructive, wasteful, separative existence that we have been locked into for thousands of years, which the intentional communities are offering.
To get started with us, go to http://www.communityworks.info/hopi.htm to connect with the Hopi Elders' advice to mankind regarding the crucial age of change we have entered. They ask and advise:
"What are you doing? What are your relationships? Are you in the right relation? Where are you living? Where is your water?" Additionally, "Know your garden," and realize that "The time for the lone wolf is over." It would be prudent for the reader to think about where one wants to be and with whom before one is overtaken by the social, economic, environmental, and other shifts currently taking place. The consequences cannot be healed by science and technology; they are only going to get worse.
A Co-Founder must become a researcher and apply one’s mind, heart, and spirit to the task. There is much to be learned about coexisting harmoniously and effectively with others in an intentional community. Joiners can apply after the IC has established a working and committed core group. With all the above in mind, feel free to correspond with us, and together, we will be able to discover what can be co-created. Through the efforts you make, many doors can be opened.
- Status: Forming
- Started Planning: 2022
- Started Living Together: 2022
- Visitors Accepted: Yes
- Open to New Members: Yes
- Please read the details in Membership below before contacting this community.Send Message
- Website: https://angelsagrarian.wixsite.com/trueselfrealization
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/daniel.angelsagrarian/
- Other Social: https://www.facebook.com/groups/273488478136249/
- Contact Name: Daniel & Patti AngelsAgrarian
About
- Type(s):
- Ecovillage (organized around ecology and sustainability)
- Shared Housing, Cohouseholding, or Coliving (multiple individuals sharing a dwelling)
- Spiritual or Religious
- Transition Town or Eco-Neighborhood (focused on energy/resource resiliency)
- Programs & Activities:
- School, Educational Institute or Experience
- Volunteer, Internship, or Apprenticeship, or WWOOF’ing
- Neighborhood, Community Housing, or Homeowner's Association
- Organization, Resource, or Network
- WWOOF'ing, Guest Farming
- Location: Rural
Housing
- Status: We have land we have developed on
- Area: 16 acres
- Current Residence Types:
- Room(s) in a house or building
- Mobile homes, RV's, converted buses
- Lots to build on
- To begin, one needs to house oneself with a self-contained Tiny House or RV.
- Current Number of Residences: 2
- Planned Number of Residences: 12
- Planned Residence Types:
- Single-family homes
- Multi-family homes
- Room(s) in a house or building
- Tiny house
- Mobile homes, RV's, converted buses
- Natural built structues
- Lots to build on
- Land Owned By: Other
Membership
- Adult Members: 2
- Child Members: 0
- Non-Member Residents: 0
- Percent Women: 50%
- Percent Men: 50%
- Percent Transgender: 0%
- Visitors Accepted: Yes
- Visitor Process: There is much we'll all need to learn and make clear to one another about our compatibilities in values and goals and many other factors before arranging a visit from you or a walk-through of the community or its land. As we mentioned above, we seek to find our Co-Founders who are able and willing to combine their efforts with our own. Therefore, one will need to be prepared mentally and spiritually for this role to be successful in co-existing with us in this IC. Please plan to expend some energy in emailing us back and forth so we can get to know you well enough that we can feel comfortable about revealing our location to you and agreeing to your visiting us.
- Open to New Members: Yes
- Membership Process: As we said already above about our visiting policy, we repeat here. We're looking for those committed to making this Spiritual Community work for everyone involved in this project. The rewards for making this type of effort with us are great. Therefore, we recommended researching how to live successfully in a community setting. This type of effort will help everyone prepare for this mutual undertaking. If an applicant is willing to do this reading and other preparations with us this will positively affect our processes and help us a great deal in deciding whom to admit.
- Additional Comments: "The Hopi Elders Speak" paper available at http://www.communityworks.info/hopi.htm provides some great guidance on how people could reach out to us. Have you read that yet? Have you done any other type of research on your own you could tell us about that might help us understand who you are and what your values and goals are? The more effort you make to provide us with this information, the more receptive we will become to your application to join us.
Government
- Decision Making: Consensus + (everyone agrees, except for up to 3 people.)
- Identified Leader: No
- Leadership Core Group: No
- Additional Comments: A Gathering of our Tribe of Spiritual Healers and Light Workers members will decide together on major improvements to the community and lands. Individual members will decide on their improvements, except those developments that will violate the rights of other members who hold an interest in the long-term health and benefit of lands. All will decide upon any developments of this community in Consensus.
Economics
- Dues, Fees, or Shared Expenses: Yes
- Shared Income: Partial Sharing of Income
- Required Weekly Labor Contribution: 16
- Open to Members with Existing Debt: No
- Additional Comments: A Gathering of our Tribe of Spiritual Healers and Light Workers is striving to actualize enlightened values and goals, but this does not mean everyone will be expected to contribute all their income and assets into a common pot. The same goes for sharing common housing. We are an educational type of community where each member can retain the monetary funds and assets they have accumulated, but then when the communities' common infrastructures, which everyone benefits from, need to be repaired or rebuilt it can be done with everyone contributing their labors, plus financially, to accomplish this. The "Particle Share of Expenses" will be on whatever is decided are the projects the community wants to develop together that benefit all members. All costs that are experienced as a result will be shared by all members. The community’s common assets that each member will contribute to are those that facilitate our collective ability to live food self-reliantly and further the goals we have established as a community, be they spiritual or material. Therefore, let us agree that if the community has a need, all members will contribute to a common fund to meet that need. During food growing and processing seasons, every member will be required to contribute to the food self-reliant gardening and food processing being done in the community, and how-to instructions will be provided so we can all grow and preserve a larger percentage of what we need to sustain our year-round food self-reliance. The tools and infrastructures for food preservation will be provided as well including space in our root cellar for the community’s root crop storage. However, those with physical disabilities will need to compensate others to take over their duties.
Sustainability Practices
- Energy Infrastructure: We use both systems.
- Current Renewable Energy Generation: Up to 25%
- Energy Sources:
- Solar
- Hydro-Electric
- Planned Renewable Energy Generation: 50-75%
- Current Food Produced: From 50-75%
- Planned Food Produced: From 50-75%
- Food Produced Locally: From 50-75%
Lifestyle
- Common Facilities:
- Common House
- Garden(s)
- Greenhouse(s)
- Library
- Swimming pond or pool
- Large Scale Kitchen
- Tractor & Farm Equipment
- Internet
- Internet Available: Yes, both the community and individuals provide it
- Internet Fast?: Yes, it's fine.
- Cellphone Service: Good for some people.
- Shared Meals: About once a week
- Dietary Practices:
- Omnivorous (plants and animals)
- Organic (no pesticides or synthetic fertilizers)
- GMO Free (only non-genetically modified organisms)
- Vegetarian Only
- Mostly Vegetarian
- Dietary Choice or Restrictions: Somewhat - there are some dietary restrictions or customs.
- Special Diets OK: No
- Alcohol Use: No, this community does not permit alcohol use.
- Tobacco Use: No, this community does not permit tobacco use.
- Additional Diet Comments: Shared meals are voluntary and planned when convenient for all members, in which activity is a cooperative and spontaneous affair. We grow, process, and store for our year-round vegetarian diet. 100% can be accommodated if all members choose to do so in cooperation. Meat eaters would need to establish infrastructures for their meat production as there is none yet on this farm (except for chickens we keep for their eggs). Diet is up to each member. Coop meals can have many choices offered to appeal to each dietary preference. We, as the founders, raise no animals for meat, as we are vegetarians. However, members may raise animals for meat if their practices are not offensive to neighbor members and they are responsible for the care of their animals in a humane manner. Our personal preferences are to not drink alcohol or use drugs. We prefer that others do not as well, but will be accepting of others' preferences as long as no trouble comes from their uses. If you are a smoker please don't do so around other community members or our gardens. Tobacco carries the Tobacco Mosaic Virus which can become devastating to our tomato and pepper crops. If you smoke and garden you may destroy your tomato and pepper crops when doing so.
- Common Spiritual Practice(s):
- Ecumenical (accepts all religions or spiritual practices)
- Eclectic (integrates multiple religious or spiritual beliefs)
- Spiritual Practice Expected?: No
- Education Style(s): Public Schooling
- Expected Healthcare Practices: As explained above, we strive to live a healthy food and energy-self-reliant lifestyle in this community. What is practiced in the mainstream is everything but this, and this is extremely unhealthy and system-dependent. This means that those in this IC will be unable to continue practicing the things that the unhealthy masses are accustomed to, such as eating meat and partaking in recreational drugs and alcohol.
- Healthcare Options: Partial, Special, or Limited Community Plan
Additional Comments
We were inspired to communicate our thoughts about our desire to find our Co-Founders due to the useful insights Yana Ludwig and Rebecca Mesritz shared during their podcast: Finding Co-Founders and Creating Cooperative Culture with Yana Ludwig (ic.org). Their constructive conversation about how people could establish their ICs with Co-Founders was the result of the combined experiences they acquired as IC members and initiators. They advised that the best way to succeed at the goal of living with others in one was to assemble 3 to 8 co-founding individuals committed to assisting one another, which made a great deal of sense to us. Communitarians are aware of the seriousness of the social and environmental conditions that have developed around the world. This deterioration is causing many to consider alternative living situations where they can enjoy safety in togetherness, such as in the ICs. However, because few have any experience living this way, it is problematic and the reason aspiring communitarians must first seek out the assistance of their Co-Founders. To be successful, it is crucial to find these individuals. Striving to actualize this lifestyle’s objectives without them can be very difficult when the majority in an IC is resistant to altering the way they have become accustomed to living in the mainstream. With our "additional comments", we hope to empower the reader to realize an ongoing, gradual change can be accomplished with a little help from your friends. Those endeavoring to form an IC must gain a clear understanding of whether they are willing and prepared to travel this path. Working together, we can learn what makes a community strong and what weakens it. In addition, all must know if they are capable of working with others to make such a goal a reality. It is important to recognize the harmful consequences that come into play when the need for Co-Founders is ignored, overlooked, or neglected. Joiners can only be integrated into an IC after it is firmly grounded and staffed by those who have established their mutual vision for it. Toward the end of assisting you in merging your efforts with our own in this IC, we have written "The Co-Founders’ Primer." Shoot us an email describing your interest in Co-Founding this IC with us and we'll send this to you.
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Community Network or Organization Affiliations
The Foundation for Intentional Community (FIC), Global Ecovillage Network (GEN), Ecovillage Network of the Americas, Northwest Intentional Communities Association, Utopian EcoVillage Network Federation, Find a Tiny House Community at https://choosetiny.com/
Community Affiliations
The Holy Order of MANS, The Theosophical Society, The Rosicrucians, https://choosetiny.com/
Fair Housing Laws
This community acknowledges that their listing does not include any potential violations of the Fair Housing Law, or that they do not provide housing. For any questions about this topic please see our Content Policies and contact FIC with any questions or concerns: directory@ic.org.
Keywords
Spiritual Community, Food and Energy Self-Reliant Living