STARTING A COMMUNITY

Eileen: “I must say, if I had realised what was happening I would have run away from the whole thing. God gave us a little bit at a time. When it unfolds bit by bit, gradually one gets used to such things.”

Dorothy: “I would say we started as a community after Peter went down to Sir George Trevelyan’s conference in England and talked about us. After that people came to visit this strange garden. To me, the community grew like topsy — I saw no pattern. It just seemed to attract people in an incredible way from all over the place.”

Peter: “We started as a family, became a group and then a community. Now we’re wrestling with the challenges of moving into a planetary village with new aspects of communication and government. Eventually we will become a town and then a city. I think the cities of the future will emerge from spiritual communities today.”

Quotes from an interview in One Earth 1987