Chapter 8 of "First Seed a Spirit Seed: A Year In The Lives Of a Forming Intentional Community" by Brother Scott. ©2009. Start here.

(Note: these are from the print version, hence the listed "pages".)

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For more info on Brother Scott's poetry, music and other books including Everything I Know About Living In a Vehicle and Life Speaks To Me… And I Give It Voice, please go to www.brotherscott.org.

p.10 "Sprout Dharma" ©2009 S. Beckwith
p.15 Excerpt from the article "The Phantom Community" (Paul Starr, in John Case and Rosemary Taylor, eds., Co-ops, Communes and Collectives: Social Experiments from the 1960s and 1970s, Pantheon, 1979.)
p.15 Bhakti Tirtha Swami quote from Reflections On Sacred Teachings Vol. 5, ©2007 Hari-Nama Press.
pgs.16 –17 The poem "Wolf Song" is from Jahrusha Sananda's book Answering The Call (Earth Heart ©2001)
p.23 Excerpts from the song "Woodstock" (Joni Mitchell) © Siquomb Publishing Company
p. 25 The Consensus & Cooperation Method of Making Decisions In A Group: there are a hundred sites all with this basic wording – if this is yours specifically, contact for a credit. It was pulled off the web by a group member and I can't find it… And thanks!
p.33 Quote from Conditions For Democracy: Making Participatory Organizations Work (Joyce Rothschild-Whitt, in John Case and Rosemary Taylor, eds., Co-ops, Communes and Collectives: Social Experiments from the 1960s and 1970s, Pantheon, 1979.)
p.34 "It'll All Get Done" ©2009 S. Beckwith, from Life Speaks To Me…And I Give It Voice
p.37 Excerpt from Ecotopia, Ernest Callenbach ©1977 Bantam Books
p.40 Poet Daniel Bianchino – www.thefourthpath.com
p.44 "The Call To Come Together" ©2009 S. Beckwith

www.withinreachmovie.com Brethren on the road
www.ic.org Intentional Community information
www.icdb.org Intentional Community Data Base
www.thefarm.org Since 1971!
www.twinoaks.org Since 1967!
www.goodlife.org Celebrating Helen & Scott Nearing, early "Back-to-the-landers."

For a gallery of shots of real people making something happen, go here.

That's it? It's done? My God, it's a whole chapter of my life I have to let go of now. I'm so sad this book project is over… but then I realize for so many it's really a beginning, or at least a little help for an already seeded garden, and I get happy again. It's been such a blessing to live this whole experience and I am humbled to share it with you. I know some of this was "out there" but I know you're out there all over the country & world and I know the ripples are rolling. This is my part to help that and I have given my best; take it and do good with it. Perhaps someday our paths will cross. Meanwhile, may the sun warm the Earth around you and your path be one of peace. Namaste.

Our own Father Time, Graybeard, with Mark & Starlight's little nugget of wonderfulness Samuel Wolf, who's formation paralleled the group's.




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