failure is only successful if you try to look back upright, the reasons that led to understand. And with an understanding that is the case: in order to get over their own limitations, especially when you were a failure PARTICULAR directly involved or is, a clearing is needed, in which the positions of the other Involved can be illuminated. So we go into the forest to look for a clearing that is large enough for a group of many people.
How many people were actually involved in the Joint Initiative of Elias and Adventura? It's hard to say because there were between the core and perimeter many transitions, many intentional arrangements, many unique and special types of connections that made the whole thing quite diverse. I maintain, however, that the core - so people who have worked vigorously with the preparations for the meeting - about twenty people was. These people came from Germany, Holland, France and Switzerland.
The radius is about 500 people but have included, perhaps just a little bit more. Of these parties can be said that in her own life had a concern that corresponded with the apparent goals of the Joint Initiative of Elias and Adventura. Just the list of countries of origin of the parties (probably incomplete) indicates that the core radius and were not identical. In addition to the above four countries could be identified: the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium, Peru ...
The momentum of the meetings was without any ifs and buts in the book "On the salvation of the soul "by Bernard Lievegoed to describe the pulse is shown exactly is not easy. I would say that the contents of the book conveyed a great idea, which might perhaps be formulated in words: in each web, there are wounds that can be transformed into intellectual, social and artistic skills. The goal of the two communities - Elias and Adventura - was to enable people in the encounter between a closeness and trust, which causes this transformation with. The guideline was that your problems are global problems, world problems are your problems.
This is a really BIG Idea, which is due to great figures of intellectual history: Mani, Christian Perrier Rose, Elias, Zarathustra, Rudolf Steiner - I would also add: Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Beuys and Nelson Mandela ... The "Manichean" idea is not just big, but also controversial because it raises an unusual view of so-called human shortcomings. This view is perhaps in the sentence: "Without my (your) wounds, where would my (your) power" reasonably indicate. Especially where our weaknesses are, apparently hidden creative potential.
How about this idea beyond the personal in a community lives, is not a difficult additional issue that relates to any possible practical "implementation", but the main question simply, one could say also: the only question that could be done only once did not. A self-open-and-free-in-this-question-"being", they can endure, makes the main thing. The tendency at this point to insist on specific solutions will necessarily result that the community falls apart.
If one meetings (conferences, seminars, lectures) organized, flows of money - and if money flows, is required on the legal level, a transparent structure. In this regard, existed over the years always two positions, which were felt to be correct spontaneously. The first position was with commercial-entrepreneurial: some people would start a company that organizes the various meetings. The parties could then live off the profits.
The second position won the debate. She was oriented to the whole community: it was a club (the Elias-initiative eV) was founded. All participants were able to become a member. The members elected board members, who took over on behalf of the members of the daily responsibility for achieving the targets, as is common in clubs.
Once a year, a General meeting was held, the vote in the the direction and activities. At this point, however, important to note that the meetings of Adventura, which only emerged later, in Elias Association found no embedding, simply because not all members of Elias with the employment of Adventura felt comfortable. After a few years it became clear that the club had come as a legal entity to an end - fewer meetings were organized, it took place less, "the cause" expired.
me today, both proposals seem to have been too narrow. The very large "Manichean" idea needs a flexible structure that has a bit of both: entrepreneurial Community spirit and senses. And to me it's still a big question: how are the economy and community as part of a spiritual impulse to obtain meaningful and fruitful one another? I contend that there is still no concrete answer to this question.
thing is, however, the cooperation in my view, did not fail. The real point is that too few participants, including myself, the view of the clearing of the great idea to endure, expect to endure and remain in the were. To say goodbye, at least for a while by their own ideas and expectations to create an open space for that which was coming was not sufficiently possible. And that is, ultimately, that the great idea was not well understood in all its consequences.
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