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001 2015016408
003 DLC
005 20151022090429.0
008 151021s2015 cau 000 0 eng
010 $a 2015016408
020 $a9781565892941 (quality pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $z9781565895553 (epub)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aBP605.S4$bK755 2015
082 00 $a294.5/65$223
100 1 $aKriyananda, Swami.
245 14 $aThe need for spiritual communities :$band how to start them /$cSwami Kriyananda.
250 $aThird edition.
263 $a1512
264 1 $aNevada City, California :$bCrystal Clarity Publishers,$c2015.
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $a"Part I, which presents Kriyananda's essential concepts about communities, was first published in 1968, under the title Cooperative Communities: How to Start Them and Why. In 1971 the author republished the book with the addition of Part II about the development of Ananda, and how those developments might offer insights to those wishing to found communities of their own. He updated the book further in 1979. In 1988 he revised Part I of that book and published it (without Part II) under the title Intentional Communities. Now, for this 2013 edition, he naturally used that 1988 rewrite in place of the 1979 version. And in addition he edited the entire book once more, but with an eye to keeping each Part's voice back in the time when it was originally written. He also added a new (second) Afterword, written from his current standpoint in April of 2013. It proved to be the last of his published writings, completed not three weeks before his passing."
505 0 $aPreface -- Intentional communities: how to start them, and why -- The time is now -- Self-realization vs. the megalopolis -- Intentional communities and the quest for opportunity -- Intentional communities, past and present -- How to begin -- Communal economics -- Communalism vs. privacy -- Education -- Government -- Rules -- What is Ananda? -- Epilogue (to part I) -- The story of Ananda -- The early years -- Land ho! -- My first non-home -- Ananda meditation retreat -- The purchase of ananda farm -- Communal beginnings -- Financial problems -- Lessons learned -- "Here and now" -- Afterword -- Second afterword.
650 0 $aReligious communities.
650 0 $aCommunities$xReligious aspects$xSelf-Realization Fellowship.
650 0 $aCooperativeness.
610 20 $aAnanda Cooperative Village.