I've long felt the drive to change my life
To do a 180 degrees turn..
My sister also shared this desire
We had left our jobs
And I had left my apartment in Paris
We thought "Let's do it! We have nothing to lose"
"let's find properties
where we could build this eco-community".
It brought us in this region, l'Aude,
because we wanted to live in the South
in the sun.
From an ecological standpoint...
It's a so-called marginalized region
because there are few jobs, little industry
So it's good news
for all people that want to live close to nature,
in an ecological way.
Here, there are few inhabitants
but there is a density of people with dreams
that are ready to implement those - alternative - dreams
that is truly impressive.
The difficult part was to take the first step
Then...there is also a very, very powerful energy here
We felt it physically when we arrived here.
Everything was changing!
I always knew I would change my life
But it happened painfully
because you have to let go of many things
While you're ready to start something else,
You have your environment, your family, your friends
that do not understand you..
So I had to confront this...
I initially was in another group.
I really preferred here the girl's structured approach
because I thought it was useful to create an eco-village
to have something that's coherent
because the prior group
was more into anarchy
everyone does what he/she wants
and I don't think it can work like this.
We were six,
a seventh person,
we were all women, arrived.
We started thinking about a charter, about values..
And we decided that we needed other people
because we were all urbanites...
So we created an association
and a website
And there we got many responses
many, many!
People started arriving,
and that's how we ended up with a group of 15 people.
We always dream of the ideal community
like prince charming...
I grew up in the city
I was projecting myself in a world that did not satisfy me
I had the vision to join eco-places
where we would create autonomy,
collective living
and our relationship with nature
That's what I was deeply missing!
Me and my partner, we decided to act
We started traveling for 15 months
with our donkey, our goat and our dog.
We visited many places and realized
that it was much more difficult
for a couple, or a single person, to build such a place.
I was more inclined to join an already existing project
We quickly discovered this project, here.
It was exactly what we wanted to do
And when we met the people, that they were authentic
And... there is also a heart's choice
where you recognize a family
with whom you can go forth
Then we visited the place
and there...
We already had few doubts,
but when we came to the place
our last doubts flew away...
And then..
You have to start..
These things need to be built,
and we have to risk it.
So now, we're recollecting rocks
in order to create a dam
to retain water.
I deal with things that I know how to do
and that others do not know how to do
So we distribute work like that
based on what each person can do
and then we fill in needs.
I'm really interested in gardening, permaculture
to ultimately create an autonomous place
where we manage our energy, our food.
To have a beautiful place
with animals, in nature.
What we want to build here
is an oasis.
An oasis for now in hopes that it will become the norm later.
The idea is that the place produces wealth
for all those that live here
For that, we need to get to a transition
we need to create things, set them up...we need to sow,
it needs to grow to collect its fruits
We created a (landscape) design
centered on collectivity
Once we have found ourselves individually
we can nurture a collective.
We think that we are at that stage
And from this collective core,
a spiral starts around the site
that links all our different activities.
We all have the same share
but they weren't all released at the same time
Some brought more some less.
Some did not bring anything, one compensating for the other
And those that brought less
are paying a small monthly amount to compensate those that paid more
So we are lucky to be independent from banks until now.
We're setting up new legal structures
because all this requires a frame
for future people that might join in
and also for us.
All issues dealing with survival..
be it food, money, etc,
wake up things.
Old frustrations and fears...
that we all confront differently given our different journeys
Even if we have a framework
that sets our common goal.
We must transcend all that.
and of course we had this challenge
we had to have many meetings
to share our aspirations and fears
Relational issues it is not only about eco-villages
Evidently, it's a bit multiplied here
and that's why 90% of ecovillages fail.
So we'll see what the future holds.
We are not very old... we haven't even closed a year
but we chose to educate ourselves.
It's not over, it's a lot of work
We need rules among us..
We would have liked to be enlightened
and that all was harmonized based on our deep intuitions
We are not yet at that level
For me, the inner journey,
our relationship with the sacred,
is completely central.
Then, in terms of spirituality,
we each have our own journeys
There is no dogma in this group.
We are all very much in agreement about
the process for greater awareness, for awakening
Here there is a lot of spirituality
it's necessary in a collective
it's really finding a purity in the heart
which our current society
does not help us find.
Since it's an economically marginal region,
The people that come here
tend to have economic projects that are a bit crazy,
different.
You're not going to be here
to go work for Renault [factory]
So inevitably you find yourself with a lot of people
who think life differently from the big cities,
that do not want to live their lives
in a shitty society...
such as the one we're being promised,
or rather sold.
So if we don't want this and do otherwise, it works.
A way of living like this is possible
We already divided costs by three.
Just by being here, just because we're in nature
and we have gathered.
And yet, we are not even autonomous
The wood will be dry in two years.
For permaculture we just have started the veggie garden
solar panels are not ready.
We are not autonomous at all
And yet we have already divided costs by three
and we live in an incomparable quality of life!
We are in 57 hectares!
In Paris, I lived like most Parisians
living together in small spaces.
Regardless of your situation, with money or not,
whether you have diplomas or not,
old or young...
These don't matter
What matters is your will
and whether you believe that taking action is possible.
A new network is being created,
the past few months,
with people involved
in small alternative initiatives, each on their own,
that decided, it is not necessary to work in their own corner,
that we needed to know each other
To try to work between us without spend money
to exchange services exchange of goods
To get out of the money finally and that's great!
Since it's not a big economy.
If you want to live well with few means
you need to share you need solidarity,
It works very well here!
A lot of people in the Valley were very happy
That a group like ours is managing the place
We now opened it to these types of activities.
Relating to community living,
our relationship with the sacred
and creating a new world.
To all the ominous birds that say:
"It will not work."
"If it worked it would be known."
An oriental saying goes as follows,
"The tree that falls makes more noise than the forest that grows"
And I think that alternatives are like a forest growing
It is growing silently everywhere
And it's good that it's silent and invisible
because that is the reason it can grow
When we will see it,
it will be a forest, and it will be global
So, we have to charge ahead!
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