Here, groups seem to have managed and cleared rich forests, built structures and returned to the same place for over 3,000 years, according to a radio carbon date range that has yielded a uniquely long sequence for any Mesolithic site in Britain and Europe - 7,596-4,246 BC. Early Britons: Have we underestimated our ancestors? - BBC News http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33963372 Native Iowa Pundits Native Yagya “The Sacs and Foxes, like all other Indians, were a very religious people, in their way, always maintaining the observance of a good many rites, ceremonies and feasts in their worship of the Kitche Mulito, or Great Spirit. Some of these ceremonies bore such resemblance to some of those laid down in the books of Moses as to have justified the impression among biblical students that the lost tribes of Israel might have found their way to this continent. “The writer was a witness, one delightful forenoon in May, 1841, of a ceremony that seemed full of mystery, even to these of the Indians who took no part in celebrating it. A large lodge (yagya shalla) had been set up for the occasion on the level green, near Keokuk’s village, and its sides left so entirely open that vision of the proceedings conducted within was entirely free. Close around was a circle of guards or sentinels, evidently ‘in secret,’ as they were close enough to hear, but at a distance far enough to prevent eavesdropping of the low tones used with in the sacred precincts. Inside of the guards was another and much larger circle of, who restrained all outsiders (of whom the writer had to content himself with being one) from crossing within their line. Keokuk seemed to be the chief personage among the performers, and the performance to be designed for the exclusive benefit of one old fellow of some importance in the tribe, who was mainly distinguished from those about him by being clad in a much scantier pattern of raiment.
… The outside multitude of Indians gazed with marked awe throughout the entire performance, and maintained withal, the deepest silence.” (Excerpt from Maj. Beach’s History of the Agency (Iowa) & Jefferson County (Iowa) History 1878. Native Satsanga in Iowa /Very interesting - a wonderful account. The tribes around here lived in discrete nations, each much smaller than we consider today, with their own languages and customs. It was considered a huge breach to enter into another Nation's territory. The Maidu were the most well-known nation, and their descendants live here still. I don't know much about their spiritual practices, except that we have "the world's smallest mountain range" here, the Sutter Buttes, and that is well known as their sacred center./ Pioneer Satsanga in earlier Iowa, Communal Springwater, an 1850's [Transcendentalist] Brook Farm.. Lot of pioneer-era Iowans came through the spiritual crucible of the Burnt-over districts of upstate New York in coming to Iowa from New England. A good example this kind of satsanga of that time is a group of young people settling together near the NE Iowa community of Decorah in the 1850's: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/communal-studies-forum/6WjEbY2HOxU https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/communal-studies-forum/6WjEbY2HOxU dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : In a spectrum of people who make up spiritual movements, Abstracting Codman, the kinds of people who 'gather-in' : 1]Transcendentalists by experience, 2]the ideologues and reformers, 3]cultivated intellectuals. “..but it joined intellect and heart.” https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/communal-studies-forum/5SN1p8O3ISE https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/communal-studies-forum/5SN1p8O3ISE This is interesting. I got Quaker meeting https://sites.google.com/site/primitivequakers/ https://sites.google.com/site/primitivequakers/ here right now of old Quaker-meditators starting here in a few minutes but will be back on this topic. -JaiGeorgeFox! ..Most groups wither or die in time for lack of substantial spiritual experience enough that is compelling enough to come together for. Is often not enough to just say we want to live 'sustainably' together... It comes the other way around when it works for any length of time. life-cycle of spiritual groups.. https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/communal-studies-forum/ChNcesJm1Cs https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/communal-studies-forum/ChNcesJm1Cs ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote : Well, God damn! What did they expect? Mormon gays living like the pioneers and shitting in a chamber pot? None of my gay friends would be drawn to such as that. From: "TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife <fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2015 9:15 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] For Buck They Built It. No One Came. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/style/they-built-it-no-one-came.html# http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/style/they-built-it-no-one-came.html# They Built It. No One Came. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/style/they-built-it-no-one-came.html# In Pennsylvania, two men with 63 acres and a communal vision of utopia learn the hard way that not everyone follows the leader. View on www.nytimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/style/they-built-it-no-one-came.html# Preview by Yahoo
