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There is no such thing as 'a villager'.

Without other villagers there is no village.

People come together and 'village'.

'Villaging' is a verb, not a noun.

Villaging is an ever-evolving cyclone created by helping each other live full-out, heal, grow up, and bring each person's potentials to life.

Next culture Village is a Transformational Gameworld,

brought to life wherever you are by collaborating so that

you win and the Villagers win...

...in a mutually-empowering Torus centered around 3 Phase Healing, and Adult and Archetypal Initiatory Processes.

This is called 'Winning Happening'.

How do you manufacture a resilient community that protects, defends and advances the interests of its members?

The answer is one word: Tribe.

I spell the word 'tribe' with a capital 'T' to mean 'a tribe that has consciously built itself', 'a Tribe that knows it is one of the many possible Tribes that any human being can create and be a part of'.

Most indigenous tribes do not teach 'cultural relativity' so the word for 'person' in most indigenous languages means 'the real people' or 'the human beings', and the word for 'foreigner' means 'the edible ones'.

A Tribe (with a capital 'T') lives in the understanding that the construct the Tribe lives in together is 'bullshit'.

'Bullshit' is a technical term that means 'arbitrary', or 'fabricated out of thin air', or 'very relevant but not true'.

When you have experiential certainty that your own Tribe is a gameworld which you intentionally constructed out of a context, distinctions, thoughtware, Codex, Bill of Wrongs, and Rules of Engagement, then you do not have to go around inflexibly defending your Tribe to the death because you believe that IT IS THE ONE TRUE TRIBE that lives in the ONE RIGHT WAY, like happens in child-level religions.

You just made your gameworld up out of nothing! You are proud to say that it IS bullshit!

Taking ownership of your power to build a Tribe out of nothing, anytime, anywhere, with anyone, gives you the possibility to disidentify with, and reinvent, your gameworld whenever that would become necessary or desired.

Your Tribe lives in the experience of the 'death and resurrection show'. You know the Phoenix Process from the inside. Your Tribe has Evolution at its center.

This is what makes your Tribe bulletproof.

Human beings have already known this for a long time, unconsciously, in our memetic structure. Tribal organization is the most survivable of all organizational types, being the dominant human cultural form for 99.99% of human history. Like a cockroach, it has proved it can withstand the onslaught of the harshest of environments.

Global depression? Economic collapse? No problem.

Coup? Regime change? No problem.

Inquisition? Cultural cleansing? Democide? No problem.

Climate change and collapse of global ecosystems? Well, don't kid yourself about this. You are one of millions of species of life on Earth, species which are going extinct - which means: killed off forever, never to live again on any planet - at the rate of 200 precious irreplaceable species per day. How long do you think before humans become the next species to go extinct if the fragile ecosystems that created and continue to support us are weakened or gone? Not as long as you might hope...

In the meantime you might want to think about moving out of the city and building a Tribe. I make this invitation in that particular order very much on purpose.

I have tried to 'build a Tribe and then move out of the city' a number of times. Each time we failed. Finally we figured out why. A Tribe that comes together in the city to talk about moving out of the city has already fulfilled its purpose: to be a group that comes together in the city each week to talk about moving out of the city.

That is the purpose of the citydwellers. They were completely satisfied with the weekly-meeting Tribe. None of them actually wanted to move out of the city. They just wanted to talk about it.

If you are like most people in the 'developed world,' you don't have any experience in a true Tribal organization. Indigenous tribes were crushed in the last couple of Centuries due to pressures from the nation-state that saw them as competitors, and by the marketplace that saw them as impediments.

All you have now it is a moderately strong nuclear family (weakened via modern economics that forces families to split apart to 'earn enough money to survive'), a weak extended family, a loose collection of friends (a social circle of 'Facebook friends'), a tenuous corporate affiliation (as a slave, even if you are a manager or in the board of directors), and a tangential relationship with a remote nation-state (they will chase after you if they detect that you are not paying your taxes). This degree of connection, for many of us, is proving to be insufficient as a means of withstanding the pressures of the chaotic and harsh modern environment.
 

The solution to this problem is to build a Tribe... a group of people you are loyal to, and who are loyal to you in return. In short, the need for a primary loyalty to a group that really cares about your survival and future success.

To build a regenerative-culture Tribal, you need to manufacture 'fictive kinship', that is, you need to agree on 'the story of who we are together' as a Tribe... a Tribal identity. This is more than a brand. It
is more than a 'mission' and 'vision'. Your Tribal identity emerges from the resonance that people feel towards the Bright Principles of your Tribe which provides energetic food that feeds their Being and gives them a real place to deliver the services of their Archetypal Lineage.

Here are some possible new identities to shift into as a story about who you are and what you are doing together to establish a basis for the existence of your next-culture (archearchal) Tribal gameworld:

• 3Cell of (R)evolutionaries
• Feelings Practitioners
• Edgeworkers
• Bridge Builders
• Adults
• Elders
• Pirates
• Possibility Teamers
• Experimenters
• Improvisers
• Possibilitators
• Earth Guardians
• Village Weavers / Intimacy Navigators
• Gameworld Builders
• Evolutionaries
• Practitioners
• Pathwalkers
• Possibility Managers
• Initiators
• Trainers
• Rage Club Spaceholders
• Wizards
• Memetic Engineers
• Riftwalkers
• New Refugees
• Village Seeds
• An Intentional Community
• An Ecovillage
• A Nanonation

Fictive kinship is built through the following (see David Ronfeldt's paper for some background on this):

• Story telling. Shared histories and historical narratives.
• Initiations into authentic adulthood (not just a driver’s license and the right to drink and vote) (for more on this see Of Water and the Spirit by Malidoma Somé, Secrets of the Talking Jaguar by Martin Prechtel, and Directing the Power of Conscious Feelings by Clinton Callahan). There are rituals of membership and life transitions. Membership is earned, not given due to the geographic location of your birth, or who your parents happen to be.
• Obligations. Rules of conduct and honor in the Gameworld Codex. The ultimate penalty being expulsion.
• Egalitarian and often leaderless (circular) organization. Sharing is prized.
• Circular (Toroidal) organizational structures, not hierarchical.
• Multi-skilled talents. Segmental organization (lots of redundancy among parts).
• Two-way loyalty. The tribe protects the members and the members protect the tribe. If this isn't implemented, you don't have a tribe, you have a Kiwanis club.

The 300 million strong (R)evolution Tribes of Cultural Creatives seems to be building a stable and recognizable identity. You already experience in certain moments the bondedness of fictive kinship.

Your relationships and commitments with others, and to your future together, are deepening.

As part of the 99% we are regaining our individual and tribal voices. We are taking back our authority after 6,000 years of patriarchal servitude.

Participating in (r)evolutionary gatherings, events, and initiations as your Tribe is a true rite of passage. (R)evolutionary spaces have protocols, customs, and rules of conduct which become apparent as you shift out of a shame-culture into an appreciation-and-personal-development-culture.

(R)evolution is egalitarian and leaderless. It is spread out over different geographies. Given the efforts that have been put in to keep (r)evolution growing, it appears that people have become loyal to the (R)evolution Tribe.

How to slay the Jabberwock? Here is how. If you use your inner Sword of Clarity (and the other 13 Tools on your Toolbelt) to Hold and Navigate Spaces so you live within a set of distinctions that are beyond the comprehension of the Jabberwock, then you leave the Jabberwock behind and it quickly dies of attrition.

Keep sharing your new distinctions and the ways you got them. Soon you become a bridge to sustainable culture that other people can also cross.

We can only come here together.

The first Villaging endeavor is to prepare and enrich your soil, to deepen your Context.

1. Where is your music?
2. What seeds are you carrying and protecting to share with others? These are both plant cuttings and seeds, and Villaging gameworld design seeds.
3. Who are each of you becoming? How do you help each other become that? In other words, to what degree is there clarity about the Path in your Villaging?
4. Where does Children's Culture play?
5. Where is the Women's Circle?
6. Where is the Men's Circle?
7. What foods does your Villaging grow in excess?
8. Who are your Guardians? How do they maintain the semi-permeable membrane of your Villaging space? What physical, energetic, emotional, and psychological weapons are they trained in?
9. Who are your Village Weavers? How do they connect with and nurture other Villagings?
10. Who are your Evolutionaries? 
11. Who are your Evolutionary Initiators? What Authentic Adulthood Initiatory Processes do they provide for your Villagers and your guest Villagers as a Nonmaterial Value?
12. How do you manage private guests of your Villagers, and visitors in general?
13. How do you manage your sewage and grey water?
14. Which Possibilitator Archearchy Specialties are your Villagers holding space for and delivering as a Nonmaterial Value?
15. How are new Radical Responsibility Initiations developed and documented? What Legend Making is done about your Initiations?
16. How does your Villaging promote Authentic Adulthood, specifically, how does your Villaging promote your people to escape from the 8 Prisons?
17. Who are your Evolutionary Healers? What 3 Phase Healings and Self Surgeries do they provide to your villagers and guest Villagers as a Nonmaterial Value?
18. How do you escape from the effects of 'founder's syndrome'? In other words, how do you get the original three Gameworld Builders to step down and away from their hidden authority that came to them merely from being the 'founders'?
19. How are new Radical Responsibility Healings developed and documented? What Legend Making is done about your Healings?
20. Who are your Gameworld Builders?
21. How do your Gameworld Builders create new Archearchy Gameworld Space for the Villaging people around the world to discover and occupy?
22. How are you documenting your Archearchy Gameworld Space Treasures to share with other Villagings?
23. How do you manage the Liquid States of people healing from modern culture?
24. How do you train and empower personal and whole-village Emotional Healing Processes and ongoing EHP Dojos so people can do keep doing their evolutionary steps?
25. How do you empower 3Cells and weekly Possibility Teams?
26. How does your Villaging ongoingly  rejuvenate Gaia and the Earth?
27. How do you empower and clarify the evolving diverging and converging Nodes in your Villaging Torus gameworld?
28. How do you absolutely undermine hierarchy? How do you mirror Gremlin maneuvers?
29. How do you formidably detect and isolate/forbid/face into sociopathic and psychopathic personality disorders?
30. Where is your orchestra? What musical instruments do you build as a Villaging art?
31. Where is your choir?
32. What are your Villaging dances?
33. What are your Villaging Celebrations? What is their Context? What is their Purpose? What is real about them? What do they cause for your people?
34. What are your Villaging's favorite recipes? Where are they available to share?
35. What are you Villaging's every-day clothing styles? How do you make your clothes?
36. What are your Villaging's Celebration Clothing styles?
37. How do you put Poop On The Table? What specific Torus Meeting Technologies does your Villaging specialize in?
38. Are you ongoingly using The Purple Card to indicate the necessity of Emotional Healing Processes?
39. How are your Villagers using group intelligence to Create Possibility for each other and for your shared gameworld?
40. Who are your Intimacy Journeyer guides? How are they trained? How do they share their Treasures?
41. How do you foster being a Creation Team and not a Uniform Team (such as a corporation, army, police force, all wearing the same uniform and doing the same thing at the same time)?
42. How clear are you about Radical Responsibility in the Context of your Villaging? Which of the 5 Levels of Responsibility have your Villagers chosen?
43. How do you implement Archearchy Economics? 
44. What is your Gaian Currency?
45. How do you decontaminate 'cash' and 'banking' from other gameworlds from being used inside of your gameworld? How do you run your economic membrane office?
46. How do you publicly distinguish and manage unconscious Gremlin behaviors and activities? For example, gambling such as ' online trading', computer sex, porn, child-abuse, partner abuse, mafia or gangster abuse, theft, sexual abuse, psychological abuse, emotional abuse, fighting?
47. How do you protect your children and families from Public School?
48. How do you heal your people from Public School?
49. How do you upgrade your people from Standard Human Intelligence Thoughtware (S.H.I.T.)?
50. How do you Decontaminate the Adult Ego State from the various Parent Ego State, Child Ego State, Gremlin Ego State and Demon Ego State contaminations?
51. How are you capturing and managing your fresh water supplies?
52. How are you reprocessing your 'grey water'?
53. How do you interface with other Cultures and other Gameworlds such as Post Office, Electric Company, Phone Service, Internet Service, City Water Regulations, Sewer Company, Regional and 'national' Governments and their various zoning laws, 'land taxes' and 'income taxes'?
54. How do you manage providing 'health insurance'?
55. How do you handle franchises, brand names, 'copyright', 'inheritance', 'land ownership', 'property ownership', and binding legal contracts?
56. Where are your book and video publishing studios?
57. Where is your 'Codex' available to the general public?
58. Where is your 'Bill Of Wrongs' available to the general public?
59. How do you face into Belief Systems, such as 'religion'?
60. How thoroughly is your Villaging aware of Assumptions, Expectations, Projections, Prejudices, Conclusions, Judgements, Resentments, Revenge?
61. How do you recycle / reuse / and/or avoid accumulating material objects, especially 'disposables', plastics, packaging, batteries, and tools and appliances with 'designed-in obsolescence'? How do you push-back on the unmonitored systems and corporations producing such items for the devastating illusion of personal and global of 'profit'?
62. How are you keeping the 'surveillance state' at bay?
63. How do you manage fueling your transportation and farm equipment such as tractors, trucks, diggers, and so on?
64. How do you explore and deepen Archeamory in your Villaging?
65. Are you thinking of developing an 'approaching period' and criteria for potential new members during which time they act inauthentically on 'good behavior' to be accepted in? Or do you Radically Rely on your Villaging to be an intelligent amoeba-like organism with a will and purpose of its own, which reaches out and spontaneously absorbs new member when they already needed or wanted as a perfect fit?
66. To what degree is your Villaging also a Bridge-House to next culture?
67. How does your Villaging deal with dogs, cats, pets, motorcycles, and loud music?
68. How does your Villaging relate to vegetarianism, veganism, light-eaters, people with dietary restrictions?
69. Are you sharing common food preservation, meal preparations, eating times, clean-up, and meeting times?
70. Who is managing your public relations with your neighbors? To what extent are neighbors invited to know about or collaborate with your Villaging?