About Wildheart
A Better Way
My dream is not to grow my own food, to own land, to live in community, or to create a sustainable way of life.
My dream is to grow a community that holds these desires as sacred. I want to grow a community that knows in their souls the value of living in harmony with nature, on own land, in their own homes, with family and community.
This is a revolutionary shift from a culture that finds safety in laws and money, to a culture that finds safety in trust and coherence with each other.
I place my hopes, my dreams, and my faith in the people who will live this way of life. I place all of my trust in the lived tradition of this way of life. It is an oral tradition; a tradition of ceremony and practice. No book, or law, or doctrine can replace the lived experience. The ancients knew this, and we will know this again.
For Future Generations
We live in a way that is a sustainable model for the future of humanity. We are able to feed ourselves off our own land, stay nourished from our own streams, repair our own houses, and heat and light our own homes with the energy we collect. We have the ability to be entirely self sufficient. There is no extraction of nonrenewable resources or build up of unrecycled waste that would make our way of life unsustainable.
We protect and steward the ecosystem of our land, cultivating the richness of the soil, protecting our waters, caring for our animals, and creating safe harbor for the wildlife. We could live this way for generations, for many generations into the future. The land may one day no longer support human life, but this day will not come from the lack of our stewardship.
In Harmony with the Earth
We know how to live in peace and harmony with each other. We have a culture that fosters connection and compassion. We have learned the ways of relationship. It is not so say that there is never conflict, but we know how to resolve conflict. We know how to work through it and learn from it and grow stronger through our honesty, vulnerability and deep listening. We all work to understand and be understood.
Honoring Our Traditions
From my time traveling the world, going through many initiations, rites, rituals, and shared adventures, I have learned that it is through doing challenging and emotional things together that true community is forged.
Culture is the result of our shared experiences. Initiations, celebrations, ceremonies, and shared customs create connection and coherence.
Prepared for Self Reliance
This is the dream and the North Star, ever present in our plans and evolution of the community. We will not be entirely isolated and independent from the world. We will not eliminate all waste. We will still buy food and things. We will still travel using cars and planes. If we are blessed, we will never need to be entirely self sufficient. But we know the pace of consumption and the depletion of resources in the world is unsustainable for a bright future. Each subsequent generation moving forward will face the shrinking availability of resources our generation wasted and took for granted. If our country ran out of fossil fuels, if the internet went down, if society collapsed, our community would lose luxuries. Food, water, shelter, power, and community would persist. No one would go hungry. No one would go thirsty. No one would lack shelter.
Our culture makes us resilient. Our understanding of how to live in peace and harmony enables us to band together even in tough times. Modern culture has ingrained in most of society to fend for yourself in times of crisis. We know this is the time to unite.
A Model for the Future
To achieve sustainability and self reliance as a community is beautiful. It becomes an even greater gift to the future of humanity to do it at a scale that could inspire real change. Large communities offers benefits of resiliency but also presents new challenges of coordination. Governance, rights, conflict, and all manner of interpersonal challenges grow larger as the group grows.
We were designed to live in tribes.
Imagine a future where suburbs are replaced by sustainable co-housing communities. Most people live in communities that operate on their own grid, pulling their own water and energy without the need for large municipalities. They grow the majority of their own food.
Cities still exist as major metropolitan centers for culture, arts, business, and healthcare. We are not replacing cities. Our model replaces suburbs, rural neighborhoods, and small towns.
If our society moved in this direction the reduction in waste would be enormous.
This isn’t going to happen overnight. It will start in small communities. Brave pioneers like us will take the leap into an ancient future way of life. I dream of this future. The quiet revolution of the farmer. The rewilding of our people and our land. It is a future I will not live to see, but I will plant the seeds and water them with devotion.
To this I dedicate my life.
~ Jasper Jon Crocker
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