Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Intentional communities

[Jim Slotta (JDSST17]

As an outside observer, it seems to me that drawing any rigid lines of
distinction between cohousing and intentional community will serve at least one
unhelpful purpose: it may limit any cohousing situation in terms of what it
might *become* over time.  That is, if some or all members of a cohousing
community have *images* of an unbreachable gulf between themselves and 
"intentional community", then they may resist any growth that would take their
community into a more intentional framework.  Thihs would seem a little
closed-minded - after all, who knows what the future may hold?