Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Breakthrough at conference?

[Kevin Wolf (kjwolf]

On Mon, 9 Oct 1995, John Hunter wrote:

> Maybe someone out there can help me on this.
> 
> So what gives? Is cohousing a mundande, planned living arrangement or a 
> crypto-religious movement? If it's the latter, I say it's spinach and I 
> say the hell with it.

N STreet Co-housing does not have any spiritual rituals which are imposed 
on others in community meetings.  Various members invite the community to 
their homes for different rituals from Day of the Dead, to Summer and 
Winter Equinox events.  But these are individual events to which not 
everyone attends.  At the end of all meetings we have a group hug which 
is not religious in nature but I am sure some of us get spiritual benefit 
from it.  (We don't pray nor envision whitelight, though we will 
sometimes joke, weave to and fro and be light hearted.

It sounds to me that someone got a little enthusiastic with their own 
religious thinking and likely just have to be reminded that religion and 
co-housing should not mix in official ways - at least that is my opinion.

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