The Village and The Mountaintop

There was once a village. This village was home. It was the sanctuary, supported most of our needs, and learned that most of what we had to learn to navigate our way of life. In the village were our parents, uncles and aunts, cousins ​​and children and the ancient sages. It was love and community and understanding. There was safety and security, and no comfort.




From children to seniors, the people contained and supported him. There was a beautiful symmetry in this field, the interaction and interdependence that was mutually beneficial. The young learning from the old, old joy enjoying the young, there was a lot of sharing, organically, without effort, a give and take not only resources but life itself.

Within walking distance of the village could not find solitude, time and space to commune with nature, to reflect, to meditate or pray. And when this need is fulfilled, we could return to the village, renovated and restored full balance, and continue.

Of course, some might leave the village. Young people are expected to explore, to go beyond what they have experienced. This, too, was and is the nature of things. But the town was the center of the reference point, and even those who are gone, it has something of the village with them.

This was the way of things in one way or another, as they stood. That is, until the modern era.

The industrial age brought us mobile, and we were on our way. Peoples extend and diversify and became bigger and busier. Families are spread, the young beyond, often leaving behind the old. The fragmentation of the village had begun in earnest.

Historically, this is a very recent phenomenon. At first glance, a point in the timeline of man, our social structure has changed radically. However, our needs - the inherent nature of man as a social animal Cable - have not changed. Simply I have no time for us to adapt well.

So we are living in what is essentially a model that is alien to our historical frameworks, one of the neighborhoods and cities where not even know the names of the people who live nearby, let alone be in a genuine and mutual support . Families are not nuclear, and the only real common people is geography.

Now, another change has begun in our culture. Because we still have in us all the needs that people have provided, we can develop coping mechanisms to deal with. And, as the development of a new tool, we still talk awkwardly.

We ask you now see in our culture is a drawing of people to aspects of what the city used to provide. It is becoming polarity, then there are two extremes, there are, for the most part, all degrees of balance between the two. Since we are all unique and individual needs and desires are not present in all people to the same extent. Even within the balance of the old towns, some still leans more toward the community, while others are always inclined towards a more solitary experience.