The need for spiritual communities : and how to start them / Swami Kriyananda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kriyananda, Swami, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communities--Religious aspects--Self-Realization Fellowship.

Communities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (167 pages)

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Nevada City, California : Crystal Clarity Publishers, [2015]

Summary:

Swami Kriyananda's network of Ananda communities has been hailed as the most successful in the world. Whether you are interested in communities from a philosophical perspective or from a practical one--and wish to form your own or join with others in doing so--this book will bring you hundreds of helpful insights into the process--starting a community, making it prosper even in difficult times, and seeing it continue into a bright future.

Contents:

The Need For Spiritual Communities And How To Start Them

Contents

Publisher's Note

Preface

Part I: Intentional Communities: How to Start Them, and Why

1. The Time Is Now

2. Self-Realization vs. the Megalopolis

3. Intentional Communities and the Quest for Opportunity

4. Intentional Communities, Past and Present

5. How to Begin

6. Communal Economics

7. Communalism vs. Privacy

8. Education

9. Government

10. Rules

11. What Is Ananda?

Epilogue (to Part I)

Part II: The Story of Ananda

1. The Early Years

2. Land Ho!

3. My First Non-Home

4. Ananda Meditation Retreat

5. The Purchase of Ananda Farm

6. Communal Beginnings

7. Financial Problems

8. Lessons Learned

9. "Here and Now"

Afterword

Second Afterword.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781565895553

156589555X

OCLC:

1256263245