www.espheriashram.com is about creating real human-scale cooperative community: its fundamental basis, how it is time, money, and energy-saving, off-the-grid, safe (virtually disaster-proof), secure (strength in numbers) homes, with consistent, responsible, and loving care by your own people, birth-to-death.
The Espheria concept is based on the cooperative living principle of “strength in numbers”. Thus, the fundamental principle of Espheria is cooperative community.
Historically, humankind has lived cooperatively—albeit as hunter-gatherers—for some 1.8 million years. These wandering groups have existed based variously on sheer survival, cooperation, tolerance, unity, service of others, Divine contemplation, simplicity, responsibility, accountability, and a generally peaceful culture. It has only been in the last 10K years, and especially the last 260 years (since industrialization), that this paradigm has moved into an ego-based, self-oriented, self-centered, independent, dissociative, divided-and-conquered, separatist, competitive culture—which attitude now dominates the world