I'm sure some people here are aware of Alan Chadwick, but in light of the directive to begin thinking about what is possible, I wanted to share this link:
https://chadwickarchive.org/
I've mentioned earlier that a mentor of mine had a chance to apprentice with Chadwick directly, and I've heard many first hand stories of the man and his adventures and accomplishments. He had an indomitable will, and worked magic with land and plants and people. He suffered no fools. He was of aristocratic roots, but lived by the notion of noblesse oblige. He was theatrical, a Shakespearean actor, artistic and associated with Theosophy and Anthroposophy, and was a direct student of Steiner. He is the kind of character who might resonate with a Retrotopia/Ecosophia minded person. There are hours of lectures hosted on this site. I've got an old stack of CDs of his lectures on biodynamics, copied off of earlier cassettes. (I've fired them up again to see if I can't get a hint on the weed ash garden ritual.)
Anyway, Chadwick, in hindsight, was obviously thinking about how to build a parallel society for our time. He saw it coming. For those of you in SF, you are surrounded by his old haunts. Earlier in my life I made the pilgrimage with said mentor to Green Gulch, where he passed and is buried, as well as Covelo and the Chadwick Garden at UC Santa Cruz. Anyone who has a chance to visit the Center for Agroecology at UCSC would be hard pressed to find a more dynamic space successfully imagining the parallel future. They are friendly, stop by to see the work! This is no soon-to-fail utopian commune. This place is churning out small organic farmers and market gardeners like nowhere else on earth.
I'm thinking we might build a list of these sorts of singular figures. Something akin to what JMG did here with occult history, and is doing now with his lineage. If we had to create a list of a dozen or two dozen masters, from around the world, whose work would inspire a parallel society, who would they be? I am nominating Chadwick as the first suggestion. Who else gets to join the crew?
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What might be possible - inspiration
Date: 2022-11-15 06:51 pm (UTC)https://chadwickarchive.org/
I've mentioned earlier that a mentor of mine had a chance to apprentice with Chadwick directly, and I've heard many first hand stories of the man and his adventures and accomplishments. He had an indomitable will, and worked magic with land and plants and people. He suffered no fools. He was of aristocratic roots, but lived by the notion of noblesse oblige. He was theatrical, a Shakespearean actor, artistic and associated with Theosophy and Anthroposophy, and was a direct student of Steiner. He is the kind of character who might resonate with a Retrotopia/Ecosophia minded person. There are hours of lectures hosted on this site. I've got an old stack of CDs of his lectures on biodynamics, copied off of earlier cassettes. (I've fired them up again to see if I can't get a hint on the weed ash garden ritual.)
Anyway, Chadwick, in hindsight, was obviously thinking about how to build a parallel society for our time. He saw it coming. For those of you in SF, you are surrounded by his old haunts. Earlier in my life I made the pilgrimage with said mentor to Green Gulch, where he passed and is buried, as well as Covelo and the Chadwick Garden at UC Santa Cruz. Anyone who has a chance to visit the Center for Agroecology at UCSC would be hard pressed to find a more dynamic space successfully imagining the parallel future. They are friendly, stop by to see the work! This is no soon-to-fail utopian commune. This place is churning out small organic farmers and market gardeners like nowhere else on earth.
I'm thinking we might build a list of these sorts of singular figures. Something akin to what JMG did here with occult history, and is doing now with his lineage. If we had to create a list of a dozen or two dozen masters, from around the world, whose work would inspire a parallel society, who would they be? I am nominating Chadwick as the first suggestion. Who else gets to join the crew?
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