The aatlvilles charter

  1. The Aatleville farms/ranch/markas (land areas) belong to nobody in particular as they belong to humanity as a whole. They will not ever be sold, but passed on through the clan mothers.

  2. To live in an Aatlville ranch/marka one must be willing to be an OWWL Council house OWL warrior intern in the training program.

  3. Aatlville ranches/markas will be places of un-ending remembering of ourselves as love, of constant evolvement and a youth that never ages.

  4. Aatlvilles is a matrix of building a new model. As a wise man said “you don’t fight the old, you build a new model that makes the old one obsolete”.

  5. Aatlvilles will be sites of material and spiritual researches in responsibility to ensure collective survival and well-being. Giving and sharing our commons: mother earth and her gift sources, is embodied by the care-circulating individual whose logic of action and ethics is like that of the ideal mother, not a distant, absent and judgmental father.

A Dream: Envisioning eco-social sustainability/society

The gift imaginary.

In these societies economic life is built on balanced human and environmental relations, a recognition of our interconnections and interdependencies and a forward-looking use of mother earth’s gift sources to ensure future cycles of abundance, fertility and rebirth of all species. The logic is in the rationality of care and responsibility to ensure collective survival and well-being.

In gift giving one gives to satisfy the need of another and the creativity of the receiver in using the gifts is as important as the creativity of the giver. The gift interaction is transitive and the product passes from one person to the other, creating a relation of inclusion between the giver and the receiver with regard to what is given. Gift giving implies the value of the other, while the commodity exchange, which is made to satisfy one’s own need, is reflexive and implies the value only of oneself.

To be a Aatlvilian

  1. The first is to join the OWL Council house program as an OWL Warrior intern. The journey is 18 months long, done in cycles of 13 weeks. It is 18 months because that is the amount of time an infant needs to attach to its caregiver-mother. In this journey you are walking away from the techno-patriarchal matrix as your caregiver, and returning to natural order, mother earth and each other as caregiver.

  2. Become the master of your mind.

  3. Become the jaguar warrior, master of the body and the land, that ensures the survival of your great, great grandkids.

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Cohabitation Dehesas

Dehesa- The word comes from the old growth multifunctional agrosylvopastoral systems of Spain. The dehesas of Spain (Montados in Portugal) are examples of ecosystems where humans play a constructive role, maintaining and improving the landscape to benefit wilderness, all its inhabitants and humans equally. The area of land belongs to the village/cohabitors in common.

Forests seem permanent and natural. Few are. For at least 6,000 years men and women have shaped the woods. The forests as we know them are products of craft/art-ing.

Up until our time a forest was not a wilderness. From it might be harvested timber, firewood, tanbark, charcoal, fence and hurdle poles, splints for wattle, grass to pasture sheep, goats, cattle, horses, bison and more, acorns to fatten hogs, honey from beehives, ink from oak galls. In return, the users left the dung of the grazing animals.

A good dehesa looks like a park. The principal trees are oak, and under the trees are grasses and many more forage plants.

No one gets individually rich on a Dehesa, yet all live well. It requires a complex code of use allied to half a dozen crafts (or more) in a system of care and protection for all who come after. This has been going on since the bronze age and before. Since the Neolithic age crops have been planted among the trees.

 

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OWWL

Owl can see that which others cannot, which is the essence of true wisdom

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Meet the Sensei

 

 

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Arting/Crafting careers

 Working for a living= merely surviving

Career-ing= inspiring for a short time

Art-ing/crafting vocation-ing= awakened radiantly happy living a full filling life.

 

Since humans began to build and settle down, there have been two versions of the world; the world made with wood, and the world made with coal and oil. One lasted 12 to 15 millenia, the other has lasted about 250 years so far, and is crumbling into non being.

Humans arose through the exercise of memory, reason and skill in a world that was warming and blooming. Memory gave to reason its material and skill proved a thought to be true (or not). Skill suggested a turn of the wrist, memory preserved it, reason compared it.

The human attributes-courage, faithfulness, patience, fortitude, prudence and honor were forged where the faculties met, in the making of home in the world.

Human beings learned from the woods around them. The more the people worked with the oak, the more the oak taught them what it could do.

When we talk about prehistoric Britain we tend to think of Stonehenge. What we seldom realize is that Stonehenge is by no means unique. Most of the henges that have been excavated were largely or entirely made of oak posts.

The shapes and patterns of all the henges are called entropic because it is thought that they were created within the eyes itself.

The human mind grew through the knowledge born of Art, of Craft, and in order to make, our ancestors had to imagine. In order to imagine, they had to make. Between thinking/imagining and making (art-ing/crafting) the world we know emerged.

To imagine and to make (art, craft) are reinforcing pairs that awaken your spirit to life a big talented full-filling life.

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The journey

Crafting Dojo Opportunities

Service and volunteering dojo

Throw coins into the sacred pond

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Who is us

We are re-enchanting our world by honoring and celebrating everybody and everything while Art-ing a good life for all.

 

About aatl

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Our Renunciations

Our Animal Tribe

Our Human Tribe

Our heritage

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