An engaging look at communes throughout American history. Intentional communities have always been testing grounds for radical innovations in family structure, sexuality, and property. This series features in-depth interviews with communitarians and historians, leavened with a healthy dose of humor. Hosted by Christian Goodwillie, Hamilton College, and Dan Greenstone and Travis Chandler, of the Francis W. Parker School.
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Camphill Communities- Villagers and Co-Workers
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The Camphill Movement is a worldwide network of communities designed to include people with and without intellectual disabilities: Villagers and Co-Workers. Based on the Anthroposophical teachings of Rudolf Steiner, Camphill seeks to develop each person's inherent potential to grow, learn, and achieve. On today's episode we talk with Dan McKanan, t…
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This week we have a fantastically weird-yet true-story that rivals Frankenstein. Spiritualist John Murray Spear and his followers constructed a "New Motor," or "Electrical Infant," under the direction of the spirits of Benjamin Franklin and others. It was to be animated with a charge of sexual energy with a mission of redeeming humanity. We speak w…
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On this second episode of a two-part look at the Zendik Farm Arts Cooperative we speak with former member Helen Zuman. With roots in the Beat and hippie movements of late 1960s southern California, Zendik's message evolved to prophesy "Ecocide," a sure result of our "Death Culture." Helen Zuman's memoir Mating in Captivity can be found here.…
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Zendik Farm- Escape from the Death Culture, part 1
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On this first episode of a two-part look at the Zendik Farm Arts Cooperative we speak with former members Jeanne Nolan and Verd Nolan. With roots in the Beat and hippie movements of late 1960s southern California, Zendik's message evolved to prophesy "Ecocide," a sure result of our "Death Culture." Jeanne Nolan's memoir From the Ground Up can be fo…
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This introductory episode covers America's communal history at a high level, exploring questions and themes that will resonate throughout the series.
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Take a trip inside!!! Cyrus Reed Teed, aka Koresh, posited that the earth was a hollow sphere and all the cosmos were contained therein. His followers believed this messiah would lead them into androgynous immortality as they journeyed from Chicago to the Florida gulf coast. We're joined by experts Lyn Millner, author of The Allure of Immortality: …
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Take a trip inside!!! Cyrus Reed Teed, aka Koresh, posited that the earth was a hollow sphere and all the cosmos were contained therein. His followers believed this messiah would lead them into androgynous immortality as they journeyed from Chicago to the Florida gulf coast. We're joined by experts Lyn Millner, author of The Allure of Immortality: …
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