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802 Desert Creek Road,
Numbugga via Bega NSW 2550
Phone: 6492 8498
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ABOUT DESERT CREEK HOUSE			A PRACTICE OF HARMONY			CLIMATE CHANGE		A SPIRITUAL SEARCH
About Desert Creek House	How to get to DCH	.	Practical ecology	Building: a community house	.	My books - A practical Manual about: Community, Land and Nature, A new Economy, Femininity	.	Next program	Past sessions
Photos of DCH	Our daily program	.	Our solar house: how it works	Climatic architecture	.	The Tipping Point Alliance: A Vision and Strategy for a Meaningful Life in a Fracturing World	.	Meditation day	A selection of texts
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Page d'accueil DCH	Plus de détails sur DCH	.	Mes livres: Mode d'emploi pour un bonheur partagé				.	Commentaires des Evangiles

Last update of this page: 13 February 2020 Last news about DCH - Page of DCH Friends - Most recent documents

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New: Last version of the Vision and Strategy for a Meaningful Life in a Fracturing World
New: An extract of Alexander Solzhenitsyn Cancer Ward about truth and freedom
New: Last workshop: surrender of fight
New: A few exercises of meditation

1) Our next activities Next themes of reflection Next meditation weekend Next community day Next workshop Further activities

2) Last past meetings Related documents Last workshop: Surrender or Fight (September 2019) Previous workshop: Going deeper - Money, Work, Generosity (2nd stage) (May 2019)) After our community day about "Generosity" (May 2018) After our community day about "Nonviolent communication" (April 2018)

3) New essays By us or by other sources Reflection on the election system in Australia Aboriginal People: The Uluru Statement (2017) Country: Land and reconciliation (Feb. 2017) Australia: Colonial system and democracy (Jan. 2019) Climate change: Two proposal for immediate action and radical change (Feb. 2019) Chinese silent invasion (Hamilton): Resistance and resilience.

4) Life at DCH A few texts and main present issues A few exercises of meditation We need your help: List of works to be done now at DCH Calender for this year: all the dates on 1 A4 How to get to DCG - map and instructions Constitution of the association Desert Creek House Inc.

1) Our next activities Next meditation weekend: From Friday 13 (6pm) to Sunday 15 March at 9am. Silent weekend of meditation Following Meditation days will be on: April 10-12 / May 8-10 / June 12-14 / July 10-12 / Aug. 7-9 / Sept. 11-13 / Oct. 9-11 / Nov. 13-15 / Dec. 11-13. Next community day (working bee in the morning with sharing about the Tarot in the afternoon): on the 28 March from 9am for a 9.30 start to 4pm. Contributing some food to share. Working bee replaces donation. Following Community days (generally on the fourth Saturday of the month, except when there is a workshop on the same month - because the workshop is considered as a community day) will be on: 25 July / 24 Oct. Next workshop: Fri. 21 (5pm) to Sun. 23 February 2020 (9am) Living in the Truth - Facilitator: Yves de Morsier In our postmodern era everybody wants to follow their own truth and any opinion seems acceptable. Diversity of beliefs constitutes a wealth, but it does not mean we can adapt truth at will. An unfathomable Truth exists which is the Reality that shapes our world. Today we have lost in great part our faculty to remain rooted in it. We will observe how science, knowledge and our own experience are incomplete means but may yet serve as guides. We will investigate how our egocentric perception has to develop into an all-encompassing hetero-centric vision and how we may find a consensus concerning our common future despite our differences. We will also examine ways of how to live in the Truth and how to accept the consequences of such a choice. Cost: DCH donation plus contributing some food to share. Further activities: See further program on this website (in a new window) 2) Last past meetings - Related documents (Each one in a new window) (September 2019) Documents from our last workshop: Surrender or Fight The main text and documents of the workshop "Surrender or Fight" (1'550kb in pdf) (Of course this was only the starting point for the sharing we had) (May 2019) Documents from the previous workshop: Going deeper - Money, Work, Generosity (2nd stage) The main text and documents of the workshop "Money, Work, Generosity" (682kb in pdf) (Of course this was only the starting point for the sharing we had) (May 2018) After our community day and sharing about generosity (26th May), Jen provides here her text for further reflection: The text and the quotations: About generosity (6p in pdf) And Sunny asked for the text about the four categories of goods: Four categories of goods and the ways to share them (7p in pdf) This is an extract of Yves' book about wealth and poverty (p183sq). For the whole book, see: Vocation and subsistence: towards a reconciliation between simplicity and wealth on the search for care and equity (233p in pdf) (April 2018) About nonviolent communication, after our community day and sharing (28th April), Sunny proposes the following texts for further reflexion: Borrowed from the Center for Nonviolent Communication (www.cnc.org): Spiritual Basis of Nonviolent Communication (6p in pdf) Borrowed from Pennsylvania University (http://ceteseerx.ist.psu.edu): Nonviolence in World religions (135p in pdf) 3) Recent documents - By us or by other sources (Each one in a new window) A reflection about the election system in Australia. Nowadays the two party system prevents minorities to be represented in parliament. By contrast a proportional system would allow these minor tendencies to be active and it would break the polarisation between the two major forces. Their presence in parliament, as so far unrepresented perceptions and tendencies, would generate new forms of alliances and it would foster a true public debate about the society we want to implement. Election system in Australia and the corresponding example based on the last elections (2019) About Aboriginal issues: What can we do at DCH to discover a true connexion to Aboriginal people and culture? The Uluru statement (written by elders at Uluru in 2017: this is an admirable very short text, so deep, so true. Uluru Statement from the Heart- 1p in pdf Through my readings and writings I had a modest insight into the Aboriginal issue and have here a proposal about what we could try to do at DCH. Warning: I do not know much about Aboriginal people and their culture but I'm very touched (in my ignorance) by the wealth it represents in terms of human gifts. There is a certainty: we would be all enriched to tap into the huge potential of true (re)conciliation. I need your insights, your advices, etc. Help me! Tell me please what you think of this proposal! Land and reconciliation - Two insights - One proposal - 4p in pdf About Australia: About democracy in Australia and how it has been shaped by its colonial past: Colonial system and democracy About ecology and climate change: As a response to Prof. Lesley Hughes' talk at the Bermagui Institute, a double proposal for an immediate action and radical change: Two proposals About the book "Silent invasion" by Clive Hamilton: How to resist Chinese state interference in Australian social and economic life. Resistance and resilience Further readings: See other texts published on this website (in a new window) 3) Life at DCH - Main practical documents about DCH (Each one in a new window) As a help for meditation: A few exercises of meditation (14p in pdf) We need your help: List of various works of maintenance to be done at DCH. Concerning our next activities: All the important dates for this year on 1 A4 sheet. How to get to DCH: Map and instruction how to access DCH. DCH is a non-for-profit association: Constitution of Desert Creek House Incorporated.

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