Two Couples, One Roof: The Power of Communal Living
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Join Elizabeth Oldfield and her housemates as they dive into their unconventional living arrangement, where two couples cohabit in a close-knit, intentional community in London.
In this episode, we explore the motivations behind choosing such a radically interconnected and alternative lifestyle and the profound impact it has on promoting happiness and connection, and combating loneliness and pride.
We discuss the challenges and rewards of prioritising communal needs over personal comfort, and how this journey has unlocked a deeper sense of what it means to be Fully Alive.
🎙️ Follow The Sacred: linktr.ee/sacredpodcast
📖 Follow Elizabeth Oldfield: www.elizabetholdfield.com/
💡 Produced by the Theos Think Tank: www.theosthinktank.co.uk/
Inspiring and beautiful. Eager to join the long queue of people interested in talking more with you about this…
It’s so sad that affluence (or the “worship” of it) destroyed the extended family and now it’s a huge struggle to find ways to create belonging. What struck me, listening to the four of you, was your strong yearning to protect and cultivate the beautiful preciousness that is life or truly living. I just bought a copy of Fully Alive!
I loved your book, and I'm loving this conversation.
Thank you for your podcast, Elizabeth. I've heard you a few times, and appreciate the spiritual and psychological wisdom you offer, and your honesty. Your courage ('cor', from the 'heart') in turn encourages others. I also love your emphasis on intentional communal life as an integral part of spiritual psychology.
The idea of being "fully alive" is connected to "health", which means to be "whole", which also relates to "holy". Fullness refers to integration, which brings us to religion, meaning to "re-bind". This binding is meant in three ways according to the shared perspective of the world's religions. To vertically bind the soul with the divine, through the spirit (divine "breath" in humans). Then, binding the various elements within the soul, or cultivating the marriage of feminine and masculine aspects of our soul. Thirdly, religion is the binding with creation in general, with the neighbour. These three are nourished in unison, and reinforce each other.
The spirit is the pure confluence of feminine and masculine attributes, and the soul integrates its own fragmented feminine and masculine elements by cultivating receptivity towards the spirit. As the soul is illuminated and invigorated, it will tend to radiate this outwardly, and it will recognize creation as a reflection of itself. The soul will then love creation as living symbols of transcendent realities, and it will also radiate the same. This radiant fullness of self, or "selfishness", is what religion calls charity.
Oooh... how does it feel for all of you to have all of us watching YOU! I am so impressed. I keep coming back to Fully Alive (the podcasts and the book) when there's discomfort or, as you put it, friction in my everyday relationships. It's helpful just for thinking about how to be amongst people, how to be with myself, and is leaking into my conversations with other people. Also to mention... I've been longing for years for something that's a kind of reverse Big Brother (BB= throw out the person who causes most friction) which I felt reallly helped to push people's expectations of shared living as being conflict-free (=anodyne...) and I would venture to suggest, contributed to the ideal of single-person households over shared living. I'm suprised to find myself welcoming the housing crisis as a pressure to really think through shared living and to start acknowledging how it can work, what it can be (and yes, who we can be). So thank you to all of you for your courage and warmth towards one another and towards the world.
Love what you're doing. We're looking into it here in Kansas, USA.
That's great to hear!
Wonderful, thank you.
How is it that this somehow gives off mormon commune and keys in a bowl vibe at the same time
To improve your videos you could make the editing tighter, and work on better camera angles.