Has anyone ever actually been here? I would LOVE to here some personal accounts and stories of adventures there. I feel extremely drawn to that place ever since i found out about it. I thinking about emailing whoever i need to to get in contact with the people who run the place and request permission to come and see what im missing. Ive been longing for about 2 years now to find a little hippy haven or whatever you wanna call it where I can love and share unconditionally with others who are looking to futher themsleves on there spiritual path. Ive found myself at a young age not really interested in any of the matierialistic bullshit of babylon. I want to live on the land and with those who wish only to care and love and share with each other. I feel surrounded by negativity and projections of others egos onto my own and it does bring me down at times, but i find when i take a step back and remove myself from the situation and withdraw any investments i have into emotions of fear and doubt i can usually bring myself back up. Lately ive just been feeling rather down and out and i want to get out and away, i want to venture and travel and see what the world has to offer and try and find myself along the way. Isnt that what its all about? Anyway i would love to hear from those, even if you havent been to black bear ranch, who have experience in the communal lifestyle and living and sharing with complete strangers. :groupwave:
is Called "Commune". It is set in an unidentified Northern California commune. ie. Black Bear Ranch. You can buy it on Amazon.
Read Peter Coyote's memoir, "Sleeping Where I Fall", of his years with The Mime Troupe, the Diggers, Olema Ranch and Black Bear.
I did a Search both here and through Google and I turned up quite a bit of info including some to indicate it's still active.
Yeah thats kinda where im at. I know its still active i just kinda would like to talk to someone on the inside. I made it to oregon from tennessee in two days! Im probably going to go to the washington regional, and then the oregon regional after that and then try and make my way to cali. This has been one crazy fucking trip haha
I just finished reading 'sleeping where I fall' - which is very interesting, and very entertaining. Only a small part of the book is specifically about Black Bear Ranch, aside from the description of the very hard first winter - but a great deal about that larger community of which Black Bear was one part. He talks in detail about the altruism, the cooperation, the naivete, the sex, the jealousy, the violence, the theft, the freeloaders, the ideologues, and the drugs. After reading the book I felt like I had a much clear picture of why so much that people tried to create in the 60s and 70s just ... crumbled. I also felt like I understood a great deal more about the history of the place I live, which was founded in 1968. As for Black Bear, I think one of the reasons it may have persisted was that it was (and is) so remote. Where the pavement ends is already nowhere, and then the community itself is at the end of a very very long difficult dirt road.
