Odemira: Tamera community, world's people found paradise in the county.
Germans made the Cerro Mount, in Odemira, the Tamera community, that has 200 people and attracts people of the world. Violence and love livre.O president of the Parish Relics Board, Daniel jellybeans, says came not teach anything, “but remember what the ancients did”.
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A dirt road in the middle of Alentejo, Welcome signs, horses and a giant lake at the entrance, trees and vegetation. Foreigners, most, circulate without appearing to rush. In the kitchen, the stove works solar energy and the dishes are vegan. It could be a holiday camp, but that's not wishing the residents of the community Tamera, in Odemira. They want a future without war, with love and free sex, without fear. This week organized the largest annual event, joining their 200 population 35 people from all over the world.
“Defend the sacred: conference for global change agents” It is the title of the meeting, started on Friday and ends tomorrow. Three days, but most participants are in Tamera to the main course, three three-month courses of study, one per year. Training to spread throughout the world biotope healing, habitat where all forms of life – human, animal, vegetable, aquatic – “coexist in its diversity”. It is a return to origins, in harmony with nature and without violence.
Tamera is a community with 200 residents (170 adults and 30 children and youth), initiated by three German in Cerro Mount, in Odemira. The sun, the available land and the hospitality of the population were the ideal conditions to settle in here 1995. And it is from the Alentejo who want to create a global network and form the Newfoundland.
Leaders and members of indigenous communities and social movements in Europe, America and Africa participating in the conference this year. Registration costs 150 euros, decreases to 60 in the case of young people and Portuguese. There are many other events that make up the major portion of that bill million euros annually. Visits and courses (classroom and online) contribute 59,1 % revenue, donations usually with 18,4% and donations from employees with 17,4%.
The main course costs 3500 euros for those from Latin America and Portugal, two thousand more for those traveling from Europe or the United States. The introductory course in philosophy community, one week, is between 300 and 400 euros. The organization provides meals and, generally, participants must bring tent. “These are people who have projects in their countries, They want to start new or intend to join the community of Tamera”, explains Joel Barros, one of the residents and the coordinator.
This is the case of Leo Baltadouro, 29 year old, Property former agent, who was born in Nicaragua; Valentina Teeth, 39, psychologist and therapist, in Italy; Alexandra Suriano, 26, student, not Mexico; Fabian Mauermann, 36, carpenter, in Germany. They all live in Mexico, a community identical to Tamera, Establish Kesh (Eco Village Design Education). Share the dinner table (19.00) with the Spanish Mariló Herrero, 40 year old, the son, and the German Andy Wolfrum, these residents Tamera seven years.
It counts in Italian Valentina: “I live in Mexico for seven years, collaborated with three INLA Kesh community, I moved there for year and a half. We work on a model of peace and a leadership with love.” They paid expenses through crowdfunding (collective funding), who has not paid all.
The desire to break away from a busy life, selling houses and count money, Leo Nicaraguan joins criticism of the political system of their country, why emigrated to Mexico. “I am looking for something that would satisfy me inside and found in INLA Kesh, It was a radical change.” It is a community inspired by Tamera model and the German Fabian helped found, in 2012, not Mexican state of Chiapas.
Fabian left INLA Kesh two and a half years to visit family in Germany, He returned to Mexico and maintains collaboration, It is the dynamic biodance, “a dance that facilitates emotional integration. share experiences, We work on personal and community aspects based on dance and music”, Explain. It was created by Chilean anthropologist Rolando Toro, in the years 1960 and initially was called psychodance.
The majority of residents nationality is German. Tamera is a project started in 1978, com Dieter Duhm, psychoanalyst, art historian and sociologist, Sabine Lichtenfels, the companion, theologian, e Charly Rainer Ehrenpreis, physical engineer and musician, who passed away last 3 July.
The body returned to Germany, was the presence and spirit. “Died but still among us, changes nothing. Not only continue the other two as there is a new generation available to continue with the project”, believes Sabina Muller, 70 year old, a nurse who left the profession.
Dieter, Sabina, Charly and four other pioneers founded in Germany the project Bauhuett, They have found the perfect place in your country and traveled to the south of Portugal, settling in Odemira. In 1995, underpinned what is now the Education Research Center for Peace. Bought dry land, who now have vegetation and lakes, an extension of 140 hectares, which include living spaces, riding, and producing a solar field tests, a cultural center (cafe and bar), a meditation area (stone circle), as well as a health center and school.
A life of sharing, looking for harmony with nature and a sustainable economy. Capture and produce solar energy, recovered rainwater, transform the waste in the field of combustion and fertilizer, They feed on farming and even the clothes are recycled. They work for nonviolence, advocate free love, do not allow the consumption of drugs and alcohol in public spaces, They have a vegan food (no products or derivatives of animal origin).
“There are a set of hippies working for peace and free love. But we started to realize that if we do not work in our own violence can not build a world of peace”, says Rosa Isabel, 51 year old, that seven years ago left the world of advertising and television.
Sex and free love
“Make love, not war” (make love, not war) is slogan peace of the last century that John Lennon immortalized and that the founders of Tamera practice. Regarded by the population strangely, that characterizes individuals as “They have sex with each other”, to soon complete: “Customs of the Swedes and Germans, but it is there with them.”
The community practices love and free sex, providing spaces for meetings. Isabel Rose does not escape the question: “free love means free love fears, only that gives a great lot of work. Getting love a person without my biography, without my past history. There is so much violence because of love, domestic violence motivated by jealousy, the goal is to love without fear that the other will go away by having an attraction to another person. We live in Tamera and be completely celibate, have a monogamous relationship or with more than one person.” Changed to life 44 year old, without forgetting the friends and family. “Not the world we turned off or live in a bubble.” It is in the area of media.
He opted for a life that is based on four areas: Water, energy, food and community. “we are not yet completely self-sufficient, still we buy the spaghetti”, Toys German Sabina Muller. Nursing allowed to 56 when you saw the leaflets on Tamera, in 2003. She enrolled in a course of one month, in April, but it ended up November and returned to Germany. He returned every year thereafter, even permanently fix on the farm. It is a great hostess, manages the reception.
She has four children and five grandchildren in Germany, family visit and the visit. “They are happy while the mother is happy and I am very happy. It is a place where we can look at the different aspects of life and where there is research on the development of a culture for peace. It is not always easy, but we have to find solutions to react to violence. But, if we have a violent reaction, Also we should not blame. It is something that requires hard work and training”, said Sabina.
I confess that it was always very difficult to get her out of serious. It is not the experience of Isabel. “It was a bit violent, but if we want to work for peace, we must realize that it begins with us.”
The suspicion with which they were regarded in the town for 24 years dissipated, to the point of becoming an asset, Daniel guarantees jellybeans, President of the Parish Relics Board, it belongs to Tamera. Has 1120 residents, not counting the inhabitants of Tamera, where the Census did not enter 2011. One of the people in the community is the coffee social and cultural space Wave in the center of town. And, as shown in the poster of Feasts of Our Lady of Relics, In August, participate in village festivals. They contributed to the program with “The man who spits fire”, the conference “climate change or change system” and, at the end, “Pizza and dance”.
“There was early resistance population, They were not prepared. They settled, They integrated into society and work together on activities and events, visiting the elderly, They know how to win”, says Daniel jellybeans.
As for the use of solar energy, the seed bank, the community oven and land cultivation to no use of fertilizers developed in Tamera, it is perentório: “recover, which formerly existed. They did not come to teach but to remember what made the old”. There are nearby other such communities, two of them dissidents Tamera, Eight hundred and the Cup of Life, beyond the Mooji, a Jamaican of Indian philosophy.
Children study in most home (individual and homeschooling, ordinance No. 69/2019). They belong to the Basic School Aviator Brito Paes, the 1st to the 9th year, where there 12 requests for individual lessons in Tamera.
