What exactly is a cultural oasis?
Uwe Burka and his team have dealt extensively with this question and have come to a very comprehensible and clear conclusion. In the following, they have compiled a list that gives us a framework within which we can operate and which aspects we should pay special attention to when we want to build a new “cultural oases”. In this way, we can ensure that our project is successful from the start and that we don’t drift back into an unbalanced world that can’t actually work from the start.
💼 Fields of work
🎯 Tasks in cultural oases
🌈 Illusionary dangers
🧱 Hardening dangers
Text and listing: Uwe Burka
More and more initiatives use the name “cultural oases”. This name seems to be coming into fashion. What constitutes a “cultural oases”?
In the following, we outline the core areas of “cultural oases” along with our approaches to solving them. They mean a constant tightrope walk between two extremes. On the one hand the “illusions” and on the other hand the “hardening” in materialism. If we succeed in maintaining the middle, viable solutions for the complex social issues open up. This helps to sharpen the view in the search for constructive people and initiatives.
💼 Humans
🎯 Tasks in cultural oases
Development of body, soul AND spirit
🌈 Illusionary danger
Diffuse emotions of the soul
🧱 Hardening danger
Only materialistically seen
💼 Soul areas
🎯 Tasks in cultural areas
Developing thinking, feeling and will harmoniously
🌈 Illusionary danger
Feelings rule unilaterally
🧱 Hardening danger
Intellect rules unilaterally
💼 Work motivation
🎯 Tasks in cultural oases
For fellow human beings, following my “calling”
🌈 Illusionary danger
Only if it is fun
🧱 Hardening danger
Only for money
💼 Society
🎯 Tasks in cultural oases
Transformation of the existing
🌈 Illusionary danger
Parallel society
🧱 Hardening danger
New SYSTEMS – old thinking
💼 Future places
🎯 Tasks in cultural oases
All areas form a village “organism”
🌈 Illusionary danger
Castles in the air in nature
🧱 Hardening danger
Specialism in smart cities
💼 Community
🎯 Tasks in cultural oases
In symbiosis with neighbors, region and world
🌈 Illusionary danger
Sectarianism
🧱 Hardening danger
Hierarchical world organization
💼 Economy
🎯 Tasks in cultural oases
Responding to the needs of society
🌈 Illusionary danger
Self-sufficiency
🧱 Hardening danger
Continued growth thinking
💼 Money
🎯 Tasks in cultural oases
Is “enabler” for exchange/lending/gifting
🌈 Illusionary danger
Abolish money
🧱 Hardening danger.
Money continues to rule, bitcoins
💼 Pricing
🎯 Tasks in cultural oases
Paying “right prices” for people and nature
🌈 Illusionary danger
Cheap, cheap, cheap
🧱 Hardening danger
Competitive thinking
💼 Financing
🎯 Tasks in cultural oases
Priv. lending & giving d. consciousness training
Illusionary danger
Without prof. work no money
🧱 Hardening danger
Old bank thinking
💼 Agriculture
🎯 Tasks in cultural oases
Secure & transform existing farms in solidarity
Illusionary danger
Fields & gardens go wild
🧱 Hardening danger
Organic from selfish motives
💼 Nature
🎯 Tasks in cultural oases
Increased by “cultivation”! More diversity
🌈 Illusionary danger
Overgrowth, lack of food
🧱 Hardening danger
Overbreeding, insect-food
💼 Land & building
🎯 Tasks in cultural oases.
Neutralize, e.g., through foundations.
🌈 Illusionary danger
Hardly any legal awareness
🧱 Hardening danger
Old capitalist. Possessive thinking
💼 Work
🎯 Tasks in cultural oases
Professionally pursuing the task/vocation
🌈 Illusionary danger
Professional dilettantism
🧱 Hardening danger
Sticking to the so-called safe job
💼 Pedagogy
🎯 Tasks in cultural oases
Giving close to nature AND culture-creating framework
🌈 Illusionary danger
Too much freedom, gendering
🧱 Hardening danger
Too early to intellect and media
💼 Free polyversity
🎯 Tasks in cultural oases
Lifelong education for profession, society AND mind
🌈 Illusionary danger
Little will, out of touch with reality
🧱 Hardening danger.
Too much AI and cold mind
💼 Culture
🎯 Tasks in cultural oases
Activities to increase the “genius” of man
🌈 Illusionary danger
Empty entertainment
🧱 Hardening danger
Not important, rationalized away
💼 Music
🎯 Tasks in cultural oases
Classical music and genuine folk music centered
🌈 Illusionary danger
Shallow music – excarnating
🧱 Hardening danger
A lot of bass, too incarnating
💼 Art
🎯 Tasks in cultural oases
Is humus for culture, art for what triggers art
🌈 Illusionary danger
Arbitrary and mainstream
🧱 Hardening danger
Career controlled
💼 Medicine
🎯 Tasks in cultural oases
Health centers with individual therapies
🌈 Illusionary danger
Many healer illusions
🧱 Hardening danger
Sees human as machine
💼 Leadership
🎯 Tasks in cultural oases
By competent serving responsible persons
🌈 Illusionary danger
Lack of responsibility
🧱 Hardening danger
Through power mongers
💼 Decisions
🎯 Tasks in cultural oases
Unanimous, without discussion u. without voting
🌈 Illusionary danger
Chaotic grassroots democracy
🧱 Hardening danger
Manipulated votes
💼 Media behavior
🎯 Tasks in cultural oases
SELF research, thinking and analysis
🌈 Illusionary danger
believe only alternative
Media
🧱 Hardening danger
believe only conventional media
💼 Families
🎯 Tasks in cultural oases
Elective families with goals that promote society
🌈 Illusionary danger
Gendern, destruction d. Fam.
🧱 Hardening danger
Holding on to blood family
💼 Where to live
🎯 Tasks in cultural oases
Where I can work for the society
🌈 Illusionary danger
Where it’s nice and cheap
🧱 Hardening danger
In places that are too representative
💼 How to live
🎯 Tasks in cultural oases
Simple, ecological, several units in the house
🌈 Illusionary danger
Tipis, yurts, tiny houses
🧱 Hardening hazard.
Ecological, but too generous
💼 Spiritual orientation
🎯 Tasks in cultural oases
Charity, inner development for the world
🌈 Illusionary danger
Dreamy
🧱 Hardening danger arbitrary
Hardening danger
None
💼 Well-being
🎯 Tasks in cultural oases
“Joy” through “creative” work and culture
🌈 Illusionary danger
“Fun” with like-minded people
🧱 Hardening danger
“Fun” is bought in
💼 Celebrations
🎯 Tasks in cultural oases
4seasons, wedding ect., AFTER work is finished
🌈 Illusionary danger
Celebration and muse – switch off
🧱 Hardening danger
Commercialization
