How to meet yours?

What is the biggest problem of modern man? Loneliness.

Loneliness is rarely associated with physical loneliness. Now almost no one lives in the outlying area; Probably, several or several dozen people live within a radius of 100 meters from you. Only you have nothing to do with them. Passers-by or residents of the same block are unfamiliar with each other. How can I fix this? 

In the past, man was born and spent his life in a well-defined group, among his own. 

For the peasant, such a community was a village or a cluster, as Reymont brilliantly presented in Khlopy. For the landowner, the community was a povyat, from which nobility was going to the sejmik. For the burgher - his city. Families forming families were communities, and that is why it was so important to know and respect relatives. The more branched the family tree, the easier it was to find a friend - anywhere. 

Religions also played a role (and still do). Especially when that religion is in the minority. That is why, once in Poland, Protestants (they were the bourgeois elite), Jews, Tatars (Muslims) and Armenians formed close and close-knit groups. They were distinguished not by language, but by religion, a separate branch of Christianity. 

History also knows the creation of communities consciously, according to a specific project. Some of them were (and are) Masons, in other words, Masons. Masons are free to profess any religion, because they are united by their own rites, rites that are somewhat reminiscent of religion, but not quite religion. It is interesting that earlier a similar way of life in the community was invented by the gypsies, who, however, adopted the religion of their settled neighbors - Orthodoxy, Catholicism or Islam - but also had their own gypsy set of customs, to which they were faithful. 

But what if you weren't born a gypsy, or want to convert to some rare religion like Mormonism, or understand what Freemasons are, always very mysterious? 

I used to attend shamanic workshops led by David Thomson, an American lover of Indian culture and customs. During the meetings, he and his wife Matty paid great attention to strengthening ties and social solidarity, so that each of us, the participants, felt that he was not alone, that he could count on others, that he belonged to a greater whole, in a "common body" the assembled group in the workshops. 

It is the body that is important here, because thoughts can somehow circulate among themselves, and the actual work of unification is performed by the bodies. 

Our bodies have the ability to mimic the movements and gestures of other people. They are very happy to follow the general pattern. That is why dancing and other activities in the circle were so important. 

David and Matty highlighted the huge difference that separates closely related Indian communities from white societies living in disarray, each of which is an outsider. I distinctly remember returning home from these workshops full of positive energy. 

For example, astrology could be used with great success to create communities and find your own. By comparing horoscopes, it is fairly easy to determine whether person A (or not) matches person B, and whether they are both on the same wavelength. 

After all, this method is used by online matchmakers to tie up couples or suggest suitable sex partners. But the role of comparative astrology should not end there! I already see - through the eyes of an astrologer! — how neoplemions arise, first on the Internet and shortly thereafter in real life, assembled and convened by several founders who discovered that they had strikingly similar and mutually attractive horoscopes.  

Exactly, it seems to me that there should be several founders of such a group, because if only one person built a community around himself, it would probably quickly turn into a tyranny in which he would rule with a punishing hand. 

astrologer, astrophysicist