I cannot emphasize this point enough. If members of an intentional community are really intent on becoming the best versions of themselves, I posit the probabi

I cannot emphasize this point enough. If members of an intentional community are really intent on becoming the best versions of themselves, I posit the probability of them growing through the common shared interests and diverging from one another is somewhat assured. Better to relish the shared moments throughout the journey of life, especially if they require extensive travel to be enjoyed. In my own journey, my first wife and I travelled half way around the world to join an intentional meditation community of more than 1,000 in the US. We were young and delusional. While memorable experiences were had, the community as a whole fractured through inevitable evolution of lifestyle differences, political differences, divorces (and intermarriage) and subtle but extremely important differences in values, morals and ethics. It is all too easy for the passion of like mindedness to mask the much deeper core values of your own familial and cultural background, to which I find most people return later in life.