Last updated: August 10, 2025
Teaching lifestyles of gifting and sharing through a set of values, theories, and histories of intentional community, the regional commonwealth, and the Fourth World.
The land cooperative as SHARED-EQUITY vs. PRIVATE EQUITY: the best thing since cohousing!
Make the alternative culture GREAT AGAIN! Learn to teach intentioneering of the Democratic Commonwealth, as a method for opposing Dark Enlightenment autocracy, by building ecovillage forms of intentional community, especially the newest form called the land cooperative.
Learn to live with people as you want people to live with you.
Co-create and enjoy the alternative culture Collective Dream, as gifting and sharing lifestyle alternatives to the American Dream!
The Intentioneer’s Bible – Abstract and Contents
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Timeline of Communitarianism
4-page outline of the counterculture part of the Intentioneers Bible
Intentioneering Newsletters
Intentioneering SoI Newsletter no. 1, November 2024 • 8 pages
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Invitation to Movement-Making: School of Intentioneering
Intentioneer’s Glossary – Definition of Terms and Theories of the Alternative Culture
Resources for Intentioneers: Publications, Consultants, and Organizations
Make Alternative Culture GREAT AGAIN! Co-create the Democratic Commonwealth and oppose Dark Enlightenment autocracy by building ecovillage intentional communities: cofamilies, cohousing, communal societies, community land trusts, housing cooperatives, and land cooperatives (REICs)
The GREAT AGAIN! link is to a Google Docs folder with ten free downloadable PDF articles focusing upon the land cooperative or real estate investment cooperative (REIC) form of equity sharing, plus the City of Boston’s information on tenants-in-common:
- Great Again Lifestyles!
- Community Investment Funds
- The Land Co-op: Seven Real Estate Investment Cooperatives (REIC) featuring EB PREC
- Communities 2018 no 178 – East Bay, CA – PREC
- Communities 2018 no 178 – Lancaster, PA – CLC
- Communities 2019 no 182 – Land Trusts and Co-ops
- Communities 2019 no 185 – Equity Sharing Rights
- Shared Equity Home Ownership
- Shared Housing – US Census Bureau
- City of Boston’s Tenants-in-Common Advocacy
Resources & Consultants for Intentioneers:
Effective Collective – Downloadable Resources on Group Process
- Meeting Facilitation, Conflict Resolution
- Communication Skills, Appreciative Inquiry Planning Process
Global Ecovillage Network-United States
- Communities: Life in Cooperative Culture – quarterly magazine
- Article index by author, and index of communities appearing in magazine articles
Co-Buying Shared Property – LiveWork Denver
- Real Estate Agents for the Common Good, organizing housing cooperatives, limited-equity, community land trust, or tenants-in-common intentional communities
Black, Indigenous, People of Color Intentional Community Council (BIPoC ICC) – BIPOCICC.org
- Forums, Facebook Groups, workshops, trainings, resource directory, and monthly online conversations providing inspiration and building solidarity
- Attracting donations funding a grant program supporting BIPoC intentional communities
Denver Center for Community Wealth Building
- Worker-Owned Business
- Real Estate Investment Cooperative (REIC)
- Match with other Seekers
- Match with Consultants and Trainers
- Your-Community-Type Quiz
- Affordable Intentional Communities and other topics
- Tours of Communities in U.S.A., Europe, Costa Rica, India
Foundation for Intentional Community
- Directory of Intentional Communities
- Communities Bookstore
- Podcasts, Courses, Workshops, and Webinars
Middle-Class Community – Cohousing
- Financing Development
- Design and Marketing of the Community
- Demystifying Common Meals
Class Presentations – See SoI Brochure for Dates and Times
PARALLEL CULTURES: From the Historical Garden of Eden to the 21st Century Ecovillage • 2025 • 62 pages
Parallel Cultures Presentation Outline • Jan. 2025 • 10 pages
This Intentioneers website has links to about three dozen documents by A. Allen Butcher, including:
• an Amazon ebook with about 1,000 pages,
• plus another 500 pages of PDF documents and blog posts,
• plus another 500 pages of PDF documents at the Culture Magic website.
2,000 pages x 500 words per page = 1 million words! A person can say a lot in 1,000,000 words!
My theme is community!
Free for download as PDF documents from Google Drive:
COLLECTIVIZE! Free Birds in Murmuration
January, 2023 • 36 pages
What does the cultural left have for countering the attempts of the cultural right to recruit young adults to neo-fascist extremism? Neo-fascism has websites, meetings, and actions attracting young adults with conspiracy theories and the distortions of alternative facts opposing liberalism and leading to violent extremism. We have seen this before; in Hitler Youth of 1930s Germany. Today in America that same playbook is in use by the politically conservative Right. In response, the politically liberal Left needs to chart an alternative: COLLECTIVIZE!
Too Much of a Good Thing
March, 2023 • 34 pages
Communal Childcare and the Cofamily’s Small-Group Adaptation to Large-Group Communalism’s Bias Against Children
Cofamily
2023 • 48 pages
Raising Children in Small-Group Community
Partnership Spirituality
April, 2014 • 4 pages
Religion is not something set in stone; it changes with time as human culture changes. In fact, religion, like economics and governance, is used to design, build, and maintain a preferred culture. Thus, the patriarchal culture of the Religious Right needs to be replaced with partnership culture of the Religious Left.
Intentioneering Ecopartnership Culture
January, 2023 • 74 pages
Culture can be given, or it can be a matter of choice. Human culture evolves as people decide what they choose to believe and how to live. When an ecopartnership culture is necessary, oppression and exploitation are replaced with liberty and solidarity. When gender-equality is necessary, patriarchal culture is replaced with partnership culture, which especially requires replacing patriarchal religion with Partnership Spirituality.
Riding-Out the Storm in the Ecovillage
February, 2022 • 59 pages
Ecology as the global networking and outreach identity for the Intentional Community Movement
Gifting and Sharing
May, 2014 • 64 pages
Living the Plenty Paradigm in Cohousing and Communal Society
Gifting in Cohousing contrasted with Sharing in Egalitarian Community
Light and Shadows
2004 • 48 pages
Interpersonal and Group Process in the Sharing Lifestyle
Return to the Garden of Eden and Partnership Culture at Rainbow Gatherings
March, 2022 • 7 pages
Political-Economic-Religious Pluralism
November, 2020 • 7 pages
The art of changing culture at will.
Intentional community as both a lifestyle of choice and a strategy to anticipate, reflect and quicken social change.
1990 to 2007 • 500 pages
Intentioneers 