Project sketch

Conscious Community Seychelles

for the use of more than 10 ha of land with direct access to the
beach at the eastern coast of La Digue, Seychelles

Living the change we want to see in the world

Emitted by Dr. Ekkart Johannes Moerschner
on: November 23rd 2014
On this multifaceted land with access to the beach, a consciously and individually
designed living space shall be created which integrates nature, basis of nutrition, spiritual
basis, living, work and recreation.
On this unique areal a surrounding shall be available for ourselves, our employees as
well as for our guests and clients seeking recreation that is inspired by ease and
connection to nature, and where humaneness and personal encounter play the lead
also for supporting our therapeutical work. This decelerating retreat ambience will
contribute to self healing and the harmonisation of body, spirit and soul at the same time.
Furthermore, a regionally adapted and gentle self-supply with lighthouse character,
along with most innovative land use methods and an almost autarkic, ecological way of
living are important bricks of concept.
The conscious encounter with all of creation (human beings, animals, plants and other
matter) is highly emphasized. For this purpose, we consider absolute respect and
permanent striving for conscious reconnecting to the universal wheel of life as the
essential back bones.
Our multifaceted self-supply with regional vegetables and fruit is lead by conservation and by
the use of all natural resources, combined with a space of recreation, as it is only provided by
the tropical climate with its abundance of animals and plants.
The concept of use planned for the areal could be highlighted best by keywords such as eco
tourism or conscious tourism.

In an environment connected to nature barefoot luxury can be experienced an

invitation to fully enjoy and experience the various offers for a complete exit from all
days life for some days or weeks or also for permanent residence.

The bungalows shall be integrated to the landscape, planned on a traditional basis

and built with regional materials, step by step at own labour, supported by employees
at La Digue and from local companies of the Seychelles.

Smart eco components as e.g. an own ecological energy supply, closing of raw
material cycles and nutrient cycles as well as internal water supply and waste water
management demonstrate variable feasibilities and at the same time give incentives
to copy it. In this context especially the numerous international business contacts and
the initiators know-how regarding most innovative energy & environmental
technologies are very useful, which he wishes to apply in the course of the project
and also teach the project participants and Seychellois as well.

Integrated elements for land cultivation, which are adapted to the local conditions,
such as Permaculture, Terra Preta production & application, Forest Gardening and
also Agro Forestry will provide abundant, high and sustainable yield on smallest
parcels of land.

The combination of those approaches of land use & cultivation may serve as a
demonstration project for local followers who want to join an extended and nature

conserving self-supply with food in the Seychelles. Furthermore, international

initiatives on this issue will get offered one more practical lighthouse project on
integrated land cultivation for adaption. Worldwide connection with comparable
projects and relevant experts are given.
Project team, business model:
The initiator contributes his many years of extended experiences in research, project
development, project financing and project management, the practical heading of several
own companies since 2005, business consulting, personal and business coaching,
mediation, community building & building processes (see short profile), holistic energy
healing approaches. He recently (until end of September 2014) joined a project in Morocco
for almost year on site, comparable to the one presented here.

An international community of well educated experts, amongst others skilled in

complementary healing methods, engineering professions, environmental
technologies, farming etc., professionals around facility management and people who
love to care for the daily requirements of others such as food preparation/
gastronomy, accommodation, service represent the core group.
These are partially well educated, well situated, self-funded project participants from
all over the world, but especially from the Western industrialised countries, partially
local people, in the long run probably also living in the community, closely connected
or personally affiliated to the community.
After a phase of founding and starting, a permanent community size of 20-30 people
is expected: The core, comprising all members of families and also children, plus
some non permanent collaborators.
Dependent on requirements and project progress, there will be permanent local
employees, probably especially for the service, for gardening, ongoing building work
and for all maintenance requirements.
On the long run space will be created for another maximum of 15-20 visitors which
book a limited stay as guests or as people seeking healing support and pay for it.
The coverage of all community/company functions required at a given time is
considered to be always secured, as a dynamic and natural process of trust into the
laws of life. In this course also changes in responsibilities may take place, depending
on personal preferences; some may leave the team, others will join; experts and
healers will offer their knowledge/courses/seminars/sessions/practices usually
temporarily, e.g. they will stay for some days or weeks. This is a concept of so called
retreats, well proved and internationally known for many years.
From the very beginning there will be networking and cooperation with existing
approaches and people in the Seychelles who are involved in complementary healing
methods and other alternative business approaches. Numerous contacts will be/are
already being developed.

Philosophical, energetical and spiritual basis:

ANASTASIA, an eremite living in the Russian Taiga, who became well known since the
nineties by a series of books which were published by her partner and author, Vladimir
Megr, recommends to the whole mankind to establish so-called spaces of love or family
home estates. These are properties of at least one ha of land which are individually shaped
and based on rules deriving from ancient Vedic wisdom, which provide a whole family with all
basic supply, and at same enable their reconnection to GAIA as the physical and spiritual
grandmother and basis of all life. The initiators regard Anastasias recommendations, which
are remarkably plain and very close to nature, as important motivations for a future
community. This community considers the whole of creation not to be dominated by man, but
wishes to explore, use and develop it in harmony with the highest good of all and as cocreators. This will be done by unconditional surrender to life and to all nature as a teacher
and as a fully satisfying resource at same time.

As a long term goal of the project team we imagine following gradually the ideas of the
UBUNTU concept, the so-called Contributionism as well, which has been investigated by
Michael Tellinger (South Africa) for many years, who recently published a book on this topic.
The core element consists of community contributions of labour which guarantee a mostly
autarkic supply of all basic goods without any cash flows, but by voluntary work and
contributions of its members only. Thus for our western, money-based societies a proof is
possible that within a community, which is based on new social rules, no money transfer
must happen necessarily, maybe it is even hindering. Thats an ambitious and visionary goal,
but it is affordable.
To grow as a community of the new paradigm into our future power of co-creation, which is
already living within us, both of the approaches presented (as well as others more, for sure)
are to be unified and recognised within ourselves.
As a result, a collaboration of people for everybodys good can grow, which respects that in
each moment everything is allowed to-be-as-it-is, because in their consciousness right or
wrong no longer exist. Each of them has accepted that valuations prevent us from
developing towards a state of continuous balance a state in which duality loses more and
more of its importance.
Extended context of the project:
As one more important module of our activities, a Centre for New Work will be founded by
the project team initially most probably on La Digue, as developed by Professor Frithjof
Bergmann (USA) for more than 30 years and realised in projects around the world (later-on
also to be established at Mah and Praslin, of course).
The lead discovery of the very personal occupation or doing that I really, really want to
do, the reskilling (e.g. entrainment/discovery of useful/satisfying craft skills and others)
and the enforcement of so-called Makers spaces are the core elements of New Work.
Makers spaces are small garages for producing most of all core goods required for every
days life by your own (occasionally linked with other garages and supported by high tech
devices like so-called fabricators, e.g. highly innovative 3D printers), which make the daily
life more comfortable or even luxurious at affordable costs and which nowadays are almost
entirely imported to the Seychelles. Most of them are so-called luxury goods.
In this way we offer a locally adapted alternative to support and jointly develop further selfsupply in the Seychelles. This is a key to a new form of independency from the global
currents of money, goods and services, e.g. a holistic form of self-supply with (almost) all
required and desired goods for every days use. The production (=added value) is performed
by the people themselves. Thus, the economic benefit almost entirely remains in the
Seychelles, and the demand for money for the import of goods and services decreases.
Framework, strategy of realisation, structure, financing:
Two properties, supposedly in direct neighbourhood, have been identified, one almost 5 ha
and one slightly more than 5,5 ha in size. The first mentioned is without any buildings on it
and is offered by a real estate broker from the Seychelles. Contacting is ongoing. The
secondly mentioned is not maintained and used over years and has been offered by a
German real estate broker for at least three years (at a price which is much too high). There
was a small four-bedroom hotel out of the eighties which also has not been maintained for
many years. A recent visit of the property showed it being completely destroyed.
The land is almost flat from the beach, but after some ten meters towards the mountain
becomes more and more rocky as well as steep, not sufficient for built of houses without
huge pilings or traditional gardening approaches. Maybe of the land at maximum is usable
for housing and gardening.
Thus, each form of permanent property use like cleaning of the land by the project team
under tropical conditions prevents ongoing depletion and thus prevents the decrease of its
value; the abundant, uncontrolled growth of vegetation will be gently and permanently
controlled by mans hand, and afterwards, due to the way of its use and professional &
ecological repair and building work (with own investments, as far as required), a permanent

increase of the property value will take place. On this basis a permanent benefit for all parties
involved is achieved.
Instead of buying the property (which is the landowners current aim) we would suggest a
long-term agreement for the project realisation, based on the terms of use including an
added value agreement due to the planned way of use, as mentioned above. In case these
ideas are of interest, the project details and all juridical & formal requirements and framework
conditions have to be properly negotiated with the landowners in personal meetings. The
landowners experiences with formal aspects of the planned way of land use and his good
contacts to the government may be of value.
To be noted: There actually exists an absolute stop for new planning and building projects for
La Digue. Thus, existing permissions for planning and building must be carefully investigated
and proofed before further project realisation efforts on these properties make any sense.
Maybe an exception even is possible due to the unique character of this project. General
built permission is up to 50m above see level only.
The creation of a project team together with the owners could be an appropriate and possible
approach. To facilitate such an innovative way of project development, a kind of private club,
headed by the initiator, was already founded, appropriate for this purpose.
At a limited scale, financial resources are available to the private club and to the participants
to cover direct personal expenses as well as preliminary costs to overtake the land, to do
initial repair work and projects to install basic facilities. Further projects of property use
connected to higher expenses will be realised in a course as more money flows into the
project, more project partners are joining and on the basis of the commitments with the
owner.
For this reason, investors (preferably private ones) and participants shall be attracted as
soon as possible by detailed documentation on the property and a good project sketch.
Those interested parties may engage financially in the project realisation, especially in the
initial building phase, even though not necessarily attending physically on site.
Time frame:
For the exploration and the preparation of further project steps on site, the initiator is present
on the Seychelles at least from late October 2014 until late January 2015. In this issue, he
will be supported by one more project partner initially from late November 2014 until late
December 2014. Further plans depend on this initial phase. All preliminary contacts during
the first four weeks of stay already turned out to be most promising.

Contact to Johannes Moerschner in Seychelles:

Mobile phone +248 2 862 899
Email: jm@biomasse-energie.de