Commune (intentional community): Facts

the Germantown Colony and Museum near Minden, Louisiana, preserves the remnants of a Utopian religious commune active between 1835 and 1871?
the Sunburst community, a Southern California commune combining elements of mysticism, Christianity and Hopi rituals, was once one of the largest shippers of organic products in the U.S.?
in Breaking the Spell, the author discusses how she helped plan an assassination plot against a U.S. Attorney while at Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh's commune in Rajneeshpuram, Oregon?
Eric Jansson led a pietist sect of Swedish immigrants to Bishop Hill, Illinois in 1846, where they founded a collective religious colony?
Scottish language prodigy James Murdoch, after participating in a failed communist commune in Paraguay, was hired by the Australian Ministry of Defence as an expert on Japanese issues?
Japanese author Mushanokōji Saneatsu emulated Leo Tolstoy in establishing a commune based on humanism and utopian socialism?

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