Welcome to the section which is all about the Qultura community. In this section you will find out everything about what's involved with the Qultura community including what it's all about, what it's designed for, and how it's designed to work and fit together with the methodology and everything contained in the 'How Qultura works' section.
Foundation principles
The Qultura community, which was designed by our late founder Ian 'Fibbo' Fibbens (1965-2013) is an empathy-focussed community which functions as a 'community within an existing community'. It's been created to make opportunities for the development of conscious awareness and insight 'freely accessible' to anyone in the wider local community (and society) through development of Qultura methodology and dream weaving practice.
Which brings us to how we define 'freely accessible'. We define 'freely accessible' in two ways. Firstly we explicitly mean that any involvement in the Qultura community should be completely free from costs for community members. This means that no money changes hands between anyone involved in the Qultura community for any reason. No membership. No subscriptions. Nothing to buy or pay for, and no obligation to make donations. Secondly, just as importantly, we also explicitly mean free from all ideology and belief systems (religious, political and otherwise) and also societal obligation. This means that:
As an empathy-focussed community and developing mystical community resource the Qultura community operates on its own set of Community Standards which may be different to what is acceptable out there in wider society. It is entirely on you to ensure that you are familiar with our Community Standards before you become involved in the Qultura community.
Our Community Message Board is our central online community and registration on our Community Message Board implies membership of the Qultura community. What this involves is detailed on the page about our Message Board.
All our in person, face to face meetings take place in community spaces and always on the basis of our Foundation Principles, i.e. access to such meetings is free of charge to everyone and free from all ideology and belief systems.
Community projects (community development)
The Qultura community as a developing mystical community resource exists to provide anyone who desires it so with the space and opportunity to develop conscious awareness and return to a state of mindfulness or to connect to others in community without the necessity of following someone else's belief system or ideology.
Outside of what's provided here on this website - which is designed to be a community resource in itself - we do not provide any additional teaching, training, instruction, courses, workshops, nor do we organize retreats simply because it is not our responsibility to 'teach' you anything or tell you what to think or believe. Please do not expect such things from us.
You already know all the answers to the questions you are asking in life. But all too often those answers are buried somewhere in your subconscious memory and lie outside of your conscious awareness. The whole point of dream weaving is to bring those answers you are seeking out of your subconscious through connection to environment and community and through primary social interaction and the sharing of narratives and stories. You are surrounded literally by thousands of other human beings who you can connect to through community to find the answers you're seeking. It's on you to become involved in the community and start the process of connecting to others and going through the processes of exploration, experimentation, learning and discover. All you need to start this process is of course an open mind.
However we provide the structure, infrastructure and form to make this possible through various ongoing community projects:
Community meetings are essentially an extension of our Community Message Board where members of the Qultura community can meet up in community space to seek affinity and find common cause with other community members. Community meetings are organized in community spaces and are designed to enable community members to meet up face to face to get to know each other in a social environment which does not cost money, involve drinking alcohol or paying for stuff, or following some sort of belief or ideology. Seeking affinity and finding common cause with others in the community is an important part of dream weaving activity.
Our Community Forum is essentially a forum, organized in community space, where members can come together for frank and open discussions on social and community issues which are affecting them in their communities without having such discussions controlled or moderated by organizations and collective bodies. Please do not underestimate the value of our Community Forum. It is one thing to assume that you think like other people in your community, and it is another to actually participate in a free and frank discussion to reach some kind of community consensus and actually know where you think in terms similar to other members of your community.
Please keep in mind that many organizations and collective bodies such as local authorities make decisions affecting everyone in a community knowing full well that individual members of a community have no way of reaching a consensus with other members of the community.
The Human Library project is a long term community project developed and maintained by Qultura Core to make it easier and in some cases possible for individual people in the community to overcome social isolation, social stigma and social exclusion. Without participation and support from a community it is virtually impossible for anyone to overcome these complex social issues and all too often such individual people are isolated against the whims and expectations of various organizations, collective bodies and Government departments.
One of the core values of the Qultura community is the defence and support of the human rights of the individual in the face of the organization, collective bodies and Government.
Community events are essentially community meetings organized in community space and designed to be inclusive of other individual people from the wider local community (i.e. outside the Qultura community) to enable them to get to know our community and become involved in it.
The Qultura community vs. Qultura Core
Qultura Core is essentially the 'core' of the Qultura community. Qultura Core, which undertakes al the administration and maintenance of community resources, is not an organization. There is no hierarchy. There is no separateness between Stella Baker, the surviving founder member and Core Facilitator of the Qultura community, and any other member of the Qultura community. There is nobody involved in the Qultura community who is either more important or less important than any other Qultura member.
Qultura Core is therefore Stella Baker, the Core facilitator, a small number of community trustees who ensure Qultura remains completely within the interests of the community, and whatever community volunteers and activists who are involved in the further development of the community and its infrastructure and resources.
Qultura Core functions on the basis of a universal system of community volunteering and activism which is totally self-identifying, self-regulating and self-perpetuating (just like the universe itself). This means it is easily possible for any member of the Qultura community to move into and out of Qultura Core through taking on a self-defined community volunteering and/or activist role, which is defined as follows:
A Qultura community volunteer is anyone who does something to develop the Qultura community through development of infrastructure, content, resources, community organization (meetings, events and so on) and such things which are of benefit to other members of the Qultura community as well as oneself. Qultura community volunteering is considered to be a direct form of dream weaving practice.
A Qultura community activist is anyone who does something to develop a relationship between the Qultura community and the wider community, whether it be with an organization, a local authority, a social media platform or finding ways to bring new members into the community. Qultura community activism is considered to be a direct form of dream weaving practice.
As Qultura Core is not an organization but the core of the Qultura community there is no recruitment for community volunteers or activists nor are any such 'positions' advertised. Instead it is left for Qultura community members to move between the community and Qultura Core through a process known as 'moving into Core'. How to do this is explained on the appropriate webpage on the menu.