The Kin Domain is presented in Anastasia (book 1) and the Ringing Cedars Series (presently 9 books) written by Vladimir Megre’.
The series of books presents a unique
perspective on history, society, family, education, spirituality and
man’s relationship to nature. It presents some unique solutions to
problems that are present throughout the world. Well worth reading.
(The books use the term Man to describe both man and woman, so man will be used herein for simplicity).
A kin-domain essentially means family home, though has far more to it than just being a home.
The difference
between kin-domain and the current “family home” is that the land the
kin-domain is based upon would have to be sufficiently large to sustain
most food, water and building materials for the family living upon it in
perpetuity, generation after generation after generation. The
kin-domain is planted in a way that makes it highly productive for food,
whilst requiring a minimum of effort.
Although it would take
quite an amount of work to establish, as well as many years for the
plant and animal systems within the domain to reach equilibrium, some
time. If done well this is quite possible, as exemplified by food forests.
Ideally a kin-domain would
be free from taxes and owned outright, with hereditary title in
perpetuity, the kin-domain being passed on to the next of kin.
A kin-domain would have some or all of the following features
•A dam or pond to provide a water supply
•Living fences
•Trees planted to provide wood for future generation’s buildings and for firewood where needed.
•Bee-hives
•Farm and companion animals
•A food forest
•Vegetable patch
•An area for the cultivation of grains
Many of these aspects can be easily integrated in the one area.
They have been taking the world by
storm. She talks of the ancient Vedic Russian (VedRus) civilization and
how they lived so spiritually, practically and sustainably in nature,
and in community.
Her words are very inspiring. She talks about
people going back to their motherland (Mother Earth) and the best way to
do it is by every family, wishing to do so, getting at least 1 hectare
of land and establishing a family plot to be handed down to following
generations of that family for ever more.
She describes it as a chance
to create a space for the family in which to grow and blossom in
connection and co-creation with Nature and the original blueprint of
this planet whilst creating fulfilling work for all the family, meeting
all of their needs. Hence the name family Kin's Domain. Her vision for the world is beautiful.
Anastasia's vision is simple...
each
family takes responsibility for 1 hectare of land. They design the plot
as they like and plant whatever they wish, however they see fit. There
is no dogma, no belief system, just complete autonomy of the individual
or family on each plot to create, what she describes as, a Space of Love
for themselves which will bring them the highest nourishment,
upliftment, beauty and joy in life.
If
everyone does this then the world will be transformed into a paradise
garden earth one hectare at a time - how simple a vision... but so far
reaching!
She says that once people start
to live in this way, they will begin a whole new co-creation with Nature
that they can't even imagine yet!
In 10 years over 400 such settlements have sprung up in Russia and Ukraine, also 1 or 2 in the US, Canada, Poland and in Italy. The books themselves sold over 10 million copies just by word of mouth... no advertising what-so-ever!
Vladimir Megré
Each family has to take a hectare of land and turn it into a heavenly oasis, and call this plot of land their Kin’s Domain.”
– Vladimir Megré
A Kin’s
Domain is one hectare (2.5 acres) of land where a family creates a
Paradise for themselves and their (future) children. The land is your
connection to God and the Universe. Through Perfecting the Dwelling Land
around him, Man perfects himself, and the world.
A Kin’s Domain is one hectare (2.5 acres) of land where a family creates
a Paradise for themselves and their (future) children. The land is your
connection to God and the Universe. Through Perfecting the Dwelling
Land around him, Man perfects himself, and the world.
Humanity needs a way of living that will regenerate our planet, our lives, and our families.
Questions
- “If the human community consists of rational beings, why does it pollute the water it drinks and the air it breathes?
- “Why have people chosen a way of life that leads them to consume mostly low-quality food?
- “Why, as we keep speaking of spirituality, culture and human values, are there constant wars in the world?”
These
questions are taken from the Ringing Cedars of Russia series by
Vladimir Megre, in which the idea of Kin’s Domains is proposed as the
solution to these problems, and all world crisis. In these books he
provides a great deal of evidence, that Kin’s Domains would be the most
sustainable and most widely accepted model of living currently available
to the world.
A Kin’s Domain is a piece of the Earth that a family takes to create a
living Paradise for themselves and their future children, to hand down
to them in perpetuity. It is the Domain of their Kin.
It is at
least 2.5 acres of land (100m x 100m), where a family plants a living
fence of trees and bushes around the perimeter. On the inside, they dig a
pond, plant a forest, an orchard, flower and vegetable gardens, build a
house and keep bees and animals, all with the intention of passing this
land down to generations of their children. They use strictly organic
methods of gardening, and create no pollution of any kind. The families
who create Kin’s Domains are doing so to ensure the best possible future
for their children.
When each willing family does this, bit by
bit, the world will be transformed into a blooming heavenly oasis. Each
family, willingly and enthusiastically, takes to the land and
regenerates the Earth. There are already more than 400 Kin’s Domain
settlements in Russia and eastern Europe, with the largest of them
having over 200-300+ families.
This is not a movement that is
being forced or recommended by anyone externally, but instead it is an
idea being carried out by people of their own free will, largely without
governmental support. An idea like this which so many people are doing
on their own, should be supported by all governments, because they lose
nothing, and have everything to gain.
If people are willing to
accept land, plant gardens on it, become self-sustainable, and
regenerate the environment in the process, should we not help them?
Kin’s
Domains address all 17 of the United Nations Sustainable Development
Goals, while requiring minimal financial resources. Read our report on
Kin’s Domains and the 17 SDGs below.
“Creating a Kin’s Domain
means improving the environment, and that’s the main purpose of a Man’s
being. If God had created the environment, and his children were
talented so much as to improve it – that would be the utmost
spirituality of mankind.”
– Vladimir Megre
Kin’s Domain Settlements and “Eco-Villages” are not the same thing.
A
Kin’s Domain is 2.5 acres (1 hectare) of land, which a single family
transforms into a flourishing garden Paradise and home for themselves
and their children. A Kin’s Domain Settlement is a community comprised
of many individual Kin’s Domains.
The “Eco-Villages” of the West
have a much more “communal” focus, where everything is shared between
individuals. There are many other differences.
Here Vladimir
Megre (author of the Ringing Cedars books) explains his experience at
the NEXUS Summit located at the United Nations in 2015, when he was
sharing the idea of Kin’s Domains:
The Goals of Kin's Domain
Goal 1: No Poverty
What
are the conditions which cause poverty? Families don’t control their
own land and their food supply, thus they have to work for these two
basic human rights. If every family can provide suitable living
conditions and a steady food supply for themselves (let alone when they
are in community with like-minded families, and have the support of
their government), then the causes of poverty, and poverty itself is
eliminated. With families all provided an opportunity for income
generation through small scale, local and organic agriculture, and small
batch, high quality manufacturing operations, poverty cannot exist, as
the conditions causing it have been removed.
Goal 2: Zero Hunger
With
families practicing small scale regenerative growing methods, all of
their food needs are met by themselves, and the community around them on
their Kin’s Domain settlement. At the minimum, purchased food can be
supplemented by food grown on the domain. With the Kin’s Domain model,
there is greater opportunity than ever for world food security. For
instance, one family in Los Angeles is able to grow 7000 pounds of
organic food per year on a tenth of an acre, supplying 90 percent of
their diet. They spend less than $2 per day per person on other kitchen
staples and make over $20,000 a year selling excess produce. When people
are properly re-skilled and educated on efficient gardening techniques,
imagine what can be done on 2.5 acres. Then imagine what could be done
if even 5% of America lived on Kin’s Domains, and the food surpluses
that would create for the country.
Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being
As
a result of families cleaning their environment,
planting trees
(purifying the air, attracting rain), gardens and orchards, consuming
the highest quality organic produce, a tight-knit and supportive social
environment where everyone is united in a common aspiration, families
living on Kin’s Domains enjoy a substantially higher level of health and
well-being than their city dwelling counterparts.They consume food of
the highest, beyond organic, quality, engage in stimulating exercise
while tending their land, and are daily engaged in the work which they
feel is most meaningful to them: creating a corner of the Earth to hand
down to their descendants.
Goal 4: Quality Education
On
Kin’s Domain settlements, education is taken into the hands of parents
who are invested and engaged in their children’s education. Since the
“classes” are smaller, students receive more individual attention, and
lessons are more participatory and engaging. Without the external
stressors of the traditional school system used in cities, children
living on domains will excel academically.
Goal 5: Gender Equality
Men
and women uniting in love to create happy families will experience the
highest form of gender equality that man has to offer. Men and women
coming together for the purpose of creation of children, and of the
establishment of a family domain where their kin will live in
perpetuity, will respect and treat each other with the highest dignity
and fairness possible. Indeed, they would not even aspire to such things
if they were not already thinking of the opposite gender with the
highest respect. And the entire community around them thinks and acts
this way.
Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation
All families
who are establishing kin’s domains are committed to maintaining clean
and fresh water supplies. Lakes and other bodies of water are cleaned by
residents of the settlements, and are never polluted by them.
Sanitation is handled in the most eco-friendly ways possible. Large
sewer systems do not exist on domains. Compostable toilets are used. All
waste that can be composted, is. With less use of packaged manufactured
good, waste generated per family decreases.
Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
Families
living on domains opt for the cleanest and most ecologically
sustainable forms of energy available (solar, wind, hydro, etc.) They keep
use of such resources to a minimum.
Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
Families
living on kin’s domains have decided to create a new ways of life for
themselves and their descendants, and so by virtue of that decision, the
work they do is inherently decent and becoming of them. With a myriad
of options for generating income via their life on the land, all
families are provided opportunities for long term, sustainable, and
scalable economic growth. Not to mention that virtually none of the jobs
are polluting the environment or detracting from society in any way.
Examples of these economic opportunities include beekeeping, baking,
growing and selling fruits and vegetables, making clothes, and so on.
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
The
inhabitants of kin’s domain settlements do not endeavor to set up large
scale factories out of the desire to not pollute the environment. They
provide their own infrastructure, usually on an individual family basis,
and also on a settlement-wide basis. They create their own roads,
provide their own electricity, water, etc. The kind of industry being
practiced on Kin’s Domains is small scale and regenerative.
Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities
Families
living on kin’s domains have decided to create a new ways of life for
themselves and their descendants, and so by virtue of that decision, the
work they do is inherently decent and becoming of them. With a myriad
of options for generating income via their life on the land, all
families are provided opportunities for long term, sustainable, and
scalable economic growth. Not to mention that virtually none of the jobs
are polluting the environment or detracting from society in any way.
Examples of these economic opportunities include beekeeping, baking,
growing and selling fruits and vegetables, making clothes, and so on.
Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Kin’s
Domains settlements will be completely sustainable and ecologically
frienly in the highest way, by themselves. But the impact of the idea is
far reaching. Not everyone will be able to transition to living life
fully on the land instantly, nor should they, as haste breeds mistakes.
There will be thousands and millions of people trying to transition to
life on their very own Kin’s Domain, but they will start by cleaning up
the places where they are.
Inspired by a new vision of life, they will
begin to take charge of the health and cleanliness of their cities. They
will grow gardens where they can. Plant trees along the streets.
Redesign whole sections of cities to be more beautiful and green. Also,
those on Kin’s Domain settlements that are near cities will sell their
products to those living in the cities, thus improving the quality of
life of those in the cities. Those living in the cities will see the
settlements near them and be inspired to change their lives.
Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
People
trying to establish Kin’s Domains take sustainable production and
consumption extremely seriously. Since they will be living so close to
the land, they are hyper-aware of what waste they produce, whether
through consumption or production. Production waste created by those
living on settlements is extremely minimal, since they aren’t engaging
in any large scale industrial manufacturing processes. There is no
industrial pollution — zero. Mostly all products made on kin’s domains
are ecologically friendly and don’t create any waste — food products,
handmade clothing, crafts, animal products like milk and honey, etc. All
of these are very minimal in waste. And since kin’s domain settlers are
the ecologically conscious type, they are keen to make as little waste
as possible in their consumption as well. And lastly, since they are all
attempting to become self-sufficient, they cut down on consumption
where they can. They produce much more (green products), and consume
much less (all products) than the average city dweller.
Links
http://www.ringingcedarsofrussia.org/theearth/
http://www.foodnotlawns.com/
https://www.ringingcedarsofrussia.org/ringing_cedars_newspaper_the_earth_signup.php
https://www.ringingcedarsofrussia.org/anasta/kins-domains.html
https://anastasiausa.land/canadian-kins-domains/