An Unreal Estate: Sustainability and Freedom in an Evolving Community

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In An Unreal Estate, Lucinda Carspecken takes an in-depth look atLothlorien, a Southern Indiana nature sanctuary, sustainable camping ground, festival site, collective residence, and experiment in ecological building, stewardship, and organization. Carspecken notes the way fiction and realityintertwine on this piece of land and argues that examples such as Lothlorien havethe power to be a force for social change. Lothlorien's organization and socialnorms are in sharp contrast with its surrounding communities. As a unique enclavewithin a larger society, it offers to the latter both an implicit critique and acluster of alternative values and lifestyles. In addition, it has created a nichewhere some participants change, grow, and find empowerment in an environment that isaccepting of difference -- particularly in areas of religion and sexualorientation.