About the groundrules

I created the community of Erleichda because I could.

I could because the universe gave me the money, and I made the right decision. When you have money, you can use it to make more money, or you can use it to live the life you always wanted to live if you had the money.

Because it was my community, I made up the rules.

This is the first rule: If you want to live in Erleichda, you have to agree to a single condition. You have to agree with this statement: I am 100% responsible for my own life. I choose to believe that everything in my life is there because I chose it, and I chose it out of love and wisdom for myself.

That way, I get to live with people who aren’t victims, which is important for me.

 

Judith was more than a little upset when I told her that if she wanted to come and live in Erleichda, she would have to accept and obey my rules.

"Your rules?" she hissed. "Your rules? Who on earth do you think would want to live their lives with you laying down the rules?"

"Well that's the way it is," I said. "If I say you're in, you're in, and if I say you're out, you're out."

"No-one will come, and no-one will stay." Her anger was tangible, intense, and expanding. "That's against everything I believe, and I've decided on a personal level that I won't accept that sort of shit from anybody, especially bloody men with self-inflated egos."

That’s Judith for you. She doesn’t like to be tied down. Judith is always late, and she always has an excuse. I’m not interested in her excuses, only that she is always late. I get sick of her excuses. I would get along a lot better with her if she would just take responsibility for her tardiness and stop wasting time with excuses. Instead she’s a victim of her own habits.

I don’t want victims in Erleichda, so I made up the rule. If Judith doesn’t like it, that’s her prerogative.

Naturally only a madman would agree to such a rule, so it helps me to qualify potential residents very simply and very quickly.

In most villages you don’t know the rules, and whether you’re in or out seems to be quite arbitrary, or a matter luck. In Erleichda, everybody knows the rules.