Well, sticking my oar in during radio again, I think that such a community is difficult to build and sustain because so many contemporary western/white shamans are near-militant individualists. I specify here because I think it is a culturally/racially specific phenomenon. We live in a fiercely individualist meta-culture, it's hard as hell to overcome that aspect of our identities. Even people who have been working shamanic paths intensely for a very long time from such beginnings don't always see this as something to be blunted.
As to whether or not it is something to be blunted, that's another conversation entirely.
Once you start getting off the map, it's hard to get individualists to agree on directions. It's hard even to get them to agree that they don't have to agree on directions. With that basis, there's no amount of respectful communication that can stave off personality clashes forever.
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I specify here because I think it is a culturally/racially specific phenomenon. We live in a fiercely individualist meta-culture, it's hard as hell to overcome that aspect of our identities. Even people who have been working shamanic paths intensely for a very long time from such beginnings don't always see this as something to be blunted.
As to whether or not it is something to be blunted, that's another conversation entirely.
Once you start getting off the map, it's hard to get individualists to agree on directions. It's hard even to get them to agree that they don't have to agree on directions. With that basis, there's no amount of respectful communication that can stave off personality clashes forever.