On an instant messaging list, more than 120 people meet: each day a profound demand resonates in an international echo:
- a wisdom quotation from Silo…
- a picture of a Hall in the world
- a heartfelt demand for its realization
This small daily moment, which suspends for a while our daily rush, our preoccupations of all kinds, is a moment of convergence, of co-presence, of common wish… The list of participants grows longer, the echo resounds: :
We want this place for today and tomorrow, for ourselves and for others, for silence and for cries of joy, for personal meditation and convivial ceremonies… We want this place to get and offer the best conditions for contacting the depth of human consciousness.
Le 29 décembre : explosion de joie collective : nous recevons une autorisation de travaux !
December 29: explosion of collective joy: we receive a work permit!
The same day, we proudly display this authorisation at the Park’s entrance, and we thank, thank, thank…
Immediately after, and while the campaign to obtain donations is in full swing, the construction project itself takes shape… We start to think further, to gather the information collected during the last two years… our friends from Italy (Casa Giorgi) inspire us: they create the first all-wood dome…
That’ s when, on January 25, a registered letter informs us of the refusal of the building permit… We are stunned, we don’t understand… We start again with the DEMANDS…
And we decide, during an amplified collective meeting, to put our defence in the expert hands of a lawyer…
Within two weeks, we find the very expert we wanted. He offered us his first analysis. Having established that the legal texts (PLU) are in our favour and that our interpretation was not fanciful nor our request illegitimate, we started an “ex gratia appeal”, drafted by him…
Which plunges us again into the … active… waiting spaces.