Build Your Cluster: A Colony of People Who Value You

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The practical answer to the heaven question: people, skills and a name others repeat.

The question

Is there room for you? Whatever you believe about the next life, in this one you need a cluster.

What a cluster is

People who value you, skills that earn and a name others repeat when you are not in the room.

Why it works

Robin Dunbar proposed that humans keep about 150 stable relationships. A cluster lives inside that number.

History agrees

Pharaohs had priests to speak their names. Saints had a church. Everyone remembered had a group that remembered them.

Start small

Eight people who would share a tent with you, like a Roman contubernium. Then grow.

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Give first

Help people in your cluster get paid. A cluster that earns together stays together.

Start with one room

The Heaven Room Discord is the first room. Join, introduce yourself and bring one person.

Sources

• R. Dunbar (1992), Journal of Human Evolution 22.
• Wikipedia, “Contubernium.”
• Anthony Perlas, field account from LA nightlife (his experience, not a survey).

Part of Is There Room for You? The Heaven Room series.

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