Vilcabamba, Ecuador – How the residents of one small but extraordinary Ecuadorian town are co-creating a blueprint for better lives.

Hello everybody

Hi, my name’s Nick Vasey, and I am a new contributor to Retire Worldwide. For the last few years I have been a resident ex-pat in a small but famous town in Southern Ecuador called Vilcabamba. I have a real-estate consultancy here called the Vilcabamba Real Estate Company (or VREC Properties). For more info you can check out our website at www.vrec.org or our WordPress newsletter site at http://vrec.wordpress.com.

In this post, I am going to share a few thoughts and observations with you.

It would seem we are currently living through what are most certainly very troubling times … especially for the developed countries of the world. This is the primary reason I relocated myself and my wife to Vilcabamba … I do not much like what I see on the horizon in the “developed world.”

Everywhere I look at the moment it seems the modern “economic-rationalist” paradigm which has been mindlessly driving the industrialised nations for the last century or so … is crumbling apace.

America’s debt bomb is ticking … economic collapse is no longer a matter of if … it is simply matter of when. Just think what the inevitable devaluation of the US dollar will do for your retirement future … and … ahhm … what are you doing about that exactly?

And whether the subject be wars, finance, central banking, housing bubbles, mortgage securitization, the bail-out, or whatever … television’s paid talking-heads babble lies of ever-increasing inanity. Does anybody seriously believe the garbage which passes for “news” from mainstream TV anymore?

Meanwhile, their controllers, the same old white-collar criminal elitists (read politicians, bankers and big business) just continue their cynical brand of self-serving lies and deception, and brainstorm new ways they can collaborate in order to redistribute the wealth of  “the nation” as unevenly as possible in their favour.

The concept of “a free country” has long-since been trampled into the ground, and sadly that now-idealistic phrase is usually only uttered “jokingly” or with bitter sarcasm, as more and more people start to wake up to the reality that they are “living in a dream world” as Morpheus so aptly described it to Neo in the movie “The Matrix.”

For those of you who are wondering how their retirement years are going to pan out, the above facts can hardly inspire confidence! Maybe it is time for a little “out-of-the-box” thinking.

At this point I must apologise for opening this post on a somewhat maudlin note, but I feel it is important to voice the above concerns & observations. It is only by clearly recognising and “owning” those problems that one is in a position to more clearly evaluate possible solutions.

Here in Vilcabamba however … refreshingly … people have often charted a brand-new course. Many new residents refuse to allow their inherent positivity to be over-ridden by what is undeniably an extremely and unrelentingly bleak set of images and information from those places/countries they have consciously left behind.

They have decided they would prefer to focus on the positive with respect to the many and varied community projects they may be involved with here … or simply on the improvements in their health … or on their spiritual evolution in a place where they are similarly surrounded by folks operating on a somewhat higher vibration.

Maybe they have re-discovered their passion for playing music, or the joys of living close to nature, of horse-back riding or frolicking in the river. Maybe, for once, free of the many intrusive and distracting aspects of a fast-paced consumer-society, they are for the first time in years truly listening to their inner-voice, a voice which they had almost forgotten existed because they’d been unable to hear it over all the other clamour.

Whatever one ascribes it to, things are different here. And they are different here because the people are different here. The influx of people into Vilcabamba is no accident … it is an inevitably accelerating phenomenon due to something called momentum … a momentum further catalysed by the increasing failings of many industrialised societies.

Vilcabamba now has something known as critical mass, which means that it is generating its own magnetic attraction for new people, preferably those who are wanting to consciously leave the old flawed paradigms behind, and evolve anew. The people, and the atmosphere created by those people here, is now undeniably speaking to many many others around the world who are looking for alternatives to their current reality.

Whether it be via emails, in blogs, in chat-rooms or however, talk of Vilcabamba’s special magic is spreading and as that ripple effect continues moving outwards and affecting the ideas of new people, the consciousness of humanity is slowly but surely evolving to a different place … a better place.

So with that thought I will leave you for now. If you are chasing more information, please be sure and visit our website (don’t forget to subscribe to our newsletter on the homepage for more updates like this one). Then if you’re still interested, perhaps you’ll want to book a trip and come visit us in Vilcabamba for a couple of weeks and check things out for yourself. What have you got to lose? Maybe you too, are ready to change?

Best wishes,

Nick Vasey
Founder – Vilcabamba Real Estate Company: (VREC) Properties

Vilcabamba Real Estate: www.vrec.org