Adventure, Wellness and
Coaching 'Innovacation
March 9-16,2008
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Upcoming Retreats
Diamante Valley
Vision Council
March 20-22, 2008
FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
We would like to thank all of you for the tremendous support, commitment and curiosity we have already received for the AUM retreat. Here are some answers to frequently asked questions about the Art of Union, Evolutionary Retreats and HOME community. If we missed something Contact Us to let us know and we will add it.
Hi my name is Tom.
I live in Darwin and work at Darwin YHA.
I'm studying part time, Conservation and Land Manegement at Charles Darwin University. I hope to become a Ranger.
I had the pleasure of knowing Frank Cook while he was staying at our Hostel.
I enjoyed his company and his knowledge and wisdom was an inspiration to me.
I look forward to learning more about The Art of Union and getting to know you.
Namaste
Tom
Welcome to the private Community Vision Council of the Art of Union.
Here we can work together on documents and plans to clarify our vision.
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Addition of Local Community Service Projects
This is an idea that we have been envisioning and planning for several years. With our community infra-structure established, our retreat staff organized, and our relations with the Tico community strengthened, we are now ready to offer cultural/environmental service projects to the greater local (Tico) community. There are two main villages in the Diamante Valley, called Las Tumbas and San Salvador. As our community lands span both villages, we would like to offer community service to both.We envision these as being three to seven days long, during which the students would stay at the HOME Farm, and walk or be shuttled to the location of the project. Optionally the students could stay with Tico Families in the valley. The service projects could be connected to the Adventure Program or be offered separately.
The cost per participant per day for the projects will vary between $35 and $55 depending on the accommodations and the number of project managers that will be needed for each project. Some of the suggested service projects also require the purchase of materials and/or equipment. Those prices are listed in the descriptions below.
We have discussed four types of service projects that the students can participate in.
1. Agricultural
2. Environmental
3. Educational
4. Prayerformance ArtsDepending on each group’s length of stay and the inclination of each student, participants may choose from the above list of services. In addition to the cost of materials needed for each project, the HOME community
1. Agricultural Projects
Over the past five years, living and working in the gardens and in the fields with the local people, we have learned tremendous amounts of practical wisdom about the land and the plants that grow here from them. In exchange, we have been able to share permaculture and organic gardening wisdom with them. As a result many of our neighbors have remembered how to produce thriving gardens without the use of toxic chemicals and without harming the soil microbiology. This past year we started teaching a permaculture and organic gardening course in the Las Tumbas school, and it has been a wonderful experience for all.As part of this program, the students have started a community-wide collection of food scraps to make a school compost pile.
Organic gardening in the local schools and residences - As a service project for Rustic Pathways, we would like to propose expanding the organic gardening program we started at the Las Tumbas school to include both the San Salvador school and to personal residents who have requested such service. For a minimal cost of $100-200/site, needed tools, plants and trees can be purchased and used during the service projects. The tools can then be left with the school or home so that they may maintain the gardens and fruit trees. Projects can vary between half a day and several days.
Specific projects are:
• Creating contours to preserve soil
• Introducing mulching to conserve soil and increase soil biology
• The use of compost to make rich fertilizer
• Creating green houses to protect veggies from the pounding rain
• Planting fruit trees
• Planting vegetable, medicinal, and ornamental gardens2. Environmental Projects
The Diamante Valley is one of the most sacred places on the earth, nestled between two pristine mountain ranges and guarded by the stunning Diamante Falls. All of the water that flows through this valley is sparkling and clear, as it comes from a still pristine watershed. By the time the water runs out of the San Salvador and Las Tumbas villages, the water is noticeably more tainted with trash, bubbles from dishwashing and laundry detergent, and other impurities coming from the households near the rivers. It has been a long time dream of ours to help restore these sacred waters to their pristine condition.Installing household grey water systems - All water leaving a residence that is not sewage, is considered grey water. This includes all bath, shower, laundry and utility sink drainages. Currently many homes in the area do not treat their grey water, but rather let it flow directly into the streams. A grey water system can be built to easily treat the grey water. These are simple, yet labor intense projects that many Ticos know how to do, but just haven’t been able to afford or have lacked the inspiration to do it. For a minimal cost of supplies, between $200 and $300, we can purchase the tools and equipment necessary to install very efficient grey water systems that use a tiered process to purify grey (non-sewage) wastewater. Though labor intensive, with a solid crew of four – six students under the guidance of a local Tico, a grey water system can be installed in two to four days.
Victor's Greywater Greywater projectRiver Clean-up - Without an appreciation of their own sacred land, the local people have unfortunately already polluted the rivers with bits of trash. A really fun and exciting project would be to hike up along the rivers and collect miscellaneous garbage. This project would cost only the price of transportation and plastic bags!Implement Recycling Program in the Communities
After witnessing the enthusiasm that the local school students have maintained with the community composting service, we would like to expand this service to include glass, plastic, and metal recycling as well. The major cost of this project would be in purchasing containers for the households to hold the recyclable goods, the material to build a community collection area, and the cost of transport to deliver the recyclable goods to the regional recycling center.3. Educational Services to Community Youth
Many students coming down to Costa Rica on the Rustic Pathway adventure programs have learned skills that the local youth would be grateful to receive.
Introduction of Computers in Local Schools – When we surveyed kids that had grown up in the valley and asked them what they would have liked to have learned, but didn’t, many of them told us, computer skills. With the cost of used computers being so low, one can be purchased for as little as $200- $400. Once purchased and presented to the schools, the Rustic Pathway computer savvy students can introduce basic computer skills to the local youth. We are in the process of connecting a high-speed Internet access in the valley, and with a computer the kids will have a chance to surf the World Wide Web as well.
Building playground equipment for the local schools - With minimal costs, less than $400, for materials we can build amazing playground equipment for the local schools.
4. Prayerformance Arts
Over the past years, as we have had more intimate relations with the local community and invited them to our festivals, many of the kids have expressed interest in learning the sacred forms of music and art that we enjoy. One of the most accessible forms of art is drumming that the kids really enjoy. For the cost of several small drums, $200 for four drums at $50 per drum, we can give the local youth an opportunity to make music.
August 28 Full Moon Eclipse… time has wings…five months have flown by….
Since our last update, our community circle has expanded and wonderful events have taken place, including the fruition of our long and 'beautiful' community birthing process.
We have been blessed with the guidance of divine spirit and the arrival of both gods and goddesses, ( i.e. healers, teachers, musicians, manifestors, poets, yogis and yoginis) who have added to the growth and diversity of our community. And we now have a functioning Community Council.
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Evolutionary Programs
We now offer private healing & adventure retreats, cultural journeys, adventure tours, community festivals, internships and other participation programs.Private Retreats
We are now offering a growing spectrum of private rejuvenation and empowerment retreats to provide you an intimate evolutionary experience that fulfills your highest intentions.Participate!!! -- "Jungle Jedi" Program
We welcome and embrace all who come to serve, while maintaining an energetic balance of giving and receiving.Experience Opportunity
For those who are seeking a more fulfilling life, who are curious about community living, but until now have been unsure where to look.. Take a two week break from your regular life routine to experience all that our community has to offer.Welcome to the core member group.
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By Tenasi RamaView
Sample Chapters"Out of Thick Jungle" is a true life spiritual adventure. It is the raw, unfiltered autobiography of Tenasi Scott Rama Lazar, a modern yogi who has an inspirational, epic story to share with the world. Both captivating and motivational, it chronicles the riveting odyssey of his pre-awakened life as Scott Lazar a lost child, born into the urban-American depths of Babylon at the dawn of the ancient age of Aquarius. Having lost at birth all memory of his divine heritage and the assignment that he and an entire race of new souls volunteered for here on earth, he is lured along the material path by human temptations of sex, power and money until he discovers his blind desire and begins to crawl, kick and climb his way out of duality, disillusionment, repetitive psycho drama, and injury towards an awakened state of peace, grace and an 'overstanding' of his true identity.
The title "Out of Thick Jungle" symbolizes both his spiritual journey and his physical journey. Once a self-centered Mechanical Engineer working for a major defense contractor, Scott Lazar doesn't believe in God, and he dismisses the whole New Age Movement as "a highly imaginative, concoction of a bunch of bored, rich white women". The discovery of rock climbing, unleashes his internal fire, allows him to peer through the veil of illusion, leave the corporate world and follow his heart on an inspirational path of self discovery.
While on expedition high in an alpine cirque in Chilean Patagonia, he experiences a miraculous, instantaneous healing that defies all the laws of science and he is transformed into spiritual warrior. He begins the process of initiation which leads him to create his own form of self healing, called Elongar, and to meet his spiritual mentor and climbing partner, the late Venezuelan mystic Jose Louis Pereyra.
Between pulling off world class climbing feats, like the first free climb of Angel Falls in Venezuela, they begin to apply their "extreme sport" intensity to the pursuit of enlightenment. Their travels take them on myriad journeys into the mystic realms of spirits and eventually deeper into the Venezuelan jungle where Scott falls 70 feet and breaks both legs. Alone, at night with compound fractures he crawls out, and finds synergistic healing under the care of a powerful shaman and a master orthopedic surgeon. Together with his Shaman he meets a "walk-in" named Ray Sol from the star Andromeda, who aids his healing and first plants the seed of recognition that Scott is a child of the "Septima Rassa," the seventh race of souls. The story of his physical recovery alone is an amazing testament to the power of combining eastern, western and galactic medicine.
The journey of ScottÕs initiation, from August of 1987 when he is unconsciously "touched" by spirit and led by blind desire from a nuclear submarine shipyard in Connecticuit to the Berlin Wall, the day it collapses, leading up to his reawakening as Tenasi Rama inside an ancient cedar tree high up on Mount Elf-in-Stone in British Columbia in May 2001 are the focus of this book. It concludes two years later, when Tenasi reunites with his climbing/spiritual partner Jose in Mexico on the eve of JoseÕs death. Determined to connect with his friend in the afterlife, Tenasi enters a cave where he fasts from food and light for 20 days. He opens up his third eye, reconnects with Jose and then is confronted with the most challenging, near fatal, test of his initiation. Only when he survives this test, is his memory restored and is he reconnected with his galactic family of the Septima Rassa. Which, by the way, might include you!
Out of Thick Jungle is the first in a potential series of books unveiling the earthen adventures of the children of the Septima Rassa, the seventh race of humans. After experiencing past times on earth within the plant and animal kingdoms, these souls have volunteered to incarnate now and evolve through the human experience in one lifetime, before the end of the great, galactic cycle on Dec 21, 2012. They are "first timers," that is incarnated as humans for the first time, and their service isn't complete until they recreate Eden on earth! On their path they must climb out of the thick jungle of bondage and suffering, open their hearts, die a thousand deaths, reawaken, recognize their true identity, and reconnect with their brothers and sisters of the galactic federation, many of whom have been trapped in the karmic cycle of rebirth, experiencing lifetime after lifetime as humans.
In addition to being the first modern literary work to describe the seventh race of humans, Out of Thick Jungle and itÕs sequel, The Art of Union (coming soon) offer a cosmology and timeless wisdom that inspires other "lost children" live in harmony and realize their identity and purpose on the planet.
