School of Life

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In all of North America there are 70 species of trees, in Costa Rica there are over 700 families, and thousands of species!

Come learn from local masters how to identify appropriate building lumber, how to mill your own lumber, and how to construct earth-friendly, comfortable, efficient structures using local materials.

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jungle shower house

After a year of blissful devotion to the land, we now have an abundant food and medicinal garden, "La Ortaliza," at the Diamante Verde Spiritual Sanctuary. Our fruits, veggies, herbs, and mixed greens, grown with fresh mountain spring water and love, have the reputation of being "the tastiest ever."

Below are a few pictures from the garden. Please see the Diamante Verde Ortaliza photo gallery for a deeper tour into our gardens. In time we will update this site with many of the crucial tropical organic gardening techniques that we use to keep our garden full of life.

At the Art of Union Manifesto (AUM) Heaven On Mother Earth (HOME) community, we are all devotees to the most high, to entering the new paradigm, to consciously co-creating Heaven on Mother Earth through practicing the Art of Union. Our community is centered around the heart-circle of compassion and the pillars of individual healing, selfless service, collective soul evolution, regenerative culture and land stewardship.

Through observing that devoted beings with varying degrees of experience, commitment and financial abundance are drawn to learn from and contribute to the AUM HOME, we have created (in addition to the Evolutionary Retreats) a Jungle Jedi Participation Program to embrace all who come to serve, while maintaining an energetic balance of giving and receiving. Our intention is for the Jungle Jedi Participation Program to be the main portal through which newcomers are uplifted and empowered to enter the AUM HOME community.

In service toward a sustainable future

Permaculture is the applied science of creating an intimate, symbiotic relationship between people and nature. Through this symbiosis we begin to see our relationship within the web of life and are able to move forward toward a sustainable future of bio-diversity in which we can recreate eco-philosophy.

Permaculture design, including community planning, agro-forestry, and new energy technologies offer sustainable solutions to the senseless devastation of modern day agriculture and the nuclear family paradigm. Imagine living in a car-free community where all the kids are enrolled in the universal school of life and everyone is being nourished with fresh organic foods grown in the community with its parks and common grounds forested with naturally adaptive fruit & nut trees and edible & medicinal plants. Such utopic communities and townships are already sprouting up in conscious pockets of the planet as the seeds of Permaculture wisdom spread from roof-top gardens to urban orchards to large scale organic farms to food forest corridors.

Movement, Music & Sacred Sound Vibrations

Teaching, practicing and sharing the expressive arts with intention as a form of prayer.

"time is art"

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Sacred Geometry

In nature, we find patterns, designs and structures from the most minuscule particles, to expressions of life discernible by human eyes, to the greater cosmos. These inevitably follow geometrical archetypes, which reveal to us the nature of each form and its vibrational resonances. They are also symbolic of the underlying metaphysical principle of the inseparable relationship of the part to the whole. It is this principle of oneness underlying all geometry that permeates the architecture of all form in its myriad diversity. This principle of interconnectedness, inseparability and union provides us with a continuous reminder of our relationship to the whole, a blueprint for the mind to the sacred foundation of all things created.

Fun in the jungle!! Explore the virtually endless paths that wind their way through one of the most biologically diverse areas in the world. Find out why Costa Rica is indeed the "Rich Coast"!!!

Evolving the spiral through awakening consciousness