To: K-list
Recieved: 1999/10/04 22:24
Subject: [K-list] K-retreats. Was: Richard's entities revisited
From: Mystress Angelique Serpent
On 1999/10/04 22:24, Mystress Angelique Serpent posted thus to the K-list:
At 01:54 PM 10/4/99 , GCWein1111ATnospamaol.com wrote:
> He can't work and has no money to pay bills.l wish there
>was a place for him to go where he could be close to nature (which seems to
>make him feel better ) , where he could be semi looked after and wouldn't
>have to worry about finances. Does anybody have any ideas? l know there
>probably isn't, which is a shame. lt would be nice if there were a center of
>some kind that specialized in either short or long term care or R & R for
>people that are disabled by spiritual emergency. Especially people who
>because of their emergency can't afford to pay alot of money.
> jerry
If we build it, they will come..
I have seen the need for such a place, and spent a lot of energy
considering how it could be accomplished.. it would be easy, all that is
needed, is $$$$$$$$$
The big old trees and Ocean breezes of BC would be just the place for
it.. I will build it, Goddess willing, but the size of it will depend on
the support I can find. It's too big for me to do alone. I'm working on
it.. I have been working on it, for years, and part of the larger purpose
of me and my slave-Tribe, is assembling a team of people committed to
seeing the vision manifest.
In this province, the Crown owns about 90% of the Real Estate, and since
the forest industry is going down the tubes, the Crown is offering land
grants to worthy causes. Organizations and businesses that can someday
create tax revenue, or at least add to the quality of life in the province
are getting fabulous real estate deals, from the Province.
I dream of a few hundred acres of clear cut, near the coast, to reclaim
and build an intentional community on, surrounded by old growth forest.
Someplace on or near the Gulf Islands, where the weather is wonderful. The
further north, the longer winter gets.
An artist's colony/ashram/Mystery School/spiritual emergency retreat with
workshops and studios and condos and a central Mansion for gatherings.
Permanent residents who live and work there. Plenty of rooms for guests, in
simple monkish accommodations with a big staffed kitchen to feed them all.
Enough residents and paying seekers/students bringing in enough abundance,
to sponsor guests who have none and are in need.
A huge old fashioned library stocked with spiritual texts of every type,
comfy chairs for reading, and a fireplace... gardens and groves, a hedge
labyrinth to walk in meditation. Horses and farm animals, self-sufficient..
far from the noise of traffic and industry.
Trees to hug and a quiet beach to walk along, someplace to just "be",
among people who understand, fer a few weeks or months is all most folks
need, to settle problematic K. Release the tension, and raise the
vibration, and the insights come, Goddess provides. Give someone in crisis,
a paintbrush or a lump of clay to release the creative energy, the
emotions, and they get better.
I keep seeing the same pattern happening, over and over. I am sure you
have seen it too, El.
Folks become spontaneously awakened, and don't understand what has
happened, and fear for their sanity, so they resist it. Resistance makes
everything hard, and gradually their life falls apart. They are home sick,
or unable to cope with demands of work and the TV noise of the modern
lifestyle, and it's not till they are at the end of their rope, emotionally
and financially, and desperate enough to pray, that they get past the fear
of madness enough to be led to information about Awakening. By then they
have no resources to hire therapists or move someplace quieter.
Some folks have commented on the dangers of K.: that some folks commit
suicide. I think that K. alone, is not the cause of this.
It's K. + the pressures of modern living among folks who have no
understanding of the process, and trying to keep it all together while the
unconscious is sending ego-death messages, that are not understood as
metaphorical, leads to suicide.
I have been amazed/awed/delighted/horrified at the number of folks who
credit the K-list with saving their sanity, saving their life.. helping
them learn to cope with active K., and get back on their feet again.
It doesn't usually take very long, either... lotsa folks who entered this
space with a long, desperate intro are telling success stories of joy a few
months later.
Frankly, the intensity of gratitude I cannot take in, it's emotionally
overwhelming, so I duck taking any credit for it, and redirect it to
Goddess.. send back to the community. Where 2 or more are gathered... the
Shakti field of the community, and the wisdom of the members, gets the
credit for the healings that happen here.
The factiod tho, is that if a cyberspace Kundalini community can do this
much good, then a real-time one, among the Big trees, would be miraculous
in it's effects.
I know, that it will Be. I have seen it, and so have those who support my
vision.. but how to get from here to there, that place in the future where
it exists, I dunno. I do know I cannot do it, alone. I dunno how to
apply for a land grant, I dunno how to describe the need for spiritual
emergency shelter, to beaurocrats. I don't have a Phd. after my name, or
any other letters that prove academic credentials. If I did, then I might
be facing even more beaurocracy in the form of Canada's medicare system..
I think would be easiest, to run it as a for-profit new age resort that
does a lot of charity work, than as a non-profit organization. If I need to
run a BDSM porn studio to raise some cash and keep it afloat, I will.. but
I can imagine that combination would be even more unappetizing to
beaurocrats. Sigh.
ADD folks having a hard time with beaurocracy, is typical.
I don't even have a credit card..
Mebbie I'll cast a spell on Bill Gates.. just kidding... but it's
tempting, and it has better odds than lotto 6/49..:)
There are a few ghost towns here in BC, isolated places, where the mine
or the mill folded, and everyone moved away.. the government owns them,
back taxes. An old Convent would be wonderful, as a beginning to build on...
You can tell I've spent a lot of time thinking about it.. Internet and
telecommunting is making wilderness living more practical, it's not so
needful to live close to a city. Artists export their work, and enjoy
natural surroundings.. Art therapy is good for K.
An intentional community of Kundalites, successful enough to take in
wandering monks and spiritual seekers.. with some expensive accommodations
and spa options for the Shirley Maclean new age types, to subsidise the
charity cases, is perfectly do-able. Aura healers and Reiki Masters and
Vibrational therapists... where 2 or more are gathered, there is love.
That's my dream.. I need help, to make it happen.
Now, to answer your question: There are no places that I know of, like
this, at this time.. but there are a few places where someone can go to
live in the country, for a while. Osho has some Ashrams, the largest is in
India. The Spiritual Emergence Center used to run a place in California,
dunno what it costs. The Emissaries of the Divine Light run several
communities in North America, and elsewhere.. I believe they accept
visitors for free, but expect them to pitch in helping with the communities
needs... it's fair, they do everything by consensus, so they are not a cult.
There are some Ashrams that take in guests, you'd need to do a
web-search. Also, do a search on "Intentional Communities". The 90's by
word for various types of communes, or like-minded community living
arrangements.
I have a guest room and sometimes take in folks in need, for a few weeks
at a time, if I think I can help them.. but as there are sometimes naked
slaves running around in my house, visitor must of necessity be open
minded...
Good luck to Richard.. Blessings.
Mystress Angelique Serpent, http://www.domin8rex.com
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