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Recieved: 1999/10/05 23:02
Subject: [K-list] Fwd: Spiritual Community and Retreat
From: Mystress Angelique Serpent
On 1999/10/05 23:02, Mystress Angelique Serpent posted thus to the K-list:
>Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 22:29:09 -0700 (PDT)
>From: John Waters <johnlwatersATnospamyahoo.com>
>Subject: Spiritual Community and Retreat
>To: Mystress Angelique Serpent <serpentATnospamdomin8rex.com>
>
>Dear K-list:
>
>I've been a subscriber to this list for a couple of
>months and I've been reading many of the postings with
>interest.
>
>I think the spiritual community idea is good.
>I have some ideas to help make it a reality. In my
>writings I have called it "eco-modular" or
>"eco-module" and I think it is an idea whose time has
>come to help a lot of disadvantaged and chronically
>poor persons and families who want to learn a lot more
>about self-healing and spiritual energy, which is what
>k is all about.
>
>I'm a recovering autistic person who has been doing
>independent research on spirit and the sense of spirit
>and inspiration in childhood and adulthood, and
>relating this to different alternate states which have
>technical names familiar to psychologists and
>psychiatrists. I've been pretty well through the
>medical mill and I've seen a lot of people who are
>heavily dosed on meds. I had to work out a better way
>for myself. I've been off the meds pretty much since
>1977.
>
>I think your idea of a k-community and k-retreat is
>great. I found for myself that building a house and
>doing landscaping and working with plants and animals
>has been a great help in connecting with the living,
>loving world. I built things as a boy and animals and
>plants taught me a lot before I got more into relating
>to people. There's a lot of spirit in "dumb"
>creatures. And certain landscapes are loaded with
>spirit as the Native Americans knew and know today.
>
>I live near Patrick's Point State Park which is right
>on the seacoast north of Eureka California. It would
>be a nice gathering spot for people who are interested
>in this project of a new community. There is
>spectacular coastal scenery and native plants and
>animals such as deer, raccoons, whales, porpoises, sea
>lions, pelicans, ravens, falcons, gulls, etc.
>
>A month or so the question of k and autism came up and
>since then there's been some discussion of spontaneous
>body movement in connection with k. If you read about
>autism you see many accounts of autistic children
>moving their bodies in rhythmic ways sometimes for
>hours at a time. This has a calming, comforting
>effect on the person I know from first-hand
>experience. In my own case, to treat myself of
>arthritis, bursitis, irregular heartbeat and some
>other chronic physical problems, I took up some
>activities I'd given up at a rather young age and soon
>after I felt a lot more spirit and my health was
>amazingly improved. What was all confused was my
>language. It's taken me twenty years to improve my
>language and relate this process better. I do feel
>that it has a lot to do with the serenity and pleasure
>which many autistic children feel in their bodies but
>have no way of talking about or sharing what they feel
>because they just don't have the vocabulary and the
>social skills.
>
>Patrick's Point State Park is a camping area and
>except in the midsummer around holiday times has many
>campsites available. If you want to come visit you
>are
>welcome.
>
>Working to simplify the language,
>
>Yours in peace,
>
>John
>
>
>
>
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