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Background Reading

Standard of Living

When we talk about a "high standard of living" we are speaking about our level of material wealth as related to other households and countries. This is the worst possible measurement for establishing or identifying what a high standard of living actually means.  The commonly accepted meaning of high standard of living has pretty much been imposed on us by corporations that want to sell us more goods and services. Their job is to make you think that you simply can not survive without that gadget or this service. Look through a catalogue at the useless junk they hock. We used to need perhaps twenty things to get by with, now we perceive that need to be no less than five-hundred things and for some five-thousand things are an absolute minimum to live our lives. It has been said a million times before, money will not make you happy - but still we spend most of our lives chasing after this material life.

Having lived overseas with my wife for the past eight years what struck us most was the "high standard of living" we experienced in what is often referred to as the third world. People would flock to my wife and I and pay what amounts to an average persons weekly salary for one hour of English lessons. Their goal, to move to a land with the highest standard of living - Germany, England, Canada or America. What they were actually leaving behind was a much higher standard of living than what they were chasing after. Much of our time was focused on convincing them to stay where they were and appreciate what they had.

Broken Bodies, Broken Earth

Depression, suicide, self mutilation, substance abuse, child abuse, incest, all are on the increase and all are symptomatic of a Broken Earth. If conventional treatments, medications and therapies were working we would be seeing a sharp decline not a continued increase. Admitting that conventional efforts are not adequately addressing these problems is a start. Clearing the decks for alternative methods is critical in discovering workable alternative solutions. Many alternative efforts and sincere individuals who want to help and can help will never make it through a system that effectively weeds out anything different from the many failed norms set by the academic and professional communities as well as the government agencies sanctioned to control these many problems. We have tried their failed methods and approaches and we have seen an increase rather than the desired decrease in depression, suicide, self mutilation, substance abuse, child abuse and incest. Those claiming that the statistical increases are a result of reporting efforts becoming more effective should be able to point to a decrease in the rates of suicide to support their theories – suicide rates do not lie. Suicide rates have dramatically increased.  They are a clear indicator that the many problems with our families and children - the very fabric of our communities, is in serious trouble.

The alternative programs Broken Earth proposes are not to be found in academic and professional circles – because it is not within their area of expertise. To permit alternative programs a chance to thrive and prove themselves effective we must remove the institutional restrictions and regulations that prevent them from ever taking root. The academic, scientific approach, destroys the holistic benefits of spiritually based programs. In the same way that chemotherapy and holistic cancer treatments do not mix, scientifically and spiritually based social programs do not mix. You must select one approach or the other. What is best should be an individual decision, not a decision imposed by a government institution.

The Broken Earth Tribal Community in addition to being a full time tribal eco-village or pueblo for permanent residents will also act as a healing center and Darga where people in need - suffering from spiritual illnesses like depression, can come and live, heal, and benefit from a return to a connected and simplistic way of life. While focused on teens and young adults, Broken earth is open to all who need help.

Our Intention

Everything begins with an intention and every good intention is for the service and honor of the Creator of All Things. If our intention is pure, good, truly serving Him, then we will see some results. If not, then it was never meant to be in the first place. We will begin with what we have, a good intention and we will see how this naturally progresses. Chasing after things, trying to make things happen, is often based on ego and self, not on true service. If things fall into place, we will continue. We ask blessings and protection on this effort and that it will be something that brings forward health and healing to the many distraught young people in our society. This presentation is the required cultivation and planting of the seeds - what grows after that is purely from Him. We claim no responsibility for what the fields or earth produces, the vegetation it yields and the life and energy it brings.

End-Time Preparation

Many "religious" communities of this nature are focused on end-time concerns. While we certainly believe in what all holy books have said, that there will come a time when a war of all wars ravages the earth. That circumstances today seem rather desperate and a need for a self-sustainable community is evident, we are not a community focused on end-times or using an end-time scenario to unite or control people. Our focus each day is living as if we are going to live forever, but preparing ourselves spiritually as if we will die tomorrow. The fact remains, the healthiest of lifestyles today, is also a lifestyle that is best suited for living in a declining world that may fall into utter chaos. The routines we establish are best for living our lives today and well suited for the worst of times to come. There is a famous Sufi saying:

"That even if you know the world is going to end tomorrow, plant a tree today".

Restoring Humanity to Heal Humanity

The current official system that is mandated to addresses these many problems with our society today have knocked the humanity out of humanity. As one of many examples, people with emergency mental and physical disabilities, requiring immediate kindness, compassion and assistance, seek help from the Social Security Administration and as a standard rule are denied on the first application attempt. The entire process takes months, even years to receive the help required. During this time people do what - self medicate, fall into depression, commit suicide, become abusive towards their children and families and generally fuel more costly problems. By the time help is received the individual is so disillusioned, so disgusted with life, the help they do receive is too little too late. Their spiritual. mental and physical  being is all the more weakened. The available solutions are often found in administering harmful and expensive medications. Band aids that cover-up severe problems and never address the real issues.

Yes, the system is broken and the agencies and professionals who make up this system know that it is broken, but fixing it would mean the loss of their income and security. Fixing it would mean admitting that the current methods and programs do not work and should be scrapped. Fixing it would mean that the billions of dollars allocated to fund and support the broken system would be diverted or dry up. Fixing it would mean that a person who spent the better part of a decade and thousands of dollars in educational costs to obtain their professional title and status would have to be retrained and find other work. The broken system continues to struggle along despite any recognizable benefits and with most evidence suggesting that the current system has utterly failed to address the many  problems, it continues as before. We are not saying the people in the system are not sincere, but the pressures and influences to protect what's theirs and promote the methods they have been trained to administer are very real concerns.

Lets face it, these many government supported social programs may look impressive on paper but the real world results are something entirely different.

In fact, these very government programs have sucked the humanity out of society. This is a critically important factor that is not being addressed. Before these government programs were in place, families, close friends and relatives, religious organizations and communities were called upon to provide direct assistance. They perceived it as their obligation and responsibility. A service that was necessary to protect the health and well-being of their own families and communities. Over the years as government programs increased and quickly became the norm for providing assistance, the response from families, close friends and relatives, religious organizations and the greater communities began to fall off. Help was reduced to directing people to an existing government programs. Today the common thinking is,

"Why should I help when I am already paying high taxes and these programs are available for people if they need help?

This reality has destroyed the very foundations of families and communities. It is the number one problem for why we are suffering from so many societal ills. We were right in rejecting the controlling nature of the church, but instead of moving closer to God and further away from tyrants we have relegated that control to an even bigger tyrant. A tyrant that serves no God at all. 

Yes, government experts were able to point to short comings in communities and to people who were not receiving help to gain the mandate to provide social services - but the reality today is that the people falling through the cracks and not being helped are far greater in number than the problems pointed to to gain government control over these social welfare programs and people.

Separation of Church and State

We should no longer view America as a land where church and state are separate, we need to recognize that the state has become the church. Much of the same reasons why people started moving away from the influences of a controlling church have been replaced by an every controlling dictatorial government. An imposition of what amounts to nothing more than government beliefs, whether deemed secular or non-secular, have become more overbearing than the worst impositions and controls that were ever imposed by churches. It is time to reject these controlling influence from both church and state. Rejecting a controlling church does not mean the rejection of the Creator of All Things. Given a choice between the controlling influences of a church organization or the government, churches are much better equipped to address the needs of the local people because they are almost entirely community based. The concept of community responsibility while still subjugated by the church is still much stronger than the human disconnect that results from government instituted and managed programs. With churches, people still congregate as a community, however divergent the various denominations splinter the community, it still has no where near the impact that the government has on alienating communities. The answer is not to return to the dominating influence of the church, but it does entail a return to spirituality and community based support and help in whatever form that may take.

It is way beyond the scope of our programs to attempt to fix existing social welfare problems. It would be an approach that would be destined to fail. The very best we can do is attempt to avoid their many mistakes and the enormous regulatory influences that actual work to keep them in control. We fully expect that the status quo social welfare system will respond to our approach in the same manner that the status quo medical community first responded to holistic and alternative healthcare.  In fact, we see no real solution to fix the current broken social service system other than by offering alternatives..  This will be no easy task. When people see the results of these programs they will demand more like them. We actually anticipate quite a bit of interference and negative feed back from the existing system and will likely be thwarted with one attempt after another to regulate and control what we are doing. Regulation and control destroys the essential human spiritual component that these programs provide. Nonetheless, we will strive to do our best and offer alternative human spiritually centered programs that address the root problems and concerns.

Spiritually Based Approach

While on the subject of Church and State influences, it is appropriate to mention that our programs are spiritually centered, not religiously based. An important distinction. Our programs are open to anyone, although it should be clearly conveyed to participants that our approach is an approach that seeks to balance mind, body and spirit and that a belief in a Creator of All Things is central to that approach. Just as it is necessary to exercise your physical body and mind to keep illness from developing, it is essential to exercise your spiritual being. How a person exercises their spiritual being is entirely up to that individual. Our goal is to provide a multitude of cultural methodologies for exercising your spiritual being and let the person decide for themselves what is best. To this end we will invite a number of aspirants from various ways to present their spiritually based methods. Including but not limited to Cabbalism, Buddhism, Shamanism and  Sufism. This will not be a time to proselytize any one given belief system, gatherings will be experientially based and focused on demonstrating the meditative aspects of a particular faith or spiritual discipline.

Funding Requirements

We have no funding requirements. We will work with what is afforded to us. We have a non-solicitation of funds policy and firmly believe that having to beg for funds means that the natural, holistic and spiritual energy or momentum of a project is in fact compromised by solicitation of funds. In short, any program that serves Him, is receiving His support. Begin to intervene, try and make things happen, organize, plan and desire more and your good intention quickly turns into a self serving business that is supporting your own desires not a real need. The focus then becomes protecting what is yours, what you created, what you established - not on serving the needs of the people. This requires a high level of trust and belief in the prospect that all things come and originate from the Creator of all Things. We do not see this as a religious conviction, we view this as a simple truth - Reality. It is a reality we struggle to maintain and remain true to every day. When we see a success, the natural inclination is to always be so happy with ourselves that "I" did this, or "I" did that. No, we do nothing. While not seeking to solicited funds we are very much interested in educating people in this approach. An argument that educating people can in itself be a form of solicitation can certainly be made, but we do not see this as a departure from our non-solicitation policy. Non-solicitation means direct requests for funds and donations. Educating and informing people who are equally concerned about the health of our families and communities is a noble task. Those who see the benefits of the work will be inspired to give. There is no need to ask. If seeing that something is good and not supporting, could mean that even though the effort is needed and the benefit can be realized, the people are simply not deserving and are in fact create their own suffering so that they may eventually learn what is correct. This is part of a natural holistic process and approach.

Wise Man Syndrome

Most everyone, at some point in their lives has thought about secluding themselves from the busy world - retreating to a cave or desert island. We share these notions because we all have a spiritual side of ourselves begging to be exercised and nurtured. Many of us enroll in weekly yoga or meditation activities to foster this side of our being - which is great. Others frequent health spas and resorts where they can feel pampered and cared for. Countless self-help programs and courses are available to nurture the emptiness that results from not exercising your spiritual being. As with your physical and mental being, if your spiritual being is not exercised we become weak and prone to illness. What we all really need is a place to go to get recharged. With our busy schedules we want the very best results with the least amount of time and expense.

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A Tribal Calling

A Tribal Life is a natural way of living that conforms to our physical, mental and spiritual needs. We are meant to live simplistic holistic lives in complete conformity with our natural surroundings. If we are not living this life, we are suffering. Locked in an office building, living in a city, even life in suburban communities does not provide the tribal style of life that our physical, mental and spiritual being craves. Most of us are living outside the circle of life.

For most of us, a full time tribal life is out of the question. Nonetheless, a part time tribal life is possible and better than no tribal life at all. Even a short stay in a real, back to basics, tribal pueblo will work wonders in discovering your true self. When you experience the benefits of simplistic natural living, you may find that you start gravitating towards spending more of your time in this invigorating natural environment. Eventually, many people may decide to make it their full time residence. If you have ever had the opportunity to sit in a conical shaped earth Beehive Dwelling with no annoying electrical hums or electronic gadget sounds - you will understand the allure and benefits these natural environments hold. The vaulted natural ceiling makes you feel like you are in a very spacious and expansive environment - it is extremely relaxing and freeing.

There are two ways to begin acquiring this rejuvenating lifestyle. Renting a Beehive Dwelling owned by someone else, or owning a Beehive Dwelling yourself and sharing in the rental profits it may bring. Actually, the third option is to build a Beehive Dwelling in our eco-pueblo and make it your full time life-style. Most of you will need to gradually work your way up to living natural lives. A natural pueblo life pretty much means no electronics of any sort. This is not an easy addiction to overcome. Make no mistake - it is an addiction. Most of you will experience technology withdrawals for the first few days. After you kick your habit, it is even harder to return to your busy lifestyle. Nevertheless, the benefits will remain with you long after you go home.

Building and purchasing a a beehive home is relatively inexpensive. While not owning the land you do have the right to the structure and will share in any rental income. Beehive homes, if agreeable to the owner, will be used to house people coming for the many Broken Earth Programs. Those agreeing to let their Beehive Home be used for Broken Earth Programs will get preference.

The cost of a basic Beehive Home starts as low as US  $5,000.00. With sweat equity, even lower. We prefer that people come and participate in the building of their own Beehive Home, however one can be built for you. A basic Beehive Home has no plumbing or electricity. A wood stove and kerosene lamps are your energy and basic cooking sources. Most meals for those living in a basic Beehive Home will be eaten in the community hall. Public bath houses and toilets will also be made available. Options to add on kitchens and bathrooms are available but are substantially more expensive.

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Rejuvenating and Exercising your Spiritual Being

The best way to rejuvenate your physical, mental and spiritual being is to return to a natural and simplistic tribal way of life. Pampering yourself at the newest spa or retreat center, attending another self-help group, paying for hundreds of hours of therapy or even weekly meditation or yoga practices will not provide the same balancing effect that a week or two of staying at a tribal pueblo can accomplish. Be prepared to leave your busy life behind. Also be prepared for plenty of natural activity and hard work. Not only will your spirit get a full workout, so will your body and mind. That really is the secret to simplistic living - it provides you with a balance between, body, mind and spirit.

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What to Expect!

Expect a lot because you will attain a lot. Expect to live the way we were intended to live. Think tribal, somewhat nomadic, indigenous communities that foster and embrace a simplistic natural way of living. Think traditional Native American lifestyles. We are not thinking so much of a hunter gatherer lifestyle, but more of a natural living off the land lifestyle. Tending the flock, milking the cows, weeding the garden, churning the butter, baking the bread in a wood stove, spinning the wool, dying the fabric, learning how to build Beehive dwellings, are just some of the many activities you can expect. This is not a place to be pampered it is a place to restore yourself by living the way you were intended to live. Becoming one with nature and the people and world around you.  People will be able to handle different levels at different times. Busy lives are really an addiction and may need to be tapered off. Many of you will want to kick the addiction forever, but just about everyone is going to learn to live happier healthy lives. No one will spend time in a Beehive Tribal Community and walk away without some lasting benefit. 

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A Word About Survival & Ownership!

Owning a Beehive Dwelling in a sustainable Beehive Tribal Community is perhaps your best insurance against a failed economy. While not focused on a failed anything, it is important to consider these possibilities. Many people today have justifiable concerns about the health and well-being of our economy and nation. If our busy complicated world does go belly up, if oil prices exceed levels able to sustain normal production, what will you do without electricity, water, and a sustainable food source that does not have to be trucked across the country?  How will you survive in a city or even a rural setting. Even if you have a well and the electricity goes out, then how do you retrieve the water or protect what is yours from people ho have not prepared? Owning a Beehive Dwelling in a Beehive Tribal Community is the best insurance policy against a crashing economy leading to either Marshal Law rule or total anarchy. These real and growing concerns are now shared by many people. If this happens, you do not want to be anywhere near the cities. Another 9-11 and many people believe this country will be under Marshal Law. Let's hope that never happens, but just in case, a Beehive Dwelling in a sustainable Beehive Tribal Community, is going to be your best alternative and the best insurance you can purchase.

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What is a Beehive Tribal Community?

More than anything a Beehive Tribal Community is a holistic farm and land cooperative. It is virtually impossible to sustain a small farm today and make it financially work within a competitive market place. The benefits of a Beehive Tribal Community  is not just the protection it may ultimately provide as a place to escape to if the going gets tough, not just the benefits from the whole food products the farm will produce, meat, fish, dairy, grains, vegetables and the like. The Beehive Tribal Community  is a therapeutic living center to get back to a simple healthy way of life without having to make a full time commitment or having to go it alone. The Beehive Tribal Community  is an ongoing retreat center where you reconnect to life and learn new crafts and skills. They are places where your children and spouse can enjoy holistic activities that promote the health and well-being of your entire family.

The disconnect from nature and the ever so important  "Meaning of Life Issues" is one of the biggest causes of depression and suicide in this country. The Beehive Tribal Community  is a back to nature call - important on so many different levels, spiritual, mental and physical. The Beehive Tribal Community is a natural healing center. The Beehive Tribal Community  is a community strong hold that unite like minded individual and provide them with the strength and resolve to stand up for a way of life that has nearly disappeared. The Beehive Tribal Community  is a natural living center.  

Regulations imposed on family farms today by corporations who diligently lobby Congress for the very controls that are designed to drive the small farmers out of business, have had a devastating affect on both the family farm and the food we as consumers are now forced to eat. Dairy, grain, vegetables, meat are all industrialized products that have not only lost the important energy from human touch but are responsible for many negative, often deadly, health problems. That hamburger you ate, in the industrialized manner that it was slaughtered, likely has meat from a thousand different animals greatly increasing your chances of exposure to many different kinds of food borne illness.

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The Amazing Beehive Dwelling

Beehive dwelling are one of the oldest and certainly the most favored dwellings in the world. Beehive homes or the close relatives to the conical beehive shaped dwellings have been in existence for thousands of years. There are very good reasons why - they are by far the most economical and efficient dwellings that can be constructed. Cool in the Summer and warm in the Winter beehive homes can be constructed almost anywhere utilizing different materials and building styles. In much of the Middle East where wood is often in short supply, beehive dwellings are constructed with cob and rocks. In places like Alaska, conical shaped dwellings, the igloo, are constructed with ice blocks. With the advent of earth bag building techniques, beehive dwellings can be constructed most anywhere. Bags are filled with volcanic pumas, sand, dirt, rocks and other natural building materials. Cozy natural, energy efficient - they are by far the best building solution available. Disagree, start your own Tribal Community. We will be happy to list your alternative project here so people may have a choice. LEARN MORE

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Establishing a Beehive Tribal Community

We have searched around the Northern New Mexico Area and decided that the best place to be is centered between two of the best towns in America, Santa Fe and Taos. For many people having access to a city is important for their businesses and ongoing technology addictions. It also serves as an easy entry point for part-timers, renters and owners, who are coming from other locations. We will place a down-payment on the land we have selected as soon as we have ten or more people committed to building a Beehive Dwelling. Currently we have about five. More information about where the community is located and how it will be operated will be made available to persons making serious inquires. What is a serious inquiry? That changes according to how many other serious inquiries we have. If your are really interested, don't be afraid to let us know.

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Beehive Home Building Course

Other similar courses are being offered at $1,500.00 for a two day weekend course. We are offering these course to help people learn, not make money, but we do like to charge a small fee to help pay for supplies and food for the participants. The cost for our six days over three weekends course is $150.00 (early registration). You are welcome to pitch a tent or call ahead for other accommodations. Contact Us  We will send you further details via email. This initial course is primarily designed for locals - thus the weekend schedule. Our next course offering will likely be a six day, one week course more suited for people from out of town. Still feel free to contact us so we may notify you when other courses are available.  LEARN MORE

Owning a Beehive Home

Building and purchasing a beehive home is relatively inexpensive. While not owning the land you do have the right to the structure and will share in any rental income. Beehive homes, if agreeable to the owner, will be used to house people coming for the many Broken Earth Programs. Those agreeing to let their Beehive Home be used for Broken Earth Programs will get preference.

The cost of a basic Beehive Home starts as low as US  $5,000.00. With sweat equity, even lower. We prefer that people come and participate in the building of their own Beehive Home, however one can be built for you. A basic Beehive Home has no plumbing or electricity. A wood stove and kerosene lamps are your energy and basic cooking sources. Most meals for those living in a basic Beehive Home will be eaten in the community hall. Public bath houses and toilets will also be made available. Options to add on kitchens and bathrooms are available but are substantially more expensive.

Contact us for more information on how to own your own Beehive Home.

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