Natural Villages

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Natural Villages

  In a pay it forward universe

We welcome you to environmental and cultural restoration!

Today we have natural house technologies that remind us we can build fully beautiful, safe homes using recycled and natural materials for as little as under one thousand dollars! This has indeed been done, and these are very small but warm and cozy full use cabins. We also have the deluxe versions, built by owner builders who have spent up to $10,000 making them soo soo nice, yet the fact remains: there is no rent. There is no mortgage once completed on your land.

When one adds the four season harvest Greenhouse into this mix, we have unlimited production of organic food, in 4,000 square feet of space, we can feed up to 160 people. One can sell excess organic produce into the local market. One could teach low cost house building from your village site.

Apply this to damaged landscape, and a good deal on land, and your village can be recovered from damaged, and flourish into a well designed food production landscape using regional native plants and food stock.

Natural Villages Mission

To help construct our sustainable future; restore environments and cultures through low impact, low cost and totally natural sustainable community developments… use earth based methods to promote the end of poverty and homelessness. Earthen homes constructed around food production gardens and four season greenhouses. Successful human development model 10,000 years and still being used joyfully in remote places on our planet.

We seek to provide this stable, life affirming option for everyone who senses the value of living in true balance with nature, consciousness and communities of people we love deeply. We seek donations of trashed, damaged or any land base where recovery into its natural life and wild food producing condition can host earth homes as well. Help recover our landscapes and communities with safe, natural, beautiful no cost housing and free food from community shared labor.

Natural Villages Programs

Natural Villages hosts 4 programs:

1) Wounded Knee Building Sustainability Camps: Help showcase environmental and community redevelopment by helping complete a model family village in Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on Pine Ridge, a Lakota reservation. Earthen Home construction training. Food production planning. Building Camp. Program open June-July

2) Hummingbird Women: Help establish formal response networks for women who need environmental or self sustaining community support. Join in the ancient guidance of native traditions by attending a women’s empowerment gathering. Learn the value of ancient ceremony. Program open: April

3) Earth Art Construction for sustainable spiritual community building: Become a certified guide or host. Train with experts. Get credit or units from your school. Kiln and ovens, small homes, all stages of building taught. Permaculture and wild landscape management. Green jobs available soon. Contact us. Help us help everyone! Please do donate if possible! Certifications lead to employment. Program Open: year round

4) Tune To The Sun: Learn Ancient Village and SOLAR worship principles. Discover the SOLAR healing used by ancient villagers to remain healthy, spiritually in tune with consciousness and nature. Solar Dynasty Lineage: Knowledge taught by authorized Solar Yoga practitioners trained by lineage Masters. Kriya, Kundalini and Solar energy mastery courses make sustainable village leaders…certifications available. Program open: year round

  Photo by Tom Steuer                                                                                                                             Our nations first people knew this beauty: when we have food and shelter, we are free    two bears sharing the same place       

Dawn in the bears lodge,
spirits watching

We are living here today on land that was cultivated and
kept pristine by the love, tears and consciousness of indigenous village
dwelling people for a millennia. In the same breath that we celebrate the election
of our first community organizer, Barack Obama into the office of president and
Head Chief of the United
States, we are also here to remind us that this
turtle island has a heart, and according to our first earth people, it lies in the center

of this landscape.

This heart of our North American island, this small body of
earth, is quietly beating under the Sacred Black Hills of South Dakota, and was
traditionally protected and used for sacred healing ceremonies that ensured
relatively stable weather, happy families, cultural harmony, within the laws of
natural harmony. Her lungs, still inspiring for us all, yet on the west coast,
only one percent of the most rare of her are left to function on our behalf,
within the Redwood Rainforests of northern California
and Oregon.

This natural harmony has been seriously violated by the
human race. From the moment we allowed our US military to occupy Lakota
territory, and we allowed our all white male government to stamp its ownership
onto the mountainside, carving into the breast of our sacred mother’s heart the
faces of our rich, powerful, male American presidents, (some of whom
decided they owned her precious children, and body, and quite violently, using
us as slaves); some believe that we, the people, lost the respect of our Mother, this earth.

She offers her food to us daily. She allows her body to be
used for our shelters. We walk on her body when we move from here, to there. We
drink her life’s sacred healing force, water. Life. It makes it possible for
our blood to run in our veins. Water, is sacred. We breathe her exhale, air…

the action of her love, Para vati. A sanscrit word meaning First Mother, essence
of air.  Ambha The Deep, Gaurie, womb of
our Universe. Her many names, we honor as her daughters.

Our first nations people tried very hard to tell us how important it is for human beings to think in this way. It is the PROCESS required to remain in balance with her carefully designed living systems of nature. According to both scientists AND many tribes of indigenous peoples:

This physical realm is an illusion, a play of light. According to some scientists we
condense into matter when we allow our own consciousness to worry, to tighten,
to repeat an energetic thought over and over until it condenses into a something heavy
we can truly feel…which causes it to manifest into a  form, and, by giving it our light, we believe in its presence, its existence, making it possible to sense or perceive it with one of our five senses of sight, sound, taste, touch and smell. It becomes physical to us. Using our psyche, we give its physics to science and call this what matters. Our forms of matter.

Indigenous people knew this, and integrated into each human
system, each cultural community the principles of natural harmony, or natural
law. We live in a pay it forward universe. Water, is the first condensation
into form that light can make…it is the water of love that flows through the
living systems of this universe. Love, is sacred. Unless we are using the energy of love to
design a human system, it is guaranteed to fail.

We are experiencing the failure of our human systems. We see
now that our lack of respect and love for our earth as our mother has caused
her an immense amount of loss of love…she loves the diverse, unique species she
creates. We, her human children have been complicit in the destruction force of
assault on the dignity of unique love. The males of our race have allowed the
vulnerable to become prey to the forces of violence. Our collective of corporate
governing males have lost their collective instincts to protect, defend and
support the life givers and life creators on this earth, our women. Our
Mothers. Our Earth. Our sacred life upholders, nourishers, lovers. Our
Creators.

Mother earth is a conscious being. She has gifted us with
the way home, the way back to harmony and balance. Heaven is a place in nature,
a garden of life, love, beauty, brilliant sensations of exploding smells,
warmths, lives and hummingbirds! JOY is a natural human condition. WE as a
humanity can cultivate cultures of joy, peace, harmony, with love as our
guiding principle!

This human realm is also called the Natural Village.
Hell, is a place where consciousness is in a condition of suffering. Pain.
This, too, is an illusion. A forgetting that the only thing that exists is the
light of love. The second we succeed at remembering this, at putting back
together the body of information that proves this as a reality of physics, the
reality of matter that takes form within the play of light, we also succeed at
transforming our consciousness into the light of love in that same moment. We
call this self transformation. It can happen now. And now. We humans can laugh and love
even while the illusion of pain is part of our moment now experience. How sacred.

She, the consciousness of our earth, gave this gift of
living within the heaven of a natural village to the very first humans, the
civilization’s of the Vedas, who used it for millennia, emerging in India, the
first geological continent to rise from her womb, our ocean. Their stone cities
remain in this watery realm. Since then, different waxes and wanes in human
consciousness took place.

When we are out of balance, we loose respect for our natural
boundaries. The boundaries show us how to mean it when we say: “we love our
women and our earth, therefore we will not rape, murder, torture or leave them
without hearth or home. We will not kill her children. We will not CAUSE
sufferings for other human souls, who then by the NATURE of this trauma within

natural law reality will likely cause more sufferings for even more human souls.

If not by sheer empathetic love, then through pain of trauma or the numbing of

unconscious self protections called denial.

We will protect our vulnerable hearts and souls within the compassionate
villages of our conscious reality. So let us listen, this time…to the indigenous
peoples wisdom. Let us recover our hearth and home by making a natural village
available to all of those who need them. Creating a natural heaven, a community
within natures balance, earth arks for a new era of human responsibility. The best way we can thank this living, conscious system for life creating life within this evol ution. This, is love moving forward from
conscious loving mother of all our moments, now, within humanity. Community.
With unity, let us gather as loving humans.

Natural, beautiful, regional food production landscapes can
once again become normal for communities within this moment of reality. Our
organization has positioned itself to help us do this. Please enjoy scrolling
through our story, find instructions, ideas, make plans and connections.     

                                                Welcome to our communities of:

 Shiv Goraknath Babaji : White Buffalo Calf Woman

Welcome, cultural and environmental restoration!

Rain In The Face, a great Lakota Warrior

Our mission is to help end poverty and homelessness through natural, sustainable microvillage development. With an active board of directors taking primary function roles, we are designing and building this organization for maximum effectiveness. 

These homes are safe in fire,  wind storms, and, when properly designed they are the most effective protection from harsh weather; either too cold OR too hot. It is time to make zoning, building and community village laws that serve the human need to gather into groups of health, love, food production and no mortgage housing that can be passed to our children in tact, even after 1,000 years.

Earth based homes have been meeting human survival needs since the beginning of human agricultural dwelling. Being safe and COST EFFECTIVE in any climate, shows why they have been used throughout human village existence. Perhaps we can now allow nature to show us once again, how to return to sane development strategies for humanity.

Natural Villages began our model projects in the Lakota nation, in Wounded Knee, on Pine Ridge reservation.  This community has been requesting a return to some form of natural family village for several centuries. Poverty and homelessness is rampant in many global communities. Using earth based natural housing methods, the most cost effective village development is now available for crisis communities the world over. Working together can only speed this delivery.

The hidden toxins in many of our development, agricultural and building processes our nation has adopted are now being used throughout our globe. Today we can focus on our immediate living areas, identify the safety of our soils, home environment and water, and work to bring an even higher level of health and well being to our immediate locations. Natural village development is also environmental restoration in its truest form, when we work to restore our landscapes to their original, natural food producing conditions.

We are inviting anyone interested in becoming part of this cultural evolution, to connect with us directly through this website. The village development process is an inherent evolving that includes the best for humanities people from the past, present and future.

We promote technologies that focus on natural, toxin free sustainable development processes that support the quality, comfort, stability and vibrancy of healthy community that has been inherent in human evolution for millennia. We acknowlege stress as a toxic energy, and work to support and promote stress free environments. We also acknowledge that in this day of nutrient denuded soils and unpredictable climates, that small community sized perpetual harvest greenhouse systems are now mandatory for reliable, stable food production that will meet the fresh daily nutrition needs of whole groups.

 At this stage, the plan was to put a thick rock like ring around the top, to receive the roof beams and rafters, and to place the sliding glassdoors in the openings, and put a clear story roof on top: ooopppsss somehow, the roof did not get done that year, independant people decided to enact the changes that were made, winter took a tarpless toll, we were ready to plaster and “saw , trim” the walls to smoothe to prepare for the colors and exterior flat wall designs and images.  And now…we are working with a different house:

THANK LEOLA ONE FEATHER:

For her steadfast commitment to showing and supporting her community of Wounded Knee in receiving a finished example of the housing available to them. Prayers in the Lodges of Ohlone women are going out to their sisters in Wounded Knee, in hopes of stabilizing energies of loving kindness and healed communities for all native nations.  Leola is an advisor to our board, and will hopefully be joining us as a trustee, soon. We move slowly in our village, this way, we can be sure our efforts are effective, with far reaching results.  A completed example of an earth home will hopefully emerge this summer, 2009, in Wounded Knee. We as a community of villagers will continue to work with Leola and her family, if they wish, to try to finish their house, and create opportunities for her sons to earn while helping others build, too.  Pictured above: to meet with Leola’s plans for her  re-design into a “community ceremony space”.

Each season this home seems to remerge in a new form…~an example of the possibilities as well as the difficulties, we continue to follow the story of Leolas house…until everyone involved is content and smiling. Pilamaya. Thank you deeply, to all who care, and all who help each year.