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The Village first appeared in a psychic workshop, when Kay Mora went into trance and channeled her spirit guide. The guide told of the upcoming Earth Transformation, a time of profound social, economic, geological,and climatic upheaval and also a time of cleansing and raising the Planet's vibration to a far higher etheric level.We were told to begin a village to withstand these changes and to create the new consciousness of oneness with the Earth, people, and spirit.
We were told to expect extreme storms, unseasonable weather, and great earthquakes. The buildings would need to be flexible. The seas would rise. A dust would settle and contaminate all things on the surface. Air and water would need to be cleansed. There would be a period of darkness when no crops would grow, followed by intense light. Birds and animals would come to the village for shelter. We would use copper wire antennas to draw the cosmic energy through the clouds, and crystals to sustain the crops. At one time, the village would be in utter isolation.
Carol Jo Garfinkel taught a psychic development class which evolved into trance communication with space/spirit beings. I took shorthand notes of these sessions. Her communications told of similar changes and the need for new communities. Mankind is becoming etheric, able to work with the most subtle energies.
Sandra Priest, who studied with Kay, also channeled The Red Book , which compares Atlantean times with our own. It describes the healing centers, greenhouses, and culture we are to create.
If the cataclysmic earth changes do not occur, it still makes sense to design any village to be stable through any events which may occur, especially if the costs are similar to normal construction.
.Kay's guide originally chose the Rangely area of Maine. It is high in the mountains, remote from population, with the pure, high energy of granite, lakes and forests. The mountains, at 2500 feet elevation,are ten degrees cooler than the lowlands. Snow lasts into April. It was also the home of Wilhelm Reich, pioneer of orgone (life) energy, which is incorporated into the village.
The village design is universal, able to function well anywhere on Earth, as it creates its own climate. It's sustainability is well-suited to remote areas. Presently about 3/4 of the land masses are uninhabited and mostly barren. Villages set in barren places could re-seed and moisten them, returning the deserts to forests.
As a communication node, it would have the cultural resources of the whole planet. New natural-energy flying and cable vehicles would make remote areas physically accessible.
The village has the density of an urban neighborhood, covering five acres, so it could also renew an urban area. It's density is holographic, meaning the whole village serves as garden, healing center, residence, university, commerce, manufacture, recreation, weaving all together in one fabric.
As a village reaches its complete pattern, it would spawn another. In a grand pattern of these villages, the Earth's population could fit in the space of Texas, with half of the space outdoor landscape, with an ecological abundance far surpassing what is there now.
The essence of the community is sharing, love, healing, communication, and emerging knowledge. Merging with all life. Creating a clear channel with spirit.
The guides have said this is to be a "mother community", a new pattern of village which will spawn others. It is to be star-shaped. The mature size of the village is to be twenty-four family houses and twelve guest houses. Houses can be shared by two family groups, with private rooms at each end and common rooms at center. At this size, relationships can be resolved personally among the people involved without much governance.
Each house is one base of the DNA molecule in floor plan, and the houses connect to form concentric rings with a common concentric greenhouse avenue between the rings, a space which creates easy interactions among the villagers.
The village Center gathers the social activities of shops, library, meeting spaces, healing rooms. The Center is the DNA molecule, a double-helix of open platforms, with privacy screens as needed, wrapped around a central atrium, so people have a sense of working together, the interplay of life. The atrium is like a theater, with the audience on all levels around it. Each suite of rooms consists of a triangle, square, pentagon and hexagon in a spiral.
A greenhouse plaza surrounds the Center. Twelve spherical workshops ring the plaza. Three workshops open at the plaza level as gateways to the radial avenues.
A bermed and covered lane surround the village for vehicle access and parking. Electric carts carry loads within the village.
The pattern of the village and village center is very fluid and balanced. It allows harmonies and spaces that fit the feeling of community relationships. The DNA is actually a triple helix. The third helix is left open, but very soon fills in with RNA and outside agents that join on. This gives a very lively space, able to switch and play easily. All living things contain and resonate to this pattern. Quartz has a similar molecular pattern. The villagers can construct the whole village with equilateral triangles, ten feet on edge, built on jigs. This makes construction simple, while creating a great variety of crystalline spaces.
It is all set to sacred geometry, with antennas drawing the sky charge to copper wires along the triangles, with crystals at each hub, and grounding rods at the base points. The current between sky and earth charges flourescent globes at the hubs to light, and also tunes the whole village to the Earth's frequency to create a clear, calm, healthy atmosphere.
Within the basic layout, villagers can break the pattern and have full freedom to design their own homes and shops. For instance, transplanted trees can interweave to form greenhouses. Floors and walls can be stabilised earth. Glass bottles can be melted down,and blown with air bubbles to make thick, insulated, rainbow windows. Straw makes fine insulation. Many of the materials can be gathered from the land or salvaged. Almost everyone likes to build, and would find a part in the varied construction. Costs could be very low. This is a dense design, yet has free space for infilling. It is multi-dimensional, inside and outside interweaving. Individual creation blossoms everywhere. The whole village is set up in harmonic patterns, inter-connected with intensively cultivated greenhouse avenues, creating a temperate climate. Light and crystals tune the spaces, water cascades through flow-forms, the air is cleansed with ions, so plants and animals thrive.
Learning is for everyone. Academics are set up as clubs, voluntary. Workshops are for everyone to use, with the guidance of shop masters, so everyone can be omni-talented and have access to highly skilled work. A village catalog markets the products.
Each family would own a share of the village land trust, his house, a portion of the greenhouse, and a share of the workshops and social center. Each person would lead the rest in the aspects of village he feels talent for. Freedom of mind is most important.
is based on activities to transform the Earth:
Creating a new form of sharing community, to spawn others, in communication with spirit, universe, nature, and people.
Rental of the guest spaces would pay for 40% of the construction cost in five years. This would introduce much new thought to the village and spread it far. Guests' contribution for food grown within the village would pay another10% of the construction cost.
An intensely cultivated greenhouse can provide enough food for one person in 100 square feet. The greenhouses contain 38,000 sq. ft. of garden space, enough for 380 people. The village contains 125 people. The surplus, enough for 250 people, if sold for $30 per weekly portion, would be $7500 per week, or $400,000 per year. Wholesale would be half this, but special crops such as spirulina, or prepared food such as baked or dried, would be more. Spirulina algae (70% protein, 10% chlorophyl) produces 17 times as much nutrition per area as soybeans. Very high vitality dried food could be sold as survival packs for ten times this amount. Development of these products will alleviate the very low vitality, sickness, and famine of the days of darkness, if they occur. Herbs will be grown for healing. Aquaculture will be a substantial symbiotic part of the greenhouses.
Outdoor agriculture of grains could provide some income for awhile, but the climate may become very erratic, and polluted air may contaminate them. We are told to grow root crops.
We were told not to raise many animals, as the food supply will be needed for people. Rabbits eat ruffage, create premium compost and carbon dioxide for the plants, and fur and meat for the people. Rabbits are useful through their lifespan, so slaughter would not be neccesary if breeding were controlled.
Water and air purifiers and healing-tuning devices can be marketed.
Energy prototypes (solar, wind, composters, methane and alcohol generators, appliances and vehicles) will be needed as conventional energy systems break down.Ultra-light flight and wind-pedal-solar-electric vehicles will provide joyous travel.
Research and knowledge will be marketed through book publishing, videos and the internet. The village can support its own communications center. Beauty and joy will be in great demand, provided through arts and crafts, traveling speakers, music tapes.
A community catalog and transport system will increase the profitability of businesses. A community credit union and stock ownership program will provide capital for new projects. The workshops will provide access to tools and highly skilled trades.
The village will be a healing center and university. Everyone is a healer, teacher, and student. T
What is it? A $400,000 per year income? Buying a new Porche instead of a used Ford, for the same ride? Squandered abundance. I see it as careful stewardship, synergistic sharing, an abundance of love energy, and efficiency and patient nurturing which makes everything in its field blossom and makes ordinary things marvelous.
We use many economic systems simultaneously. Money is only one, not the best. When earned, 30% is lost to taxes and insurance. When spent, 8% is lost. Inflation takes 10%. We receive half our value. We are forced to buy policies destructive to the planet. We do work we don't really care about. Wall Street speculators gamble blindly with the very heart of the system, triggering landslides with pistol shots.
Suppose we could have the same living standard with a tenth of the income, $4,000. Is it possible? Where does the money go?
Car: 10,000 miles/year @ $.25 /mile = $ 2,500
Food: $40 / week x 52 weeks x 3 1/2 people = $ 7,280
Rent and utilities: $1200/mont x 12 months =$14,400
Entertainment: $15/week x 52 weeks x 3 1/2 =$ 2,730
Health insurance : $75/month x 12 months x 3 1/2 =$ 3,150
Taxes: $40,000 x 25% =$10,000
Total =$40,060
It is easy to see why we don't save much! The village could reduce these expenses ten-fold:
A car is used mostly in commuting to work, school, shopping, entertainment. All these are here within walking distance. You would need to drive 1/10 as much. Ride sharing is easy from the village, with four people riding instead of one. Group purchases mean most don't need to go. If we use a car for two hours, it is idle fourteen prime hours. By sharing, we need 1/10 as many cars. Repairs are done in the village shop where we have complete tools. Parts are the only cost, and they may be salvaged. Village insurance would cost less than many individuals. High-risk people can be passengers. Gas may be produced by composting (alcohol) at 1/2 the cost. The village will develop eco-vehicles.
Food will be grown for 1/10 the cost. There is no shipping or marketing. All parts of the plant are used for compost, heat, seed and feed. Pot luck village suppers save restaurant costs. Bulk buying of imported food costs 50% less.
Rent and utilities. House purchase is $10,000 for five years. Averaged over twenty years, this is $2500 per year. It is refundable when sold. The electrical system is included, with maintenance the only ongoing cost. Consumption is far less. Heat is primarily by compost and sun.
Entertainment , real enjoyment, comes through creation and the social life of the village, such as talent shows, music and art, suppers, guests, hot tubs, massage, service. Just relating to each other.
Health is by diet, attitude, holistic medicine, touch, sun, nature. The community shares the "assurance" of major medical funds. Each person learns healing.
A $4,000 income is below the level of minimum taxation.
So, if one earns 1/5 as much, he doubles his living standard. This gives freedom. The liberated creation (time, resources, mindset) then makes the living standard boundless.
The village grows organically: seed, sprout, twig, tree, with each stage carrying its own economy, stable, absorbing energy and materials from its environment. A house can begin with a single common room. The center can begin as a single shop, then a ring, then a common dome in the center. The roofs of the shops unbolt and lift as the Center and Workshops grow upward. The loads can be supported either by the panels or by a pattern of vertical poles. The houses create the walls of the greenhouses, and the greenhouse roofs can begin as open trellises.
The entire village can be built from a single ten-foot equilateral triangle structural component. The panels hinge together along the edges, allowing a great variation of angles with a single hinge component. Doors, windows, walls, solar panels are interchangeable within the triangle frame. Square, pentagonal, and hexagonal panels with ten-foot edges can be added for other crystalline shapes.
Each building generates its own energy and recycles its own wastes, so large central utilities, funding and management are not required.
The most durable and economical technologies are very simple, locally repairable, with minimal pumps, fans, motors, moving parts, and electronics. Sun, wind, water, earth, gravity, phase-change materials, plants and microbes go on and on. When systems combine to use each other's wastes, efficiencies can approach 100%.
For example, a solar collector bakes the water out of a zeolite desicant in the collector tubes. The vapor pressure pushes the vapor down a tube which wraps around a water storage tank. The vapor condenses, releasing its latent heat to the water tank. The condensed water drains to tubes in a refrigerator. When the solar collector cools at night, the zeolite reabsorbs the vapor. The system is a vacuum, so the water in the refrigerator evaporates. This absorbs so much heat from the water left in the refrigerator that it freezes to ice, which keeps the refrigerator cold during the next day. Freezing can desalinate water with about 1/10 of the energy required by distillation. If all of the energy is recaptured, the two processes are equal.
A stove can be fitted to the same system. The stove consists of a container of zeolite, shaped to recieve a cooking pot in a hollow at the center. Water mists onto the zeolite to turn the stove on. Zeolite absorbs ten times its weight in water very quickly, converting the water to a solid hydrate, and the latent heat released instantly will boil water. Mist flow controls temperature. As the solar collector zeolite cools, it draws the moisture from the stove zeolite to dry it for its next use. The dry zeolite will store this potential for instant heat forever without loss. It also acts as a heat pump, generating heat quickly at a much higher temperature than required to dry it out slowly.
A similar process uses the sun's heat to bake hydrogen out of magnesium hydride and reabsorb it in titanium hydride, at higher temperatures and greater energy density.
Zeolites can absorb moisture from desert air at night. The sun releases the water to storage. A torroidal solar still would create a tornado from the sun's heat. The wind would greatly increase evaporation. The double-curved form would be very strong, consisting of very thin material.
Flexible solar cells without glass now combine with roofing materials, making them more durable and less costly. Parabolic trough reflectors can concentrate the sun on cells or a hot fluid tube which drives a sterling engine or disc turbine to create electricity very economically.
Electrolysis to convert water to hydrogen now requires much less energy by using light, sound, and catalysts. Graphite stores huge amounts of hydrogen in solid form. Fuel cells to convert hydrogen to electricity by reverse electrolysis have reached the point of mass production and high energy density.
A type of algae grows 50% of its material identical to diesel fuel.
The technologies and biologies for the village to incubate are limitless.
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