I’ve been listening to this beautiful video which emphasizes how miracles are a reality in our lives. When I think about how many miracles I have experienced in my life, I am in awe.

I’ve been pausing every 3 hours or so for a 10 Wim Hof breathing session plus listening to videos like this. I do about 30 rounds of the breathing, and then hold my breath without effort for about 7 minutes. This stilling of my breath helps me to go into a beautiful state of consciousness.

If you want to learn this technique, which is the simplest, most effective breathing technique I have ever experienced (and I’ve tried many) you can do so here.

I had the most beautiful visions while I was laying quietly, holding my breath effortlessly.

I wrote them out here, adding some other visions I have had over the past 46 years when I first began dreaming of creating a community.

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A bus pulled up to my driveway and out spilled 20 women, all who are ready to join the monastery. Of course I have communicated with all of them and gone through a lengthy screening process. They have been looking for the perfect place to utilize their beautiful complementary skills, and we share the same values and dreams!

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Our wonderful neighbors both in Living Springs and who live in our householder Ecovillage right next to the monastery property come and visit, share vegan meals, share our common house co-working space, participate in our meditations and other spiritual practices, come to our wonderful celebrations and worship services. We love to sit around the campfire sharing stories, singing, dancing and drumming. We love our neighbors so much. Our work parties are amazing and the land is totally transformed into food forests, mediations gardens, a lovely swimming hole in the creek, and a permaculture paradise.

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We go around the country doing a family-centered show which promote life-giving messages with sing alongs, dramatic performances, dancing, testimonials, and lots of audience participation. We include the community by having worthwhile organizations and businesses promote their positive services trade-show style outside of the performance area.

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We created a beautiful studio and do countless videos and podcasts which share all the ways that people can improve their lives through things like plant-based living, minimalism, permaculture, urban farming, neighborhood cooperation, intermittent fasting, Wim Hoff cold therapy, Christian Universalism, and compassionate communication.

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We worked together to finish the Monastery House (called Mir House) where we added small bedrooms so we could have separate living quarters. We now have finished the beautiful bathhouse where we can take cold and hot showers and wash clothes. We built a rocket stove outside so it doesn’t take up space in the house–and the whole house is cool in the summer, warm in winter.

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We built a large apartment complex, co-housing style, where future villagers will live. The apartments are made in a circle with a beautiful courtyard in the middle, and each resident has a large space behind their home which is private and where they can make their own little paradise. They also have land elsewhere on the property where they have stewardship over where they can create food forests and other great spaces. The center space is covered in the winter with a dome-like structure so people can be outside with plants even in the winter.

Each apartment is a dome with a loft, and there is a larger dome that serves as a large living room/dining room/kitchen for everyone in the apartments.

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We built a giant green house where we could grow tropical fruits like bananas and avocados. We also built greenhouses for our beautiful MORINGA business and growing all the food we needed. We also improved the existing garden space and expanded the fenced in area so that the food in growing weather can really flourish.

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We made beautiful trails where we planted wild flowers and wild edibles, putting lovely signs near them so people could learn about plants. We made gorgeous benches so people could meditate or sit and visit.

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We built a huge pond which is fed by springs that we developed, and now we have all the water we need for irrigation, drinking, household use, and swimming!

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We helped Robert get the solar system together so we now are totally energy self-sufficient.

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We play cooperative volleyball several times a week. We have so much fun!

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We started an online and in person church. People are loving the free-flowing format where a combination of intimacy, trust-building, and encouragement result in people doing spiritual and healthy habits that help them to connect with Jesus and be super healthy.

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We developed a design for a balanced community consisting of separate monasteries for men and women, and a village where house-holders (single, married, and families) live who want to interact with monastics and participate in some of the spiritual practices.

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We have a tree house village for those who really want to live a simple life.

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We started a lovely school which is affordable to everyone and promotes unschooling practices. Some of the sisters are teachers, and some come from the villagers.

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We cleared land for orchards and our apple, peach, persimmon, apricot, pear, plum, cherry, and other fruit trees are thriving. The blueberries, blackberries, strawberries and other berries are going crazy! Passion fruit, one of the tastiest and easiest to grow of all fruit–yield more than we can eat! We have fruit growing from early spring to late fall, and are able to dry apples and pears (so delicious!) plus store them in the root cellar (another great accomplishment) all winter.

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We have a natural clinic that services every client imaginable and helps people adopt a healing plant-based diet along with Wim Hof method and many other healing techniques. People are learning how to take care of themselves in order to have optimal health.

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We’ve expanded, with the help the the entrepreneurs in the group, my organizing business, and now we have trained thousands of people who can make a living using my technique. We’ve written books and done tons of videos inspiring people to live more simply on less.

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With the talents of all the beautiful women who joined me, we have found we can each accomplish all of our life-long dreams as we train neighborhood nurturers–people who start monasteries in neighborhoods and find ways to help the neighborhood in very practical ways. We are nurturing our own neighborhood, Living Springs, by having weekly “Community: Connect!” events, organizing Amish-like work parties, setting up a Time Bank, empowering people to be self-sufficient in as many ways as possible, and having fun events like square dancing and cooperative games.

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If you have any inclination to live in this monastery, I hope you will check out the vision, mission and values here. If you are still interested, I invite you to look at the Questions and Answers here where you can find out how to apply to live here in order to explore permanent membership.