by Mark Sircus

16 March 2011

from IMVA Website

 

 


 

Our Sanctuary project is a land ark.

 

Noah built his to weather the rain and sea and I built mine in the interior highlands of Brazil. Before the nuclear disaster in Japan started I wrote the following for this presentation of my Sanctuary for my loyal readers:

There is still room and perhaps a little time left for a “few” families to join us. Though designed to be a naturopathic retreat center in good times, I am becoming convinced that the survival nature of the project will gain prominence as things in the world deteriorate during the next few months. Though built to be comfortable for nobility with “natural allopathic” treatments suitable for Cleopatra herself, its essence is tied to something humbler.

 

Sanctuary is committed to common ownership of the business, which we will create with both our staff and our local community.

 

Sanctuary is dedicated to open communication and conflict resolution models through a process of learning how to listen deeply to and understand the inner worlds of others, and to also appreciate the vulnerability of the human heart.

 

So Sanctuary is not for just anyone.
 


We are approximately 10 weeks from completion of the main building.

 

Only a week later the world has changed and its peoples are frightened, especially the Japanese and all the foreigners who are living there.

 

Many are being evacuated already and millions more will be wishing they were somewhere else. If things get totally out of hand and this whole thing goes off as a dirty nuclear bomb, people downwind, meaning people in Hawaii and the western coasts of the United States and Canada and of course regions further east, will be in harm’s way.

 

It is not a good time at all to be in the northern hemisphere. It wasn’t a good time even before this nuclear event because of the threatening financial collapse and because of almost intolerable levels of pollution and toxicity.

I would like to offer to anyone who remains financially stable, the opportunity to come down here to Brazil and escape the consequences of the events in Japan. We have the capability of providing lodging and a healthier environment and can provide some help and guidance in making appropriate arrangements for you and your family.

Please understand that we are not a government agency and no matter how humanitarian we would like to be we have limited resources.

 

Also locally we do not have the extensive medical resources of a large city but there is access to many alternative treatment practitioners. There are spas in the area that can offer instant detoxification programs that are augmented by the area’s pristine nature.

We are very close to finishing our Sanctuary and in this essay we are putting out an invitation for a partner or two to help us, hoping that some of the people we know and who have known us for a good while will respond.

 

But please know, anyone who comes to our local area can get to know us at a lighter level of involvement, then possibly explore deeper participation.
 


 

We are nestled within one of the sweetest hidden valleys in the central highlands of Brazil just three hours north of the federal capital of Brasilia.

 

We are flexible and intended to even offer time-sharing arrangements for yearly or bi-yearly detoxification retreats but are clearly gearing ourselves for surviving the storms and crises that are enveloping the world.

 

 

 


Together We Survive, Divided We Fall

Be-prepared conditions
are spinning out of control.
Gerald Celente

Chris Hedges writes,

“Civilizations rise, decay and die.

 

Time, as the ancient Greeks argued, for individuals and for states is cyclical. As societies become more complex they become inevitably more precarious.

 

They become increasingly vulnerable. And as they begin to break down there is a strange retreat by a terrified and confused population from reality, an inability to acknowledge the self-evident fragility and impending collapse.

 

The elites at the end speak in phrases and jargon that do not correlate to reality. They retreat into isolated compounds, whether at the court at Versailles, the Forbidden City or modern palatial estates.

 

The elites indulge in unchecked hedonism, the accumulation of vaster wealth and extravagant consumption. They are deaf to the suffering of the masses who are repressed with greater and greater ferocity. Resources are more ruthlessly depleted until they are exhausted. And then the hollowed-out edifice collapses.

 

The Roman and Sumerian empires fell this way.”


This is to be my office and music room.
 

Hedges continues,

“Civilizations in the last moments embrace a total severance from reality, a reality that becomes too bleak to be absorbed. This time when we go down it will be global. There are no new lands to pillage, no new peoples to exploit.

 

Technology, which has obliterated the constraints of time and space, has turned our global village into a global death trap.”

Though I would like to use Sanctuary as a retreat center, its main purpose is as a survival center with deep ties to the local community.

 

I do not take Hedges’ or anyone’s word lightly about the near-term future and what to expect so I am preparing for worst-case scenarios and will just smile endlessly if they do not appear.

Stoneleigh for The Automatic Earth writes,

“In difficult times, who you know, and how well you know them matters at least as much as what you know, and the most important connections are not necessarily those with the wealthy or powerful.

 

There is simply strength in numbers, especially where those numbers are based on relationships of trust, and a trust born of mutual interdependence can be far more common in the lower echelons of society where it has been more necessary, and may therefore have been more firmly established already.

 

It is necessary to know who to trust and towards whom to maintain a healthy skepticism. The poor are often more adept at telling the difference.

“Many wealthy people in disparate parts of the world effectively live in gilded prisons. The ready availability of money has also made many people soft and prone to take the path of least resistance. This has often lulled them into a false sense of security.

 

Wealthy people are too often dependent on a functioning system - a system they have learned well how to navigate and function within, but a system that is extremely brittle in its economic efficiency. Without that all-encompassing life-support system, they may not be able to function at all.

“The wealthy may have deliberately chosen to buy themselves out of the need for ‘messy’ human entanglements and interdependencies in favor of maximizing autonomy, but this can be an acute vulnerability in hard times. Community matters far more than money. No man is an island, and pooling resources can do a lot to help a group of people get through a bottleneck, even if none of them is wealthy.

 

Time, skills, creativity and emotional support are at least as important to share as money in building a mutual support system,” concludes Stoneleigh.

We are looking to attract a few souls who can appreciate deeply Stoneleigh’s words.

 

Marc Faber, the internationally famous financial consultant, says,

“I know quite a few extremely well-to-do people who have second thoughts about life in big cities and security in big cities if the unrest in the Middle East were to also spread to developed countries.

 

And they also know that we might have problems with modern warfare that would include cyber war, or switching off of the electricity or biological warfare - terrorism - that would touch the big cities. So, they want to be safe. They buy islands and they buy farmland in the middle of nowhere.”

We are certainly in the middle of a most beautiful nowhere and we intend to organize our entire valley to survive difficult times and even the prophecies converging on the year 2012.

 

We are looking for some resourceful people who want to deliberately choose the opposite of what wealthy people normally do and choose instead to buy themselves into a situation with human entanglements and interdependencies, which will be absolutely necessary in the years ahead.

Please review our Sanctuary site to get a feel for us. We are open to building for others in the valley with our excellent team both inside and outside of our project, meaning interested parties do not have to get totally intimate with our deepest objectives that include the soul. But that said, we have an overall sense of responsibility to everyone in our valley and are cautious about anyone we would invite into it.

If you are interested please send us a message introducing yourself and informing us of your life situation.

 

We do not promise to respond to everyone so please approach us as much as possible with your heart and soul.
 


Special Note and Challenge to Humanity:

Now that I have shared all of this I had a vision of northern Japan being like the Titanic just after hitting that iceberg at full steam.

 

The entire area including the city of Tokyo is threatened with increasing radiation to the extent that the entire area might need to be evacuated. People are already being evacuated by the Japanese and by foreign governments to get their people out of harm’s way.

 

But if the worst-case scenario actually comes to pass, is the world going to stand by and watch 100 million people get fried with radiation?
 

Both France and Australia urged their nationals in Japan
to leave the country today, Wednesday, as authorities
grappled with the world’s most serious nuclear accident since
the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine in 1986. Russia said it
planned to evacuate families of diplomats on Friday.
 

The entire world is threatened with everything imaginable from,

There are a whole lot of people on our earth with a whole lot of needs. We will see and experience more and more need for forced migrations but it’s not like it was 500 years ago with a whole new world to explore and colonize.

 

Many of us all around the world might not survive all that is coming but meanwhile many of us are still going about our daily life as if everything is normal and it’s going to stay that way.
 

Japan’s nuclear crisis appeared to be spinning out of control
on Wednesday after workers withdrew briefly from a stricken
power plant because of surging radiation levels and a
helicopter failed to drop water on the most troubled reactor.
 

I think the entire world - even the Chinese, who bear much ill will toward the Japanese after they invaded China and acted like ruthless apes - needs to open their doors to Japanese refugees.

 

The Chinese have entire cities that are empty and America has huge areas populated by empty foreclosed houses, and who cares about the illusionary importance to bankers’ bottom lines?
 

Foreigners are leaving Tokyo, or shutting themselves indoors;
supermarket shelves are running empty despite authorities
assuring citizens there is no need to panic from the crisis.
 

At this moment, before we meet our fate in the coming years, right now we can, as a race, do something that will touch our collective hearts.

 

I challenge governments on all levels, the elite rich who have more money than anyone has the right to have (and keep his soul), and anyone and everyone everywhere to do what they can for the Japanese people. I am going to call the mayor of a nearby town later today and try to start the ball rolling here in Brazil.

I find it interesting this very moment to be releasing this communication as Sanctuary is about to take its first breaths in the world.

 

Sanctuaries are going to be rare birds but it is my hope that many people and nations will take up the cause and give sanctuary to people who need one as long as it does not compromise the safety and security of others. We have to be able to afford our nobility and the graciousness of our acts. Or those in need have to be able to afford to rescue themselves out of their own situations.

 

It is sad that they and we are dealing with limited resources, but still much is possible.