The Ecomodule

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In visions I have seen many people working together
Out of doors, taking care of the garden and singing
songs.  

In visions I have seen that the picture of community
is drawn in the veins of a leaf and in the branches of
a tree.

I have seen the branching of neurons in every brain
and of blood vessels in every lung, and in every leaf
and tree.  I have seen this branching to be a picture
of life itself.

This is the way a poet sees the connection between
your body and the body of trees growing in the Earth.
The grip of trees is tight upon the face of the land.
The grip of this vision is something which won't let go 
of me.

I have seen the need for human beings to get back to
the land and make contact again with the green Earth.
I sensed this even as a boy, but I had no way of
persuading others that I was correct.  I was just seen
as an odd boy, a kind of throwback.

Tonight there is a pain in my lower back and in my
chest, probably from just sitting for hours in my dark
house alone at home.  This time of year, it is mid-
December, is very hard for me to get through.  I feel
that my real home is on the hot and dry savannah, 
running free with the antelopes and the cheetahs.  But
I realize that people here would consider this a mad
idea.  People here are adjusted to the long, cold, 
nordic winters.  We're not in Norway but the mentality
is from that part of the world.

I see the possibility of many people cooperating to live
and work in a new kind of community.  This new kind of
community will feature the healing method which I have
worked out.  This healing method involves a kind of
light which appears to be concentrated in certain trees
and shrubs.  

For many years I sensed this healing energy most 
every day, in the trees around here and in my own body.
I was more physically active then, and I wasn't sitting
for hours a day in front of my computer.  And in fact
I don't regard sitting for hours a day in front of a
computer as a very healthy way to live.  Certainly when
I was healing myself I was mainly out of doors and
actively working physically.  And I wasn't trying to
speak or write convincingly.  I thought that my actions
would speak more clearly than my wordiness.

The thing is, that the people I came in contact with
were immersed in some antique lore which came from the
astrologers, or from the churches, or from some other
highly sophisticated philosophers whose teachings have
been refined over the centuries.  And people living
today are accustomed to seeing more and more people
moving to the city to get out of the country.  The
idea of going back to the country isn't really popular
yet.  Children who grow up in the country yearn to leave
school and go to the city where they can make lots of
money.

I've seen a vision of the future, in which humans will
understand and value symbiosis, and trees.  I've seen
a vision of the future in which humans learn to love and
care for shrubs and trees, even if these plants don't
yield edible fruits, or lumber.  I've been this odd
impractical man who has spent years in caring for
"useless" plants.  And I will agree, from the earliest
age, I've had an eye for plants, even for plants which
seem undesirable to many people.

I've seen a vision of millions of human beings moving
to the desert, and taking up a more symbiotic way of
life.  I've been seeing this vision now for twenty years.
And it seems silly and impractical to many people
just because they've not heard me out, or they've not
seen the light which I've seen glowing in the branches
of trees, the way Moses saw it.

I've read books, and I've corresponded with people who
have seen light in plants.  I'm not just some lone voice
crying in the wilderness.  I am sure that thousands of
individual persons have felt the spirit in plants and
seen the light in plants which communicates symbiosis,
unity, cooperation, and inspiration.  But people tend
to be afraid of expressing something which isn't popular
and promoted on the mass media.  And when their doctors
and their professors deny that such a light is possible,
many people just write off their experiences as
unimportant.

There are, in fact, millions of human beings who are
homeless, or who are slaving in the city and they will
never own an acre of land with a house on it!  Instead,
they will work for twenty, thirty, or forty years to
make the landlord rich, or to make their company store
wealthy manager wealthy.  And all the while these
enslaved workers will pay no heed to symbiosis or to the
soil, the roots, and the rich humus made by leaves 
rotting in the moist earth.  

When I am inspired I sing out of visions I had while
still a young man, visions of reality which was all
around me then.  These were not supernatural visions
at all!  They were the reality of my family home, in
which there was symbiosis and cooperation, so that I
lived in peace with the rest of my family, and I spent
hours each day caring for the plants and the animals
round about.  I also went to school and I studied.
I was a hard-working young man.

People around me rang bells of warning.  On campus there
were booklets and demonstrations.  There were talks
about the growing social problems.  I heard agitated
speakers whose fear was provoking people to wonder and
to think.  All this was before the Watts riots and the
anti-Vietnam war demonstrations.  This was even before
the Cuban Missile Crisis and Kennedy's assassination.
There was this peace at home in the garden, and with
my family, and there was this stimulation and this
agitation where so many intellectuals were concentrated.

Now I can see what sensing of the Spirit has done for
me as I have integrated the Spirit into my life.  Even
now as I write the inspiration of Spirit is reducing the
pain I feel in my back.  Spirit is invigorating,
rejuvenating, healing power!  And as I sit and listen to
my own music, and as I visualize the warmth of the
future humanity living in peace and in inspiration in
lands where now there isn't much human habitation, my
body is feeling more alive and more warm and more at
peace.  

If you were to come visit me now, you would feel the
cold air, and you would see how low the sun is in the
sky.  We could walk over to the beach where I sun
myself and get inspirations during the warmer times of
the year.  The chances are that if you came to visit me
now we would be walking in the cold rain.  And these
days I spent a lot of time indoors.  This isn't the
best life for me.  I belong in a place where I can be
out in the sun most every day for a few hours, and 
work doing odd jobs.  I'm still a hard-working person.
Physical work is good for the body, provided the body
is healthy and strong, and not strained by the work.

I can see that in many cities there is an underclass
or a class of hard-working people who will never be
able to own and live in a mansion on the hill.  It is
to these people whom I speak.  

Of course if you are rich and you want to help heal a
lot of persons, you can help by granting a fair share
of your wealth to this new enterprise.  You won't be
giving your money to me.  And I'm not seeking to gain
power over people.  I'm not the old kind of "messiah".
I'm the new kind of "messiah".

Because I was given to seeing visions, which really
are just many visions of the same vision of symbiosis
and cooperation, and since this healing light healed
me and made me feel rejuvenated and empowered, I have
continued to beat upon this drum over and over and over
and over for at least twenty years.  My language has
changed a bit.  And I'm not such a noisy zealot anymore.
I mean, I've never been a very brazen outspoken loud
person.  And I've been pretty withdrawn since 1984.
But I write a good deal.  This helps the healing
current flow, so that I am sustained by the Spirit
divine.

In many of the great cities there are large numbers of
oppressed people.  

A man is oppressed when he has no reasonable hope of
ever making enough money to retire wealthy and live in
a fine neighborhood and receive multiple streams of
income.  The man who is oppressed became oppressed as
a boy when he was forced to go to school every day and
compete against faster, quicker children who grew to
fill responsible positions with a path leading upwards
to the managerial level.  Many oppressed men can't
ever get on such a career track.  And more and more
girls and women today are oppressed.  For all their
lives they will live in poverty.

The wealth of nations is the living world.

The living world keeps the air pure and the water clean.

Humans have enough intelligence to understand the
symbiosis of living things, including the symbiosis
of plants and animals.  Humans are part of this
symbiosis.  But humans have more intelligence than
oxen and swine and other animals whose lives are
utterly dependent upon plants.

Only humans can understand that during the day every
green plant produces life-giving oxygen.  We are
dependent on plants for our very breath!  So we really
ought to become servants of the plants for all the
services plants perform for us!  We ought to work for
the good of the plants, and help more plants to flourish
in lands where today many of the plants have been
removed by careless or greedy ranchers, farmers, or
timber harvesters.

It is no vain, pollyanish vision, this vision of mine.
I see the symbiotic relationship between human beings
and trees and shrubs which give shade, and break from
the fierce winds, and Spirit power, as well as food,
lumber, and nesting and shelter for so many animals large
and small.  I see how millions of oppressed men and
women can begin a new life by taking up the program of
symbiosis which helps the living world and the human
world get back into a better harmony, which has never
really been realized as well as it can be realized now.
What I teach doesn't dismiss any branch of science and
biology.  What I teach helps more people and more
scientists to integrate.

What has been missing in our civilization and in other
civilizations is a clear understanding of symbiosis
and of Spirit.  

For instance, the rich man depends utterly upon all the
oppressed workers who work at jobs more dangerous and
more unpleasant.  And all the working men and women
depend utterly upon the work the green plants do with
the help of the sun.  We are all bound up in this fabric
of symbiosis!  But people are cultured to pay no
attention to this!  And for generations the landscapes
have been stressed more and more, so that today many
lands are wasted.  And many people are wasted also.
There is this spirit of oppression and exploitating
which schools and industries impose upon children and
adults both.  And in these schools and industires the
Spirit divine isn't understood and used, as it comes
right out of shrubs and trees.  An sensitive person can
sense this Spirit divine and project it to other people
who are sensitive.

I make it clear over and over that thousands of adults
have been healers, and they have projected this Spirit
divine.  I don't try to claim any special spot for
myself except that my work deserves to be published
and promoted so that many people can get to know me
and my Ecomodule Plan.  This is the Plan which I have
seen in visions over many years, and this is the Plan
which will make the wastelands blossom, not just in
the Middle East but in all the nations of the world.
It is just through better awareness, and better care
for all the plants and for all the people!

Where I am weak is in my speech and in my words.
Many others are more able to write and speak with
melliflous voices which charm the people and bring up
a large following.  Rather as Moses was, I am weak in
speech and charisma.  Neither am I any more a sophisticated
writer than Moses was.  But I am a champion of the
Spirit which comes through many a green tree.  That is
the Spirit which inspires many a person to feel
inspired and rejuvenated the way it inspired the poet
Percy Bysshe Shelley as he sat amongst the pines of
Italy and wrote his verses while in an entranced, and
blessed state.

A child is first educated by his parents and by teachers
who give him as good an education as he will bear.
It is later that the mind changes and becomes inspired.
The inspired person shines with an inner light which is
the same inner light which shines in the heart of a
great, green tree.  Every tree has this inner light,
but relatively few human beings make a serious study of
this light.  But it is a healing light and a rejuvenating
light.  And many a shaman, sage, or spiritual teacher
would have died at a relatively young age without this
light.  It is by incorporating this light that many a
chronically weakened or sickened person manages to
continue living for decades longer!

I say this because I've read the same thing in several
books, and I know it to be true.  I know from my own
experience that it has worked for me.

Spirit makes a peculiar taste in my mouth and Spirit
makes me see lights in my eyes and in trees and in
shrubs and in people, when I am in contact with them
through this Spirit realm.  I have sensations in my
body which come through Spirit.  And when I am inspired
I sit and play improvised music for hours at a time, or
I sit and write for hours at a time, or I go out and
work to help less fortunate people for hours at a time.
But what I am inspired to do now is focus on this 
Ecomodule Plan.

I see clearly the state of oppression in many lands,
and I see people who have a fierce hate in their eyes
fighting to overpower other people who also have been
cultured to hate.  Yet I see all these same people are
utterly dependent on green plants for both their food
and for their breath!  And I see how real science backs
up these statements as facts.  This is not any
pollyanish, mystical talk!

I see clearly how each person working in a cushy job
is being fed, clothed, and benefitted in other ways
by men and women who are doing hard physical work for
eight hours or more each day, under conditions which are
really unpleasant.  And I see how doctors are loaded
with so many sick people to treat, yet all the while
there are Spiritual beings with the power to inspire
and heal these people!  There is just a wide gap in
modern knowledge.  People just don't understand the
blessing which green plants bestow upon all humanity.
This is the blessing of life itself!

It has somehow fallen upon me to compose music, art,
poetry, and writings such as this to impress people
with the power of Spirit to heal and inspire.  I am a
weakened man like Moses, who has been lifted up by the
power of Spirit, and helped to focus upon the power
itself, and how so many people can get a lot more of
this power into their bodies, so that they can be healed
and inspired.  They will then be able to function much
better than I can function, as teachers and as promoters
of this great Spirit blessing!

I see an ecomodule of perhaps one hundred acres, which
will become the main office and the first Demonstration
Peace Center, where anyone can come and visit with me
and where people can come and buy introductory books and
tapes which introduce people to my music, my art, my
writings and my research on "the new messiah" that is
not a fierce man or a man to command servants to him
the way so many modern spiritual teachers do.  My way
is service to others, and service to the plant world
in return for all the services the plants do for us.
One of these services is to act as accumulators of
Spirit and projectors of Spirit.  In a forest of
ten thousand evergreen trees there are ten thousand
healers ready and willing to shine their Spiritual
light into your aura and help you become inspired, 
rejuvenated, and healed!  And they won't charge you
a penny!

Each ecomodule will be a modern healing center where
doctors and lay people can work together to be inspired
and healed.  At first most of the doctors will be
retired doctors.  And other retired professionals will
be welcome to come and live and work at the ecomodule.
And what works to sustain one ecomodule will work to
sustain millions more ecomodules.

Each ecomodule will be like the cell in a leaf.  
Between the cells of a leaf there are connecting roads
or links.  With humans the roads and links can be
traversed on foot and on electric currents as in phone
lines.  Information and goods can be carried from place
to place.  Of course some motor vehicles will be used.
But when a person is really feeling at peace, he doesn't
need to jet all around from place to place.  I have
lived here in Humboldt County without leaving the
vicinity of Trinidad and Arcata, for about seventeen
years.  And I lived in Santa Barbara from 1940 to
1963 without leaving Southern California more than three
times.

I do make the claim that the old idea of "the messiah"
wasn't wasted breath.  This idea wasn't just some old
pollyannish fantasy.  There has to be a radically new
teaching to inspire and bless humanity.  And this isn't
just some loose, mystical, modern fantasy.  It isn't
just faith in miracles or in the power of positive
thinking.  There is a new reality which many people
have never studied.  That reality is modern science.

Rather than get people into studying some old mystical
writings, I get people into giving thanks for what
we know to be true.  

Look around you and you will see people who work in joy
and in faith, doing good work without aspiring to be
famous or rich, and have power over people.  Granted,
you will see fewer and fewer such people these days
when so many young people aspire to become rich!  But
I say that these hard-working people are people like
your parents and your grandparents.  And many of them
were very close to Spirit in their faith and in their
health.  But they didn't understand their blessedness.
With understanding comes the power to be more healthy
and more blessed, and bless the Planet and all of the
people.

Look around and you will see that most people are good
and kind and hard-working.  Look around more astutely
and you will see the good which all the green plants
do.  Study the books of science!  You will see that what
I say about plants is 100% true!

What is missing in children is thankfulness.  As a young
child is cultured day by day, week by week, and month
by month, so he grows up to become.  So how are today's
children taught to feel blessed?  The way I was taught
to feel blessed as a child I understand much better now.
And I used my theory of blessedness to become
rejuvenated, healed, and inspired.  My theory works!
I have tested it on myself and on lots of other
people!

For nearly all of human evolution, children grew up
being with their family members at work as well as at
other times.  Work and play and celebration all were
part of every child's world.  Somehow in our modern
civilization, children have been torn from their 
families and placed in sterile, separate quarters 
at a great distance from the work, play, and celebration
of their parents.  The planners of our culture just
didn't understand human evolution.  But now human
evolution is understood.  There was no magic creation.
And the Spirit is real in every green growing tree.
Moses wasn't a magic man.  He was just a sensitive
man and an inspired man.

Selah.

7:51 PM Friday, December 10, 1999

(contributor:  John L. Waters)      

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