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Today we looked at this place which has a tin roof and sits on one acre of
land. It has a bedroom and a kitchen area and a nice veranda looking out on a
fenced garden. There is no electricity or running water. The San Antonio
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---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote :
Perfect, I'll be there next week to make an offer.
This would make a great winter place for you and your family. It
We looked at this place last Saturday up by Rising Star on the way to Dad's
place. It's an almost perfect example of a Yaqui Vastu house and it has an
entrance facing east. The construction utilizes native sandstone and cedar
posts.
There is a pier and beam floor inside made out of oak planks
That last paragraph is beautiful, Richard. But it does seem to be about the
senses!
Anyway, yes, I was wondering about the cement used to hold the stones together.
Any stress involved in creating that?
On Saturday, November 16, 2013 1:27 PM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.com
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Richard, I love that Yaqui Vastu principle of building with non stressed
materials. But I have to wonder how sustainable that is. I mean, are there
enough stones lying around? I wonder if straw bales would be acceptable. And
before, you had mentioned cedar. But wouldn't cedar have to be
What you have to do is select a site that has most of the needed elements
already at hand.
That way, you don't have to dig into the earth very much - you just pick
the ideal stones and carry them to the site. Ideally it should be no more
than 10,000 feet to transport the stones. There should be a
The Sanskrit word 'vastu' means a dwelling or house with a corresponding
plot of land. The word pertains to construction. Vastu is based in five
elements: earth, air, fire, water, and space, all interrelated. Yaqui Vastu
involves the awareness of how the ways of construction, orientation, and
Arcosanti is an experimental town and molten bronze bell casting community
that has been developed by the Italian-American architect, Paolo Soleri,
who began construction in 1970 in central Arizona...
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Using a concept he called arcology, he started the town to demonstrate
To the extent that the building embodies meanings conducive to an
intellectual vision of the non-duality of principal Unity and manifested
multiplicity, it functions as a symbol, that is to say, as a representation
of reality on another.
The belief that the building is capable of performing this
Richard, I really like feng shui and knew that it meant wind and water. But I
didn't know the other details about that. And I never knew about the role of
fire in geomancy. Very fascinating knowledge. Of course the Zone of Tranquility
reminds me of the brahmanstan in vastu vidya.
On
By 6,000 B.C.E. the art of geomacy resulted in the megalith and mound
culture of Europe and South India. By 4,000 B.C.E. we see communities
emerge, of which the Indus Valley Civilization, with it's planned city
streets, being a prime example. In the Fertile Crescent the city states of
Mesopotamia
Richard,
If those houses are not facing east or north, they may not be good for the
residents according to MMY's principles of vastu. It's also a good idea to
have an atrium in the middle of the house.
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By 6,000 B.C.E. the
Inside the zone of tranquility, there should be a balance between wind and
water.
The art of Fengshui in its earliest recorded context specifically refers to
the School of Forms. Terrestrial features serve to block the wind, which
captures qi and scatters it, and channel the waters, which collect
The Yanqui all natural terra-form home from West Texas.
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:
dear Richard, well may your entire home be a Zone of Tranquility (-:
thanks for another lovely photo.
On Friday, October 11, 2013 2:45 PM, Richard Williams
It's all a matter of positioning and placement.
Geomancy is at least half a million years old, dating from early Homo
Sapiens. Images of 'Mater' dating from 30,000 B.C.E. were placed in small
wall recesses in homes, in order to insure vitality and abundance.
All traditional cultures have their
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