Once a guest from Germany, a tourism journalist, had rebuked me heavily: "You did the work of a man!! you took care of the structure!! What is missing, is the content!! What is missing is the work of a woman!"

"Aetgar ba-Midbar" is a model for content! for the content of "nofesh la-nefesh", re-creation for the soul in the desesrt: 7 guests - 7 tents - 7 days and a focus of learning, healing, art. 3 hours per day guidance and providing tools either by the hosts or by trainers. See Fifth Succah Stage

Three "aetgars" were conducted with young people (14-18) during the summer holidays of 1994,
by me and my excellent team-workers: Yael Gavish, Uri Goldin and Michael .....

The first "aetgar" was the most challenging one, not only because it was our first experiment,
but because the first two candidates: Jonathan Troim and Shakhaf Alon agreed to take part only,
if Jonathan's five friends -boys - and Shakhaf's 3 friends -girls - were also allowed to take part.
These added up to ten people between 14 and 15, which demanded to break the rule of Seven!

Not less scary was the fact,... see more in the original composition.

.....when Yael Gavish (here seen as helping the 10 teenagers to cook) took over my place in the Succayah,
she managed to arrange another Aetgar.
The graduates of the different "Aetgars" came back as volunteers on weekends etc.
They now called themselves "Khotter" shoot , i.e. first khotter, second khotter etc.
according to the famous first verse of a famous prophecy in the Bible:

Isaiah 11:1 A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.

One of them, Natan, grandson of the famous Israeli writer Aharon Megged became a team-worker,
which now - 1995 after I was no longer part of the Succayah - was the preferred term for "host" .

But then the "Aetgar ba-Midbar",
this magnificent "content" of a Succah desert hosting business
sank into oblivion....

There are those who think it a miracle to walk on the water there are those who think it a miracle to walk on fire I think that the greatest miracle is to walk on earth See the entire poem, which a guest had attached in the Rachel-Succah and which I stole from there, when I slept there during the Nebo-Let-Go event

Day 20- from among 42 days -ASK AND ACT

All complimentary partners, designed to Harmonize
...

Attune Heart and Mind to the Dream Seed growing within.

ASK: So what then is it? ... what is True Now?
What is my prime directive for today,
in order to nurture, tender and continue
to b'earth our Peace of the Great Coming Together.

...to feel the Great-Full-Ness of Life coursing through,
we feel the ...Spirit of Love
providing insight, illumination and guidance ...

All forms of questions, guidance and moment to moment inquiries
we desire to be known
will be provided ... as we go within, and ask All of Self, as Love.

This is it.
This is our choice, our inspired action,
our Joy in moving forward this Day.

Action is choice in motion.
Knowing our Truth, we choose to go and grow~
to Serve Our Selves, and so the World.

Choosing to take Act-ION ... Act I On ... Action ...
we catalyze, shift, implement, cultivate, nurture and tender
our Dreams, Visions and Callings into Be-ing.

"Daily practice and hindsight vision
will convince you of the accuracy of the answers
that comes through when you tune inward. ...

... Your conscious mind will become more in tune with the inner self
so that you need not ask on small matters.
Your intuition will develop more so that decisions are made
with conscious mind and Inner Wisdom working together.

You will experience less conflict in your life
as you have a means of always knowing
what is right and correct for you.

As you learn to recognize
the genuine authority of your Inner Wisdom,
you will realize the power that you hold
is within your own being.
Daily practice seeking your own truth
instead of relying on others
helps validate the guidance that you are being given.

Trust in the process of seeking within
grows as a tenure of your experience.
Once you are certain of the validation of the voice that you hear
as being consistent for your growth and well being,
the process becomes an automatic part of your spiritual practice."

~ Lynn Namka, 'Finding the small, still voice within.'

Rachel: 'the small still voice'
was revealed to Eliyahu.
See my song in December 2013

Day 21- from among 42 days - BUDDING HAIKU

Dream Seeds root and shoot;
buds forming, drinking Love's Light; nascent Life grows on.

Dive into the realm of creative word play
and use the power of Haiku to give form to the essence,
beauty and unique-ness of the Dream Seed sprouting in you.

Create one, or create a few ... and share them ....

Short yet power-filled, Haiku
is homeopathic medicine for the creative Soul.
An ancient Japanese art-form, Haiku invites us...
to see the small miracle in every unfolding
and magnify it, bringing its simple beauty to Life.

One formula for Haiku is this:
First line - Five syllables
Second line - seven syllables
Third line - five syllables.

There are many paths and formulas for creating Haiku.
Find one that calls to you
and enjoy the experience of crafting and weaving words
to bring your Dream Seed to Light.

"Haiku is about inter-being.
The word "interbeing" originated
with the Vietnamese Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh.
It means: everything is in everything else.
We experience this reality through mindfulness,
through Being in the Here and Now.
One life-energy is permeating everything.

Haiku means letting this energy/life/reality write itself.

Or, to put it simply:
A haiku records an immediate experience of life.
Haiku writing is sometimes called a way of life, rather than an art.
It could also be described as a way of seeing, listening, being.

Because haiku writing is rooted in experience,
the best time to compose a haiku poem is right after the event.
But the experience comes first!
Only afterwards, when it is recalled, as vividly as possible,
we can put it into words that convey,
as directly as possible, what happened."

~ The Haiku Path

THIRD STAGE

Third Stage: Development of a mobile model of a hosting business in the desert: Ohalah- Rihlah - Pyramidion

The last time I packed my personal pyramidal tent, was on March 13, 2005.
My star-children Zipi and Gal helped me pack,
while Yahia came with his pickup and brought it to my one-room flat in Arad.
Since then the pyramidal tent is awaiting the "future" in the corner of my veranda...
[only one other time - in 2012 - the tent was erected and used by starchild Boris, for less than a month, at the place I wanted to see as "Pni-el"...]

The triangular pyramid tent, the basis of "a mobile hosting business" in the future ["Ohalah" in Hebrew, "Rihlah" in Arabic, "Pyramidion" in Latin] was developed - first generation - already in 1992, by Ram Eisenberg, the desert architect, and me. [I now found an article, in which Ram appears as I know him, though not as architect [awards for Ram Eisenberg : Jerusalem-Talpiot] See R&D of Pyramidal Tent

Entry to an article, which Ram Eisenberg published about the Pyramidal Tent in "Architecture of Israel", in April 1993

Ram Eisenberg's "poetry" about the tetrahedral tent is even more relevant today, after 21 years:
See the inserts of this article on the original Nebo-let-Go pages
"The tents act as a prism to the desert.
They fragment distinct qualities from its undivided continuum,
by framing the view and focusing on details.
The frames' hard and sharp geometry
contrasts with the soft wind-sculpted covering.

HABITAT IN THE DESERT

The tents .... are a retreat from the overly stimulative life of modern society-
they aim to maintain the fine equilibrium between man and nature.
It is a place for balancing oneself,
for a "recreation of the soul",
a place where guests come to tune-in to the silence of the desert:
to feel the naked stones,
and get in touch with wilderness undisturbed by man.

Living in a tent means to actually live in the environment,
the tent is merely an instrument for living outside.
In a tent you are exposed to the effects and forces of nature,
to the sun, the wind and the night.
Your true habitat is the landscape.
In the desert landscape,
one's own impermanence is constrasted with the eternal quality of the elements.
The tents thus provide a living metaphor for our life's impermanence and insecurity.
[2014: expressed poeticly in the song: ha-midbar medabber]

The structure of the tents is minimalistic. [he describes the 1st generation of R&D]
They consist of three planks of wood reenforced by a steel band,
the frame is elastic and capable of withstanding the strong winter winds.
The double envelope [in the 4th generation separated into one tent above the other]
is made of nylon mesh and burlap
[the burlap disintegrated within a year, but the aluminet netshade was not yet invented then],
creating patterns of transparency and permeability.
The tents act as a prism to the desert.
They fragment distinct qualities from its undivided continuum,
by framing the view, focusing on details,
and by transforming the wind into breeze and light into shade.
Their pure geometric form expresses the cultural abstraction of mankind,
contradicted against the virgin wilderness of the desert.
[perhaps: contradicting the virgin wilderness of the desert]
or in contrast to the virgin wilderness of the desert]

The tents can be unfolded and transported easily by one person.
There are no protruding elements around the tents.
stability is gained basically by the tetrahedral form,
enabling the tents to be erected on extremely difficult surfaces,
such as a cliff face, or a sharp slope,
turning the disadvantage into a benefit
by creating a multi-levelled space interior.
[After all my experience I would call this "a possibility" - but problematic!]

The proportions of the ten - 4x3.2 m (4th gen. the inner tent 333 cm, the outer tent 366 cm)
are designed for two mattresses,
leaving enough space for a small table and a carpet - the bare essentials of a home.
The tent's interior frames the natural "dance" of ordinary daily movements.
The seven small tents can be combined to form countless variations
of soft and transparent chambers, walls, courts and halls.
[See Ram's sketch in his article, which I inserted on the original page
- but this possibility is not part of the Vision-of-Tents.
There twelve tents for guests
will be spread out around a "Mishkan" of four tents
for the hosts, for cooking, eating and activities.]

The tent project was designed and made by Ram Eisenberg during the winter and spring of 1992.
The physical construction of the tents was done on site,
using a solar powered sewing machine and manual tools.
They have been in use since the summer of 1992.
[2014: As I said, the burlap disintegrated,
and in 1994 the 2nd generation of R&D made of plastic-material, was a flop,
though the Aetgar-be-Midbar format took place in it 4 times.
Then - in 1996- I discovered that the aluminet netshade had been invented,
and therefore - in Sinai - I returned to the black netshade of the first generation,
but combined it with the aluminet netshade.
It was also in Sinai, where I started to use bamboo-poles.
Only the 4th generation of R&D separated the combined shade into two tents, one above the other]

Day 22- from among 42 days -
CHERISHED DREAMS

.... Consider this: It takes 21 days to create a habit.
Through our daily gatherings,
you have been creating a habit of Self-Love, life-mastery,
and daily focus on birthing a new, Divine YOU.

As you review these past three weeks,
what differences, shifts, and changes do you see?...
What initial intentions continue to root, shoot, bud and bloom?
What is dissolving, making space for the new?

Consider recording your reflections, as well as any recent ah-ha's,
s y n c h r o n o u s    e v e n t s   and guiding dreams.
Keep these in a sacred place where you can reflect on them, ...

These entries will provide a power-filled record of the journey,
adding insight and appreciation as well as
identification of patterns, synchronous unfolding and spurts of growth.

Every time you consciously attend to your Dream Seed,
it adds energetic nourishment for its growth,
and crystallizes its presence into Being.

Ever onward, Beloveds.

We created the 42 day Blooming Humans journey
as a form of creative discipline,
doubling the 21 days to grow beyond habit into Life-Mastery.

Beyond the personal benefits,
our collective focus is creating a resonance field
that grows stronger each day,
in multitudes of exciting, inspiring and synchronistic ways.

Be prepared for a continuing amplification
of personal power, creativity, clarity and opportunities
to co-create with grace, speed and ease.

Much of our growth, thus far, has been in our roots and shoots.
From here, be prepared for a SONIC BLOOM!

"Another way to think about intention is
that intention is a guiding principle or purpose
that leads the way, helps you clarify choices
and, if done right, PULLS you in its direction.
When you know what your intention is,
or WHY you do what you do, you now have a filter
which to pass all decisions, choices and actions through.

If you come to a crossroads and don't know the best choice to make,
remember your intention and it will become obvious what you should do.

The beautiful thing about having an intention is
that it gives all the energy in your life a point of focus to gather around.
Energy is free flowing until it is given a focus.
It's well known that where attention goes, energy flows.
Think of intention as a constant rallying point and place of focus.

For example, if your intention is
to be of service and spread love, like mine is,
when you meet challenging
situations the question you ask yourself is,
"in this moment, how can I be of service and spread love?"
Asking this question will help you respond to your circumstances
instead of react to them.
And in doing so you will continue
to create and manifest the life of your intention."

....~ Mastin Kipp, TheDailyLove.com

If

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A Desert Hosting Business is the nucleus of a vision about peace through an SPS Desert Economy. SPS is the treasure or resource of the Desert: Space, Purity, Silence, for which there is great demand in a crowded, noisy, polluted world

This is the place, which the sculptor Dani Qish and I prepared for the first Succah in early January 1990, Dani: "There is such good energy!" Rachel: "Exactly because of this energy people should come here yet not stay here, but I don't want to interfere with your creativity!" A month later - in a terrible storm - the succah was blown away by "the flying Angels". I had first met them, when in December I climbed up this hill, named "877" on the map (877 m high), which overtowered the wadi, which "was appointed" as the place for the model of the Desert Economy SPS-based Hosting Business. That foggy morning I was deeply depressed concerning the realization of my vision. Suddenly a saying I had once heard resonated inside: "Angels fly because they take themselves so lightly!"

Under an image of "the hill of the Angels' Flight" , at the end of the sculpture I wrote:
May the Angels, flying on the Hill guard my model, the Succayah, until the time will be ripe...

Read through our Blooming Humans Dream Seed HUmanifesto.

At the end of each stanza, breathe. Listen, listen again,
then listen deeply and Be present to the potent energy contained within each.
Let yourself BE the dream, the seed, the Tree of Love
and know you ARE this, Beloved.

And so much more.

.....The following poem is too much of spiritual blah-blah for me.
I'll quote only a few stanzas:

Blooming Humans are WE ...
Infinite Combinations in Infinite Diversity.
We Birth New Reality
as One Heart, One World, One Love.
.....

Leisure is our Joy-Full Expression
of Thanks and Appreciation.
Our Spirits soar above the landscape of creation --
With Clarity of Vision, we follow our Bliss.
.......

Creator, Father Sky, Giver of All Life
we send out our voice of intent,
Aligning our Will with Divine Will
in order to benefit Humanity and all Creation.

Changing Mother, Divine Mother Earth
Guide us as we, too, are changing each day.
Teach us the Power of Love,
so our Hearts will shine the Light of Life
through all Creation.

We take our Place in the Great Circle of Life,
honoring All Our Relations.
In this Great Coming Together,
We remember we are ONE.

Our HeartFires ablaze,
our Spirits Lighted in Ecstasy
We enter the Age of Peace and Illumination
We are ALIVE! We are ALIVE! We are ALIVE!

With Love-filled Hearts,
we give thanks.
It is so, and so it IS.
Blessed BE!