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Writing: Jensen's Ranch
(Plant Your Dream!)
Note on a Passing Moment is a poem I wrote in 1977, when 100 acres of the original Hidden Valley Health Ranch was sold. I am stunned to realize how important this land is to my sold. I have been working very hard to see how it can be bought now by an Group led by the Neo-Essene Community, Inc. I am going to put to online. I wanted to share it with you.
Date: 3/31/2005 6:55:49 PM ( 19 y ago)
Note on a Passing Moment
In the sunny silence of the morning,
I heard the water dripping
and one bird echo another.
I was surrounded, in meditative respect,
near yet far, by brothers, saluting the new day.
As they knew best, they captured
the God-givne rays their own ways.
In the distance they sat, separate in twos,
the one pair to the North and the other
pair to the South, and in between, I
completing the triangle our bodies made.
In the passing of the moment,
I heard the land cry out,
and I wondered and felt the loss of a close friend.
Solemn land,
light glistening off oak tree leaves,
I feel your presence, blessed gift.
Hidden Valley Health Ranch
September 8, 1977
I first found my relationshiop to the earth on this land.
Dr. Bernard Jensen’s original Hidden Valley Health Ranch,
more than 100 acres was being sold for the first time.
He moved soon after up to his remaining 10 acres, where
he lived thereafter. That remaining 10 acres was sold
in 2001, and now is being resold. The 100 acres were
bought finally by the Self Realization Fellowship, after
a number of intermediary partners attempted to make a go
of it. Jensen sold the 100 acres because it was too much
to run. It once has more than 100 patients a week,
and a staff of 50. When I first came to live and work
with him following college, it still was surviving, though
not thriving.
Among the losses were an very prolific grape grove of many
kinds. In one of my first years, I fasted on grapes for a week.
when the SRF told over, they took out the grapes and put in
Rosemary. That made me sad.
There were wonderous persimmons, mulberries, and apricot trees. I do not know if they survived.
In all, I lived on that ranch for more than two years,
and came and went. I helped edit and write from his own words a number of his books, including two of the Magic Survival
Kit series, The Healing Power of Chlorophyll from Plant Life
and Survive This Day. Survive This Day is a treasure of a book in my opinion, though little known among the 50 he wrote. Dr. Jensen was an extraordinary speaker, but did not write well himself. most of his books were written with or by others.
I was the first person who he ever acknowledged in print as having anything to do with the writing of his books. Some of the material, as in The Chemistry of Man, came from V.G. Rocine,
a brilliant thinker, way ahead of his time. Jensen was Rocine’s best student of the how the various minerals gave unique voice
to qualities. Rocine spoke in terms of Chemical types, and did not shy away from refering to them as different Soul types.
I wanted to include that spiritual side of Rocine’s work in The
Chemistry of Man.
I also contributed to the book Nature has a Remedy, and to The Chemistry of Man. I helped draw in Debra, who later changed her name to Debra St. Claire, and her partner at the time
Michael Diogo. Both were dear allies and active in the Essene work that I later did with Kevin Ryerson. Debra has a very successful natural food company called Econaturals.
One of his finest editors and writers was Ellen Tart, who later married his son Art Jensen. Ellen Tart Jensen is a leader in the field of Iridology.
On the ten acres, he had rich orchards as well, that still exist. One mystical tree, a Persian Mulberry, has put me into estatic states during Augusts.
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