This is an ad from the inside cover of Beads of Truth, Winter/March 1978 Bead no. 37, a magazine that the 3HO Foundation put out back in the day. You can't really read it because when i posted it, the type came out really small.....but click on the image, and VOILA...it gets bigger. Click on the enlargement, and then it'll be just like a kindle!! Can you imagine....to attend solstice, it cost $150 dollars for a single person... and discounts WERE available on top of that!
The ad read: "YOU must do it! A Spiritual teacher only inspires you, he gives you the technical know-how, but it is for you to work it out, and to experience the result!"
Ain't THAT the truth!
With regards to what to bring, the ad reads as follows:
"You will be camping out in very changeable weather, so come prepared with:
tent of camper (some type of shelter)
eating utensils (spoon, fork, knife, bowl, cup, plate, etc.)
suntan lotion
bathing suits
warm clothes (for cold nights and mornings)
rain wear
any special dietary requirements
Please be sure to bring all necessities your children may require"
Pretty simple...and jives with my list in the blogalini post before this one.
People were intent back then on transforming the self and the world just as they are now, and that's why they packed up their things and headed out to New Mexico, just as we are doing in a week 32 years later.
Yogi Bhajan wrote in an article from this issue:
" You need in your life eleven days of vacation per year for your glandular system. You know why we started having this Summer Solstice? Just to break your habit pattern. We don't give you food you always normally eat. "
"Actually, the total idea is to bring you for ten days to live with the environment of nature to make you immune so your skin can breathe, so you can survive. So you think I can't hold a convention in a hotel? You will all come. No, that is not my way. I have to train you to live. I have lived many, many times. I know what living is. It is you who are important. And you must be trained to live in a natural environment to feel sometimes that there is a God. And too much maya around us does not allow us to feel God.
We live by the sun energy, there is no lie about it. That is why when the energy of the sun is the highest we do this sadhana to leave everything. We need eleven days. Then we go on a mono diet, and that mono diet has carbohydrates, because you need that sugar for the brain for those meditative exercises. It is a situation designed for centuries which we practice. Then we always try to go to a place where there is heat and elevation so that your children can go five, six, seven, ten thousand feet. Their metabolism needs the experience. How can a person who grows up eighteen years in New York ever come to New Mexico and not get sick? Impossible. You need the practice of environments, and your body and your nervous system must adjust. You know, if all New York people came here and lived for fifteen days, then went back, they wouldn't need a lot of medicines. If you think I'm a fool that I'm building up all this here, couldn't we build somewhere else? No. Why are you under this tent? Couldn't a better shed be built for you? It could be, but when it rains, you won't enjoy what you enjoy under it.
This is what lies underneath the teachings we are practicing. We are trying to make you survive. We are trying to make you conscious to survive and you only survive with your basic instinct. Intelligence is your basic instinct. You do not understand this human therapy. In normal environments you will always be rational. Until you are aroused to confront abnormal circumstances, you will not pressure your supreme friend, intelligence to come to your help."
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