What makes a place special for spiritual practices? For some folks it might be good energy or a physical sign like rivers running together. That is nice, but since the history of early Chile has been pretty much wiped out, what do we know about the significance of those places? In India, the history is known for tens of thousands of years in the past. So the events of long ago that shaped the region are, if not well known, at least knowable to a motivated researcher. I visited two of the four Vedic archives in India, one in the Himalayas near Badrināth and the other in Jagannāth Purī next to the famous temple. I saw with my own eyes the records of Jesus' visit to India, and so many other facts lost to Western history because of the knowledge filters put in place by the Roman emperors and their successors. The Romans, for example destroyed the Library of Alexandria three times just to make certain they has wiped out these ancient records and their scholars. And now the Western scriptures, although they talk about the soul and God, nowhere do they define the meaning of these words. That Esoteric Teaching is found only in the much more ancient records they destroyed.
The same thing has happened all over the world. When the Conquistadores conquered a tribe, the first thing they did was to kill all the priests and destroy all the ancient records. As a result we know next to nothing about the real history of South America; all we have is post-conquest propaganda. The fragmentary information we do possess hints at a very sophisticated civilization and spiritual technology. The Māyān calendar is one of the great works to survive, and it reached us only because it was carved into such a huge stone that the Conquistadores had to bury it. Now that it has been unearthed and decoded (of course anyone with knowledge of its deeper meaning and functions were wiped out), we can understand the deep connections between the Māyās and the Vedic culture of India, and even the I Ching.
The time cycles of the Māyān calendar correspond very closely to those of the Vedic system. For example, the end of the Māyān calendar in 2012 is an important date in the Vedic calendar as well, and the significance attributed to it in both systems is similar. We are moving from a time of materialistic development to a time when spiritual concerns will become much more important. Of course, in any large transition there is going to be a fair amount of chaos as we switch from one system of civilization to another.
Our specific mission is to act as a seed for spiritual culture in the times during and after the coming transition. So we want to find a location that will give us protection from the difficulties that will accompany the collapse of the old system, and position us to have an influential role in finding a new sustainable way of life that can provide a platform for higher development of human spiritual faculties. To our view, the greatest necessities are water and food. My Teacher used to say that no one can think of God when his stomach is empty. So rivers are good sign, but there must also be fertile soil and good weather. Grain is the staff of life, so a reliable grain-producing area with adequate water resources offers the best conditions for our community.
We don't know much about Chile except what we can research online, which is actually quite a bit. But actually we find over many years of experience that we are guided from within as necessary. "A devotee who is not dependent on the ordinary course of activities, who is pure, expert, without cares, free from all pains, and who does not strive for some result, is very dear to Me." [
Bhagavad-gītā 12.16]
), just Google it, or you may check a couple of photos by clicking the globe sign next to my avatar, there are many reasons that make it not so perfect location.
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