Here is an excerpt from Suwindi Karina’s Community speech:

“There are many reasons why people join or start small communities. And the ones that last the longest and and work best, are the ones that are driven by a core belief that makes them stronger.

My community is non-denominational. We don’t follow one particular religion or set of politics. We are international and have come together with our own religions, opinions, and morals. But we do have a set of strong common beliefs.

We all want to live in harmony with nature. And we also see Nature as a living entity. A force that goes beyond ourselves. We practice non-violence which includes being vegetarian, taking very good care of our animals, and growing our food organically. We use ancient, Vedic farming practices. We try to step lightly on this planet and care for her deeply.

Because we all have this core belief, Ecovillage Bhrugu Aranya is able to accept and understand our individual differences, and move forward through even the toughest of times. A core belief is important to keep community alive. It is a foundation that holds us up and keeps us focussed on our goals.

I feel that for a community to be successful there needs to be a common belief, but not just a political or intellectual ideology, a strong emotional and heart felt belief that goes beyond the mind that drives our direction and goals. You need to love what you are doing. You need to be proud of what you are achieving together.

People form community because most of the time what they need is not provided for in urban or normal settings.

The social benefits are numerous.  A strong and supportive functional family is mostly lacking from our lives. The support system of a group of people you can trust with your children and property is rarely found. In the right ecovillage, or small community, a functional family or tribe can be formed. And that group creates a safer place to raise your children. It protects, supports and inspires

Diversity in age groups and different levels of experience all help to teach individuals how to cope and deal with problems.Children in community learn to relate to all different ages of people, and they also learn from a diverse pool of people who can offer their individual gifts and knowledge. Relationships and the family unit have a greater chance at surviving because one has the added resource of a large extended, caring community.

A community forces us to learn how to develop communication skills and resolve conflict. Challenges are met face on and resolved for the good of all.

Every conflict and resolution is a positive step toward moving forward.

Being able to share resources is a wonderful part of being in community.

There are people in our community that work with the bees and do bee keeping. They keep themselves updated with the latest techniques and lovingly take pride in their work.

And the rest of the community benefit with gorgeous homa organic honey!

We have members who are skilled in art, music, building, small business management, psychology, herbal traditional medicine, gardening, hospitality, public speaking, child rearing, horse training and much much more!

We pool all of our skills and help each other whenever and wherever we can. We have all developed an attitude of service to each other as a result of being in a community. Service is such an important ingredient.

There are many motivations for starting a community. Our Ecovillage’s ultimate goal is to be entirely self sustainable. We are not there yet but we have the resources and skills to make our way there. It is a wonderful feeling to be a part of this positive revolution from the grass roots level.

I would encourage those who feel passionately about starting or joining a community to seek out others with similar ideals and goals. This is the time to pioneer a new way of living!

The question is not why do small communities form, but how can we encourage and support more of them?

There are so many of us now who are longing for a new way of life. People are finding it harder and harder to thrive in today’s society.

Forming small communities is like a pro-active protest. By starting or joining forces with a group who have similar ideals to you, and are developing an alternative way to live, you are actively creating a new future. You are not taking down a system or even fighting one. You are creating and nurturing a new world.”

And of course, many atom-driven submarines rust slowly in the oceans, somewhere far away from us, because we normally don’t live on test-sites, or beside a nuclear reactor or a nuclear submarine. Scientists declared that the snow in the Himalayas are so strongly radioactive, that it would have to be treated as radioactive garbage! But of course the Himalayas are also far away from most of us.

Here in Europe people are warned against eating too much fish from Scandinavian lakes or eating too many mushrooms from European forests since they contain levels of radioactivity too high for the human body. Why is this? These are all areas in nature; there are no industries and no atom bombs nearby. Scientists determined that radioactivity is spreading all over the world through wind and ocean currents, like a deadly cloud. The wind carries small radioactive charged particles into the air we breathe; the rain from radioactive clouds drops radioactive particles into our fields and forests. When the Chernobyl accident happened, soon elevated radioactivity was also measured in South America. We therefore have the world-wide challenge to balance radioactivity, because even if we actually don’t see it, don’t smell it, don’t sense it, still radioactivity can inflict big damage on human beings and all life forms.

The effects we experience include: Pains and wounds that won’t heal, higher child-mortality, higher deformity in new-borns, mutations in animals and also in fruit and vegetables, and much more. In European clinics there is a cancer-treatment, where the tumour is radioactively treated to destroy the tumor cells. And how often do I experience directly in the pharmacy many people suffering from pains and wounds, also in the healthy tissue surrounding the tumour, that won’t heal, not with medicines and not with any ointment.

How often did I experience at home when I bought for example tomatoes or grapes and I left them on the kitchen counter for one week, one month or even longer that they didn’t become bad, they didn’t rot, they didn’t change their appearance. What was that? These are also radioactively treated fruits and vegetables, that admittedly always look the same and can be sold for a long period of time, resist transportation challenges, but which however affect our health negatively when we eat them.

Even a TV can expose us to radioactivity, depending on the model. And how many people, also children, sit daily for many hours in front of the TV? All of these examples can occur in everyday life everywhere. But what can I do in order to help myself and to protect my family?

After the accident in Chernobyl (1986), a Polish scientist did some experiments to see if Homa Therapy could neutralize the radioactivity since Poland was also strongly affected. He found out that the healing Agnihotra fire could get rid of even hundredfold infringement of the natural radioactivity. The effect of an Agnihotra fire lasts between 10 to 18 hours (then of course already comes the next Agnihotra fire with the sun-change, which takes further care and so on).

He also measured that radioactively affected soil shows again normal values if watered with a mixture of water and Agnihotra-Ash. We only use the ash of the Agnihotra fire for healing. Agnihotra Ash has the same qualities as the Agnihotra fire sealed in it.

Ancient knowledge states that the balancing effect to restore health is possible with the help of the Agnihotra Fire and the Agnihotra Ash. It is possible to apply the Agnihotra ash directly on difficult wounds that don’t heal and also on painful areas (depending on the degree of the problem, it can be repeated between 4 x daily up to every hour). Also internally, you can take one teaspoon of Agnihotra Ash powder with water, honey, tea, yogurt, etc. before each meal in order to balance the whole body.

You can also put vegetables, fruits, lettuce, etc. overnight in Agnihotra Ash water in order to eliminate radioactivity from the food and balance them. You can also take a bath in Agnihotra Ash water. You can put Agnihotra Ash into the drinking water for your pets. Also in cattle-raising, it is fantastic to put Agnihotra-Ash into the feed and into the drinking water of the animals. Only Agnihotra Ash has this particular healing power, these qualities and I feel very happy that all of us in such a simple way can help ourselves with these major problems. And it is wonderful that we can share this knowledge and this practical application with many other people who are likewise in need of this!

Pharmacist Monika Koch is the author of the book: “Homa Therapy – the Ancient Science of Healing”. She has conducted studies with Agnihotra Ash medicines for many years.