Embracing Organic Living for Personal and Community Growth with the Spirit Garden School

Embark on a transformative journey with the pioneers from Spirit Garden School as they guide us through their harmonious fusion of spirituality, psychology, and philosophy. Our special guests, Juan, Emma, and Marian, from a serene corner of Poland, share their vision for a life enriched by nature, with insights on their community's organic living and personal growth. Discover how their substance-free haven and commitment to energy work create an atmosphere where every individual can flourish. Their stories will captivate you, revealing how a profound connection with the natural world contributes to both psychological well-being and physical health.

Be prepared to have your mind expanded as we navigate the realm of holistic healing, discussing the innovative use of Scala waves and energy therapy. With a look into the pioneering legacy of Nikola Tesla, modern healing meets ancient wisdom. The Spooky machine and Flames of Ether aren't just devices; they're gateways to a balanced state of health, tapping into the potential of color therapy and essential oils for well-being. Furthermore, we'll dive into the unique educational fabric of Spirit Garden School, where students like Emma learn to weave their own paths through an eclectic mix of curriculum offerings, from Tai Chi to eco-sustainability, shaping not only their futures but also making a tangible impact on global initiatives. Join us for an episode that promises to uplift, educate, and inspire.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 2:30

So welcome everybody to a new episode of Barn to the Soul. And today I've got a new guest and they are the Spirit Garden School, so welcome everybody and thank you so much for supporting Barn to the Soul.

Speaker 4: 2:47

Hi, natasha, thank you.

Speaker 2: 2:48

Hello.

Speaker 1: 2:49

Thank you for hosting us, and today I have Juan, emma and Marian from the Spirit Garden School, and they are a non-religious school of spirituality, psychology and philosophy. They're based on communal living and unconventional learning, and they believe that there's another way to live that's closer to nature and that can help us in a spiritual evolution. They accept students for free and they offer food, accommodation and free lessons in exchange for volunteering in their organic garden, animal sanctuary and educational centre. Is that basically right? So, first of all, whereabouts are you in the world?

Speaker 4: 3:35

We are in Poland, not far from Germany, in a place called Poznan.

Speaker 1: 3:41

Lovely and is it quite country-fied, near woods and yeah.

Speaker 4: 3:47

Yeah, we are surrounded by the woods and it's really lovely here because we love to be in contact with nature, so it's the perfect environment for us.

Speaker 1: 3:56

Yeah, it sounds lovely. And how many acres do you have? If you have all these students coming in your organic garden, do you have quite a big space for them?

Speaker 2: 4:08

At the present time we have two sections in our garden, well, in fact, three sections. To be precise, one is the mainly the organic garden, where we do apply different techniques of organic gardening, electroculture and companion planting, and there it's only for the plants. Let's say like this Afterwards there is a big section about, I would say, two, three thousand square metres where the people can do leisure time, they can camp during the summer when it's warmer. Then we have also a biosphere in this place because we look after rescued birds, and we have also a pond where we get our natural source of water and at the same time we have a big area for the chickens because we also rescue chickens. At the present time we have 35 chickens and they have a big land, a big area where they can free range and eat and be happy. Basically, Lovely.

Speaker 1: 5:19

it sounds really lovely, and how many people do you have living there at any one time?

Speaker 2: 5:26

At the present time we are six, but it varies regarding season as well, because, as we have different, let's say, deals for the people, some people can come just to volunteer for a certain period of time Shortly because two weeks, three weeks, four weeks. It depends because we have specific programs or specific projects going on. Especially the organic garden takes a big amount of it in summer. And then you have people who come as a student and then they stay minimum six weeks, but they can stay for longer and longer and longer. For instance, emma is a volunteer who is with us.

Speaker 3: 6:17

Hi Emma. I've been here for two months and a half approximately, and I've already been in contact with some of the things that we are learning here. Now the garden is a bit not really productive because it's too cold, but we have already started to plant new seeds in pots inside and to apply some of the things we are studying, like electroculture, in order to make the plants grow stronger.

Speaker 4: 6:52

Yeah, we don't use any chemicals, we don't use fertilizers, we don't use pesticides. We really take care that everything is as natural as possible, and for that we need to use natural methods to have good vegetables, a good garden that is productive, and for that we have studied a lot about natural methods that can be applied to the garden but also to our bodies, so to the health, to our well-being, because the same principles work for everyone. Finally, at the end and that's how we have started to develop devices and techniques to improve both the garden and therefore what we eat, but also our own health and our own well-being, and all is linked together.

Speaker 1: 7:44

Yeah, absolutely. I was thinking, really, society can be hard work, can't it? It's hard day-to-day living. So actually, for some people who come for a short time, it's almost like a retreat. For them it's a reset just to sort of get themselves centered again physically, mentally and just to you know, I mean, get their hands in the soil, get grounded again. It's just incredibly beneficial. It's at the. You know, that's one of the concepts presumably.

Speaker 2: 8:21

As effectively. Even the people who stayed for a couple of weeks, they reported and we could see it as well the improvement in even being more relaxed or being more focused, more connected, increasing their health in different aspects. Because it's not only the fact that we have organic food and already that is a big change for a lot of people. We are not allowing drugs or alcohol, things that are harming the body either, and that's already a good basis to start to begin with. But what we understand is that, as Mariam was explaining, there are other elements related to the waves, to the vibration, that we can improve in ourselves as we do with the plants. For us, it's the same principle, Just we apply it differently because we are more interactive than the plants. So we establish healthy relations as well that are creating an atmosphere where people actually, after two, three weeks, they feel a difference, Even some people who came for two weeks afterwards.

Speaker 2: 9:32

We had people who asked us okay, could I stay longer? Even if it was not planned or not agreed from the beginning. We have the example of a volunteer, from United Kingdom, in fact, who came for a couple of weeks at the beginning. His name is Zag. We have a very good memory of him, and at the end he ended up staying three months and a half with us because he enjoyed it so much and we could see his improvement as well.

Speaker 1: 10:02

Yeah, finding the benefit. So really, you're tackling people's well-being that's the right word. But you're helping people's well-being physically, with the food that they take in, mentally, with all work and being grounded. But you're also working on their energy as well, which is the bit that I find so fascinating, because you also do some work with energy, don't you? And you have a product called Flames of the Ether, is that right?

Speaker 2: 10:33

Yes, exactly.

Speaker 1: 10:35

So tell us about that, because I find that fascinating.

Speaker 2: 10:39

Yes, so I can start with a little introduction because, as we have been explaining a little bit, what we create here is like we could say, like human electroculture. So electroculture would be to apply techniques where we are channeling or captain certain energies and vibrations that we will apply on the soil and on the plants afterwards to improve the growth of the plants and to create an environment where the energy levels are harmonized, let's say in an easy and non-technical way, and therefore for the humans it's the same. The extension of this is that we want to live also in coherence and harmony with nature and amongst us, because we are part of nature, even if we are a different element than plants or other animals, with our own specificities of course. And afterwards, the product of the Flames of Ether came from the idea that we can host people here, but we would like to bring it outside as well. Not everybody can come at the same time. We have limited resources, we cannot host a thousand people. We would love to, but it's for the present time not possible.

Speaker 2: 14:01

So what we thought is okay applying those techniques, applying the ideas that we have been already putting in practice, and experimenting, and we saw that it worked. Let's create a product, and this product is basically what we do. We have some resources made as well to explain. So, if you want, we can afterwards give you the links to YouTube, because we have created some YouTube videos for that.

Speaker 1: 14:28

Yeah, I watched the videos, so it's really helpful if people want to watch those. Yeah, sorry, thank you.

Speaker 2: 14:34

Yeah, so basically what we are doing is that by creating these, what we call the Flames of Ether, it has different elements that are going to somehow keep the memory of this vibration that we are applying with different devices that we introduce. We apply devices that are creating scalar waves or generating scalar waves that are, let's say, positive vibrations that we can receive as humans, electromagnetic vibrations, and because of the materials we are using, these energy stones are going to keep this vibration, keep the memory. Of course it's nothing dangerous. We are talking about vibrations. Some people could think it's related to electricity, but not at all.

Speaker 2: 15:21

We are talking about low-frequency vibrations that are making afterwards the materials let's say some people would say magnetized, but it's not exactly that but to keep an idea. That is simple and afterwards, through the protocol of increasing with heat, the environment around this, this product is going to release all these vibrations, all these waves, scalar waves, and radiate the area that is around. And that is something that here we generate in different ways. We also have our own product that we use for time to time, the same flames of Ether, but here the environment and everything we do, it's also creating a certain element, a certain environment in the rotational aspect. Sometimes we are very careful with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and vibrations that are afterwards, let's say, polluting a little bit the atmosphere.

Speaker 1: 16:26

So, really, you're creating this lovely high vibrational, positive energy and the idea is to allow people to have some of that in their home if they want to create a similar energy within their homes. Basically, Exactly. Yeah. So just let me ask you so Scala waves, you talk about Scala waves. What is Scala energy? Is that the energy, the universal energy, the energy from the stars, the sun, where? What is that? A bit simplistic, you can tell, I'm not scientific.

Speaker 4: 17:03

Well, it's actually very simple, because it's an electromagnetic energy that is present everywhere inside us, around us, the cosmos and it's very much linked to life and everything that is alive, and it has some very specific properties and we can use this Scala energy for medicinal and health purposes. It has been done since already a long while. The, let's say, the first to create a pattern, the real pattern, with devices that were creating Scala waves, was Nikola Tesla, and he did that in 1900. So right now, a lot of doctors, clinics and therapeutic centers are starting to reuse that and to use this pattern to build new machines, adapt them to our contemporary times, and they can really see great effects on the health of people, even close to miraculous healing. Really, because it's also, of course, depending on how open a person is to receive these vibrations, and that, of course, makes the complete difference, because we need to be also open and to work to receive correctly the energy and the vibration that a machine can radiate towards us, and these Scala waves and Scala energy are also able to transmit biological information. So, therefore, that's why it can be so powerful, because, for example, you can add to the machine that you're using an essential oil bottle or something like a plant or a flower, and the Scala waves will radiate the properties of this essential oil or flower that you put and will radiate it around and therefore to you. So it's really very powerful. It's basically a sort of Wi-Fi of the nature that is bringing to us and information, but in this case it's an information of health. It's a natural wave, not an artificial one, and we can channel it and we can use it for our own well-being and for our health. So that's really very interesting and a lot of doctors and clinics are using it, with different devices and different machines.

Speaker 4: 19:35

We have created our own. We have used one that is being produced so anyone can have it, buying it on the Internet. It's called Spooky, and to this we have added our own devices that we have created. And we have created something even more holistic and powerful because we have added the color therapy. I don't know if you're familiar with it, but it's also very powerful and we have basically, let's say, based our work on this work of the scientist and Dr Agra Par, which was a French scientist.

Speaker 4: 20:15

But there are a lot of studies done on the topic and they are extremely interesting and very, very powerful and, of course, completely natural. So we reduce, if not we delete, any side effects, which is a great problem of the classical medicine, of course. So we have a lot of benefit without any side effect and with quite reduced costs. It is true that the machine itself, like, for example, spooky that I spoke about, is not exactly cheap, so doctors or clinics can afford to buy it.

Speaker 4: 20:51

We did it because we are very much interested in the topic, but it is difficult for anyone to maybe have a machine like this at home, and that's why we have decided to build the flame of eaters and to capture the color energy and all the energy of the color and of the sound as well, and the machines that we have created inside the flames of eater, so that we can, let's say, make them available to anyone without having to spend great amounts of money over a machine, and also it is complicated to use. You need to have a certain technical knowledge and scientific knowledge to know exactly what you are doing, and therefore we have simplified this so that the others can have access to this energy and to these healing properties without having to do the complete work.

Speaker 1: 21:49

Yeah, sure it sounds fascinating. So really what Scala Energy is doing is optimizing the frequencies in your energy so that you are at your healthier state. Plants grow well. Is that basically with no side effects?

Speaker 2: 22:12

We base also our ideas in some research and elements that are somehow well known, but people don't put some elements together.

Speaker 2: 22:26

We saw that when the astronauts started to go to space, they encountered a big problem that they didn't know, and it's that the Earth by itself, our planet, has a specific frequency and a specific, let's say, environment radio environment and they saw that the astronauts, when they started to go outer space the vessels, the rockets, let's say they needed to recreate this, otherwise the people or the life beings that were inside started to have difficulties and problems that affected severely their health.

Speaker 2: 23:08

So once we understood that the Earth has specific vibration, there were studies related and what is most commonly well known nowadays are the Schumann's resonances, which probably you heard about, and it's this constant vibration that the Earth has. And that is the beginning of understanding that we have an environment that we need to respect in the vibrational aspect, the radiation aspect. Afterwards, as I said before, because this knowledge was not taken into consideration by several authorities, let's say we have a pollution on radiation that is also affecting our lives. With the product we are developing, what we want to do is to give back people like a healthy environment. It would be a similar comparison with living in a city that has high levels of smog or high levels of pollution and going back to the countryside, but just in a more subtle level.

Speaker 1: 24:18

Yeah, sure. So if somebody buys this Flames of Ethan and they burn it in their home and they create, how long does that better environment exist for? Is it always going to be there or is it again slowly going to get polluted by microwaves and phones?

Speaker 4: 24:41

It decays and also it's the electromagnetic pollution that is present a bit everywhere because of Wi-Fi, mobiles etc. Are going to again, let's say, take over. So it's going to last about two weeks to a month. It's more or less what we have calculated so reasonably. If you burn one at your home every month, you're going to have a good vibrational level in your house and around.

Speaker 1: 25:18

Okay, and then just bringing it back to the, because I'm an energy therapist, so just bring it back to the human energy field. When you do an energy healing, sometimes people feel a side effect. They can feel quite fluid afterwards and feel out of sorts just for a couple of days until your energy sorts itself out again. So if somebody uses this, can they have those sort of energetic sort of feelings afterwards, or have you not experienced any sort of side effects at all?

Speaker 4: 25:54

With the flames of ether. No, we haven't experienced this, because really it's an energy that, let's say, reaches out to balance in a very soft and comfortable way. So I think that people have more a sensation of comforting relaxation, and we also invite them to accompany this, let's say, little time, little ceremony of burning the flame of ether, with a lot of meditation or at least relaxation. So we haven't experienced any, let's say, discomfort linked to the flames of ether. But it is true that sometimes, when we use singularly some machines like Spooky or another machine, another device that we have created in the NeuQui, or even the color therapy, you can have some effects that can be a bit surprising, a bit effects of discomfort or confusion or, because it is true, once we are moving and, let's say, rebalancing the energy, anything can happen, can come out. It's true that in the time of two or three days usually, then these effects are slowly going away and leaving the space for more peace and a higher energetical level.

Speaker 1: 27:25

Yeah, it sounds fascinating. It's almost like giving our atmosphere, our energy, just a real boost, and yeah, it sounds amazing. So, just coming back to the school as well, you also you teach at the school, don't you? And you? So your students come in and, in return for working on the farm and getting involved in things, you are also teaching them. What sort of subjects do you teach them about? This scalar energy? Do you teach them about gardening? Do you teach you know what is it? Do they have to do all of it or do they just choose? Or how does it? How does that work?

Speaker 2: 28:10

Well, we have a wide range of subjects that we teach, but we believe a lot in progression in the pedagogy, because it is important for us that the person has an experience, experiences its own path and progress with the within here in a way that can be challenging at some points but at the same time adapt it to make it pleasant, to make the challenge a discovery, a sort of adventure. We focus especially at the beginning into the understanding of several psychological aspects that are important as well, because even if we work with energy and those works relate to higher levels and more subtle levels of everything, everything afterwards will be somehow filtered by the psychology of each. Therefore, balancing psychology is an important element not to have rebound effects or side effects in between brackets, situations where people could not assimilate exactly what is going on or could not have tools and resources to understand what's their own path and their own experience within the program Afterwards. Yes, reconnecting with nature is very important. So, as much as we can, because in the months of winter, at the present time, it's a bit more difficult to work in the garden because we have less things to do. But still, even Emma, who came at the end of the year last year she managed to work a bit on the garden, even if there are other tasks. But yes, they learn gardening. They learn psychology, basics of psychology. We also base a lot in Jungian psychology, from Carl Jung.

Speaker 2: 30:15

Afterwards we have also a complete program. It's more holistic. We work a little bit on nutrition as well. We work because here we promote veganism. So people are invited to be vegetarian, vegan, because in the house we don't keep any meat products or dairy. We are fine, we speak about it, depending on where it's coming from. And eggs we don't buy eggs outside, it's a production of our own chickens. You are not obliged to eat them, of course, but they are very healthy. So it's a holistic program. There is also part that is physical work where, because we have knowledge and we have with us the very valuable present of a Shaolin monk, we can teach Tai Chi. There are teachers of yoga as well, martial arts, never in a violent way, but more as a philosophy and a body applied the philosophy to be able to do things and to be strong. When we work at some point, when the path has been more stable and the person really sees an evolution, we can start to work about energy, spirituality and more subtle levels.

Speaker 1: 31:36

afterwards, Sounds amazing. And what are your future hopes for the Spirit Garden School? Where do you work.

Speaker 2: 31:49

Our goal is to be able to create a positive impact. We believe very much. Well, we see that a big, big problem of the society nowadays is that we call it the takers. People are educated, or let's say, conditioned, just to look after themselves and to take as much as they can, which creates a great imbalance everywhere, with the nature, with the animals, with the relation with the others, even within ourselves, and this is a big problem.

Speaker 2: 32:21

So what we would like to do is to change that, to be able to have people with us, of course, if we would like to grow. So the more people, the merrier, that is clear, because more people means more happiness, more harmony, more ability and power to do things, to maybe rescue more animals, to help other people For ourselves. For instance, even if we are a small group at the present time, we perform several actions. Amongst them, we are helping an orphanage in Zambia. We are in direct contact with the founder and, let's say, with a certain periodicity, we help them so that they can build toilets, they can build bathrooms, they can build new rooms and so on. So we would say, to grow it would be, of course, but to grow not with ambition for ourselves, but with the idea of helping more, of being able to provide and guide and help more.

Speaker 4: 33:22

Yeah, make a positive impact in the life of the people who join us, allowing them to, say, take in their own hands their life and not so much be feeling obliged to go in a certain way, feeling obliged to necessarily go to university, find a good job and have a stable life something that can be fine for some people but can be maybe a bit suffocating for others because they don't see a lot of options in their life. But I think it's something that is really valuable and that we can see how people really enjoy to be here, because we give them the options and the tools that they didn't find before. And that is something that I think is also valid for Emma, and that's what we wanted her also to bring here to the conversation, because we have been here for longer, but Emma has a more like recent experience, so she can really see the difference between three months ago and now.

Speaker 3: 34:37

Yeah, for example, I'm learning really a lot and it's the place where I've learned the most in my life, even more than when I was in school, and also with the energy of the place and, as Mariam said before, human and electroculture. I was able to notice with the device that we have the improvement, also my energy from the beginning. So when I came here it was quite down and after a month or so it was really much improved and this was great because I could also feel it in myself and it is really the environment and the energy here that helped me to grow, and I've been here for pretty short period of time, so I will grow even more and, yes, it would be great to have more people because it's really an experience that can enrich you and make you live better.

Speaker 1: 35:41

Yeah it's lovely so it's sort of strengthening you in order that you can then make your own path. Isn't it to follow your intuition as to what's right for you, but also doing that within a lovely community of like minded people? Basically?

Speaker 3: 35:59

Yes, it can help everyone, and you can decide then to remain with the community or to bring the teachings and the energy and what you've developed here to another place and to go on with your life, but still it gives you a basis that can be really useful outside.

Speaker 1: 36:19

Yeah, that's lovely. So as people leave, sort of your philosophy and your energy, of your place area is going to just ripple out, hopefully.

Speaker 4: 36:33

Yes, yeah.

Speaker 1: 36:38

Just spread it out, which is lovely. It's more than a school, isn't it? It's sort of just philosophy for life. It's helping them find their centre point and use their intuition to just find the path that's right for them.

Speaker 4: 36:58

Yeah, absolutely. We believe that the way of thinking of people is what is really important, because the way you think is going to be the way that will guide you and will influence completely what happens in your life, literally. So a good, stable, positive way of thinking, with good tools, good knowledge, good surrounding people around you that are supporting you and actually what is important for you and seeing the results of what you do in practice, will make you really an exceptional person. And it's the opposite of being always stressed over finding a good job, having enough money, being obliged to, let's say, follow some very hard and strict protocols that most of the people feel obliged to follow in the society, not because they want to, but because it is supposed to be like that. So that's what we want to change, because no one should feel obliged to do something that is not actually healthy and productive and good for themselves and for the others.

Speaker 4: 38:17

We all have the chance to live a life that makes us happy, makes us healthy, and that can also be in harmony with the others. So it's not only what I personally love and want to do, but what I personally love and want to do, and also it's good for everything that is around me and that's how we can have a world that is healthy, that is not polluted, that is not collapsing. That's how we avoid to have conflicts and wars, because if we are in peace with ourselves and what we want is also in harmony with what the others want and what is good for them, then there should be no conflict at all, and that's what we want to reach. Of course, we are going to make a small difference, but nevertheless, if everyone just changes the world that is around them, even the kilometer that is around them, it's already a great thing.

Speaker 1: 39:22

Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. If everybody does a small change or does something, then that's going to accumulate, isn't it, and that's going to shift other things.

Speaker 2: 39:35

So it's been lovely to have you on.

Speaker 1: 39:38

It's been great to hear about your work. It sounds fascinating, and your whole philosophy about helping somebody from lots of different aspects, I think it sounds amazing. So thank you. Thank you very much for coming on the podcast.

Speaker 2: 39:58

You're welcome.

Speaker 1: 39:59

Thank you. It's been a pleasure and if you're interested in contacting the Spirit Garden, I'm going to put all the information up underneath our episode and I'm sure if you were interested in joining them, they would love to hear from you. So if you've enjoyed listening to us today, then please like and share, and it would be fabulous if you could leave a review for Balm to the Soul. That would be really helpful and I look forward to talking to you soon.