To commune means to come into union - to commune with one
another, nature and God. To 'take communion' together, means
sharing the daily bread and sacraments. And a commune is a
group that communes together, by holding things as common...
  In
1966 Galactic Channel Allen Michael
opened The Here & Now macrobiotic restaurant
and juice bar in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district and
began channeling with the turned on youth coming into the area.
Gabriel's parents heard the Spirit of Truth in Allen Michael's
words and became original founding members of the One
World Family Commune in 1967.
The commune relocated to Marin a couple
of years later, renting a large house in Larkspur and opening
The Mustard Seed restaurant in Mill Valley.
Allen Michael guided many ETI (Extra Territorial Intelligence)
happenings on Mount Tam during this time. In 1970, the Commune
moved to Berkeley, where it would grow to over a hundred and
fifty members, sharing three converted fraternity houses in
the Berkeley hills and operating a communal Natural
Foods Center on Telegraph Avenue.
The OWFC flourished during this time, and
the message was at last made public when Allen Michael's first
channeled book of the Everlasting Gospel
- To the Youth of the World - was published
in 1973. The communal demonstration was in full swing during
these years. Our communal kitchen served the famous Zen Plates,
Macroburgers, whole wheat pizza, honey baked goods, fresh juices
and more. And with the publishing of  The
Cosmic Cookery, written by Gabriel's mother Kathryn,
many of the recipes became classics in the natural foods movement.
The Commune also offered great music, hosting regular dances
with Quazar, the communal band. Gabriel's father,
Bill was a primary, co-creative member, and the studio album
can be heard at GalacticMessenger.com.
And at the weekly public channelings with Allen Michael, many
of the "flaming youth" were turned on to the New World
vision and taken on their white light journeys.
In 1975, the commune had to relocate (it
seems leases were not renewed, etc.) and the prime group ended
up finding a large house in Stockton, in the central valley.
A number of members moved to Maui and started a branch there,
opening the popular FarOutfits clothing store,
and others branched out to Oregon, Washington DC, Southern California,
etc.
The communal demonstration still thrived,
even in the unlikely venue of south Stockton, thru the 70's,
with music production, gardening, airbrushing and other Communal
Free-enterprise projects. During the 80's, the commune would
go into a karmic holding pattern, living in separate households.
But we still operated a communal restaurant (transforming Konrad's
Ice Cream Parlour into a vegeterian kitchen) and a merchandise
store called the 4th Dimension, where the EG,
FarOutfits and Galactic artwork were shared right in the
heart of the Miracle Mile. The focus was more on publication
(God - Ultimate Unlimited Mind - Speaks was
published in 1984) and running Allen Michael as a presidiential
candidate for the Synthesis Party - "the
Party to End all Parties and Have a Real Party!"
The main branch of the commune relocated
to Carmichael in the early 90's, and the communes video production
took a quantum leap thanks to Sacramento's new public access
cable facilities. Gabriel helped by airing the New Order
for the Ages series at the Davis public access station
during his years in college, and served as a camera operator
and a guest a few times. The award winning video series has
been aired in Sacramento, Stockton, Washington, DC, Seattle,
Los Angeles, Santa Rosa and elsewhere to this day.
In the mid 90's, most of the communal extended
family moved to Santa Rosa. The new website was published, and,
in 2001, the latest volume of the Everlasting Gospel became
available. Core members continue to produce the TV series (now
called Galactic Messenger), work on publishing
the next volume of the Everlasting Gospel, and have taken the
website, GalacticMessenger.com,
to the next level as a fully interactive media center and blogsite.
As the end of the old world has become more
apparent - thru events like the stolen elections of 2000 and
2004, the coup of September 11th, and now the artificially orchestrated
depression leading us into the Last War for the World - and
as the PSI-ESP energies channeled in by the Elohim bring on
the birthing of the New World, interest in the One World Family
Commune has had a rennaisance. The members have been rekindled
in spirit, and, with the creation of the new communal blog,
the multi-media website, a new documentary, a webdrifter interview,
etc., there has been thousands of visits and downloads by interested
people.
And now Minister Gabriel sounds a call to
those of the 144,000 - and to all of those who have "ears
to hear" - to reconnect and come together to serve the
delivery thru communal living and karma yoga, where Spirit can
guide us the artifice of world tribulation. 2007 marked one
full generation for the One World Family, and it marks the beginning
of the regeneration of the Galactic pilot model commune. Contact
Gabriel if you feel called to be a part of this exciting pilot
model demonstration!
The all seeing eye, the capstone
or head-corner stone (as pictured on the original masonic seal
of the US) is symbolic of the 3rd eye (the 6th chakra) which
sees all in Oneness and holds all things as common, as Jesus
taught the apostles and the early church:
And all that believed were together,
and had all things common; And sold their possessions and goods,
and parted them to all men, as every man had need. (Acts 2:44-45)
And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and
of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things
which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as
were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the
prices of the things that were sold, And laid them at the apostles'
feet: and distribution was made unto every man as he had need.
(Acts 4:32-35)
The Essene
Humane Gospel of Jesus states
it again quite beautifully:
And they who believed gave up their
wealth and possessions and did sell all things and gave
the proceeds to the communes, for they held all things in
common and abode together in one place, even as Christ had
commanded them. For by doing so, they fulfilled the law
of love, showing all kindness and goodness of God unto their
brothers and sisters and all the creatures born of nature.
And many are followers of the holy way. There exists no
hunger or thirst for spiritual or physical food, the aged
and the widow are not cast out, and the orphan and the afflicted
are welcome. And the holy ones do go forth as healers, teaching
the cures of nature unto the people.
A true commune holds things in common,
and this is the cornerstone in conciousness.
Every member serves without thought
of remuneration (karma yoga) according to their abilities. Each
person is born with innate talents that they are wired to share
with ease. And each person is wired to develop certain innate
gifts this life time. We must each strike a balance where we
serve both from our comfort zone and where Spirit guides us
to grow. This usually looks like four to six 5 hour shifts a
week (or quarter moon) of things like cooking, cleaning, maintenance,
childcare, book-keeping, etc. along with other co-creative projects
that bring greater abundance and health to the community, like
yoga classes, music and dance, crafts and arts, etc.
2 facets, Tree of Life (the trunk,
12 branches, 144,000 leaves). Of by and for
the people where the people are willingly led by true wisdom
and personality, thru a concensus democracy. Communal Free-Enterprise
Goods and services supplied free of Babylon usury, with all
proceeds brought in as donations to go back into our New World
Church demonstration, supporting a world free of capital wealth
– to provide our basic needs and bring cash flow thru
our group, we offer communal free-enterprise industries like
raw foods, goods and other first cause services. Everyone contributes
their love service energies to industries that provide us with
our basic needs. 5 hour shift a day plus offerings beyond this
where we can serve in the capacity of ministers, inspiring and
heal one-another thru right-use-ness of the creative enegies
and talents imparted to us.
Here is a partial list of first cause goods & services that
we have provided: artwork & crafts like silks, sculptures
& paintings that cognite us back into New Age conciousness;
natural living food, like our daily bread’ sprouted and
seeded manna breads, revitalizing drinks and green goddess smoothies;
furniture, planet shaped candles & therapeutic soaps; Far-Out-Fits
clothing, new and recycled natural fibers like hemp, hand made
and custom adapted 2nd hand clothing airbrushed with unique
New Age designs; energy & body work, cause and effect based
healing, counseling & ministering; new age design &
technical services; etc.
To many, it is purely common sense
that we are actually a One World Family. The 12 tribes of Israel
(real world people) were originally 1 tribe, which has gone into
tribulations and has been lost in notions of separation. Danaan
Parry speaks to this vision quite eloquently in this excerpt from
The Essene Book of Days:
One World Family
There seem to be certain moments in our history,
certain rare magical moments, where all of the forces impinging
on our species combine to create a "potential,"
a possible pregnant ripeness for something completely new.
The idea that this period in our human evolution is such a
period is not a new one. Marilyn Ferguson's
paradigm shift, Ken Keyes Jr.'s 100th Monkey
Effect, and the quantum leap and avalanche effect of the new
physics, all give us models of the transformation that can,
if we choose, come out of the chaos of the present.
How to do it? If we are to actually create
this shift, we must have a dream, a common vision. We must
dream a dream that is concrete enough to be imagined in our
minds while still being universal enough to activate our collective
hearts and spirits. I want to offer to you such a dream. It
is the dream of a One World Family. The dream
of a planet where everyone is seen as family isn't a new one,
and that speaks of its power. I believe it is a dream that
every human being holds somewhere deep inside. For some, it
is buried far from consciousness, layered over by generations
of fear and mistrust. For some it has bubbled to the surface,
but it is frustrated by the conflicts that arise just from
trying to communicate to those close to us, no less to the
entire family of humankind.
Perhaps what we need is a simple (not easy,
but simple) shift in our perception. I think that one of the
biggest stumbling blocks to the recognition of our interconnections
as "one big family" is the idea that, if that's
true, we then will all have to like each other. That's not
necessarily so. Think about your own nuclear family. I'm thinking
about mine right now. There are some cousins in New Jersey
that I can't stand! But I would never kill them. And if they
were starving, I probably wouldn't let politics or geography
get in my way of assisting them. They are blood. They're blood
relatives and, regardless of what I think about them at a
personality level, I just don't let blood relatives suffer
if I can possibly help it.
We are all blood relatives! Every human on
this planet is your blood relative. Can you feel that perceptual
shift? Can you experience those unknown, strange, different-from-you
folks out there as your own blood? In Seven Mysteries of Life,
Guy Murchie weaves a fairly solid case of
the idea that every human alive on this planet today is indeed
closely related. His statement is that we are all at least
16th cousins. That's right, even those funny looking whatchamacallems
over in whatever, they're at the very least your 16th cousins.
Sure, cousins, and brothers and sisters and
even parents and off spring have killed and abused each other
throughout history, but not much, and not without drawing
the outrage of the entire society. When the blood we spill
is "family blood," we think about it a lot more
than when "outsider" blood flows. Genetics and quantum
physics and anthropology and spiritual wisdom now seem to
agree that there are no outsiders. We are all blood relatives.
And if enough of us can make this truth an intimate part of
our daily consciousness, then perhaps the "critical
mass" effect will cause a perceptual shift in
every human consciousness. That is a dream worth manifesting.
I want to ask you to take a few minutes right
now to read There is But One Human Heart on the next page.
I ask that you read it as if the dream has already come true.
There Is But One Human
Heart
Can you feel it? The rich red
blood your heart sends coursing through your human body?
Can you feel it? This same rich blood of life being pumped by
every human heart
in every mountain, valley, plain on our common home - the earth?
From the sea, from the caves, from the death-point in the battle
sphere,
we have struggled and survived.
We have borne one another and killed one another and we have,
in some incredible way,
passed onward the tenuous thread of our common human life.
We have a history, you and I. We are the human ones.
We have come to learn from and move beyond our arrogance and
our separateness.
We have come here to go home. Together.
The political boundaries, the walls we have made, they will
crumble.
Our common blood will remain. We will come together as One
World Family,
even as you and I now come together to challenge the wall we
have built between us.
We will share our love for all our family just as you and I
now reach out
to touch the place of oneness within our common heart.
For those wishing to be members,
I suggest reading the Everlasting Gospel in more depth (links),
and contacting us with your interests, comments and questions
to open a rapport. Then the applicant might immerse in communal
activities, visiting regularly, serving in communal projects,
and eventually living with a group. When this feels right, applicants
can become members by beginning
The Commune Kids' reunion,
Mount Tam (2002)
“"It
was 40 years ago today..." |
