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Formed: 1971 Established: 1971
White Cloud Sanctuary
Santa Ana, San Jose,
Costa Rica
workout court
 As human beings, we are born into a world based on an exchange of habitual patterns, emotions, rituals, and beliefs that we are taught, eventually absorb, and act out. These patterns define our personality and relationship to the external world—how we interpret and how we perform the interpretation. They can be recognized in our movements, emotions, and thoughts. We take them to be our real and only self. Because we are not subtle or conscious enough to feel our subjective mechanical performance of these patterns—misunderstanding, confused thinking, strong emotion, and ignorance, along with a sense of separateness, loneliness, and emptiness, can be the result.
We believe that one is equipped with an innate objective consciousness that, given the right recognition, support, and conditions, can strengthen itself to a point of realizing that the manifest patterns do not represent our Real or Essential Being.
White Cloud Sanctuary strives to provide a setting that will allow you to take time to explore this process of mechanization of underlying personality.
We give support and guidance through retreats to reinforce the development of your objective self and provide informational tools oriented toward clarity of the mechanical play, helping you to create a shift in your perception of your patterns and allowing for the possibility of change.
If you are interested in conscious development, if you are in good health and financially independent, if you are, or are willing to become, a Taoist energy-arts “fanatic,” if you love horses and nature and like to work outside, if you desire to leave your personal life behind and are clear of family and worldly attachments...
This is for you!
  Status: Active
Contact:
White Cloud Sanctuary
apartado postal 638
Santa Ana, San Jose' 6150 Costa Rica
Phone: +(506) 2203-2210
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Last Updated:11/6/2009
 
Statement of Housing Non-discrimination:
No Answer Provided
Population
Members(adults and children):
3
Non-member Residents:
2
Open to new members:
Yes
Government
Decision Making:
By consensus
Identified Leader:
Yes
Leadership Core Group:
Yes
Labor and Money
Financial Style:
Members have independent finances
Labor Contribution:
Expected
(Group practices/labor optional)
Join Fee:
Yes
(Residency fee to cover room and board + help sanctuary expenses)
Regular Fees:
Yes
(Residency fee)
Land and Buildings
Small Town
(on the hills)
Area:
14.1 acres (5.7 hectares)
Land Owned By:
Community-controlled land trust
(private foundation)
Number of Residences:
3
Cohousing:
No
Food, etc.
Percentage of Food Grown:
over 50%
(milk, poultry, vegetables)
Share Community Meals:
Nearly all meals
Dietary Choice or Restrictions:
We all share a common diet
(Dr Matsen from Canada)
Dietary Practice:
Primarily vegetarian
Alcohol Use:
Prohibited
Tobacco Use:
Prohibited
Social Factors
Common Spiritual Practices:
Yes
(very much related to Gurdjieff's)
Which Spiritual Traditions(s):
Other
 
 
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