nature – Organic Shelter

organic shelter

Robert Cinque — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 01:00:09 +0000

Shelter comes from the need for sanctuary and protection from the wildness of Nature. Shelter is our second body, driven into existence by hunger and the need for warmth and safety. Her storms, winds and temperatures compel us to build a space to cook food and be human together. The obstacles She presents ultimately strengthen and help us to build relationships and community.

At Organic Shelter, we study and copy Nature and Her ways. We notice that every creature builds their home; it is only we humans who hire expensive contractors to do the job. This is understandable given the exorbitant costs, fees, permits, licenses and mortgages involved. Plus, it can be intimidating to build your own home considering numerous structural and safety standards that must be met.

Nevertheless, carpenters and skilled craftsman do build their own homes. But what about people with no building experience? What about them? Can they build their own home? Can they build their own custom home with no building skills or experience?

Yes.

As a former contractor with over 40 years of ongoing building experience, I built homes for people who could not do it for themselves. For this I was grateful because I needed to support myself and my family. Yet I soon noticed that the amount of money my clients had to pay to me, the bank, and to the county in order to have a place to live, often left them seriously in debt and exhausted by the time they moved in. Noticing this changed everything for me.

I realized it made more sense to have my clients become the contractor when building their home even when they had no experience.

Here’s why:

Building your own home is empowering. It saves tons of money; you get it the way you want it, and it reflects you and who you say you are. As the owner/contractor, you are responsible for (and to) your vision of what’s possible. Building your own shelter, growing food and cultivating a deep connection with Nature is an act of love. By becoming the owner/contractor you are also empowered because you are actively participating in the Greatness of Existence.

Organic Shelters grow organically. They start out as an idea, a possibility. They attract the light and set down roots. Conceived in your heart, an Organic Shelter germinates and grows. Nature and our ancestors serve to guide us through the Organic Shelter building process. Our goal for your home is to build the best, most beautiful and affordable Organic Shelter possible.

With me as builder and co-conspirator in your project, we navigate the waters that once were the exclusive domain of architects, engineers, contractors, counties, inspectors and banks. We exceed all state and county codes with excellent design, and carefully chosen materials, while also taking responsibility for structural integrity and safety.

How do you envision the Shelter and sanctuary of your dreams?

Cultivate the vision. Let it talk to you. Listen

About Me

I dropped out of graduate school in 1976 and started building a geodesic greenhouse rooftop hydroponic garden in Nashville, Tennessee, because I was working as a cook at the Black-eyed Pea Restaurant and needed lots of fresh vegetables. I figured why should we buy them when we can grow them ourselves? I didn’t manage to actually build the greenhouse and instead went to Kansas City where I worked with visionary architect Matt Taylor. He put me in charge of his Ecosphere project, a spherical. geodesic, greenhouse-bio-shelter and micro-farm that was designed like a biological cell in order to function as a producer of food and energy.

I worked also with the great Sunray Kelley for 30 years experimenting with many types of building methods. In 1993 Sunray and I built the Forrest House on Orcas Island, Washington, (photo at beginning) Our finished projects included the Cascadian Farm Organic Fruit Stand in Rockport, WA, and many other wild-hearted works.

Additionally, we built the Birdsview Brewery located in the “American Alps” at the foothills of the Pacific Northwest’s Skagit Valley. Over the years, National Geographic, MTV, and Better Homes and Gardens featured our Shelters which represent the Greening of Architecture, a movement I consider to be the most important development since the Industrial Revolution.

Work with Me

Now I build custom homes, yurts, tree houses and tiny homes that come with living roofs and decks.

My clients assume the role and function of contractor for their building project. I request this because you are the one with the greatest investment in your vision and the project. You also are the one with the most responsibility for its success. As the owner/contractor you have the power and control over all aspects of the project, and can fire me any time you want. We have no binding contract, only an honorable agreement as professionals to work together.

In meeting the project’s requirements the owner/contractor and the builder both need to be capable and willing to define and assume complete responsibility for their roles. We agree to work with any situation that arises in a way that solves problems quickly, efficiently and effectively. Virtually all building projects have surprises and unexpected developments that can be challenging and difficult. People who spend money and time on a project expect positive results, and when something is missed or mistakes are made, we will need to agree on a method to solve the problem.

I keep my rates unusually low to help my clients keep their costs down, and I don’t carry insurance. Instead, I rely on myself and my clients to pay close attention to the needs of the project, to work hard and smart, and to mediate any and all conflicts that may arise within our relationship. No third party litigation, no law suits, only mediation if we can’t solve the problem between ourselves.

This is my disclaimer since builders are easy targets when things don’t go as planned. If I make a mistake, I will correct it on my time and use it to the project’s advantage, whenever possible.

I have never been fired, only promoted: all of my clients are now friends who recommend me to their friends. Nor have I ever advertised over my 40 years of building projects on a very regular basis.

There are three ways to access my experience and expertise for your building project. Throughout the duration of building your home, I am likely to participate in each of these three positions.

(1) Design: $100 hour

I draw plans for many of my clients.

Some people suggest that I have artistic talent as a designer and builder. I reply that it’s more accurate to say that I am a thief and a plagiarist! I steal Nature’s ideas routinely and marvel at Her intelligence and elegance of design while copying Her every chance I get. All my ideas come through me, not from me; I take no credit for the greatness and beauty of life that inspires me deeply. The love and beauty of Nature results in beautiful ideas, forms and the perfect nests for Her creatures.

The home we build throbs with the life-blood of Nature. She is our heart and where our soul loves to be. That makes design the domain we enter on our knees, on our face. That’s right. The awe inspiring majesty of Nature is the reflection of our human heart. Building homes and cities that respect and reflect Her majesty is long overdue..

I advocate the no-permit, no mortgage, no license, no inspection building process. We can submit plans to the county and get a permit too, if you want. I do it both ways but my overwhelming preference is to do it privately. You choose.

(2) Consultation: $45 hour

If I can’t be there at your project, I can still consult for you and will request a retainer so as to be available as much as possible to answer all your calls. This is especially effective when the client sends me close-up snapshots with their questions.

(3) Hands-on: $65/hour

This is when I show up in the flesh with my truck and tools. I typically request payment weekly, or a payment arrangement that we otherwise agree to before the project begins.

Additional Important Information

As a builder, I have had to learn the fundamental principles of structure and process. The laws of Nature are so magnificent and precise, how we build can be no less. I take my relationship with my clients very seriously and I am accountable and committed to creating real, lasting value. The clear, well-defined boundaries and responsibilities we establish for ourselves will support and protect us all.

Please feel free to contact me, I look forward to hearing from you

360 393 5663

shelter@nwlink.com

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Introducing The Real Wonder Woman

American household but realized that cultivating a life in community (both human and non human) was necessary. During the Covid-19 shutdowns, instead of turning to fear or anger I began demolishing and rebuilding an old cabin in Alger, WA. Robert helped for a generous 8 weekends teaching me about building and about life. During that time I was also in school at Western Washington University finishing a degree in Environmental Studies. Robert helped in so many ways and I consider him an elder and a teacher. He’s an incredibly hard worker and has genius ideas on how to build with a budget and with scraps and salvage wood. the process of Building changed my life and my perspective; it taught me lessons about life overall.

Marissa Wall marissawall@icloud.com

Seven Colors, Two Genders, One Species And The One Who Is Alive As All Things

Robert Cinque — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 17:21:48 +0000

Seven Colors, Two Genders, One Species And the One Who Is Alive As All Things

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By robert cinque

We yearn for unity as a species and try to create it but we fail because unity already exists, does not have to be created, only Recognized.

Our failure to recognize it prevents it from becoming established.

The astonishing truth is that there is One Light, many windows

It’s hilarious to me the way neuro-scientists relegate consciousness to the brain, all the while using consciousness to do it.

In this way, they miss the underlying core unity of the observer and the observed.

In order for the mind to function, there must be a subject/object structure.

What the scientific materialists overlook is that this structure is appearing to our awareness and is like a pair of colored glasses.

The awareness exists first, then the glasses.

I like to think of the body and mind in terms of my experience of them.

I say, my body. My mind.

Who is this I?

This is the most important question. To whom or what does this body and mind appear?

In this way, we can distinguish between the body /mind and the awareness of it.

If we don’t make that distinction, we will be subject to the limitations of space and time and body and mind. This is at the very root of suffering, the fear of annihilation at death.

The materialist neuro scientist starts with matter and ends up with consciousness, but this is exactly backwards.

Our first experience is awareness, not body or mind.

Therefore, we are Awareness first, then body and mind.

The proof of this is I.

I exist. I am. I am alive. I appear to myself as a body and mind because these are the glasses I am wearing.

But, even if I take the glasses off, I still exist.

I am prior to the glasses of space and time and so is everyone.

The Life that lives me, lives everyone, the entire universe.

One Life, to which there is no other.

We humans, the entire biosphere, are not alive. We are being Lived by a Great Power.

Only this Power, this Light exists.

Intelligent. Self- aware. Singular.

God did not create the universe. The universe exists as a necessary consequence to the Presence of God.

Love must have form and structure, like men and women must have each other, in space and time, to express its’ Passion

Spirit and Flesh are Lovers, not adversaries.

The Dynamic Interplay between Masculine and Feminine demonstrates what we observe in the Youniverse.

Male Electric. Female Magnetic

Male Light/Female Darkness

The Light Shines in the Darkness

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Spermatozoa impregnates Ovum

Male Line. Female Curve (see the alphabet for proof)

Male Electric Current/Female Magnetic Field

Our nervous System is Sympathetic and Para-Sympathetic

Fight or Flight Male/Rest and Digest Female

Male Red Fire/Female Blue water

Arteries (Aries) and Veins (Venus)

The One becomes the Two out of Love.

Shine Sunlight through a prism.

Seven colors, One Light:

Red America

Yellow Asia

White Caucasia,. Nordica

Green leprechania/ elvianica

Blue KRSNA

Black Mooria

Brown Mediterraneanea

One Light. Seven colors.

Humanity is the Structure of God made visible.

God did not create us. God is us, without restraint.

Its not that you are God. God is you.

God became you and is you. That’s how God operates.

What the neuro-scientist calls matter is at the end of this process, not the beginning.

What we call matter is a consequence of looking through the body/mind structure at Reality, which is Conscious Living Light.

When this understanding (to stand under) is restored to the peoples of the world, and the aboriginal, primal unity with all Life is again Recognized, the loveless dread and horror that has smothered the world will evaporate.

It could be done in an instant. The Mind Body and Soul of Humanity could be brought back to Life by the electro shock of the Living Truth, spontaneously, worldwide, all at once.

The elite technocrats know this and have created a prison for our minds.

By suppressing the truth of Our Condition, they work tirelessly to keep us locked into identification with the body/mind because that produces the fear of death and change.

The Most Important Revolution is Rebellion and Revolt against the Lie that we are not Infinite Consciousness, only a body and mind which will soon be annihilated by death.

The importance of Recognizing This cannot be overstated, both as individuals and as a species.

During this Christmas Season, the celebration of Light and Love, let us give ourselves and each other the Unspeakably Glorious Gift of Life, Love, and the Profound Recognition of the Sacred Unity of all things.

Images of a Journey

Robert Cinque — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 01:09:51 +0000

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Scarecrows at the Gates of Paradise

Robert Cinque — Sun, 24 Dec 2017 19:42:47 +0000

Scarecrows at the Gates of Paradise

by robert cinque

Reality is Paradise. Existence is ecstatic. Life is Love. Bliss. Happiness Itself.

In the absence of this realization human beings have erected Scarecrows at the Gates of Paradise instead of Laying Down the Red Carpet and Shouting for all to Enter

This is completely understandable, predictable, and inevitable. It is also unnecessary.

The Scarecrows exist in the absence of our intimacy with our Actual Identity, our Actual Condition at Infinity. They are Gargoyles that have replaced the Virtues and Heroes of the Heart.

As a born being, you are a dot in an infinite expanse of space and time.

As the Presence of Awareness, you are That Which holds all space and time and everything in them, including the dot we call you.

This Spaciousness, this Living Awareness is what Exists.

You are That. You are not separate from That.

The dot does not need to go looking for God or happiness because God and Happiness are not lost.

That Which we call God, and idolatrize in our favorite conceptions and religious beliefs, is your actual Nature, now.

God did not create the world. God is That out of Which the world, and everything else, is created. God is the Condition of Existence, not a parent or creator. Parents and Creators, and everything else, arise in the Blissful and Free Radiance of the God of Light and Love.

We dots like to think of God as a Really Big Dot. That’s projection, assumption, belief.

God is Presence, in and AS all things.

Every living heart knows this to be true and feels the Bliss of this Infinite Radiance.

That’s why we cling to the body and don’t want to die, because we love Life and we Know how Precious it IS.

The great Good News is that Awareness doesn’t end, or even change, when the dot dies.

To Awareness, death is just another cloud dissolving in the Sky. The cloud did not leave the realm of the Divine Radiance, it just dissolved into it.

Therefore, love Awareness, not just the dot’s personal viewpoint of it.

God is before your beliefs, is the Awareness of your beliefs.

God is Awareness. All Pervading Conscious, Living Awareness.

God is not a thing, an object of Awareness.

God is Awareness and all of space/time phenomena are arising spontaneously as a response to this Glorious, Unspeakable Brilliant Presence Of Life.

DNA is made out of photons, not just atoms. It holds the Endless Eruptions of Living Light in endlessly changing patterns.

Jesus said, Love God. Love all the other dots as yourself. Be intimate emotionally with the Living Current of Being. Stop contracting. Stop withdrawing. Stop imagining that you have been abandoned, rejected, fallen. Stop missing the mark. Stop sinning against the Truth of God. Of Reality. Realize the Truth. That’s the Original Gospel and that’s what got him killed.

In this Christmas Season, there are extremely many sincere people who are passionately ardent about the Gospel of Jesus of Nazareth.

They deeply believe that Jesus was a ransom for their default on themselves and that his blood cleanses them and walks them through the Gates of Paradise.

The deeper story is that his Liberating Message of Love and Freedom was so inflammatory and so Outrageous and threatening to the Pharisees and Romans that they strung him up as quickly as possible. Pilate respected Jesus. His wife had a dream and warned him to set Jesus free. Pilate capitulated to the Pharisees.

It was the ecclesiastical and political intelligentsia who murdered Jesus and then used him for their own propaganda about separation from God, Original Sin, and the need for vicarious Blood Sacrifice of the Innocent to Atone for the Sins of the World.

This is a belief, an idea generated from the separate self.

Jesus hated blood sacrifice. He said the Kingdom of Heaven is like a Treasure buried in a man’s field. The man was already rich, he just didn’t know it. That was his Point.

This Message led directly to his grisly torture and murder.

He didn’t die for the sins of the world, he died because of them.

Jesus was the Appearance, the Incarnation, the Perfect Realization of Love/Intimacy/Unity with God.

It’s high time we started following the Teachings of Jesus Christ and stop creating division, separation, and suffering.

He called us to repent from the sin of imagining separation from God.

Such arrogant presumption is an insult to God.

Who are you or me to say what God is? And, who are you or me to say we are somehow separate from Life? If God is Infinite how could anyone say anything about God anyway that was truly comprehensive? All space/time perspectives on the Infinite are inherently limited and just cannot be comprehensive enough to be the authority in all cases.

That’s why we need to stop molesting Life with our puny little concepts. Ultimately, all concepts that are imposed onto Life is spiritual pedophilia.

You hate pedophiles, right? That’s how Jesus hated the sin of imagining separation and imposing labels on others and turning them into objects to be manipulated.

Jesus washed the feet of the beggar.

Jesus saw his unity with God and every living thing.

His Message is that Love is the Truth and his demand is that we start noticing this, and end our emotional withholding of love.

Personally, I am Sick Unto Death about the way Jesus’s Holy Message is used like a club and a bomb.

Arrogant people use the Truth Jesus revealed not as the Sacred Beauty it Is, but as a weapon to dominate and destroy others. I am also Sick Unto Death about the way this is paraded as religious piety and devotion to God.

My Christmas wish for all of us is that we really get the Message of Jesus and stop creating and tolerating imagined divisions in the unity of Life.

There are no divisions in the Light that shines in every heart.

Only this Heart Exists

The Living Heart of Light and Love.

When this realization replaces the present assumptions ruining Planet Earth about separation and division, the world will be transformed.

By the way, it’s important to note that the ancient Gnostics said that the idea of separation from God leads directly to Armageddon.

That’s because, when you slice the One up into many separate parts, you need a plan of salvation to restore unity and fight the final battle between good and evil, Armageddon.

Create imagined dichotomies. Then, try to reconcile them with the same bonehead thinking that created the problem in the first place.

That’s the problem we have on Planet Earth today. Imagined divisions and fake solutions.

What works is pre-empting the imagined problem by not making false assumptions and slathering them all over Paradise.

We start at home, with our poor little selves.

We build a world based on love and freedom, just like Life.