The Purpose  of   HEALING - K.i.s.s.
as stated 12 years ago - was and is
to help me and my potential PEERS
to HEAL ourselves into WHOLEness,
and - as holograms - all of Creation!
Intro to Healing-K.i.s.s. 2001-2013
and Overview of its main libraries


[If you look for a word on this page,
click ctrl/F and put a word in "find"]

I focus my experiencing and awareness on being
"a   pioneer of  Evolution  in  learning  to  feel":
I let my Body vibrate and my Heart 'womb'

pain, shame, fear, boredom, powerlessness,
so feelings can >heal >guide>fulfill
>evolve,
and ~~~ offer ~~~"goldmines"~~~ to us all!!
"I want you to feel everything, every little thing!"

 

 

 

TENT-VISION
as presented at Mitzpe-Ramon on March 25, 2014
[Video about The Tent-Vision
Second part ]




January 7-16, 2014

PRESENT [not yet official] PRESENTATION of a MOBILE DESERT HOSTING ECONOMY
by Christa-Rachel Bat-Adam
























Integration of Adam & Adamah

or


Aetgar-ba-Midbar

RECALLING   experiences     towards the MANIFESTATION     of the MOBILE DESERT HOSTING ECONOMY

the tent from without - as a part of a Rihlah - and from within

My own pyramidal tent in Sept. 1996 evolved in the "Table-Wadi" in Sinai,
This 3rd generation of R&D of the Pyramidal tent was due to 2 discoveries:
the development of "Aluminet" netshade at Polisack, Nir-Yitzchak in Israel,
the use of bamboo-poles in the hosting business "Basata", Red-Sea in Egypt.

A little solar panel energized a little fan and a little light in my tent
An opening in the back opposite the entrance helped the air to move.
The time was Yom Kippur, i.e. the hottest season in the Sinai-desert.

My guest helped me later to develop the 4th and final generation.

TRIED OUT and TESTED since 1992





A bit of humor:
to make it easy for people's memory,
the enterprises may be simply called:
"Rihles" ,
a combination of the Arabic term for the tent
with a Yiddish plural....
See below - a separate, not translated English presentation

Timeline
of the R&D of the Pyramidal Tent [tetrahedron]
and its usage within or without a mobile business

in English, in order to enable the linking to pages on this website

1992
at Succah-in-the Desert


Invention of the Pyramidal Tent
with environmental architect
Ram Eisenberg

The tents were erected, when a group of more than 12 people came for
a workshop or a silence meeting, and each individual wanted to live alone

1993
at Succah in the Desert
2nd R&D generation
of the Pyramidal Tent,
with host Yiftach Paschi




The guest: Efrat Lybrock, pregnant .
She was the one who photographed

that sunset above the Ramon-Crater



This generation was a failure,
both in size and in materials.
Yet the tents lasted
till 1995,
and served
-5 times
for an entire week-


7-10 young people
who gathered for an

"Aetgar ba-Midbar",
"Challenge in the Desert",

This will be a model
for content activities
of the Ohalot/Rihlaat
in the future

ENVISIONING












 

 

 

 

 


1994 Succah-in-the-Desert: testing the possible content of Mobile Desert Hosting Enterprises

A great teaching experiment for a future Ohalah/Rihlah business was - in 1994-
our "Aetgar-ba-Midbar"
(challenge in the desert)
7 young people for 7 days in 7 tents, for 70 NIS per day, cared for themselves,
with the Succah-hosts' as their "tutors", but for not more than 3 hours per day.

As to the further development of the tent,
I had to try it out over a continous time myself.

The chance was after I moved out from the Succah in Nov. 1994,
moved out according to the rules of "temporariness",
which guarantee an SPS compatible economy.

[see Succah Glossary , Succah Timeline and the Succah's 9 Stages]

From 1995 till April 1995 I lived in a tent-compound
in a little parallel wadi north of Succah in the Desert.














Recallling:

 

 

Just before I went down to Sinai,
on July 3, 1996, it so happened,
that while hitchhiking to the Succah,
I was taken by a driver from
Nir-Yitzhak, the kibbutz,
where the netshade is produced,
which I found
when I had searched for material
for the succahs
in Dec. 1989.


I stayed with my driver till Nir-Yitzhak,
to see, "if they have developed something new in the last 6 years".
And they had!
I was stunned!


The silvery material, called "Aluminet", reflecting off the light of the sun,
had been developed
"especially for the tents",
I smiled.

Uri, my son in law,
had figured out,
how to cut the 4 triangles
of the two layers,
in one piece,
to which would be added the stripes
for strengthening the sides
of the entrance,
and also for strengthening the angles, where the bamboo poles would be.

Uri's idea was vital,
if I wanted to make not one,
but 12 tents, as planned,
and save time and material


I planned, calculated, cut and stitched the two layers of network together.


1996 August-September
in Sinai,
Wadi-a-Tauleh north-west of Nuweiba
The 3rd generation
of the Pyramidal Tent


see the page "Sinai" about technical details and scetches (in Hebrew & Arabic).

 

 

 

 

 


3 Bedouins from Rafiah,
border to Gaza-Strip
at the Mediterrannean

trained by me
to become owners and hosts of a Rihlah,
bring water
to the 6 guests
(from 6 countries),
who lived in 6 tents,
which we had made
with our own hands.

The main problem
were flies.

See my solution below

 

I want to add 2 more photos to the images of the introduction:

Still in 1996, Sinai

After we were evicted
from the Table-Wadi,
and
- after I was prohibited
to enter Sinai altogether,
my trainees set up
what they called
"Bamboo-Beach" -
with an official permission, including one tent



inhabited for instance,
by Anna,
a German healer-tourist,
to whom I owe this photo.
The other 5 tents
had been stolen already.

ENVISIONING

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


1997 Nov.
till
1998 May
at the border
between Eilat
and Aqaba (Jordan)

the 4th
and so far "perfect"
R&D generation
of the pyramidal tent

One tent within the Four-Nation-Tent at Eilat,
see more below - parallel to the English presentation.
After 4 weeks the ranger commanded us
to dismantle three of the tents with the shade over the four.

[see about the superhuman effort to create these windows]
I had made a triangle window in both tents,
but the work that had to be invested in cutting and sowing the exact shape
and in fitting the window of the exterior tent above the window of the interior tent
and most of all in handling the velcro-fasteners ---  is enormous, if done by hand.


1998 June
till 1999 February

at the hosting-village "Metzuqe-Dragot"

While working as a toilet-cleaner and gardener to be permitted to live there,
I tried to advance
my vision
about a
Mobile Desert Hosting Economy
with partners, like young Tamir,
who had convinced me,
that our place was not
among the "4 nations
around the Red Sea",
but in neighborhood
with the Palestinians.
Tamir had lived
in a pyramidal tent
already next to my bus at Eilat,
and now erected his tent
above a forsaken army-pit...

See hints about all this.

Because of a species of unbearable mosquitos
I soon was to invent
an inner tetrahedron net!

Just as a removable
nylon tetrahedron
attached between
the inner and outer tent
made the pyramidal tent
"rain-resistant"

 

Living at Metzuqe Dragot
meant living
on what I see
as Palestinian land.
We saw this
as an opportunity
to establish the first
twin Ohalah/Rihlah

 

 

 


1999 February 24
till October 31

After I was evicted from Metzuqe-Dragot,
I and Tamir were received at Ein-Gedi Fieldschool,
but not allowed to live in tents or in my bus.
We were granted 2 half-built guest-rooms, which I turned into what I called a "Concrete-Succah".
In September Tamir erected a glorious hosting-place which included one of the tents.
But after a month I was again evicted and bequeathed my no longer mobile home to Tamir..

Read more

2000 November till 2001 April
at Modi'in

6 months of living in my tent
in the garden of my daughter's family
gave me the chance
to test the tent's "stamina"
during the winter rains,
in an non-desert area.

Except for 220V electricity (computer, TV),
I allowed myself no comfort (no toilet!)



2003 August
till 2004 April
At the SaltSea

2 Projects
regarding
"Peace hrough
Desert Hosting Eco
nomy"
which "failed".
see "Peres"
and many more
links from there

2004 May
till November


while living in my mobile tent
on "Rakhaf" near Arad,
I tried to empower
a Bedouin Family in Biq'at Qannaim
between Arad and SaltSea

to become pioneers of
a Rihlah.

I worked with them even after I moved into town - till Jan. 2006


2004 Waking up on Rakhaf opposite of what reminded me of Noah's Ararat-mountains.


It was then, that I understood the deeper reasons (not to be explained here),
why only a paradigm shift towards the integration of Adam and Adamah,
applied on the level of governmental authorities,
can manifest the Mobile Desert Hosting Economy.

 

ENVISIONING

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

The version in English is not a translation of the Hebrew presentation,
but was written on another day and in one go!

It is accompanied by what will be the model of the "Mishkan"
in every Ohalah/Rihlaah/Pyramidion.
During the time of our RedSeaPartnerSHIP

(it was the idea of Ezri Alon, then the INPA's representative for the entire Negev,
that I try a model of a Desert Hosting Business on a ship)

this was "the Four Nation Tent" (Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Saudi-Arabia).
The ranger of "the Green Patrol" who was both, my adversary and my supporter,
demanded - after a month [Jan.1998] - to dismantle the structure except for one tent.
Since it was logical to choose the tent next to my bus, it came to be the Jordanian tent.


E N V I S I O N I N G 
the Mobile Desert-Hosting-Economy





























The background:
Thorns and thistles, yet I discern "water"
as if flowing out from the cactus-blade.


Ten years from now you will see hundreds of
Ohalot/Rihlaat/Pyramidions
hidden in cosy corners of rocks and wadis
all over the desert of the Negev, the Arava, the SaltSea,
yes all over the mountains of Palestine-Yehuda.

For soon there will go out a "charter"
from the authorities for Nature Protection and Ecological Tourism
in the name of the governments of Israel and Palestine,
that will call creative and brave people.....
to become almost independent entrepreneurs
of mobile Desert Hosting Enterprises.
"Almost" - because there will be rules,
and the keeping of the rules must be controlled.

The call can go out immediately,
for all the experience to begin and to manage a pyramidion
has been gathered for 24 years, since 1990,
(and if I add the experience with my mobile home, then since 1984)
and is available for rightaway setting up 3 models,
which should prove to whoever is involved
in nature-protection, in ecology and, yes, in economy,
that a mobile Desert Hosting Economy,
based on the Desert Resources of SPS,
Space, Purity and Silence,
is feasable and viable in a way,
that the earth and nature will be left virginal,
Except for a few leveled traces on the earth:
- The triangles for the pyramidal tents,
- the square of the four-tent mishkan,
- the paths between tents and mishkan.
-the trail down to the track that leads to town.
Nothing above the earth will be permanent,
the pyramidal tents will be dismantled once a week,
for each new group of guests will erect their tents.
The entire business will be removed after half a year,
and will wander off to another place for another 6 months.



The purpose of this main rule is not only the protection of the earth.
It is also the condition for keeping the owners/hosts vital in their creativity
and for involving the guests in the creative aspects of their re-creation.
For the main motive of potential owners-hosts will not be their livelihood,
but their desire to create and to grow, and to be independent and free.


If after one year and having moved the business after half a year,
the owner-hosts have proven the viability of an Ohalah/Rihlah -
then that relevant authority will declare that the desert is open
for brave and nature-sensitive people, Jews, Bedouins, Palestinians,
to suggest "desert-corners" where they want to start their business.
The candidates are solely responsible for financing a suitable vehicle,
and the materials for their 16 tents (12 for guests + the mishkan,
composed of 4 tents, 3 for the hosts and 1 for the kitchen,
while the space between them is covered by a shade
and serves for meals, activities and - on the fringes - for storage)
.
The tents of the first 3 Ohalah/Rihlah models will be fabricated by hand,
so as to give everyone an idea, how cheap the investment really is.
After all an entire economy of numerous citizens will be based on it,
and within it Ben-Gurion's prophecy,
that the destiny of Israel will be determined in the Negev.
Of course not only of Israel,
but of all the countries which are mainly desert!



For the first 3 models there will be no office in town,
but a volunteer - pensioner perhaps -
will mediate the registration and arrival of guests.
From the owner-hosts of the first 3 models
no VAT or income-tax will be demanded
not only in order to make their start easier moneywise,
but also in order to not complicate their pioneer work by bookkeeping.

Once this mobile Desert Hosting Economy will spread out,
there will be two big challenges - Water and Transport,
as long as there are only very few service- places in the desert,
from which to draw food provisions and water.
The vision is, that soon there will come up the structure of
Midbaronim and Midbariyot [desert-villages and desert-municipalities].
But during the first years the Ohalot/Rihlaat will be dependent on "service places".
This will limit the choice of the "desert-corners" suitable for a hosting business.
As to the source of water during the first years,
it will depend on the Good Will of the municipality.
Right from the beginning of the spreading of the mobile Desert Hosting Economy,
researchers and developers - not only in Israel - will be happy about the challenge,
to renew and upgrade the Nabatean water-technology.
The vision is - an encaved cistern close to every place suitable for a hosting business.
(details that are already explored - will be given in time)


A much greater challenge is transport.
SPS and cars are incompatible!!!
And even if the rules say: - only an open truck,
which can transport water, food-ingredients twice a week,
+ 6 guests, (and drive twice to get the other 6 coming guests)
there still need to be trails that get close to the Ohalah/the Rihlaah,
and that can hardly be parked without disturbing the view of the guests
and without been stolen.
As to the arrival of the guests: it will be their responsibility,
if they want to park their cars in town or prefer public transport.



Now to the target-group of the guests
and the management of a mobile desert hosting business:
First principle: only a group of 12 people can be hosted.
the group might be organized , with a teacher,
or the first people who register, find other people to join them.
The price is for 12 people and if only 4 come, they still have to pay for 12.
The price is either for 5 days: the Chumash-guests
or for 2 days: the weekend-guests.
If one of the group or the entire group do not want to stay 5 or 2 days,
they still must pay for 5 or for 2 days.
This not only allows for a price that is extremely low
which makes this kind of recreation available almost for every person
,
it also enormously simplifies the accounting work of the hosts.
It will also allow them sometimes to take a week off and rest.
The prices which are suggested for the first 3 models:
a Chumash-group pays - per person and day - 60 NIS = 12x5x60 = 3600 for 5 days
a Shabbat-group pays - per person and day - 100 NIS = 12x2x100 =2400 for 2 days.
For the owner-hosts this means: 6000 NIS per week = 24000 NIS per month,

minus maximum 6000 NIS for food, water, fuel (car) and gas (cooking, baking)
and perhaps some return for the investment of tent-materials, solar panels and car.
Thus each of the 3 hosts will have an income of 6000 NIS,
[minus 1000 NIS for VAT and income tax    a f t e r   the experimental year]
which s/he can spend on his/her flat at home or on future studies and dreams.


The functioning of an Ohalah/a Rihlaah:
Though the guests come as a group, everyone is free to do what s/he wants,
unless they decide - beforehand or while there - to do or learn or heal together.
Everyone of the 12 will have his/her own tent and erect it after his/her arrival.
[There will be a small model in the mishkan, written and video guidance].
If people (couples) still want to sleep or be together in a tent, it's up to them.
What is important, is the freedom to choose al-one-ness or togetherness.
In the tents they find 2 mattresses , one along each of two edges,
while the third edge [tzaela'] is composed of 2 "curtains"
[there is no word for the biblical
yeri'ah - so vital for the pyramidal tent - in English!]
which allow the game of opening and closing the two "gates",
according to sun and shade, wind and lack of wind, day and night.

There will be a portable solar panel for a lamp and a vent in summer,
and it's up to the guest to turn the panel to the sun along the day.
The earth is covered by mats and between the mattrasses
(for which the guests bring their own sleeping-bag or sheets -blankets will be provided)
there is a kind of table+box for their private equipment, computer, books etc.
There also is a water-container, a washing-bowl and a closed vessel for body-wastes.

As to the Mishkan, the owner-hosts will do everything,
to keep the storage of equipment and food-ingredients to a minimum.

Why three owner-hosts? Or one owner with two assistants?
It is vitally important, that always at least one host can rest.
To rest means to be al-one, no people, no conversation.
Only someone who has opened his/her heart to guests
time and again, for a week, for weeks, for months,
can know, how much strength this takes.
But without an open heart on the part of the host,
the Desert Hosting Business will not succeed!

Also the hosts need more than relative convenience in their work,
and regular rest and al-oneness.
They need support for processing their feelings and experiences,
and they need guidance for improving their way of hosting.
In the year of the scientific experiment with 3 models,
the people who can guide and support will be volunteers,
perhaps from among the oldtimers of Succah in the Desert.

As to the activities, excursions, workshops etc. of the guests,
of both, the Chumash-Guests and the Weekend-Guests,
the possibilities are endless and don't need to be listed here.



As to the relationship between the Authorities
and the mobile Hosting Enterprises,
see the Hebrew presentation.



TRIED OUT since 1992


The interior space of the Four Nation Tent
or of the future "Mishkan"

 



Next to my mobile home
on the background of the Jordanian mountains





On the background of the posh hotels of the city Eilat

 

 


With Fawwaz, an Israeli Arab, who hosted our visitors

 

 


After the dismantling of the "Mishkan",
visitors, whom we wanted to win over
for our "Raft" -project,
were hosted in the Jordanian tent

 


With the Mayor of Eilat, Gabi Kadosh
in the Jordanian Tent







When the Four Nation Tent was still on the ground,
I looked at it with great joy from the "pent-house" of my mobile home



Three Compositions that may enhance the Presentation of a Mobile Desert Hosting Economy


Working on the 4th generation of the Pyramidal Tent
From "RedSeaPartnerSHIP" The Pyramidal Tent: 4th generation R&D
In Nov. 1997, Kibbutz Elot allowed me to park near the Terminal Eilat-Aqaba for 3 weeks.
Since some tourists came with a camera, I can show, how - in front of my mobile home,
David Troim and Rachel Bat-Adam, both with a Ph.D. in Philosophy
create and fabricate the 4th and mature generation of the pyramidal tent!

David introduced a better way of linking the poles at the apex.
He also suggested to separate the two layers of the tent .
It was especially this idea, which I took up with enthusiasm:


" We'll make a black tent with a triangle length of 333 cm,
and above it a silvery tent with the length of 366cm!"


The advantages are immense:
Because of the layer of air
between the two tents,
isolation is much better,
both in winter and in summer.
In winter a nylon-tetrahedron can be attached on the black tent,
invisible and safe, because it will be hidden under the outer tent.
In the winter 2000-2001 I lived for half a year in such a tent
in the garden of my daughter at Modi'in,
which has much more rainfall than the desert.
In summer
the tents can be erected separately,
and instead of 4
there will be 8 tents available
When the wings, i.e. the door-flaps, of the silvery tent
are needed to unite four tents to one,
as in the case of our FourNationTent in Eilat,
the individual tents can still be closed
with the black door-flips
The only improvement applied after that
to make our pyramid the ultimative desert tent for the future,
was the potential of stitching a mosquito-pyramid to the inside of the black tent.
This became necessary, even vital, when both, Tamir and I, lived each in a tetrahedral tent
at mosquito-infested Metzuqe-Dragot above the SaltSea from June 1998 till February 1999.

 

 


Towards a Desert Hosting Economy - Mitzpe-Ramon -----July 1989
and ~~~~~~~towards Mobile Hosting Enterprises- Arad---- 2012


It all started with a succah-like tent - erected near the Ramon-Crater by
one of the participants in the first and last experiment of my Desert Vision.
This was on July 20-22, 1989, exactly 20 years after the landing on the Moon.
Everyone invented his own succah for a night and at the end we sat together
and the feedback from everyone made me certain, that I was ready to start,
which I did 7 weeks later, on the Eve of Rosh Hashanah, 1989.

During my 2 years of living in a rented flat,
paid by my children,
2001-2003
I demonstrate,
how in the heat of July in Sinai, 1996,
I held an umbrella between my teeth,
so my hands were free to sow my own tent,
the first of the 3rd R&D generation.

Only my private tent, at Arad - kept as a model,
was errected in my neighborhood, in 2012
-after a 'hibernation" of 7 years on my veranda.
A friend wanted it and thus tested the tent again.
"By chance", my son visited me when it was erected.
He does the last work: putting stones on the margins
of the silvery tent above the black tent

 




RECALLING   experiences     towards the MANIFESTATION     of the MOBILE DESERT HOSTING ECONOMY

A composition about how to handle the pyramidal tent and about how to function in it

from "ARARAT-HeART" ~~~link to "Rakhaf" .
Camels and solar panels and the two wings of the tent's entry

Baking and eating pancakes in a pyramidal tent

2004 - In my tent [my first in the East or my second in the West?) on Rakhaf
a cat in the apex
1995 and 2004,
the apex of two of the 1st generation tents,
recycled in 1995
And the apex of the
4th generation tent
re-used in 2004
How to join the 3 poles, was the most difficult problem, Ram Eisenberg had to solve.
David Troim, who here finds a way to fasten and hide the cable
to the solar lamp,
in 1997 came up with a very different solution, needed for joining
3 poles of bamboo
like in my tent in 2004

 

 


A few Desert Songs


Hosea 13:5 + Ezekiel 20:5 + - Hosea 2:16+22 -
sung by me often on my way to the Arad pool
through my desert Wadi of Compassion






once the existing towns will be "filled".

 

Agriculture’s Next Revolution – Perennial Grain – Within Sight

Perennial grains would be one of the largest innovations in the 10,000 year history of agriculture, and could arrive even sooner with the right breeding programs,...
Published in Science’s influential policy forum, the paper is a call to action as
half the world’s growing population lives off marginal land at risk of being degraded by annual grain production. Perennial grains expand farmers’ ability to sustain the ecological underpinnings of their crops.

Perennial grains have longer growing seasons than annual crops and deeper roots that let the plants take greater advantage of precipitation. Their larger roots, which can reach ten to 12 feet down, reduce erosion, build soil and sequester carbon from the atmosphere. They require fewer passes of farm equipment and less herbicide,...

By contrast, annual grains can lose five times as much water as perennial crops and 35 times as much nitrate, a valuable plant nutrient ...

The authors say research into perennial grains can be accelerated by putting more personnel, land and technology into breeding programs. They call for a commitment similar to that underway for biologically based alternative fuels.

Agriculture of the Future - Back to the Roots?

Earth-friendly perennial grain crops,
which grow with less fertilizer, herbicide, fuel, and erosion than grains planted annually,
could be available in two decades,.
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Tent-Song - Shirat-ha-Ohalim

I want you to enhance and to not distort,
what the Vision of Tents intends to evolve
the earth of the desert will stay free and pure
and host us humans to find ourselves.