Are you satisfied with your life style?
Vision and Reality updated  3.6.06 - updated 17. 2. 07 - updated 8. 4. 07
    Or are you looking for something different? Would you like to live and work with us in 'Falcon Blanco'? We have dropped a good part of the old behavior of the consuming society. We don't need ideologies, any kind of religious or philosophical belief system, drugs or money. We are trying to live a creative life, relating consciously to what shows up in our daily circumstances, our relation to each other and to the world around us. We try to be active and design our life the way we feel is healthy and creative, finding a way out of the personal and social cul-de-sac. We are willing to go beyond our personal needs and we want to step into unknown fields... 
     We are coming together here at FalconBlanco  because we want to do something practical and concrete to help ourselves and also others, by sharing our experiences and investigations, specially in more subtle fields, finding out about causes and the roots of any kind of problems. Yes, this is still the vision, but people coming here are mostly 'normal' people who are so much occupied with themselves that there is hardly any interest for something else... So from now on 'normal' people will not be accepted as visitors, which includes criminals, neurotics, psychotics, fanatics, and for sure those people who believe of themselves that they are 'spiritual', mainly because the have read a lot of books about it and have adapted it in a sophisticated way, being identified with it. With plain words: Cheating themselves and others in the most fashion way...
    We found out that meditation helps us to discover ourselves and finding out about the many tricky ways how we defend ourselves, clinging on our old selfimage and concepts. Medidtation is an essential  component of our daily common activities. Who comes to FalconBlanco to participate in our daily life, should be interested also to participate in our daily meditation. Reality is that as there is no urge for any 'essential components' and as there is no guidance in such a strict way, to force people, so at the meditation there are only a few participating... This has changed lately after I had made the participation in  doing the 'Stress Release Exercise' to one of the conditions to stay here. There is hardly any profound talk happening and most communication stays on a superficial level... Although lately there are some exceptions, - mainly when I talk with myself... ;-(>
    We also found out that by not taking any kind of stimulants like drugs, tobacco or alcohol, we have intensified our awareness. By not manipulating ourselves through those surrogates the cause of our personal dilemma can show up directly and we can relate to it, instead of escaping or to hiding from it. Reality is that even those people living here permanently and are accepted with the condition of not using drugs, tobacco and alcohol, are not completing this. They are hiding their habits and continuing with it in their rooms. With the result that the whole intention of FalconBlanco is undermined! Is this a farce? What can I do? Close my eyes? Waiting that some serious people might show up? I'm waiting since more than twenty years... Indeed, there seems to be no solution, it is just normal that people are lying, pretending and trying to escape wherever they can... and for sure smoking is an established way not to confront oneself.
    If this sounds familiar to you and you are striving into the same direction, you might want to spend some time with us on the beautiful island of Ibiza. In a place with unspoiled nature,  with animals, plants and friendly people. Within a team were you take your own responsibility -, and with space to explore yourself. In a supportive atmosphere but without going into any kind of dependency. You are invited to participate in the daily work, so you don't need money for your stay. Even being invited to stay here, it should be clear that this can not be a kind of gratis vacation. Falcon Blanco is neither a social welfare organization, nor one's parents’ house. It is indispensable that receiving and giving are in balance. This is still available and real!
    The experience of being in a total different working and living set-up, even only during a few months, can help to find a new sense and direction in life.  It might be that you find out that by enjoying small things, it can be a stepping stone to go further on, in an open and creative way, - with self knowledge and trust. Indeed this happens with people who came as short time visitors, even though they hardly talk about it... 
    To anticipate arguments which might show up: Yes, this sounds pretty much like Utopia and like those beautiful concepts that circulate in the world. The difference is that we have been living like this for quite a while. Words are coming out of our experience, not the other way around. This doesn't mean that everything works smoothly... Frankly: Sometimes it seems that it doesn't work at all. Showing up chaos, nothingness, desperation, irritation, fear and whatever people carry with them. There is no prepared instant harmony offered! We all have to deal personally with what shows up. But we know that it is a growing process, individually and as a group. What shows up within ourselves, can be part of a creative movement and we don't cover it with rosy hue of artificial concepts, common, personal or whatever kind. Moreover we are convinced and we experience this daily, that tensions and problems are often what we need in that moment: As a challenge in our growing process. All this happens in an supportive atmosphere of friendship what doesn't make it necessarily easy... Yes, this is the reason why I keep going, seeing it as a growing process... Although lately I doubt that my work is effective. There is so much resistance in people and they demonstrate it very clear with their reactions, that they don't want to get out of their established structure. They don't want to look at themselves to clear up their unconscious background. They don't want to take selfresponsibility. They only want to be confirmed in their property, their self image, their concepts. People want that I offer a new concept that they can put on top of their old one's. When I tell them that this is not possible, that they first have to clear up what is there and then maybe let go of it. That only then they might become open to have a new experience. But that's not what they want, they get afraid, react defensive and then leave, frustrated or covering their feelings with social behavior rituals. They don't even talk and give any reason why they leave after a week although they wanted to stay for three months. This happened now too often and I don't want to continue like this. So I will try to make it even more clear what FalconBlanco is about and reject people who are not yet ready. I don't like to reject anybody but now it is a question of survival and so I have to do it. 
    Whatever our daily occupation is, we work without the pressure of money or any kind of competitive attitude. We respond to what shows up and what makes sense to us. We trust that we get what we need... (Indeed it works!) This in fact is working well, although we need to deal with the aspect that we are receiving far too much... And this is used by people to complain. This is the most obvious at the moment, if it is not this, then people find something else. 
    We not only work together, we also meditate, have our daily lunch, or have fun together - and then there are things we do individually. Some write poetry - (see web site!) - others make music, write, paint, dance, practice yoga etc. Sharing/joining is invited, but also your private space will be respected: If you do just your own thing or together with a friend, this will be respected. There are coming all kind of people from all over the world together, what unites us is the urge to do something contemplative and practical, to work for kindness in a direct & concrete way. Sometimes this is not easy because very different cultures and personalities are clashing against each other. But we can make an experience of 'togetherness' by finding out about our common aspects, our common illusions and our common disappointments resulting from this. We can find creative solutions how to deal in a creative way with daily reality... as friends, striving towards the same goal. This is a process which needs some time and as most people only come for a short time, what means for a few weeks, then there is hardly any communication possible which goes beyond the daily talking level. People have hardly any trust in themselves, so how it can be possible that they have enough trust to open themselves to others, to express themselves? To find 'togetherness' beyond taking the common meal, etc. can't be forced... No, it can't be forced, it is a looooong process and staying only a short time, then people can't even start with it, they get stuck in their first reactions of being resistant. The consequence is to close FalconBlanco for visitors and only continue with the few people living here permanently. 
    Many things are possible: it can all be a means of experiencing and expressing oneself creatively, finding new spaces within and beyond one's personality. The question is who really wants this! There is hardly any body! Or are you one of these extra ordinary humans?

The Art of Living  -  Relating to Life!
   People living in an environment which is chaotic in its depth and doesn't function creatively. There is an established way to adapt oneself to survive. This means mainly not looking at causes and backgrounds including one's own, suppressing one's reactions and using established ways to cover and compensate, including  substitutes, surrogates and all kind of manipulations. That's the adapted usual way of our society to deal with chaos...
   To say it precisely and to bring it to a point: Our main intention and the most important is, that we see outside circumstances as a mean for gaining insight and it is not important WHAT we do on the practical outside level, but THAT WE RELATE to what shows up, from inside or from outside, dealing with whatever this might be. Our personal reactions which are appearing during this process are a significant part of our 'relating' and are an important part of our 'survival training'. We are experiencing, that exactly those reactions are provoked in each individual, which then serve to recognize one's unconscious conditioned background structure. This is real work and sometimes harder than to move stones or pallets...
   The fact, that in FalconBlanco 'learning' goes much further than practicing gardening, recycling, Biodiesel production and other practical things, is obviously attracting people.
   But we must make it very clear that 'surviving' means: to survive into a new dimension beyond one's old personality. To make this possible, meditation is an essential part of the daily routine and who is not willing to participate daily and regularly should not come to FalconBlanco. We discovered "Sungazing" as an effective meditation and we are also practicing it, also EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) can solve many personal conflictive conditions. We found out that the 'Stress Release Exercise' is suitable for every body and easy to do, so we are promoting this also in a widespread way outside of FalconBlanco in many languages and all around the world and so of course we practice here and we insist that every body is participating.
   There is food and work for 20 people and we can also lodge about this number. Who wants to come and in case there is no more room available, can build one's own shelter. 
We are talking Spanish, English German and Korean.
   One critical comment we need to add: If you want 'your comfort', that's reasonable, and if this is the most important for you, then you better look for another place. Comfort would mean that you expect to have what you are used and that you are not willing to explore a different life style with different values. One must be willing to confront unexpected situations and circumstances and must be especially willing to deal with it in a creative way, at least wanting to find out about it and explore new situations and solutions. 

PS: The 'survival training' at FalconBlanco goes through all levels: Practical/fisical, emotional, mental and spiritual. It is a process, individually and as a group and steps are taken, unfolding themselves, one after the other. In the first place we LIVE, and we welcome all as part of our learning process, so that we can relate and respond to whatever shows up... This is such a great opportunity and it is so little used! But probably as much as possible, as one's personal limitation allows it. 'Patience' might be one ingredient to survive...

updated: 3. June 2006 -  updated: 17. January 2007 - updated: 28. March 2007 - updated 8. April 2007