OM on the Range: OM on the Range

OM on the Range: OM On the Range: Introduction There is a song that is near and dear to the hearts of people who live in the American West - and to Americans everywhere. It was sung around the campfires of the American cowboy for a hundred years. The state of Kansas even adopted it as their state theme song. The song is called Home on the Range. The “range” spoken of in the song is the wild open spaces of the American West where wild animals lived and thrived, where cattle grazed freely with no fences, and where the men and women who raised them and guarded them made their homes. The words to the first verse are: Oh give me a home Where the Buffalo roam Where the dear and the antelope play. Where seldom is heard A discouraging word And the skies are not cloudy all day. The song reminisces about the freedom and peacefulness found on the open range known as the “wide open spaces.” It speaks of a way of life that is near and dear to the people of the American west - a life that is filled with beauty and spaciousness. As a child I sang that song with my brother while we did farm chores – my father was a dairy farmer. In all of the writings of Dr. V. Ganapati Sthapati, a world renowned traditional architect, there are references to Space: inner space, gross space, built space, outer space and cosmic space. He often mentions that the sages, including Mamuni Mayan, lived in the open space of the forest and it is there that they got their deep inspirations. It appearsDR.RUPNATHJI( that people of the AmericanDR.RUPAK west NATHalso understood ) the value of open, unbounded space. For them that space brought beauty, harmony and joy- these are the attributes spoken of by Dr. V. Ganapati Sthapati when he speaks of open space. According to Dr. Sthapati, these qualities can also exist in built space if it is done in accordance with natural law. Mayonic Science and Technology contains the formulas and technology for understanding the manifestation of OM Light and OM Sound as it applies to building such spaces – spaces that provide beauty, freedom and peacefulness. The title of this monograph, OM on the Range, is derived from the events that occurred in the American West at Santa Fe, New Mexico and on a ranch sixty miles away in Las Vegas, New Mexico in July and August of 2006 when the first courses of Mayonic Science and Technology were taught by the newly established American University of Mayonic Science and Technology in Santa Fe and Las Vegas, New Mexico. 2 Synchronicity This was the first year in the 40 years on her ranch near Las Vegas, New Mexico that Cornelia Compton had no grass to graze her cattle. She and Norm, her husband of 17 years, had to move their cattle to another ranch and set out to buy hay for the rest of the summer and through the winter. The drought had gotten that bad. New Mexico is by nature a dry land. It is called the Land of Enchantment because of the many beautiful and unusual places that exist in this southwestern state. But most of New Mexico is desert- enchanting but none-the-less desert. The higher mountains that are part of the southern Rocky Mountain chain generally get more rain. In the past centuries, every summer in July the monsoons came. That meant it rained hard for a short time in the afternoon for about two months. Those monsoons, along with winter snow, have been the life support of the people who have lived in this region for thousands of years. In modern times, since the late 1800’s, particularly in the high country, ranchers depended on them for creating enough grass to graze their cattle on their rangeland through the summer. Over the past twenty years, the monsoons have become less frequent. And, the winter snows that add precious water to the aquifers have lessened. The past nine years have gotten progressively worse. Wells have been going dry and the issue of water rights has been on every ones mind. The city of Santa Fe has been quietly buying water rights from neighboring Native American tribal lands to quench the thirst of a fast growing town. The city of Las Vegas, New Mexico has no city owned wells. It relies on water from the Galinas River. The river is dangerously low - it is so low in fact that Las Vegas put a moratorium on building- no new houses over the past few years. There just isn’t enough water to take care of the existing population let alone new people. Cornelia has never seen it so dry. Perhaps this kind of drought is what drove the Anasazi Indians (the ancient ones) out of this region. The tribes that remained were the ones that lived along rivers. Now even the rivers, the Galinas for example, are slowly going dry and there was no rain predicted for this year. In fact this summer was predicted to be the driest yet. Rain dances, praying rain, and all sorts of similar activities have not produced the badly needed rain. In the spring of 2006 Mary Spindler decided that she wanted to leave city life. She had been living in the city limits of Santa Fe for a numDR.RUPNATHJI(ber of years. She w aDR.RUPAKs concerned a bNATHout the )water shortage, the growth of the city and the density of people that were populating the area. She had a private well on her land but it went almost dry just from taking a shower. Mostly, she wanted a quieter life. Mary had heard that Las Vegas, New Mexico, a small town of about 14,000 people, was a nice place to live. It was only an hour from Santa Fe so the opera and other cultural activities could be experienced if she felt like it. Mary called a realtor and spent time looking for a piece of land that she thought she could build on and live happily. After exploring several sites, Mary went to Cornelia Compton’s’ ranch where Cornelia had forty acres for sale. Cornelia bought a 650-acre ranch 15 miles outside of Las Vegas, NM from her sister in the 1960’s. It was part of the Las Vegas Land Grant deeded by Spain to a Spanish family from Mexico that was induced to migrate north as part of Mexico’s efforts to make the northern lands part of its boarders. This was in reaction to the settling of North America by English, Dutch, French, Irish, Scottish, and German Europeans 3 coming from the east coast of the continent via New England. This was a logical thing for the Mexican government (then ruled by Spain) to do because the ancient indigenous people of Mexico had traveled north for centuries to live and trade. There were no borders and people traveled freely. Meso American indigenous people (people from Central America and Mexico – Aztecs and Maayans for example) traveled throughout the American South West as evidenced by ancient archeological ruins and language rooted in the Uto – Aztecan language found from the Great Basin of the western United States (Oregon, Idaho, Utah, California, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico), and throughout Mexico. Utah is named after the indigenous Uto-Aztecan Ute people. Classical Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs – an ancient people from deep into what is now Mexico - and its modern successors are part of the Uto-Aztecan family. The exchange of culture, goods, and people from as far south as Mexico City and Central America and throughout the American southwest is evident. Cornelia worked her 650 acres while her husband stayed in Albuquerque because he had a job there and could support the family. Her husband died and that left Cornelia responsible to pay for the land and raise her children alone on the ranch. If you knew Cornelia you would know that she never gives up. She is one of those people who make lemonade when life delivers her lemons. Sometimes the only way she could afford to buy food was to cut down some of the timber on the land and sell it to a local mill. She was very respectful of the land and only cut those trees that, if cut, would contribute to the healthy growth of the forest. These days we would call her a conscious forester. She loved and respected the land. Maybe the fact that she herself has a few drops of Indigenous blood running through her veins had something to do with her reverence and conscious approach to working with nature- her grandfather was one quarter Native American. When Mary Spindler stepped onto the forty-forested acres that Cornelia had for sale she felt at home. The majestic ponderosa pine forest was healthy, beautiful, and peaceful. The care and respect given by Cornelia was evident. You might call it a happy forest. As Mary walked the land she saw healthy varieties of other trees including cedars and scrub oak. There were meadows here and there that gave way to the sun. This was it- the homeland she had been looking for. She bought it and started her journey to build a home there. Vaastu was of interest to Mary for quite some time. She had tried to rectify her home in Santa Fe but the “consultants” were no more than furniture movers, incense burners, and mirror hangers. When she heard about Mayonic Science and theDR.RUPNATHJI( form of Vaastu offer eDR.RUPAKd by that body NATH of know )ledge she knew that she had found the system of home building she was looking for.

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