Camp Satyagraha - Monastery, Maine

I was a professional with a lot of money, a beautiful wife, and a 3.75 gpa in my graduate program at UMUC in Maryland.   I was on my way up.  But I wasn't happy.    

I left everything and drove to northern Maine in 2009 intent on leaving the "robot world".    I was planning on writing a book then, "How I left the Robot World and became Independently Poor."    Now that is just  a chapter in the book.    I had realized that 'wealth' was  a relative concept and your wealth beggars your neighbor. So I decided the operational word was 'independent'.   and poor more moral than wealthy, and certainly more  attainable.   

The story beyond that  gets lost in myth and superstition... really, really, really, crazy.. wild and crazy as anything anyone ever told... as far as i can tell.   I bought a few acres... and the rest is history..  

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Camp Satyagraha is dedicated to spiritual practices and physical growing and building and learning.  We are alcohol free, violence free, 420 friendly, vegetarian, and ask for the practice of celibacy to be observed by those outside of preexisting committed relationships. Celibacy is asked for at camp, and for duration of residence at camp, in order to make it a safe place for spiritual growth, healing, and higher spiritual attainments. If the idea of being somewhere without alcohol or meat or gratuitous sexual "hookups" sounds foreboding to you, we are probably not the righ place for you. Emphasis: we don't ask for celibacy from couples...just those who come unattached. Camp Satyagraha is the home of the Monastery of Last Resort, a coed, child oriented , family friendly , Spiritual Oasis. Focus and projects include child 👶 care and development, gardening, language, Dharma studies and linguistics, music 🎶 theatre 🎭 and dramatic arts, as well as hospitality and psychosocial development in general, in keeping with the Perennial Wisdom.