(This article recently appeared in the 2013 Windermere calendar.)

I have said that we were reaching a critical mass of energy, with more people coming onto the land at Windermere to make it start to move. I want to tell you that we reached that. And we’re going to come here and renew and regenerate ourselves in peace, love, and Spirit and also share it with those around us. People who fight against us are going to be fighting against themselves because in order to go into negativity, they have to sit there with it until they get sick and tired of being negative.

A lot of people in the Santa Barbara area have gone up to Windermere and said, “I had the most wonderful experience.” They say things like, “I walked down to see the horses, and one of the horses came up to see me. I’ve never been anyplace where a horse would just come up to you to see you.” One person went for a walk on a trail, and a horse walked with her. It’s not every day that you get to go for a walk on a trail and have a horse accompany you, unless you’ve got a rope around its neck.

We had a person come up to the ranch who could be considered “mentally handicapped.” The staff told me that the person was walking around the horses and that the horses were watching out for this person so they wouldn’t get hurt. It’s strange to think of horses as babysitters, but this person does have a very childlike consciousness. The staff realized that the horses were concerned about the person and that they were passing the person off from one horse to another. A couple of the horses the person walked around were ones that I wouldn’t walk behind unless I was very far away, because that horse might back up and kick me.

It’s wonderful to hear the things people tell me about what goes on up at Windermere. Some part of me goes, “That’s just got to be nonsense.” Then I go back up to the ranch, come onto the land, and start to renew the energy fields in my body with the vibration there. I look at the horses, and, sure enough, they’re busy taking care of whoever is around.

People come up to Windermere and volunteer to train our horses, but in other places people have to be paid to train them. And they do such a great job. I look at the person training the horse and say, “Wow, you train the horse really well. Why can’t you do that to yourself?”

When you start to look back at the energy field of what a horse represents and what a human being represents, you may come to some really unusual ideas about what a horse is and what it is thinking or doing. We’ve watched horses figure out how to open and close gates, how to untie knots, how to find the way over a trail or around a rock that we can’t climb over. They can make you believe one day that they know what’s going on, and the next day you do the same thing with them and come up against the dumbest horse in the universe. Then the next day it’s the smartest horse in the universe. It’s amazing to watch them find out where you are in your strength and then push, to see if you’ll fall over or not.

Does that sound anything at all like human beings in relationships? In the ancient times of the 12 tribes of Israel, they would fight about how “our tribe’s better than your tribe” and “our God’s better than your God.” It’s all the same God, but people sometimes think they have to be “special” in order to be special. Actually, I’ve found that you have to be ordinary to be special because if you’re special you’re off by yourself, wondering why you’re so alone and alienated, why nothing’s happening, and why life is terrible for you. Then you become ordinary, and you’re invited to everything. But if you start to make yourself special again, you get separated out again.

We’ve noticed that with our horses at Windermere. When we see one or two of them get special, they will be pushed out to the edge of the herd and made to stay there until they realize they’re a horse like the other horses. One very interesting horse was at the bottom of the pecking order (or with horses it might be the kicking order, the bucking order, the biting order, or the rearing-up order). We worked to train her to carry a person so that she knew the relationship of responsibility with a human being. No one from the ranch has written to me about this horse being outcast or being away from the group, even though she still has some of the same nagging personality problems. Even though she has the same
patterns, she is respecting herself in a different way, so the pattern is acceptable.

That’s a big key to your spirituality through your self-esteem: what you do in this world comes back to your personality through your self-esteem; it goes back in and touches the Soul and pulls the Spirit energy through. If you do the same thing without being in spiritual alignment, you get thrown out.

Humans are going to come to the place where we stop thinking that we own this planet. We have to reframe a lot of things that are presently going on in our society. We have to reframe our thought patterns and positions. Where does the reframing start? I’ll bet that everybody could say, “Look at what all those dumb, stupid people are doing! Look at those no-growth people, those polluters, those business people who only care about a dollar. Look at all this food that’s a little old, and they’re dumping it out in the fields rather than selling it at a reduced rate.” We run down the list, and after we’ve done that and been righteously indignant and really upset, we go home to our loved ones and carry the vibration into them. And, someplace inside of them, they’re thinking, “God, I was feeling so good until you came home.”

We have to stop making other people bad, and we have to bring ourselves into the position of monitoring our thought process. In other words, I can’t put the responsibility of my existence onto anyone else. I can request things from them, I can ask them to participate, I can present myself for opportunities, but it’s always from the point of view of me and my responsibility. When I’ve done that, I’ve always been at peace. It’s when we start to range way out there about what the future will be that we fog up and go into negative talk. It isn’t extremely negative; it’s just not focused in a positive direction. That sets up the winds of our own karmas to start to flow, and peace whips right away from us.

As individuals, we have to come back to responsible creativity in ourselves. One place to start is by trying to get some peace and calm. Every time I’ve been at Windermere, I have never had an anxiety attack, even walking behind or close by the horses. I have concern, caring, watchfulness, and protection, but I don’t have any anxiety or panic.

Windermere is not “J-R’s thing”. I didn’t buy the ranch. I didn’t buy the horses; they were given to me, and I gave them to the ranch. They’re all there for you people, because I can only ride one horse at a time.

People are coming more and more awake that we’re all tied in together, even into the horses and the dogs, and we’re learning how to get the information from them and how to become more grateful and thoughtful about ourselves here and now. We’re going to make mistakes along the way. In fact, we’ve probably made some that we don’t know about, but they’ll be pointed out to us, and that’s nice because we’ll make the correction and keep moving. The only way out is to go through it, and we will go through it.

And we want your support—through prayers, Light, money, being physically involved in the processes at the ranch. All of that helps. Even a random thought during the day of “God bless Windermere and the Peace Institute” does remarkable things. On the subtle levels, it is so powerful. It’s like the light of ten million Roman candles going off in one area: it’s total white-out.

And it takes a long time for the negative stuff to come back in because it can only be Light to exist there. So I want you to know that what you do is really important. Most of all, thanks for supporting Windermere and supporting me and for helping me tap the wisdom sources to get more information down where we can all use it better and better.

Baruch Bashan