Switchgear

This will definitely turn into a multi-part post as I realized that this weekend is the 10th anniversary of the Grand Opening of El Monte Sagrado in Taos, NM. Enough has been written about the project itself and all the wonderful folks that made it happen. What has not been discussed in any depth was the impact that project had on my life since 2003 and how it has directly impacts my life today. Edy said in passing the other day that I could “write an encyclopedia” about my experiences and I just laughed it off, (at first).

 Over the past couple of days I have just made an initial list of all the words that could indeed be expounded upon into their own “personal chapters” . Once I started it has been hard to close the faucet of the downloads that continue toward the multi-volume:

Encyclopedia of El Monte Sagrado

 

Like many key points on the railroad tracks of life, this seemingly “cool project” was simply a SWITCH in everything I ever knew to that point. The trajectory from that initial SWITCH continues to impact me daily. It seems it has had a similar affect on the lives of many others involved with the project including the GC, Field Super and the Owner.

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Preliminary Table of Contents

                                  Not yet in alphabetical order – still a work in progress – more to follow

** - Various forms of the word

A

Abundance

Ambition

Agriculture

Alignment

Arrogance

Awkwardness

Anointing

Altruism

Anger

Acceptance

Astronomy

Alchemy

Alcoholism

Advertising

Approval

Affidavit

Airplanes

Abandon

Agony

Author

Arroyos

American Express

Amazon

Anaconda

Archeolog

Art

Artists

Artifacts

Awards

B

Banks

Basalt

Balance

Brilliance- **

Building-  **

Beauty

Benevolence

Beta

Brujas

Blessings

Betrayal

Body – **

Boredom

Broken- **

C

Children

Construction

Chaco Canyon

Canyon

Complex

Confused

Corrupt

Cameras

Colleagues

Collaboration

Contracts

Copyrights

Credit – **

Ceremony

Custody

Cash

Cars
Core Energetics

Counsel – **

Coyote

Crystals

Corn

Cessna Caravan

Chutzpa

Computers

Culture

Culinary

Conservation

Competition

Character

Creativity

Cork

Consultants

Consciousness

Civic Duty

Charities

Cinco de Mayo

Castile

Conflict

Compassion

Caring

Carelessness

Collateral

Charisma
Chakras
Celeche

D

Datacad
Design
Deceit
Dangerous
Destitute
Disgusted
Defeat
Dreams
Desperation
Divinity
Defamation
Debt
Divorce
Diligence
Dousing
Draught
Denial
Dog – Douge
Donation - **
Death
Daughters
Diaspora
Discipline
Diplomacy
Double Truck
Due Diligence
DBUG
Detectives

E
Edy
Environmental- **
Ego
Energy – **
Excellence
Excuses
Excess
Eagle
Empathy
Exasperation
Embrace
Excitement
Enchantment
Entrapment
Exhaustion
Existential
Enthused
Enterprise
Enlightenment
Eclipse
Emotion
Ethics
Explorers
Empowered

 F

Futility
Fame
Fortune
Facination
Fun
Financial
Family
Forlorn
Fish Ponds
Film
Furniture
Friends
Fantasy
Fossil
Finding
Flood
Funding
Feminine
First Nations
F&B
FFE
Fire - **

G

GOD
Grants
Green
Government
Geology
Gratitude
Gifts
Generosity
Garnishment
Government
Guardian ad litum
Grace
General- Various Forms
Gumption
Grandparents  - **
Gardening
Golden Mean
Guilt – **
Geometry – **
Greif
 
H
Hay
Humming Birds
Home/Homeless
Hope
Hopelessness
Helplessness
Hunger
Heart
Happiness
Herbs
History
Humility
Horses
Hubris
Harsh - **
Humor
Hotels
Hate
Honesty
Honor
Health
HTML
 
I
Integrity
Intelligence
Injustice
Insolence
Illusions
Inspiration
Inequity
Indispensible
Insurance
Indignant
Interview- **
Isolation - **
Itinerant
 

J

Jesus
Jealousy
Jail
Joint Venture
Judicial System
Judgment
Jewelry
Joy
Justice
Journals
Jet Lag
Jubilant
 
K
Kiva
Kindness
 
L
Love
Lack
Lust
Loyalty
Limits - **
Looters
Lies
Liability
Liable
Life
Loans
Lease
Law – **
Leadership

M

Meta-Physical
Mental
Marriage
Mining
Materials
Mind
Mylar
Magic
Marooned
Mercy
Mountains
Music
Mayhem
Masculine
Medicine Wheel
Miracles
Massage
Mule
Mojo
Move – **
 
N
Non-compete
Non-disclosure
Neighbors
Neighborhoods
 
O
Offices
Order – **
Ordinary
Openness
Opposition
Ownership
o2c
 
P
Politics
Physical
Platinum Member
Polynesians
Possessions
Propane
Poverty
Prosperity
Polaris
PR
Pueblo
 
Q
Quandary
Quality

 R

Religious
Ranches
Rapture
Regret
Repossess
Resourceful
Resources
Relinquish
Respect
Release
Rodeo
Romance
Resumes
 
S
Skill
Skymiles
Suicide
Sensuous
Sexual
Spirit
Spiritual
Security – **
Sons
Staff
Seek
Self pity
Supplication
Sacrifice
Sanctification
Sustainability
Sustenance
Smudge
Slavery
Sympathy
Sacred
 
T

Taos

From the first time I visited New Mexico in 1995 I knew I’d be back.
Food, Air, Sky, Natural Beauty, History, People and so much more.  I felt I had a cosmic contract to fulfill and El Monte offered a way to initiate the completion of the agreement beginning in 2002. Flying in and out weekly in a little Cessna Caravan offered me the best views ever of the surrounding vistas . I was smitten from day one. I wanted to see and experience it ALL and I was certain that I had found Shangri-La. I dug deep into the history of the region and explored all the various landmarks and hidden treasures. In the beginning I just could get enough.    Little did I know  that I would leave there seven years later feeling like I’d just escaped from the Gulag.

Travel

Talent
Time warps
Testimony – different uses
Trials – as  above
Trails
Thwart
Trees
Trementia
Truth
Tragidy
Trust
Technology
Transformation
Toxic
Tonic
 
U

Unity

Unworthy

Uselessness

Unlimited

V
Victory
Value
Vanity
Vulnerability
Villain
Vacant - **
Vagrant
Voodoo
Volcano
Violence

W

Withholding
Witness - **
WWW
Water
Waste – **
Worth
Whelm
Wealth
Words
Worry
Wood
Withdraw
Withhold

X

?

Y

Yes

Yellow- **

Z

Zero- **