Internship: Organic and Kosher Foods

Internships at Living Tree University

We are delighted to announce the opening of Living Tree University. It is based on the premise that you can be an organic farmer or software engineer, a poet or therapist, a philosopher or gymnast, a natural healer and an e of ancient texts. It is all a question of intentionality and it is our intention to help you realize your abilities. You can do anything! We know it and are here to elicit your extraordinary potential. Our interns are our student body. 

Our program is as follows: During the morning and early afternoon we'll train you in the marketing and sales of organic food. You'll be contacting natural foodstores worldwide. You'll learn the structure of the markets for organic food. You'll also learn the art of negotiating sales with professional buyers. Think of this as a gateway to the organic food industry. No other individual sector is growing anywhere near its pace. You'll also help with customer service, talking over the phone with live food enthusiasts worldwide. In the afternoon and evening you'll work on a research project. It will be structured as a tutorial. We offer the following options: 

1. The Origin of Man in the Americas - until recently it was believed that the Americas were uninhabited until populated by modern man who came here across the Bering Straits, which were frozen over 12,000 years ago. This view is becoming more and more untenable as discovery after discovery points to the immense antiquity of humankind in the Americas. A lot of ideological freight is riding on the landbridge hypothesis, namely that Native Americans were "recent" settlers just like us. On a deeper level there is the belief that mankind could not have originated in the New World because there is lacking the kind of ape or monkey which the pundits posit as our ancestor. In other words, if it could be demonstrated that man originated here, the Darwinian structure would totter. 

2. The Indians of California - We will focus on the story of Ishi the last Native American of California who lived in a state of nature. Here is a man whose implements were of flint, whose garments were the skins of animals yet whose consciousness was higher than the stars. He made his advent, in 1911 to the world of the railroad, telegraph, airplane, and cinema. A man of cosmic conscientiousness, he towered over his anglo-saxon contemporaries. One day he will be acknowledged as one of the great spiritual masters of North America. His story is a paradigm of the tragedy of Native Americans.There is a wealth of information in the Bancroft Library.Also we will visit Native American artifacts in the vicinity. 

3. Globalization and the disappearance of tradition- one mentality is replacing all others, be it in Singapore or New York, San Francisco or Tokyo. We are losing ways of being that are a most precious heritage. These have evolved over millennia. In their place we are getting a superficial way of seeing and being based upon "what's mine is mine" and the "bottom line." When one is priveleged to be in the presence traditional people living close to the land and you'll notice how rooted they are in a dimension of being so much more profound than "time is money." In our opinion, more tragic that the extinction of species is the loss of traditional consciousness. 

4. Dollars and Sense - We are told that there is a serious problem with Social Security and that it needs to be "reformed".A "fiscal crisis' has been concocted that does not exist.On the other hand, there is a very real fiscal crisis in medical care.The US has one of the most inefficient systems with per capita costs far higher than other nations and there is nothing wonderful about the sort of healing that results. But reforming the health care system is not on the agenda.So we face an apparent paradox:the real and serious fiscal crisis is no crisis,and the none crisis requires, we are told, drastic action!What would a health care system accessible to all and based on the principles of natural healing, live food and rejuvenation look like? Could it be that it would be far more effective and at a fraction of the cost? 

5. Somatic Psycho-Therapy - We will study the works of the great students of the body as a window to the soul. In particular, the recent scientific discovery that the body is a hieroglyph of the abuse both physical and societal that has been inflicted upon it. This it holds in the form of armoring. Herein lies the etiology of the unfathomable depths of sexual misery endemic to the late, modern world. In a controlled and therapeutic way, the armoring can be loosened and the individual can experience more of the streaming of healthful life that is their birthright. The progress in healing the effects of repression and abuse is a triumph of decency and compassion. 

6. Live Food and Natural Healing - we will share what we have learned in over 25 years in the organic and live food movement. We will discuss simple ways to supercharge a live food diet. We'll also discuss fasting as the royal road to healing and the concept of a unitary approach to bodily ills. We will base ourselves upon classic works of Arnold Ehret as well as the burgeoning contemporary literature. 

7. The Way of the Mystic - Why do the grey whales migrate from the frigid Arctic waters to the Gulf of California and back, each year? Why did Alfred Russell Wallace, who conceived the theory of evolution and natural selection at the same time as Darwin, feel that there were unbridgeable gaps between humans and animals? He suggested that "a superior intellectual had guided the development of man? and for a special purpose just as man guides the development of many animal and vegetable forms." What is it that provides for the perfect care given to the young of all species? In short,we wish to inquire into the mystery of existance.We seek some small understanding of the Beginning and the End. This is for those, who like the poet Shelley, exclaim from their souls " what is life I cried?" Some of the mightest thinkers have produced maps or guidebooks to help us.One starting point is "Meditation and the Bible" by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan. The program will culminate high in the Sierra Nevada mountains. There, reciting aloud the Psalms of David becomes a meditative experience in itself. Our premise here is ,The beginning of wisdom is the fear of G-d....Psalm 111:10. 

These studies will take the form of tutorials guided by Jesse Schwartz, Ph.D., C.E., M.S., B.C.E., sometime assistant professor of Economic Theory at Waterloo University and San Diego State University. You will have available the "world mind" of the internet and the resources of the Bancroft Library, one of the great libraries of the world.It's on the University of California campus, a short bicycle ride from our office. Living Tree University is for those on fire with the necessity of learning. If you'd like to explore this possibility further please phone us at 510 526 7106 ext 12 or email jesse@livingtreecommunity.com