My friend Joe Simonetta whose new DVD I shot and edited (www.sevenwords.org) is offering his beautiful estate in Vilcabamba, Ecuador for sale. Vilcabamba is known as the Valley of Longevity. If you or anyone you know has an interest, let Joe know you heard about it from me.

Vilcabamba is located in the southernmost province of Ecuador in Loja, 42 kms (27 miles) south of the City of Loja. Loja is an easy 50-minute plane ride from Quito, Ecuador’s capitol.

The picturesque valley of Vilcabamba is situated approximately 1500 meters (5000 feet) above sea level in the majestic Andes Mountains. Being in the center of the world, it maintains a spring-like temperature of 18° to 28° Celsius (65° to 82° F) year-round.

Known as the Sacred Valley, Vilcabamba has been variously called “The Land of Eternal Youth,” “The Valley of Peace and Tranquility,” and “The Lost Paradise.”

One of the most beautiful places in the world, Vilcabamba’s greatest assets are its beauty, peace and tranquility, warm and friendly people, pure air, wholesome foods, and extraordinary climate. It is a magnificent place to live, retire, have a vacation home, or investment property. Vilcabamba  attracts people from all over the world.

More on Vilcabamba: http://www.galapagos-islands-tourguide.com/vilcabamba-valley.htm

The Estate: Designed and built by the owner, architect, and developer of the approximate 700-acre (283-hectare) Hacienda San Joaquin in Vilcabamba, Ecuador (www.VilcabambaHomes.com), this estate is one of the most beautiful and comprehensive in all of South America.

The 14-acre (56,000 square meters) estate features an extraordinary setting and spectacular views of the Andes Mountains. Its southern boundary is 933 feet (284 meters) of frontage on the Vilcabamba River with two lakes between the river and the property. The East Lake is 30,756 square feet (2,858 square meters) and the West Lake is 28,182 square feet (2,619 square meters).

One enters the property through stone columns and a custom designed wrought-iron entrance gate on the property’s private drive.

The Main Residence is 5,300 square feet (493 square meters) with an additional 2,972 square feet (276 square meters) of porches and balconies. There is a large stone-walled slate-floor patio and three large ponds in front. The home features four bedrooms and seven baths with granite and marble counter-tops throughout.

The oversized second-floor master bedroom and sitting area has exposed-beam wood ceilings as do the separate his and hers marble bathrooms with walk-in closets. Off the master bedroom is a large balcony with stunning views of the Andes Mountains and Vilcabamba River. The balcony wraps around the side and back of the house. Also on the second floor are a multimedia room, an office, massage room and gym (with full bath) all with great views, and a wrought-iron lined corridor that looks down on the Great Room.

On the first floor, a beautiful Great Room features, an original full-wall horse-scene mural, an extraordinary fireplace with a natural stone-wall backing, exposed beam wood ceilings and trusses, oversized windows and spectacular views. The large kitchen, with a cross-pattern wood-beam ceiling, has custom cabinetry, a separate pantry, and granite counter-tops. Hardwood and ceramic floors, custom windows and doors, crown moldings, and skylights are featured throughout. On the first floor are also three bedrooms, three full baths, a powder room, a laundry and mudroom. The basement features a stone-walled wine cellar and a beautifully finished additional room.

The Main Residence is surrounded on all four sides by porches. The porches are 10-feet deep on the front and open to a large 30-foot radius half-circle stone-walled patio in front of the house, perfect for outdoor parties, entertaining and dancing. Multiple flower gardens bring splashes of color year round. http://picasaweb.google.com/jrsimonetta/April182009JoeSMainHouseToBeCompetedJune2009# June 2009 completion.

The beautiful 1500 square foot (139 square meter) Guest House provides a Great Room with two large original horse-scene murals, two bedrooms and two baths with granite counter-tops, a loft, a kitchen with custom cabinetry and granite counter tops, seven skylights, a pantry with a granite countertop, and laundry room. Ceramic and hardwood floors and exposed beam wood ceilings are featured throughout. See

Three ponds and flower gardens front the main house and guest house.                                                   June 2009 completion.

The separate three-car ceramic-floor garage features custom windows and doors, exposed beam wood ceilings, a large attached work room, attractive pavers in the garage courtyard and a large two-tiered flower garden in the center of the courtyard. June 2009 completion.

The stone-walled guest-parking area, adjacent to the courtyard, accommodates four cars with additional parking in the courtyard. May 2009 completion.

The garages, main residence and guest house are connected by porches and covered walkways with rich exposed-beam wood ceilings.

The beautiful indoor sky-lit solar heated lap pool which is thirteen feet wide by fifty-two feet long and accompanying large Jacuzzi are in a separate building (adjacent to the main house) twenty six by sixty-six feet. May 2009 completion.

A very attractive outdoor brick-oven building, adjacent to the main house kitchen, is located off the walkway between the main house and guest house. May completion.

The plant nursery is five hundred and fifteen square feet.

The 30,916 square foot vegetable and fruit gardens feature three tilapia ponds as a source of fresh fish. Mature fruit trees include banana, mango, papaya, and avocado.

The world-class 4,314 square foot, horse stable features ten spacious stalls, a tack room, bathroom, kitchen, maintenance room and food processing stall. Separately, there is a gazebo-type structure for social gatherings after riding.

The world-class clay tennis court is surrounded by beautiful stone walls and flower gardens in each corner.

The three-court volleyball stadium seats 250 people and is easily the best in Ecuador and probably all of South America. 

The 28,910 square foot orchard has about 50 citrus trees including tangerine, orange, lemon and lime.  The irrigation canal provides unlimited irrigation water for all of the property’s gardens.

There is a 23,760 square foot lot between the orchid and the gardens that is perfect for another home site or location for a swimming pool or other recreational building or as additional gardens.

Fresh drinking water is available from the property’s private well in addition to the excellent water provided by the larger development.

The property comes with sixteen beautiful horses, mostly Peruvian Paseos, with all tack (beautiful saddles, etc.). 

Three large fenced pastures and horse feeding stations are on seven of the acres.

The asking price for this one-of-a-kind property is $4.9 million.

Joe will be happy to answer any question you might have about the property.

You can write him at joesimonetta@gmail.com

Thank you so much for subscribing to New Paradigm Digest. It’s been quite a year for all of us.  I spent half of it in Vilcabamba and Cuenca, Ecuador. I found that living in Vilcabamba, a beautiful valley with a river running through it and a population of 8000 helped me save money ( My rent on a 2 room cottage was $200/mo) and I met some wonderful people but in the end, the town did not have enough culture for me, especially as a single man. I will visit again but do not feel at this point that it is where I will end up living, but then again, you never know

My time in Cuenca was fun with a lot more culture, good restaurants, low cost of living, good music and films for $2,  I missed my friends and family and the reliability of service providers and a stable legal system. I found that service providers do not always show up or even call if they can’t, that laws seem to change frequently and that people often tell you you can do things like paying your immigration fine at the airport when you can’t. In short, I am happy to be back in Ojai, my small town, 20 minutes from the ocean and 1.5 hours from LA.

Sadly, my father passed four days after my return from Ecuador. He was two weeks shy of his 100th birthday. I will miss him. He was the kindest man I ever knew.

The year was marked by the end of what looked to me like the most dysfunctional and Orwellean time I can recall. With a new president, I am hopeful we can  begin to restore our country’s visionary place in the world.

My sense is that the economic woes we face are not going away and that the year will present more challenges but that perhaps by the end of it we hopefully will have passed through the worst. (Trend analyst Gerald Celente will be giving his 2009 forecast which we will cover here soon). One thing to keep in mind is that it is during challenging economic times that major innovations happen in increasing numbers. We will be monitoring and reporting on these new paradigm innovations as they develop. Perhaps you will be one of the innovators or know of one. Please let me know of any you become aware of at jefhutatgmaildotcom. Also let me know of any areas you would like to see more coverage of.

I wish you and your families a new year in which your fondest visions become reality.

Thank you again for your support and if you have enjoyed your subscription, please let others know about NPD.

Jeff Hutner, Editor

p.s. Here is a wonderful piece from my friend Lawrence of Integral Spirituality, a highly recommended site whose thoughts I echo.

It has been said that those of us living today must give birth to an Integral Age where inner and outer life reach a higher synthesis and resonance; where heart and mind are integrated; where education, medicine, business and politics reflect a new science of conscious life that has the power to harvest our highest intentions.

Call upon your own delight and joy to be the power of 2009 to bring forth into this critical time your magnified and aligned sense of personal mission and let others hear and see what you are giving birth to. From your mind’s greatest clarity, write it down, rehearse your personal mission daily or weekly, and then share with others how and where you intend to do your 1/6 billionth part to foster this great new emergence and transformation.

Affirm the true nature of your personal mission work, whatever form it takes in the world. Do not forget that the heart has such transformative powers that it can expand beyond the confines of every form of hurt and hatred to embrace violently paired opposites and transmute every schism with love and compassion to new greater dynamic unions.

I ask you then to enter 2009 supporting the great new emergence and great work that is now the work of every one of us and every organization on the planet: the work of speaking the deepest truth of our nature, the work of revealing and using our power to heal and to reconcile virulent conflict; our power to transform every dysfunction and limitation that stops us from living sustainably, peacefully and yes, most importantly, joyfully and in abundance on this beautiful blue jewel of Earth.

My friend Dr. Brian O’Leary is hosting The Camelot Conference from January 9-11 at his Montesuenos Eco-Retreat Center in Vilcabmaba, Ecuador to explore the many crises and opportunities the world currently faces. Subtitled Uncovering Deeper Truths of our Times and Future Strategies, the conference will feature leading researchers George Green, Kerry Cassidy, Bill Ryan and Brian. The nature of our crises suggested urgency, so the conference was put together in just a few months, thus the short notice.

The most pressing and recurrent theme today is the unprecedented danger faced by Americans – which profoundly affects the entire world. The economy, environment and a peaceful social order have been shaken to the core by biocidal public and private policies. Even with the election of Barack Obama as the next U.S. president, the situation is likely to continue getting worse. What is happening behind the scenes and what can we expect to see happen in the future? We will explore the crisis and its likely evolution over the coming months and years. Careful research reveals underlying truths that could set us free.

Many North Americans are seeking an alternative to the sense of bad times ahead experienced by many in the U.S. and elsewhere. Brian and several friends visited Vilcabamba, bewildered by the growing interrelated crises, and rediscovered the simple life there. Clean mountain air and water, fresh local healthy food, a great climate close to nature, friendly people, and a sense of well-being provides an alternative setting that has helped reduce or eliminate their fears and provides the perfect setting to come together in local and global community to explore and produce solutions to the extraordinary challenges we face. Restoring the rights of nature, keeping oil and minerals in the ground, the re-localization movement and the development of clean, breakthrough energy are examples of the possibilities unfolding around the world. But we must be willing to step outside the box of conventional thinking and adopt entirely new perspectives, values and lifestyles.

Brian and his artist wife Meredith founded Montesueños as a gathering place for discussing and implementing some of these ideas. In June 2008, they co-hosted their first conference, the Phoenix Gathering that was attended by visionaries from around the globe. The conference  was a a dynamically-facilitated democratic experiment in which attendees addressed sustainable solutions to the crisis of civilization.

On December 12, Brian presented an introduction to Crisis and Opportunity. He spoke to the truths of free energy, ET contact and the power of positive human intention.

The Camelot Conference will review the works of those brave souls who have risked their lives and livelihoods to uncover a greater reality, one that is most often perceived as a threat to vested interests. These breakthroughs could change the world forever, yet have often been violently suppressed. Four of the world’s leading researchers of deeper truths will be presenting their findings at Montesuenos, Jan. 9-11, 2009.

Whereas the Phoenix symbolizes a transformed culture rising from the ashes of the old, Camelot represents the ideals of truth and compassion for life at a time when these ideals have been largely trumped by greed and corruption.

Camelot Conference presenters include:

GEORGE GREEN, economist, Former NASD financial principal, broker dealer, real estate developer, insurance broker, banker, speaker and publisher of best-selling Handbook for the New Paradigm, draws on both factual and esoteric knowledge to present a unique picture of the plights and the opportunities of these times. www.nohoax.com.

KERRY CASSIDY joined Bill Ryan in April 2006 to found Project Camelot, which in the last two and a half years has become the internet’s premier site for whistleblowers and cutting-edge researchers to present to the public new and important information, previously known but denied by the authorities. Kerry Cassidy is a film-maker and researcher and currently lives in Sedona, Arizona. www.projectcamelot.org.

BILL RYAN has a background in math and physics and worked for many years as a leadership coach, team development consultant, and conflict resolution specialist to some large corporations in the UK. He has researched esoteric phenomena for over 30 years and co-founded Project Camelot with Kerry Cassidy. He lives in Switzerland. www.projectcamelot.org.

BRIAN O’LEARY is an author, international speaker and founder of Montesueños, a center dedicated to the causes of peace, sustainability, the arts and new science. A former astronaut, Ivy-League physics professor and political energy advisor and activist, Dr. O’Leary’s most recent book is The Energy Solution Revolution. www.brianoleary.com. Brian will host and facilitate the conference.

Come see what the real truth reveals and the possibilities that exist to co-create what could become the genesis of an entirely new world.

For reservations or further information on the conference drop Brian an e-mail at drbrianoleary@gmail.com.