The Garden: Is It a Commune or Cult? - Narayah Santi 

Safe Space ----> Paranoia in 0 to 60 seconds

Tree seems to be suspicious of anyone who engages more attention or positive energy than himself or Julia. The Garden is exactly - 100% - a microcosm of Western Cultural stereotypes. Just with less bathing.

She told me she it was part of her cosplaying as indigenous for the show. That's why I voted for her to leave.

She's not pretending to be a hippie anymore

Her story is for every newcomer, misfit, about to snap, duct taped mouth SOUL in the world. I really don’t get people. Take off your goggles of fear and check your displaced anger! I think you 2 need your own podcast… but maybe some taking note… because you go off topic when the lightbulb goes off I personally feel like… you need personally secretary to write when you talk. But maybe on something labeled something more inclusive…that feels like instantly excludes people looking for quiet places to practice their spirituality, recovery, mental health issues. Your right. 🤦🏼‍♀️😂🤪 Just kick everyone out that doesn’t look, act, smell, fill in blank! Because they don’t think the exact same way as you? It’s not what you think they should look like? IS THAT THE ISSUE? What in YOU do you think finds this so upsetting… emotionally, spiritually, physically, sexually… then probably not your person. Based off your personal past, present and all that entails… the good… the bad… the ugly… the beautiful. You have to decide YOUR OWN STORY ONLY. So relax… breathe… it’s easier… let someone else fill in where your skills lack= intentional community. There’s thousands of LIFE LESSONS!!! And @mypersonalangelhere 🥰 I was in crisis state… Verge of mental health break. No one was listening except my soon to be husband who I personally relate to Patrick. My AA community was also tainted I believe by a group of old timers to AA I “FEEL” gang stalked me. It’s an awful experience. 3 sides to EVERY story. We don’t have a perfect justice style or system anywhere. We are all stumbling through life trying to do the best we can. When we are in alignment with our higher self you “usually” stop stumbling… but that system fails if ANYONE inside YOUR PERSONAL INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY is being dishonest to POINT harming others or themselves. No ones perfect or should be judged by their worst action? You die tomorrow… how clean is your slate?! A few days ago mine was disgusting! So heavy! And this happened! I looked first through eyes of complete desperation! That’s how you got my attention! And I already know we speak the same language Narayan and right now… a lot of people will validate you… is my hope. And ONLY TRUTH AND JOY! For ALL who embrace is my hope! But trust us 😂🥰🤪 it’s not guaranteed. Get your individual intentional community, your families, jobs… things seem to just flow. Life stops pushing back so hard it “seems”. I’m a newcomer to social media. Be gentle with your responses. It’s all a vote on that person… you’re voting them up or down. Our way of life stayer is broken. You can’t relate to this… too hippie… watch the secret, got to AA meeting, church, wherever you feel your light source… right now. Now follow that! It seems so hard. Trust yourself and your team. Good luck! P.S.- STOP looking for the differences and ugly in everything and try to look from a pure… childlike. LOOK for the similarities. REALLY give each new day and person a FRESH SLATE! Do your best that moment, that day, EVERYday! No certain recovery trail looks the same… just like no mental health medication is same. It’s trial and error until you find the light. Once you FEEL the light in your soul… your committee of support is complete! Everyone else can go. This can grow… this can shrink.. but constant turmoil is a red flag… there may be a serious problem in your support system. Fix it.. you try not to waste. Food, gifts, skills, yourself… if system is failing what needs to be replaced to fix if cannot be fixed internally FIRST.

Our situations are pretty text book when it comes to these "conscious" groups of people. Sometimes these people operating on "vibes" are blindly responding to shitty ones. You can never threaten the ones who hold the resources, be that the legal owner of the land, the good drugs, a big crowd for events, or the people providing a great sound system for musicians to perform. If people are attached to resources or skills, moral decisions surrounding them tend to warp. People assuming they and their peers are by nature more "conscious" and moral than others just makes good people more vulnerable to the ugly realities of exploitation.

It was bizarre how they ganged up on her in the counsel. It was scapegoating and appeasing the irrational fears one person who told everyone not to trust her. (Then accuses her of not trusting them. Makes NO sense.) If you have an issue with someone (and live in an intentional community) you speak directly to that person. Don’t go behind their backs spreading lies and turning people against them. That’s the kind of toxics behavior I expect from politicians. That was my main issue with this community. The way they treated Narayah. You can see the group collectively holding it together with worse situations (Oak) just to avoid appearing as a toxic group. But that one counsel and how Tree and Vibe unleashed their baggage on her was telling. No self-awareness or healthy group dynamics when it counts.

As someone trained in counsel process, it's kind of infuriating and scary to see it so misused in such a manipulative and mentally and emotionally violent way, after thorny tree stole her phone. Super toxic. Clearly cult dynamics. It's also disturbing to see people telling this group they are not a cult. It's pretty sad actually that people can watch this show and still be fooled into thinking this is a positive, well intentioned environment and group of people. @@pnwlady Sadly many communities operate this way, people go off grid and they take their patterns, dynamics and humaness and programming with them, most of the time. I have visited many communities. I went to a school in the PNW and miss the forests and mountains and oceans there so much!

yes "for the love of all humanity". That's hate speech. You know Tree on RU-vid said he hated Missouri and couldn't wait to leave.

All the "earth mamas" were intimidated/jealous. Trees old lady was probably the main conspirator.

Vehicles

maybe solar charger cells as well @JasonFalter @@anniefray8507

Are her face tatts fake or real ? The could be covered with make up? 🤔

They had cars and solar panels

And then they also have to constantly guard against energy drains like Narayan, who seek to enter the community and immediately reap the benefits of it and demand their voice be heard, while exerting minimal effort to become part of the community. How many days had she been there before causing tension? The group may not be innocent, but Narayah had nothing positive to add to the group.

This was the sixth one we've built. The show made it look super chaotic and didn't show any of the projects but actually we built a lot of buildings and planted orchards and gardens. The show only showed a few people having drama and left the rest out.

Just binged it last night and she was my favorite. I hate how she was voted off like. It was like watching an episode of survivor. I thought this was a commune, not a competition. Those people were so petty and the girl that walked off just to come back and vote her off( Xans) really upset me. I thought she would be an ally but she turned out to be sneaky too.

They were envious of her,the females

Thanks for checking out the video and providing your perspective.

Well said!🎉

Thanks for tuning in Cliff

oh now THATs interesting

Show called Gainesville on cmt was she on that in like 2014

Hmm I googled the name and quickly saw this headline: “CMT's 'Gainesville' reality show cast member arrested on DUI charge” Color me not surprised.

Well, she does talk about being sober 8 years now. It probably means she used to drink. Narayah is her Rainbow name. I'm sure Tree was NOT born a tree.

I agree. She left something tangible to join The farm. She wasn't controversial in my opinion. She was lovely in my humble opinion..and she's sober!!! I adore her

She said there was an inner circle. You know Tree mentioned that cat in TikTok. In everything people are disliked. There was a double standard for Tree. When people can be asked to leave you see what happens. I think she took the high road!

Me too orange hair boy did her so wrong. He had so much hate for her for no reason. She ain't did nothing wrong from what I saw. Like she was chill and really wanted to be there. She only had one friend there who liked her.

I don’t know what to believe anymore with reality tv.

@@DrumsandRums With "Reality" TV, the less the better.

What did she need to do to be of value? Help make a tee pee or a Fear tower?? And the Tyler from the military built a fall out shelter. Wasn't that a value but the group never thanked him!

This wasn't her first reality show...

@@mirandacash5689 Exactly. She was a producer plant.

Have you seen the show?

13 years ago, she was on Gainsville.

She just painted that stuff on, twisted up her hair into fake dreads, put a feather in her hair and applied for a reality show

Not even intentional community vibes. 😂

Filming people with her phone despite being asked not to was a bad start on her part. Did she do anything to contribute to any actual work?

Thanks for tuning in. Explain something specific about the Garden or what this video is?

Oh my god!! I thought it was me. This was a horrible interview.

Do you have Max? An app from HBO. All 6 episodes can be viewed.

@@folse12 I sure do. I’ll give them a go thanks!

Thanks for tuning in. She is a nice person.

How is it cultural appropriation when when viking all had dreds and braids

@@josephhalapia7349 yes how is it cultural appropriation when she sticks a feather in her hair and smudges everyone in a group and takes up too much space in a tipi that a tribal man just spent days teaching them how to raise? if you want to learn how dreads can be considered cultural appropriation, look it up. i'm not making snarky comments on youtube threads to educate

She didn’t have dreads in this show. I just finished watching it and she was described as a “hippy Barbie”

@@megathorn4307 Yeah I think it’s possible for some people of European descent to do dreds and braids without cultural appropriation, but agree with you that in her case it was all part of her “new age” mish-mash she was pushing, and it felt very inauthentic and thus was inappropriate.

You lost me at cultural appropriation, buzzword of the decade

For real

They said it's a place from different backgrounds and they kicked out someone different.

My question why was that place so set on that she was a government plant cause that sounds like they got some shady stuff going on