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NEW HOPE EAST GARDEN - Jardim, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

~It has been said that it is the most continuously humid area on Earth. There is a local myth that the area was once an ocean. The myth is derived from the fact that the area, rich in marshlands, is known for intense flooding, in which the many rivers seemingly join as one into a vast mass called the Xaraés Ocean.

- Four Unification Church members have already lost their lives in the violent rivers at the property and strict warnings are now given about the dangerous rivers, as well as poisonous snakes, poisonous insects and poisonous frogs that inhabit the property, and also alligators that swim in their man-made lake. For a glimpse into the schedule that the moonies have there, and also recommedations they are given before going to jungle, there is an official Unification Church document Online Here

~After the flooding season, the land becomes among the greenest and most lush pasture land found anywhere. This supports a varied community of wildlife consisting of 230 species of fishes, 80 species of mammalians, and 50 species of reptiles. The 650 species of aquatic birds that have already been classified there, make it one of the most fascinating wildlife obervation points on Earth.

~Some would make the comparison to the biblical Garden of Eden automatically, based on the unspoiled natural treasures found there, but Sun Myung Moon has determined that it will not simply resemble the Garden of Eden, but become it, by his own determination. To this end, Moon has quietly bought up several hundred square miles of land there, resulting in a piece of real estate comparable in size to the state of Rhode Island. By one Unification Church official's own description, this project has been kept secret, as to the scope of Moon's long reaching plans for the isolated South American countryside.

Excerpt: January 1999 Unification News Father wants to build a Training Center here in Fort Olimpo big enough for 300 people. As you know, we have some problem with flooding here at this location. So when Father became aware of this he approve money to by land on higher grounds. So we need some of you to stay behind and help with the construction. What do you think? Three and a half years ago Father called me and gave me special instructions concerning Jardim. So very quickly I prepared myself and came here. There was nothing here at the time, no paved road, no bridge, and no house of any kind. There was a small pond and some ditches. Father asked to make out of it a 20,000 square feet lake. I stayed in a small tent. When it rained I could not do anything. Can’t Tell You Much There is a giant project planned for Jardim. You know only 10% of it at best. I can’t really talk about it so freely. It’s a very sensitive issue and this is the first time I am talking about it. The government in Paraguay has gotten to know our project and me. At the beginning they gave me somewhat of a hard time but now they like us. Here we do not need any visas or fishing licenses. The police are usually quite strict; there is a 80 km speed limit. If I drive Father, I have to go pretty fast, as fast as 150 km per hour and I don’t even have a license. When they catch me, they let me go, because they know Father is doing great things for their country. I have been without a visa for the last few years, but now the Brazilian government has given me a permanent visa on November 15th, 1998. Promoting the Unification Church in Brazil, Korea and worldwide is very difficult, so how can we develop and support such a huge project. How can we find the money for all this? The Jardim New Hope Project was originally planned for Chung Pyung Lake. However, the government said no because that area provided water for the 20 million inhabitants of Seoul and surroundings. We also bought some property on Che Ju Island (?). Chung Pyung was bought in 1972. In January of 1993 we bought the Texas Farm. In 1994 Hyung Tae Kim reported to Father about Jardim. So Father went there to fish and the fishing was very good. Father caught 20 Dorado every day. One even jumped into Father’s boat. 33 Cities In February of 1995 we bought the first property there. On March 11th, 1998 Rev. Joon Sung Kim came to Jardim to take care of Father’s projects centered on Jardim. Two persons from every country where Mother spoke came to Jardim. 31 persons to begin with who spoke 19 different languages. Centered on Jardim, in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul; in the range of a 200 km radius there are 33 cities. In 1996 Father asked me to find a beautiful river and mountain. Gradually we bought more and more land. So far we have bought 40, 000 hectares of land. In Texas we bought only 1,200 hectares. Up to this point we have spent $24 million for this Pantanal Project. True Parents want to buy between 1 million and 1.5 million square kilometers. But if we acquire between 150 and 200,000 square kilometers, we can seriously start the schedule for this project. Father may give an order for members to immigrate to Brazil. We are planning to make a deal with the government for us to be able to do that. Some rich Brazilians want to invest in this project. We have not announced the complete plan yet because we are worried that someone will steal our ideas. The land prices will also go up if we tell everyone what we are planing to do. Even the not so rich land will go up in price. Already the land around Jardim has gone up to 15 times the original price. Next year we need $10 to 20 million. Father wants to bring 20,000 members to advance the project. The Money Man Mr. Furuta was present. Mr. Kim asked him if he could provide that kind of money. (I did not catch his answer). The Rio Perdido (lost river) is so beautiful. It is a perfect tourist area. We will be able to make a lot of money there. Already an area near there called bonito is quite famous for tourism. The river has crystal clear water and I estimate that we can make $10 million a year there alone. We can easily bring 100,000 people to that site. Most tourists would come from Japan. In the pond we created (20,000 square feet) in Jardim we have released 17,000 Bacu. People can fish there year round. We can train 50 horses and have a riding stable. Already plans for Hotels and Restaurants have been drawn up. Education for outside people is our main objective. We will build a 3000 seat Education Center in Jardim. In the smaller cities, like Fort Olimpo the Education Center will hold 300. We want to build industrial parks. Create many factories for instance to make steel and machines. We want to build it all by ourselves, without any help other then the local population. Farms Everywhere We are also planning to create an Ostrich Farm. Their meat and eggs are very valuable. We have 29 ostriches now but want to raise their number to 500. This would cost us about $1.5 million. Within 5 years we could make about $10 million. There are also a lot of snails in the area. They can be sold as a delicacy. It takes them 4 months to mature. Within three weeks we cold build a Snail Farm. We would only need one hectare to do this. To raise cows, we will need at least 2,000 hectares. We also want to make canneries with different delicacies made to order for many different but specific national tastes. Our plan is to give each of the 33 cities a specific job. For instance, 6 cities would be zoned for the industrial park. The inhabitants of those cities would help in building the factories and also work in them when they are completed. Five special tourist areas will also be set up within the 33 cities. The next challenge for us is how to bring tourist to Jardim. We are planning to import cherry blossom trees from Japan and Europe. There is another exotic tree called Ipe Tree. This tree is very rare and very beautiful. It takes 50 years to mature and it only blooms every 4 years. Our goal is to get 10,000 Cherry Blossom Trees and 10,000 Ipe Trees. It would be spectacular to see these trees in full bloom. The Kiwi fruit is also very popular. I want to grow Kiwi Fruit Trees in rows, very close together and 4 km long. This would make a long tunnel kiwi fruit tunnel. We will create many attractions so that people will want to come. We have a Pecan Nut Farm and a Deer Farm with 300 deer. We took some members from Taiwan and showed them everything. They were so inspired and donated $300.000. Father wants to buy the highest mountain in the whole area. It’s 450 meters high and one can see all of the Pantanal. An airport big enough for 747’s is also in the planning. We want to get the Brazilian government to pay half of the cost. We also want to create a 10,000 Sq. km mango orchard. We will never use chemicals to grow them, that will not be necessary. Have you tasted mango juice? It tastes very good. There are many other vegetables and fruits that are unique to the Pantanal and can be exported to the rest of the world. Everything grows very fast; we can eat many different fruits and eat fish all year round. For this purpose we will create fish farms. We also want to provide a way for people to come and hunt. There will never be a shortage of food. We will also build fishing boats, big enough for 10 people Planned 20 Years Ago I have planned this for a long time. 20 years ago Father asked me to think about South America. I have received many ideas and education from the Spirit World. The government is giving as a 10 year tax exemption. By lottery the National Messiahs will receive an 10 hectare area ($3,000) for their nation. Families should immigrate there and take care of 10 boats. That would bring in enough income to live. The government will support the project all the way. We are building a model of the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth right here in Jardim. In order to do that we need help from Mr. Furuta. He is the head of Happy World; he knows how to make money. SEE COMPLETE UNIFICATION NEWS ARTICLE

~This environmental treasure is called the Pantanal. There is more information on this ecologically important area (Here). Amazingly, the Moonies actually held a public conference, where they delivered a STATEMENT on the importance of preserving this vital area for the sake of the world's ecology, but as you saw in the above quote, privately, to the members, the leaders expressed their true desire to actually build Hotels, Restaurants and even Industrial Factories throughout the area. This is classic Moonie-deception in action. What is sad, is that possibly due to the influence of Mind Control and lack of critical thought, the members will actually believe Both statements as factual. If the leaders tell them that Moon wants to preserve the unspoiled beauty and ecology of the area, they will believe that. When the leaders tell them that Moon will build Hotels and Restaurants and Industrial Factories throughout the region, they will believe that this is not incompatible with protecting the ecologically sensitive area for the diverse wildlife, since Moon said that he wants to protect it.

~There was a moonie website on this project available online at one time, but when I began questioning it, and making comparisons between the Moonies agricultural project and Jim Jones fatal Jonestown agricultural project, which resulted in the mass murder/suicide of 900 people in a similarly isolated region of South America, then suddenly the site was removed from being online.

~Welcome to Jonestown - People's Temple Agricultural Project, the sign pleaded to approaching visitors. Jonestown was the vision of Jim Jones and his followers. Like Moon's New Hope East Garden, it was an ambitious communal project located in an isolated area of South America. The comparisons of Jim Jones and his People's Temple and Sun Myung Moon and his Unificationists, are frighteningly numerous. Just a few of them are these:

• Both experiments were initiated by charismatic religious leaders.
• Both were communal endeavors billed as agricultural projects.
• Both were called the "Garden Of Eden" by followers.
• Both were located in isolated regions of South America.
• Both groups believed their leader to be messianic.
• Both projects came on the heels of increased public scrutiny and failures in America.
• Both "messiahs" were initially welcomed as true religious leaders and later derided as ruthlessly controlling of their followers.
• Both men were active in American politics giving huge donations to political causes, and using their members as 'volunteers' for political campaigns.
• Both men were accused of sexual improprieties with their followers.
• Both men exerted a dictatorial control over their followers, demanding absolute and unquestioning obedience.
• Both men promised their followers a paradise and new life in their communal experiments in South America.
• Both groups encouraged breaking family ties and donating all possessions to the cult.
• Both men relished media attention, even negative coverage.
• Both groups have played roulette with their children, sometimes giving them to others in the group, or leaving the raising of their children to those that were not the biological parents.
• Both men pathologically believed there were frequent attempts by government agents or mercenaries to assassinate them.
• Both men flaunted political power and craved more, seeing politics as integral to their religious missions.
• Both men developed their own unique Communist-styled philosophies, as patterns for an ideal world.
• Both men were accused of fathering illegitimate children with cult members.
• Both men suffered extreme paranoia.

~What is still unclear, is whether both cults, will meet the same desperate end. The fate of Jones' followers, was a ritual suicide/murder of 900 individuals and children given poisoned Kool-aid in small cups to be drunk together as a stark message to the world, of some imagined persecution of the group by officials in America. To many of us X-Members, it is hard to imagine people we knew in the Unification Church as ending their lives through a ritual suicide, or some other desperate act, and yet what is also true, is that there were so many other things we never would have believed about life in the Moonies, until we saw or experienced it ourselves. If there is a single objection, that is most repeated by current members as to why the Jonestown disaster would not occur in the Moonies, it is that Suicide is not condoned by Unificationist doctrines. But neither was adultery condoned by Unificationist doctrine, and yet most members now concede the probability that Sun Myung Moon fathered a child through an adulterous act with a female follower. At one time, this would have been an unthinkable possibility to most members. Moon, as the messiah is to be the standard of purity and morality, he would never commit such a sin. Yet, it is now widely believed, even in the church itself, that he did. Slowly and precisely, the leaders are now spinning 'providential' explanations of how a relgious man could do such a thing and be within God's will. The excuses come, but the fact remains, that adultery was considered unthinkable for Moon....until it happened. And what concerns me so greatly, is that like adultery, what if there will be other 'unthinkable' acts that will occur in the isolated South American farmlands? What if these other 'unthinkable' acts become reality and are simply excused by 'providential' reasons?

- Recently, parents have become increasingly concerned over the prospect of their loved ones being relocated, on a whim, by Rev. Moon to a South American jungle. One such family was concerned enough to write their Senator and ask for an investigation: One Family's Letter To Their Senator PLEASE NOTE: Thanks to Steve Hassan for this information. You can receive information by joining his Confidential Mailing List, or visiting: www.freedomofmind.org

~In the 1980's George Bush was engaged in the political fight of his life, against Michael Dukakis. Bush pulled out a victory and became President of The United States of America. Amid the celebrations, most Americans, indeed, possibly even many Moonies, did not know that some of us had been told that if Dukakis had won, Moon was going to pull all his followers out of America, and move us to where he chose. The kind of control that can allow a religious leader to choose a person's spouse, tell them when and how to have sexual relations with that appointed person, to be able to, on a whim, have them abandon their careers and families and countries....that is the kind of control that can be a recipe for dissaster. It happened in Jonestown, and it could happen in Moontown, or New Hope East Garden. When authorities were sorting through the dead bodies scattered across the Jonestown compound, they came across Jim Jones 'throne', a seat where he sat, divinely guiding his worshipful followers. Now, those followers lay in huddled masses, across blood soaked earth and mud, dead, from the master's own order, and there behind the master's throne, was a phrase that Jones himself had penned and posted there for reasons known only to himself. "Those who forget the past, are doomed to repeat it.". No one knows why Jones chose that slogan to leave behind, but I say that is a fitting thought to keep in mind, in our time, as Sun Myung Moon and his followers build yet another Garden of Eden upon the isolated landscape of the South American jungles.

Jones' "Garden of Eden"

Moon's "Garden of Eden"

 

Additional Facts To the right is a map of Moon's project. Despite the confidence in the article about the relationship between Moon's project and officials in Mato Grasso, a New York Times article revealed that officials are now very suspicious of Moon's activities there. The article details that the promised economic boost to the area has not appeared and that even taxes are not coming in because Moon claims a religious exemption for the huge tract of land he owns there. Furthermore, at least one family has written their Senator asking for an investigation into Moon's plans, and his encouragement of members to move there from America. More Links On Moon's Communal Project: 1999 New York Times Article January 1999 UC-News Article October 1998 UC-News Article 1989 Calgary Herald Article

 

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