I’m writing to you not as an enemy, but as someone who lives on and loves this land you are developing near.
This isn’t just property to us. This is home—generations deep. It’s where our families are buried, where our children grow up, where we still sit on porches and hear the whippoorwills at night. It holds history, culture, and a way of life that doesn’t exist anywhere else.
What concerns me is the scale and direction of what’s being built.
From what we’re seeing, this is not a small spiritual center integrating into an existing community. It looks like the creation of a self-contained city—housing, commercial spaces, infrastructure, and long-term population growth that could fundamentally reshape this region.
That brings real consequences:
• Environmental strain – This land cannot support large-scale development without permanent impact on water systems, wildlife, and the natural balance that’s been here long before any of us.
• Infrastructure pressure – Rural counties are not built to handle rapid population increases. Roads, emergency services, schools, and healthcare systems will all be affected.
• Cultural displacement – When a large, organized community moves in with its own systems, it doesn’t just “join” the local culture—it replaces it. Small towns don’t absorb that kind of change; they lose themselves to it.
• Loss of heritage land – This area carries deep historical significance, including ties to the people who lived here long before us. It deserves respect, not large-scale transformation into something unrecognizable.
I understand that your message speaks about consciousness, responsibility, and respect for the Earth. I’m asking you to apply those same principles here.
If the intention is truly to serve, then it has to include the people who already live here—not override them.
The population of our county itself is 43,000 and your plan to bring 40,000 people that are of a different culture all together isn't joining our community it is overtaking it
People are not speaking up against this out of fear from your organization ,people seem to disappear that cause problems
I'm asking on behalf of the Harrison Ferry Mountain community for you to stop the building of this city and,to be conscious of the community around you, conserve the land,save the soil,rally for the lakes and streams,not to build more city streets in a place that's only ever had county roads,or build more 6 story condos where the wildlife used to live,not to destroy the native American history on the rocks in your quarry
Original Residents of Harrison Ferry