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They distributed food and natural dry goods to restaurants and health food stores across California and nationally, making millions of dollars. Growing an organic foods empire allowed members to share their ethos of natural, conscious living and spiritual awareness.

These twin aims, of spiritual development and organic food, worked hand in hand. Despite their size and longevity, the Brotherhood of the Sun and Sunburst Farms are largely missing from studies of organic farming and diets, counterculture communes, and new religious movements.

Histories of American organic food production and consumption typi- cally emphasize secular progenitors and cultural trends while minimiz- ing religious figures and groups. Belasco and Harvey Levenstein, neglect spiritual diet and health reformers of the s and s, emphasizing instead sec- ular countercultural environmentalism as the basis for the emerging trend toward natural foods.

While some works have rejected this framing—by high- lighting spiritual contributions—most writers tell a secular story. Trompf is one of the few scholars to have written about it and the only one to devote more than a few pages to the group. This article helps rectify these omissions. Farming through natural means and as a meditative, communal labor connected members with each other and with Mother Earth as a mate- rial and spiritual being.

Selling organic, wholesome foods encouraged openness to spiritually conscious living in harmony with nature, served as a potential recruitment method, and helped Sunburst achieve fiscal and environmental sustainability. These techniques linked personal spiritual growth with growing organic foods and with generating income through health food companies.

In these shared endeavors, the organic, cosmic, and economic cannot easily be disentangled. His father, Charles Paulsen d. Years later, he would recognize these figures as Yogananda, Melchizedek, and Christ. There, he studied Kriya Yoga, a meditation technique for obtaining self-realization and cosmic unity through directing mental energy along the spinal chakras. He also read widely about various religions.

Fellow students of Yogananda included his friends Bernard Cole c. These groups should be well balanced, financially secure, and they should exist always in high thinking and plain living. Paulsen spent the ensuing years working as a tradesman and expand- ing his spiritual horizons. He saw a vision of a Golden Age of human beings living in cosmic conscious- ness, recognizing them as sons and daughters of God.

The beings told Paulsen that , years ago they came to earth to establish an ideal civilization. Eventually, war with an invading intergalactic malignant force caused them to leave. The early s was a period of injury, illness, and poverty for Paulsen, including his being involuntarily committed to a state mental institution and having a near-death experience. But in , after leaving the psychiatric hospital, The Builders instructed him to gather a community ready for them as a base station.

Through teaching them his eclectic spirituality they were empowered with a deeper purpose. Courtesy of Mehosh Dziadzio. That same year, he moved from his trailer home to a house that could accommodate his growing flock, mainly local college students.

In , Sunburst bought a acre farm which they renamed Lemuria Ranch. The Brotherhood of the Sun incorporated as a religious nonprofit in as Sunburst Communities and created Sunburst Natural Foods as its member-run for-profit corpo- ration to manage their health food businesses.

That same year they opened Sunburst Community Store to sell their organic produce, and soon formed a trucking company, also called Sunburst Natural Foods, to distribute organic food and natural dry goods. Sunburst opened two local restaurants, a whole-grain bakery, a dairy, and a fruit juice-bottling company, among other enter- prises, and bought a 2,acre farm.

Sunburst marketed their products as healthier, more environmentally sustainable, and more spiritually nourishing than industrially processed or chemically-grown non- organic foods. We try to provide the consumer with food grown in a natural way, in harmony with mother nature.

Commune members largely worked without pay, yet they received nutri- tious food, simple clothing, medical care, shared land, and housing. We, in turn, are trying to offer people good employment in a growing food industry with a spiritual backbone. As its organic food businesses grew, it helped create standards for the emerging organics industry. Sunburst helped develop some of the first American organic certification and advocacy groups, including California Organic Growers, California Certified Organic Farmers CCOF , and the Western Organic Food Foundation, contributing funds and leadership on organizational boards and earning organic certification itself.

In , Sunburst bought a 3,acre farm called Tajiguas Ranch. In addition to growing fruit trees, vegetables, wheat, nuts, and other crops, members raised naturally fed, hormone-free goats, sheep, cows, and chickens. They made wool clothes and an array of dairy products, including butter, yogurt, cheese, milk, and smoothies. Their bees produced tons of honey.

Paulsen bought horses to pull plows and to show competitively. The farms included machinery and tools for making furniture, pottery, bricks, blacksmithing, welding, and necessary items for the community and for use or sale in their businesses.

A gift shop above one restaurant sold items crafted by Sunburst members. Paulsen bought four large sailboats—the group owned just one at any given time—to catch fish for their Sunburst Pierce Fisheries and for pleasure cruises.

In , Sunburst opened a large alternative supermarket, sell- ing their own organic foods, organic produce from other farms, and other products. It pioneered selling bulk items in clear, airtight food bins. Sunburst distributed produce from other organic farmers through- out California and the Southwest as well as to Chicago, New York, Canada, and other major markets by truck and air freight. Recipes included instructions for making whole grain breads and cereals, vegetarian fare, fish plates, bean and pasta dishes, soups, salads, dairy products, teas, juices, and desserts.

For members, cultivating and consuming organic foods, conscious living, and self-sufficiency converged with and were outgrowths of their spiritual aim of divine communion. Paulsen taught that living the eight- fold path and twelve virtues would lead members to cosmic conscious- ness.

The eightfold path included meditation, conduct, study, speech, association, nourishment, work, and recreation. The twelve virtues were charity, faith, loyalty, patience, honesty, perseverance, temperance, humility, courage, equanimity, continence, and compassion. Paulsen also recommended juicing to conquer disease.

As a charitable service, Sunburst provided food for local people in need. Members woke up early for daily meditation, then ate together, then worked at farming, trucking, selling, and baking; evenings were spent in communal dinners, small group meditations, and social time.

In other words, simple living helps. Healthy living norms included no drugs, alcohol, tobacco, or premarital or extramarital sex; wearing simple clothes; living outdoors cleanly and naturally; and eating a nutritious, organic diet, preferably vegetarian.

Meals were mostly fresh dairy products, vegeta- bles, fruits, nuts, seeds, and grains. Fish or meat was served several times a week by the late s, although originally the diet was exclusively raw food, then lacto-ovo vegetarian, then choose-your-own. Its ethics and success inspired others who linked farming, community, sustainability, and spirituality.

Cesar Chavez told executive board members of the United Farm Workers at their La Paz headquarters that he admired Sunburst, viewing it alongside Synanon as possible models for cooperative ventures in socially just communal living that cultivated food and spirituality.

Sunburst is a base station for The Builders. The Builders hope to create an image through Sunburst that would show how the Ancients lived in brotherhood before. He professed: The communities, the stores and the ship [schooner] are the manifested proof that my visions and contacts with The Builders are real. Sunburst has become, not only a large and growing community of men, women and children, but a financially successful business enterprise designed to support ourselves.

The by-product of living a life in harmony with The Spirit is to have physical abundance—a clean little house or cabin, good wholesome food, and homemade clothing done with love, plus lots of loving friends. Accusations in that he had brandished guns in public, stockpiled firearms, and oversaw military training drills in preparation for a coming apocalypse resulted in defections and bad publicity. Later allegations that Paulsen abused painkillers, sexually abused min- ors, and evaded taxes, in addition to a threatened shoot-out with law enforcement after he was arrested for drunk driving and resisting arrest in , led many members to publicly turn against him, and to increased scrutiny by federal law enforcement.

Workers and farmers demanded a greater share of profits, especially as they claimed Paulsen and his inner circle lived well while they lived in poverty. By , two-thirds of the membership had left, leaving the farm and markets with fewer workers. Sunburst finished liquidating its California properties in Still, many continued to follow Paulsen spiritually and spatially. In —, Paulsen and about one hundred members left California for a half-million-acre cattle ranch in Wells, Nevada, and to a mobile home park in nearby Oasis, a small settlement where members operated a gas station, mini-mart, hotel, and restaurant.

By , after enduring harsh winters, short growing seasons, and facing a lien on the new ranch, Paulsen took most of the remnant to Salt Lake City, Utah, where he renamed them The Builders. This core group would go on to create a new chain of health food stores, organic farms, and a spiritual retreat sanctuary that sustains Sunburst today. They have drawn on many of the same teach- ings and adapted to new spiritual trends. The community continues to link growing organic food with spiritual growth, selling natural foods to inspire harmony with Mother Earth and spiritualizing food work as med- itative practice.

During the s and into the mids, the community dwindled further, eventually down to a few dozen people. In Utah, they mostly abandoned farming to find other employment, living in a mansion and then in an apartment complex they managed.

They stopped pooling resources collectively and began earning income individually. In Salt Lake City, they bought, remodeled, and sold houses; ran an excavation-demolition business; began offering weekend retreats for spir- itual seekers; and opened two small natural foods stores they called New Frontiers, which helped introduce organics to Utah.

Some members went to Arizona and opened additional New Frontiers stores—in Flagstaff, Sedona, and Prescott—between — The group opened more markets in Salt Lake City.

Paulsen renamed the group Solar Logos in the mids, then returned to California in , looking for land for a new commune.

He also bought a larger property called Nojoqui Farm sometimes called New Frontiers Farm to raise organic produce for their markets. In —, most of the members moved back to the Santa Barbara area, built homes and a retreat center on the ranch, and once again called themselves Sunburst.

It sells natural foods, homeopathic medicines, and sundry items. It is our belief that growing and supporting organics is one of the best things we can do for our- selves, for our children, and for our earth. They sold the three Utah stores to Wild Oats, a natural foods grocery chain, in , and opened two new stores in California the next year. Today, Sunburst Sanctuary sits on Sunburst Farm, its only property.