The Evanescent Press
Earth, Pulp & Paper
The Latest News:
May 9, 2008
I have just posted the text of Jokes, one of my earliest books.
I have just posted my latest article, Acts of God to my section of Short Articles.
We have finally begun testing of our first pilot scale pulp mill. See Progress Report, and the Alternative Fiber Pulp Mill.
Email -- Since my email address (tree@tree.org) is published on the web site, I receive tons and tons of spam which I delete 100 messages at a time. I scan these briefly looking for real messages, but if you wish to send a message, please put something in the Subject line to alert me that you are sending a “real” message. Since I reply to all mail, if you do not receive a reply within a week or so, try sending your message again. My apologies if I have overlooked your message by mistake.
I have finally prepared a low cost edition of some of my major work in philosophy (Hermetic Alchemy and Patterns of Illusion and Change.) It is a paperback book on commercial paper, 50 pages, two in color. The price is $12. This book is now available for online purchase with your credit card.
From time to time I have written short articles on all sorts of topics, and I have begun to post some of these onto the site. You can find them at Short Articles.
We have just posted the text of a new book, The Common Sense Guide to Losing Weight, by John Stahl.
We have also posted a reader’s letter (Letters).
Free Farms (New Listing Posted. See: Free Farm Bulletin Board). “Free Farms” refers to the radical idea that people do not have to base all of their living arrangements on money. The concept of a “free farm” is a place where volunteers are invited to live and work without the payment of rent on the one hand or salaries on the other. The Church of the Living Tree is attempting to implement this format as much as possible, although at the present time our facilities only allow for a very few volunteers to live at the site of the Evanescent Press in northern California, the first property owned by the Church, or at the Maui branch of the Church. On the other hand, we are trying to facilitate the implementation of the concept beyond our own horizons through the medium of a Free Farm Bulletin Board. For further information about free farms within the context of a whole program of political, social, and economic reforms, see the book New Solutions, by John Stahl.
We have just completed publication of a second edition of Patterns of Illusion and Change, with a digital version published here on the site. First published in an edition of 1000 copies in 1984, it has been out of print for years.
Work continues on the preparations to begin construction of a first pilot project of the New World Pulper based on the design of V.S. Krotov of Ukraine. See Progress Report, and the Alternative Fiber Pulp Mill.
We now have scanned images of our Hand Made Paper available.
Introducing Agstone Construction -- our new project to make a building material from the same hemp and agricultural waste that we propose to use for alternative fiber papermaking. See also our article on Hemp for Houses.
We have added another chapter to our long-running story of the Permit to Cultivate Hemp for the Paper Mill.
The Sandalwood Man. The Church of the Living Tree has an active branch in Maui, where Mark Hanson has been propagating and planting sandalwood trees, which used to grow in abundance there.
Pure Hemp Postcards: These Postcards are letterpress printed on our Handmade Pure Hemp paper. If your local hemp store doesn't carry them yet, direct them here.
We have now published the complete text of Patterns of Illusion and Change, by John Stahl, an outline of the principle ideas underlying Hermetic Alchemy. We have also added the Latin text of the most important original source of Hermetic Alchemy: The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus, along with our own English translation. If you are interested in this topic, be sure to check out the text of an otherwise unpublished article, Hermetic Alchemy, also by John Stahl. For more information about our other publications, go to the Current List.
This site is intended to be constantly evolving. If you have any corrections, additions, suggestions, proposed links to other tree resources, or other comments, drop us a line at tree@tree.org.
John Stahl
