Learn the history that lead to the creation of UI UA'A and
The Eco-Ark Project. The mysterious, bizarre, and almost
unbelievable path of these projects creator is now available
as PDF downloads. We hope you enjoy the mystical path of "Zen"
as expressed in "Beware of Rich Friends", and its sequel
"With Friends Like This"

SCOPE OF EXPERIENCE

After his discharge, he held a couple of small jobs and
continued his education part time. He was hired as an assistant
manager/ baker II at Tiffany's Bakery in Brea, Ca.(1981).
He held that position for one year, during which time he headed
the new product development/research duties.

He was then promoted to manager / baker 1 and held that position
for another 3 1/2 years. During that time he trained a number
of students from the North Orange County Regional Occupational
Program (N.O.C.R.O.P.) in the skills required to be a professional
baker. His students included individuals from Mexico, Romainia,
and Korea with very limited language skills.

Jim bought his first computer in 1982, and taught himself to
program it, as software was pretty much unavailable at the time.
He soon found that the memory limitations of the early P.C.'s
could not keep up with his creativity. So he put that
hobby aside to give technology a chance to sufficiently
advance. (He developed this website by himself, with the
assistance of a free HTML tutorial he found on the internet.)

He also studied the martial art of Moo-Yea-Do (1982-1986) under the forms
creator Grand Master Tiger Yang in Fullerton Ca.
This training would profoundly alter the course of his life.

Also during this time (1984), a series of spontaneous
"spiritual" experiences led him on a personal path of self discovery.
He delved into "the mysteries" with a passion, embarking on a
self-initiated study of world religions, mind sciences, and even
the "paranormal". He found this to mix as well with the spiritual
aspect of the martial arts, as it did with the logical aspect of
computer programing. All of this culminated in his taking
a year long professional hypnotist training.

In 1986 he was inspired to participate in "The Great Peace March". An anti-nuclear
protest march from Los Angeles, Ca. to Washington, D.C.during
the height of the Reagan administrations nuclear build-up.
Things changed dramatically during that time, and after the march
he had to start over.

He worked small jobs and built a small business selling gemstone
jewelry and gift items. The business grew from swap meets and fairs,
to a storefront in Sedona, Az. He later sold the store in favor of
pursuing his vision to organize a sustainable eco-community in the
fashion of the Rainbow Family he had met on the march.
People who "lived more like Christ than any I have ever met."

He met an "alleged" financier for such a project, a self titled
"benefactress". This heiress to one of America's most powerful families
offered him an unsecured parcel of 50+ acres for the project.
In exchange she required his services as her bodyguard. Thus began
one of the most bizarre experiences of his life.
His first E-book, describing his experiences is entitled:
Beware of Rich Friends Memoirs of a Bodyguard.

After his release from this nightmarish existence, he was again left
with little to show for it. He lived on the beach on Maui and worked
occasional manual labor jobs, learning about tropical plants
and organic farming. Eventually he saved up enough to put a roof
over his head. He started a small business propagating tropical
plants and found a job at a natural foods store. He saved up
enough to buy three acres in the Hawaiian rainforest. Taking his
knowledge of tropical horticulture with him, he is
continuing his dream of creating a sustainable eco-community.
In 2003, he founded C.T.G.J.L. to promote his comedic talents.
In 2004 he founded the HUMAN / NATURE FOUNDATION
to further his humanitarian and ecological ideals.

James W. Bush
1960 -- 'til he starts smelling funny