The main building will be a recycled, larger scale version of the eat-in-kitchen, and to encourage the true spirit of self-denial, sleeping will be done on grass mats on a concrete floor in sleeping bags fabricated from desiccated eucalyptus leaves.
Meals will be served once daily and will consist of a nourishing Vegan-approved soup rich in paspalum seeds, wattle pollen, and fine-ground gumnuts, while the purest water drawn directly from the dam will purge away all bodily impurities.
As well as contemplating each other's navels, novices will also learn to lie under the stars metaphysically hearing the music of the spheres and comparing naked eye observations of the Helix Nebula, Jupiter and Saturn's moons, and structural changes within the Homunculus. Approved attire will be saffron T-shirts and bicycle shorts and footwear will consist of Ho Chi Minh sandals.
A telescope will be provided but for ceremonial purposes only, inmates being expected to indulge their imaginations and spirituality rather than confuse their minds with perhaps unfortunate and incontrovertible observational evidence.
Society conservationist Col McMickle, an honours graduate of one of Australia's finest ashrams, has been asked to act as honorary guru until a full time guru can be found, and to carry out preliminary instruction in levitation, astral travel and vegetarian barbecue during the first semester.
It was intended that the first sod be turned at a ceremony at Wiruna on 1 May 2006 by the President of the United States Society of Astrologers but unfortunately his much anticipated visit to Australia has been cancelled owing to unforseen circumstances.