I have a serious dilemma & I'm hoping to get some advice & or reassurance.

Yesterday I got a call from my mother about my brother that is in Thailand doing some kind of missionary work or something.

Basically about 4(?) mths. ago he sold everything he owned & moved to Thailand because God told him to.
Yeah, I know...
Well, as soon as he arrived in Thailand he got mysteriously ill & was nursed back to health by a girl whom he fell in love with, got engaged to as soon as he recovered, & married within three mths. (For the record, my brother is pushing 40 & she is in her early 20's.)
Yeah, I know...

Yesterday, he called my Mom early & said he wanted to leave the country. By the evening he was in a Bangkokhospital apparently suffering a stroke, paralyzed & unable speak. This was all relayed to my mother by his wife (who does not speak English well BTW).

This morning apparently (according to his wife)he is suffering total amnesia & does not even know who he is.

Another problem is the political unrest in Thailand at the moment.

That's the story & all I know. I feel very worried about his situation. For one thing he so far has shown serious lack of judgement in this Odyssey he's been on, IMO anyway.

I told my mother to contact the American Embassy which she has done. No word from them yet.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Self Sustainability continued, A visit to Mountain Homestead Community

Today, some friends & I toured Mountain Homestead Community.

Description (found here): A Permaculture homestead in the midst of 365 acres of preserved temperate rain forest in coastal Oregon. Gravity fed water, solar off grid electricity, eco-forestry, natural building, large garden, and a design for much more. Buildings are built with as local and sustainable materials as possible (and as cheap as possible!), which means timber framing from trees cut on-site, cob, strawbale or bale-cob, and milling our own wood on site. Increasingly, we earn income from commercial Eco-Forestry, thinning dense stands of Red Alder, selling the larger logs, and replanting mixed species of trees. In the next few years we will be building a wood processing shop, with hydro-electric powered mill, lumber drying facility and a shop for making value added wood products, as we will be transitioning to making all income land based.

This is a picture of some of the wooden structures built with recycled materials or materials logged on site. The building with the solar panels is an off grid solar electric shed. The long building in the back is a dorm. The building in the foreground is a bathhouse. A room in the dorm implementing wood & cob building techniques.The Cob Chapel. An open air cob structure, with a free flowing cedar roof.Custom made Beams support the roof. These free form roofs are complicated & we were told can take months to complete. A earthen oven & a cedar sink under construction. My favorite aspect of cob building is the sculptural component.This is the north side of a earthen roof on one of the buildings that also houses a root cellar.Three of my favorite people browsing in a section of the the year around intensive garden.

I was impressed with Mountain Homestead Community. It is an amazing place where self-sustainability is not just a concept but a recognizable goal.