Rabbi Wayne Dosick and the Elijah Minyan in the backyard at the Enchanted Garden Intentional Community in San Diego.

Forming the New Ground ³Let us seek truth everywhere; let us cull it wherever we can find its blossom or its SEED. Having found the seed, let us scatter it to the winds of heaven. Whencever it may come, whithersoever it may blow, it will germinate. There is no lack in this wide universe of Souls that will form the new ground." --Roman Rolland from ³The Forerunners²   1917 Nobel Peace Prize for Literature 1915 Rabbi Wayne Dosick, spiritual guide of The Elijah Minyan in San Diego and adjunct professor at the University of San Diego,  a Catholic University, and the author of many celebrated books, in Living Judaism repeats the old Jewish Legend of how once the universe was filled with God¹s Light, but in order to create our world and allow space for this new creation, God withdrew his light.  God attempted to store that light in Heavenly vessels, but "no vessel - not even a heavenly vessel - could contain the radiant light of God.  God's light, which He had put into the vessels, could not be hidden away." "It wasn't too long until - with a blazing flash - God's light burst out of the heavenly vessels. The force of the mighty impact caused the jars to shatter into millions of little pieces.  And the light itself splintered into billions of little sparks. The broken pieces of the vessels fell to the newly formed earth and became the ills and the evils that beset theworld-little pieces of anguish and travail that, one day, will have to be collected, repaired, and made whole again. And what happened to the billions of little shards of light? Each of the little shards of light, the sparks of God, became the Soul of a human being." He continues, "God declared that the crowning works of creation were these human Souls - man and woman, created in His image, created with a spark of His Divine Being. And to man and woman, God assigned a divine task and a sacred mission. Each person, then and now, is to joyfully share the universe with God, to be His companion and helpmate, His resident caretaker and earthly steward." From the Depth of my Soul awareness, as a human who has pulled my broken pieces through the power of my Soul to love, as an Enchanted Gardener who has developed a mystical relationship with plants and our planet, and as an Essene teacher who began spiritual practices studying with Bernard Jensen, and Edmond Bordeux Szekely, both Essene teachers, I stand now  with my Soul allies  Kevin Ryerson and Gabriel Cousens to create a profound moment in time and sacred space. An Essene Ecstatic Mystical Gathering will be a powerful gathering of Souls and essential Soul Group Activity. We who come together now, are Divine Sparks--standing in many spiritual traditions and ways of being.  Coming from different levels of dietary practice--vegetarian and otherwise--and spiritual practices--we each have it in us to make sense once and for all of the inherent human impulse in every seed to become all it can be, and through this inspiration bring Peace to Earth. Call it Mosiach consciousness--call it Messiah Consciousness--Call it what you like--An Essene Ecstatic Mystical Gathering is a place to clarify, and be the healing that now holds religions apart in their different approaches to something so deep in the human Soul, the impulse to tear open the package and simply be what we are intended.  One message  unites us all who will be drawn here: We each know we simply cannot be hidden in the world, not for the sake of this world. It is my honor to help co-create this gathering with you,to create the sacred space for each of our emergence through this gathering. It is my honor to welcome you to be a part of An Essene Ecstatic Mystical Gathering. Let the questions come up. Answer as many as you can before our gathering. Feel the Essene impulse within you, and come and let's be together on the Mother Mountain--Madre Grande. May our world and the entire world never be the same. Through My eyes I am recording a History of Peace on Earth, a history of the Earth and its human flowering. Our renewed Earth is the Enchanted Garden, and you and I, its gardeners. (Photo of Eijah minyan in my backyard) Leslie Goldman, Enchanted Gardener June 14, 2003