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The Essene Ecstatic Mystical Gathering
Welcomes You!


WELCOMING

The Essene Ecstatic Mystical Gathering,
held Autumn Equinox 2003
was a powerful gathering of
essential Soul Group activity,
intent, and rededication of life purpose.

The Gathering set a tone that
within 20 years,
Jewish Essene Mystical Practices
will be a foundation for
many within Judaism
who are drawn to nutrition,
interest in the natural
healing arts, and intuitive sensitivity.
Rav Gabriel Cousens is the
foremost Senior Essene teacher
who models these practices.
Join us as we become the Seeds
for this vital and necessary evolution
through studying this web site
and visiting our other links.

Coming from different levels of
 dietary practices,
--vegetarian and otherwise--
and spiritual practices--
our gathering brought together
a diverse group enthusiastic
about learning Essene Kabbalistic
Practices.  Weate a vegan raw food
diet that left most of us speechless.

See the review of our
the Essene Ecstatic Mystical
Gathering, written by
that took place in
time and space
Autumn 2003.

Read this Introduction
to fully grasp the Purpose
and meaning of the
Essene Ecstatic Mystical Gathering.


Call it Mosiach consciousness--
call it Messiah Consciousness--
Call it what you like--
The Essene Ecstatic Mystical Gathering
is a place in consciousness
 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 who we are intended.
One message unites us all who will be
drawn here:

We each know we simply can no longer
be hidden in the world, not for the
sake of this world.

It is my honor to co-create
this website with you,
to create the
sacred space for your emergence
through our time together NOW.
 It is my honor to welcome you
and thank you for helping me
remember my own role in
reminding, remembering,
and recalling that you and I
are part of  the Essene Ecstatic Mystical Gathering.
Let the questions come up.

Answer as many as you can
through looking at this extensive
gathering website.  

Feel the Essene impulse
within you.

-Leslie Goldman,
Your Enchanted Gardener


Please Contact
Leslie Goldman

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Setting the Scene

The Gathering Began
Autumn Equinox Weekend
Light Dinner at 5:00 PM
in the Madre Grande Monastery
Sun Center
at 5:30 PM.

Opening Shamanic Shofars
at 5:3O PM
one hour before Shabat.
Ends Sunday at 1.

It was Autumn of 2003.
I stood in a Gathering on a mountain top
and its valley.  
 We were filled with spaciousness.
Here are large boulders and hidden and revealed histories.
We ate the purest of Vital Living foods.
We merged with living room that allowed us each to expand
into the fullness of who we are.
This wasa Reunion of Soul Group activity
one week before the New Moon.


We were at Madre Grande Monastery,
 in San Diego County.
thirty minutes south of the city,
 25 minutes from the
site of Rancho La Puerta in Tecate, Mexico where Edmond Bordeaux Szekely¹s Essene School of Life
 began;This is where he and Deborah began the Fitness Revolution in 1940.

Madre Grande Monastery:
Native Americans have walked this land.
Seekers aspiring Harmonic Convergence
 spread their wings on this land.
Solstices and Equinoxes have been honored here.

We Returned to this place, a week before the Birthday of the Universe, the Rosh Hashanah 2003 and one week after the vibration of Love set by t he Whole Being Weekend in Idylwild, CA, another important Southern California Peace offering.

What does the word
Essene mean?
What is the Essene Walk?

Essene means expectant.
Expectant of the return of God to Earth,
Expectant as a Mother welcoming her babe into the world.  Pregnant as a blossom
about to burst forth, as a blossom pregnant with Divinity.
We bring Divinity down to Earth through ourselves.
This is a path about doing what is Essential.  
The Essene is an all sided path,
expressing through many spiritual
paths, and called many different names.
This is a Journey of one step at a time,
leading to 1000 years of Peace.
--Leslie Goldman
Enchanted Gardener

About the Essenes
then and now

"Let us seek truth everywhere;
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."
--Romain Rolland
Nobel Peace Prize Winner 1915
Essene School of Thought

Ecstatic mystics, the intent and purpose
 of the Essenes and their lifestyle
is to redeem the world
through the rising up of new Seeds.
 A Kaballistic stream of consciousness
that is Tree of Life and Nature based,
 the primary industries among the Essenes
are knowledge and healing.  
Essene influence--
through Essene Soul group activity--
 has never left our planet.
Souls with Essene background
are at the cutting edge
of personal and planetary Renewal.  
The Essene sole aim is to instigate
1000 yearsof Peace through personal example.  
Essenes are known by their "walk"--
their activities.  Being an Essene is to be
All sided, and yet have a  uniqueness that is Soul inspired.

Essenes may enjoy more than one Religion,
and more than one spiritual path.
The Modern Essene Path is a commonground,
 where Sisters and Brothers from various
religions can meet in full acceptance.
Essenes are in  ALL Peace loving traditions
primed for the Gathering of the Whole.
There are few areas of alternative healing,
and miraculous healing,
that were not mastered by Essene teachers
of old and cannot be mastered
by Modern Essene Teachers.
An Essene Ecstatic Mystical Gathering
 wil give you comfort and encouragement
to follow your Soul purpose
as  it did for other great Souls of antiquity
who were raised in of various kinds of Essene communities.

Our Mother Earth welcomes you and asks
that you come home to your Soul Purpose.
This is a gathering to inspire your
coming home.

What is an
Ecstatic Mystical Feeling?
Location:

Madre Grande Monastery
18372 Highway 94, Dulzura CA 91917
(619) 468-3006 Tel.

Madre Grande Monastery,
San Diego, California  is located
30 minutes South of San Diego.

A map to Madre Grande  and specific directions is posted on their site.  
Please leave plenty of travel time.
Madre Grande is located off Highway
94,
Madre Grande is located 15 minutes up a dirt road off Highway 94, Campo Road, in the US, on the road to Tecate, a bit passed Dulzura.

Map to Madre Grande:


To read more about Madre Grande:

Please look under  "where we are" for specific directions.



Our Gathering was Chemical
Free!

We asked that our participants
refrain from the use of cigarette smoke, wearing perfume, after shave lotion,
 or cologne; scented hand and body lotion, hairsprays  or aerosols of any kind or scented candes or incense.