"The Modern Essene Way is an all-sided path leading to commonground where all that honors life meets." Leslie Goldman Enchanted Gardener Essene School of Thought

"I love religion so much I practice seven of them." --Dan Maziarz, Essene School of Life Senior Essene Teacher and Priest

AriellaShira leads circles for Healing and Wholeness.  She will attend our gathering.  This photo was taken on the Summer Solstice June 22, 2003 at Madre Grande Monastery. The Cacti flowers bloom one day a year.  The Autumn Equinox energy will be very powerful at Madre Grande Monastery, September 19-21, the dates for An Essene Ecstatic Mystical Gathering.   The Monastery ha been the site for many Equinox and Solstice gatherings. Their teachings  honors all spiritual paths and religions.  Head Abbot, John Drais, once taught in an Orthodox Yeshiva in Los Angeles. He has helped produce an exoteric commentary on th Zohar, Jewish Kaballistic teachings. Rav Gabriel Cousens will guide us through An Essene Ecstatic Mystical Shabbat.

*This is a gathering for peacemakers.  *This is for those who want to experience and renew Jewish Ecstatic Mystical Practices. *This is for those being drawn to Vegetarian, Live Food,  and Vegan lifestyles and want to be exposed to a culture that lived this way. 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.  This 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.