Do you consider yourself an Essene?
If someone were to walk up to you and ask what spiritual path you follow, would your answer be Essene, or something else?
Do you consider yourself an Essene, are you interested in their ways, or do you simply incorporate some of the Essene philosophy / practices without necessarily identifying as such?
I know for example that with the Budhist philosophy, a lot of people do include Eastern and Budhist "practices" in their daily lives without identifying as such per se, and was wondering is it is a bit the same with the Essenes and the raw community.
Just curious to see where most people stand. Please share as you are comfortable.
Do you consider yourself an Essene, are you interested in their ways, or do you simply incorporate some of the Essene philosophy / practices without necessarily identifying as such?
I know for example that with the Budhist philosophy, a lot of people do include Eastern and Budhist "practices" in their daily lives without identifying as such per se, and was wondering is it is a bit the same with the Essenes and the raw community.
Just curious to see where most people stand. Please share as you are comfortable.
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Permalink Reply by John E. Viitanen on -
The Essene Way is a part of my emotional make believe a story to be true that I have developed for myself. If you were to ask me what spiritual path I follow and you started naming a list of religions I'd have to agree to be a part of all good religions that have a better way than that which the status quo settles for. However, I can say that I cannot be a part of exclusionism, so that is why I keep on this point of view for individuals in this give it to me raw Essene group and hope nobody is excluded from this group or any other group that I want to sign up to. The hardest thing for me to deal with is rejection of the individual. Some far-out ideas that take a hard stand on ignorance I reject emphatically as I cannot allow you to live in a lie, and can say that is a healthy way to be, but as the saying goes, "Love the sinner, not the sin" only keeps me believing that it is truly an individual path with one's karma, so to speak, to be one's divining rod to the water of life.
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Permalink Reply by Christine on -
I once took an online course with an Essene Church (I know there are several) and loved the new found knowledge and understanding.
It also lead me through deeper soul searching about my own ideas of spirituality and opened up an entire new world and growth for me.
I do also love Essene.
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Permalink Reply by Mera Magic Meraa on -
That's great John, I think I feel the same way, if I'm reading your words correctly.
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Permalink Reply by John E. Viitanen on
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As the Holy Bible is interpreted in many unrealistic ways, I hope that what I abstract from it is the correct way to think about life, so if you abstract the truth from my mismashed thinking then I feel blessed to do my part. Thank U.
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Permalink Reply by Brooke on -
My partner Ronnie and I came across the Essene diet and writing last night... We feel very attracted to the whole of what we have seen so far. We have been sprouting already and have experiences more invigorating energy from sprouts than any other raw food we have tried. It just makes alot of since to us and we are looking forward to reading and learning more.
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Permalink Reply by Ronnie on -
I am completely new to Szekely and Essenes, but it is very interesting, so glad to see this group here!
Last night I stumbled upon Edmund Bordeaux Szekely info... so I've got lot's of reading to do, he wrote about 80 books most dealing with Essenes, but on Amazon there are no reviews and hardly any descriptions for these books.
I found this on Wikipedia about biogenic living
Biogenic Living
Szekely classified foods into four categories, depending on their qualities and what they contributed to one's health:
* Biogenic: life renewing - germinated cereal seeds, nuts; sprouted baby greens.
* Bioactive: life sustaining - organic, natural vegetables, fruit.
* Biostatic: life slowing - cooked, stale foods (but legumes must be cooked after sprouting first).
* Biocidic: life destroying - processed, irradiated foods and drinks.
The daily diet should consist of 25% biogenic foods, 50% bioactive foods, and 25% biostatic. No biocidic foods should be consumed.
Biogenic living also includes meditation, simple living, and respect for the earth in all its forms.
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Permalink Reply by John E. Viitanen on
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You see this is where I beg to differ. To be different is to be ridiculed. You see the solution, just eat the food raw and you'll be ok. If you think life is too fast for you then you're probably right, but don't eat cooked foods. These people who write books are expressing an opinion in a static sense. Then once it is in print it doesn't change. Einstein had some fantastic ideas about how the universe worked but later conceeded he could be wrong. We will revise his work and all other works. Since we are on this planet learning, doesn't it make sense to keep moving toward a new beginning. I don't know, I could be wrawng.
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Permalink Reply by Christine on
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Ideas in books are necessary for accumulated knowledge. It does not mean that it is true for all or that it will be true from now on. New understandings come about from things that were written in the past, leading to yet new, deeper understandings and discoveries.
It's the whole thing about not re-inventing the wheel.
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Permalink Reply by Suzie- Smoothie on -
I ve only recently come across the Essenes way of life after a friend introduced me to 1 or 2 books....and I seem to doing much of what they believed in.. i detox regularly, . receive emotional healing.....i do my yoga...i eat 100% raw vegan food and connect as much as possible to the universe and this makes me feel happy and healthy but i also follow the Buddhist way of life too....tolerance & love n 'kindness..it all seems to work for me.....(:
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Permalink Reply by TaTa on -
I might not go right on out and say it, but I do consider my self to be one with the Essenes.
I believe in the Essene Gospel of Peace completely.
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Permalink Reply by hajapapaya on -
I´m hindu - And I´m vegan raw now for 1 year. I think its exactly one year now - and the essene writings came accidently to me yesterday, and in them its written, that you will be shown to some essene secrets, after living for one year the essene way of life. I think this is all very strange and I want to get deeper into it.
As well a video came to me about elementary angel meditation, and this is one thing that the essene rolls recomend to do too.
These things happened by accident exactly now - after beeing vegan raw for one year.
Its very misterious to me.
I find some writings about, that the essener are connected to the vedic and they have a chain with 108 elements around their neck, as a symbol for the 108 repeatings. The 108 repeatings are usual in vedic amd hindu- mantras.
I didn´t know about this connections. But it feels very logical to me.
I´l stay on this path, cause its the best thing I´ve ever tried, and I tried a lot. (makrobiotic, ayurvedic, vegan, vegetarian, only meat, and all of these things used to bring me into one extreem state, that I stoped cause i felt it is not healthy)
Budhist philosophy is to patriarchic for me. The hindu and vedic and essene way is more a complete round thing for me.
Its also that, I meet people who live this way, i meet them by accident, and before I did not meet them. Its a mystery to me, and I like it.
I was invited to some love-light-work as well, and I feel the light-net around the world that i´m a part of now.
I´m very happy about this developement.
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Permalink Reply by Suzie- Smoothie on
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Oh! I didnt know that the essenes are connected to the Vedic...can you tell me more please? I am writing an essay at the moment and it is about ``is yoga a religion`` etc and I am writing about the essenses .....its all very interesting?! I love this stuff and I like tolearn more(:
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