A history of San Diego's New Age Community.
DIANNA HARBIN's Dream, and the fulfillment
of how that dream came to shift the consciousness
of our city during the early late 70's and early 80's.
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Come, Come, Whoever You Are Wanderer, Worshipper,
Lover of Living. It doesn't matter.
Ours is not a Caravan of Despair.
Come, even if you have broken your vow
a thousand times
Come, yet again, come, come.
I am still in elevated
Full On Enchanted Gardener mode.
It is a two days after the end of the Post-Conference
of the PACIFIC SYMPOSIUM '09.
Whenever I do an Enchanted Garden Installation,
I get a tune-Up.
This year, I received a remarkable Tune-Up.
My Seed Dream now is to translate the Feng Shui that
I had at this Enchanted Garden Installation to my office
and bedroom at home.
This is going to ask many hours of investment of energy.
DIANNA HARBIN, the dearest of friends, and my favorite
Tea Lifetyle Guide, honored me with sharing about four hours
or more yesterday afternoon.
This was one of the most enjoyable cleanups
I have had. That is saying a lot. Most of us have one kind
of hoarding tendency or another. I come from a line of
bonafide hoarders, definite pack rack keepers.
So to say that Dianna's presence in my room, helping
me clear and declutter, was a laughter filled joy,
is saying a lot. For more on the hoarders,
read PlANT YOUR DREAM BLOGS on this subject,
and be sure to watch some of the videos on A & E.
DiANNA was one of the rare and special Gifts
that came to be as a result of doing this
Enchanted Garden Installation at the PACIFIC SYMPOSIUM 09.
I have not seen her in approximately 30 years.
She has just returned to San Diego and wants to live again
in the city that she considers her home base in this life.
She called me during the the Pacific Symposium.
I invited her to come down. She planted a seed dream
and was my witness when the Executive director
of SCRIPPS CENTER OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE planted
her Seed Dream.
Dianna Harbin dreamed a dream more than 30 years ago
where she saw a Phoenix-based Trance Channel at the
old University of Life Church, a school of Mediumship,
teaching before a large audience. The Medium moved
with the Dream that she had.
I was a player in Dianna dream.
She took that Medium so far. She actually lived
with him and his wife later in Santa Barbara--that
was before he became one of the most popular Mediums
of the century.
Dianna met this Medium at a place called HEALING WATERS
located at INDIAN HOT SPRINGS in EDEN, ARIZONA.
She met him first at a Solstice or Equinox gathering.
The dream came soon after. She was 24 years at the time.
Soon after meeting the Medium, Dianna moved into the
University of Life Church. She had the dream here.
That year was 1977. I came on the scene in the Winter
of 1977. WILLIAM Aura and I went to Healing Waters.
I was staying at the time at DR. BERNARD JENSEN's
HIDDEN VALLEY HEALTH RANCH.
I ended up staying at Healing Waters for at least a month,
and then moving on to the UNIVERSITY OF LIFE CHURCH
where I stayed at least another month.
As Dianna had met the Medium at Healing Waters, so did I.
I became entranced by him. We spoke in those days of
Soul Group Activity. Many of us gave countless hours of dedicated
time and effort to raise him up.
DIANNA lived in San Diego and returned there to
schedule sessions for The Medium. It was there that
ELIZABETH BYERLEY, the wife of BILL BYERLEY was introduced
to the work of The Medium.
Bill at the time believed in good and evil.
He was very concerned that his wife had gotten involved.
He went to Phoenix to exorcise The Medium.
He met with him. When he left, Bill Byerley flipped positions
as Dianna says it. He came away wanting to promote
the work that was coming out of The Medium's mouth.
At the time, I was leaving on a warehouse on Fir Street
near Little Italy, a delightful area of downtown San Diego.
The Medicine Wheel Warehouse was located next to the
offices of the WELL BEING Magazine.
I moved into the warehouse after I moved out of
HARPO's HEALTH HOUSE BY THE SEA. I wrote many
blogs about Harpo and those days right here.
I often sensed one day, that story of Harpos was
the closest I would ever come to writing and winner
an Academy Award.
DIANNA and BILL both worked at WELL BEING MAGAZINE.
When Bill came home excited to promote the Medium,
this caused a great stir at the magazine. They were
of a different fold of Christian thinking. As Dianna
puts it, one day she was marched into an "inquisition-like"
session where she was asked questions, as were
the other staff.
What she said was deemed animistic, or pagan.
She was fired. Byerley quit on his own.
I remember one day walking past the Medicine Wheel Warehouse,
a collective. Someone down the street was doing some building.
I smelled fresh wood. I did not pay too much attention to this,
but the whole aura of what I experienced gave me a feeling
that we were some kind of little Western Town that was creating
a whole new age.
Byerley did not pay too much attention to me during those
days, but we gradually had some conversations on the street.
It was then, we both decided to travel to Healing Waters.
I may have my timing a bit off and this can be clarified.
There were a number of times we went out there for the
Equinoxes and Solstices. Each time, The Medium would be
there. He became one of the most popular workshops
at Healing Waters during these gatherings.
The Collaborations between Byerley and I had tinges of
competition as you might expect from brothers who fight,
but the work we did together shifted San Diego's New Age
community. We became to promote the Medium.
I designed a flyer that Bill did not like for my first series.
Soonafter, I started to write copy both for the events
I would produce as well as the workshops the Byerley
would produce.
In the beginning, we worked together.
The first series of classes was held around Christmas
1978. This series was held at the SAN DIEGO SWEDENBORG CHURCH
on Campus Avenue. I choose that location
because it was where EDMOND BORDEAUX SZEKELY
had held the annual Biogenic, aka ESSENE SEMINARS in 1976,
77, perhaps into 1978.
The tape series was originally recorded by DAVID STEPP,
who was I had met through Dr. Bernard Jensen. Stepp did
a lot of work for the Dr, my spiritual father.
The first class of the three day series was called
THE ORDER OF THE ANGELS, The Second,
JESUS: MAN, MYSTIC, SAVOIR, SON OF GOD, THE third
class, THE ESSENE WHOLISTIC HEALING MODEL.
These audio tapes still exist, however, The Medium
went through many transformations in his own life.
The teachings were original intended to unlift humanity
and serve our Soul Group Activity.
Our agreements concerning the release of the material
shifted many times over the next ten years. At first,
the tapes were sold. Later, they were rented from an
Essene Library. In later years, I had permission to circulate
the tapes and sell them. In later years, I was told that
I had permission to transcribe the material and could quote
directly 15% as is.
It was during the Spring of 1979, that The Medium and others
in our Soul Group participated collectively in a series
of workshops called ADVENTURES IN CONSCIOUSNESS.
Funding for the workshops came from ANN MARIE BENNSTROM,
who by that time had also become enamored by This Medium
who wore a beign cap.
Inside the cap, was a brand logo, that said "Perfection."
I known that to be the case, because after he wore that hat
for numbers of years, he gave it to me. I wore it for numbers
of years myself, until it was lost or dematerialized into
some Museum in the sky.
There is much more of this story to be told,
but we can leave that for another day, or perhaps
another book.
To cut to the chase, Dianna Harbin, the Dreamer,
the woman who launched THE MEDIUM at an important phase
in his early life, dreamed me up. It was through Bylerley
and myself, that his name first came into the electronic
Billboards of Downtown San Diego.
The whole tenor of commerce in our city shifted during
those times. The shift of ads in the free classifieds in
THE READER, a local San Diego newspaper, were palpable.
Psychics and Trance Mediums began to put up shingles
through out city and now felt that their work was above
board.
When Dianna first began to promote The Medium
it was in a church setting. He would always begin those
sessons with the Lord's Prayer, and say things like
"God Bless you," or something like that.
Under Bill Byerley and my influence, as well as his need
to raise travel experiences, we began to charge for these events,
and another chord of selling spiritual teachings began to emerge.
This trend that we planted may have later bit me in the butt.
Others came on the scene who wanted The Medium to prosper,
and they wanted his gifts to support a couple's livelihood.
All this seems fair.
Part of my pain over the years, was that the teachings,
original intended to uplift and create 1000 years of peace,
never were freely given as I imagined they were intended.
The son of Byerley, DUSTIN BYERLEY, did with permission
produce a CD called THE KEYS OF ENOCH that may be
available. It sets to a bit of the teachings to music.
A portion of the original teachings
inspired my lifework, alerted me to my life purpose,
and underscored my life purpose.
The Medium once told me that he did not want
to just bring out another bible. He wanted me to
bring out the teachings as my own, through the way
I would evolve them.
To some degree I have fulfilled those words.
The Enchanted Garden, an evolution in my own thinking,
was seeded by the work we all did together.
The Enchanted Garden is a name for our renewed earth,
and the work started in those days, is now moving
forth through the life force within a new generation
of youth known as the BEET KEEPERS.
I am grateful for the role I have played,
yet a part of me will forever grieve the role I may have played
through my own personal limits that may have stood in the way
of those original divine messages being heard.
To this day, each Christmas and Easter time,
I put on my Essene hat, listen, and teach from them.
It is possible to hear these original teachings still.
I vision is that one day, after I, The Medium, and the
one known as Byerley leave this earth, all egos
and need to earn livelihood from these teachings
will have died, and the teachings again be freed.
I was with Bill Byerley during the weeks when he changed
his name. It was at those original channelings where
he again picked up a guitar, that he had set aside years before,
and began to play again.
Byerley became known as Aura, and then WillIAM AURA.
In those early days, teachings through The Medium, alerted
us both to our life work. Aura would write lyrics, as did others
who heard the teachings. I have written volume's.
Dianna tells me she was in a room at the WELL BEING magazine
where Bylerley, and perhaps myself, looked at the words
that would be used to promote this amazing phenomena
of a youth who could go to sleep and speak Wisdom
teachings of the ages. It was Dianna, for historical note,
who came up with the word, Channeling, that
became part of the popular venacular. Before that
the word seance, or Trance Medium was used, Later
they were called Trance Channels, or simply channels.
I give credit to Dianna for the role she played.
Dianna was with me when The Medium and most
people called me "The Gold Man." She says she
had difficulty finding me over the years because
she never remembered my first name!
She finally Googled, "Goldman, Essene, San Diego."
My name popped up and she was able to find me.
She says her spirit told her to be in touch as soon
as got to town, knowing that once we reconnected
she would find her ground here.
That Medium, a sweet man of innocence in those early days,
became a medium for what was in our hearts,
and our message. 1000 years of Peace.
AN ESSENE ECSTATIC MYSTICAL GATHERING, 2005
attendees and a lot of information
GABRIEL COUSENS and I taught this. http://www.lesliegoldman.com/Essenes/
Googling 1000 years of Peace.
This one is curious
BRAD PITT promises 1000 years of Peace
No story I can find, just a picture.
Tells me, he has Essene Roots. http://www.theonion.com/content/node/35782
I have a friend who does carpentry work
for Brad Pitt. I may follow up.
The tecnology of this site seems faulty,
but announces you can hear John, Son of Zebedee here.
This was the intelligence I studied that
got me in touch with the Enchanted Garden idea
inside me.
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