The Whole Being Weekend has been going on
for more than 35 years. It is a phenomenon..
It began in San Diego, and now is held in Idylwild.
People come primarily from the Southern Cal area
althought travelers come from Kentucky to Northern
California and consider this a wise investment.
There is enough Love released at the Whole Being Weekend
to fill a cavern if a person is open to receive that much.
Any city or form of commerce that is founded
on anything but the natural bonding between people
and planet I am sad to say will naturally go the way
of New Orleans.
I can explain this. I have been writing about this for
more than 30 years.
In College, for two weeks I was Managing Editor
of the San Fernando Sun Newspaper, although
I was a feature writer for that newspaper for
about nine months.
During those two weeks, we had the San Fernando
Earthquake of 1971. It was quite an education
and marked my entire life.
As an antidote to earthquakes and natural disasters
of EVERY GENRE, including what happened in New Orleans,
I highly recommend the experience of
feeling, touching, tasting living out for a weekend
what it is like to be and feel treated aa a Whole Being
on earth as we work cooperatively with other Whole Beings.
This year I will lead a Talking Stick Circle on
Sunday morning beginning at 9 AM
as well as lead an opening
ceremony where we plant our dreams.
Friday evening.
If you would like to understand the natural
connecdtion between people and planet
and What Mother Earth is Asking of us now,
make it a priority to come to this year's
Whole Being Weekend.
Here is one poem from the
Whole Being Survival Guide,
published on and off over the years.
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A Gathering of Whole Beings
I attended a gathering of whole beings
who heard without knowing it perhaps
the call to be themselves.
We traveled to a mountaintop
to make sandwiches together
of bread, and sprouts, and good feelings.
We were the sprouts for a new kind of being,
amazing fertile grains
for a new human flowering rising like a mixture
of dough and water, yeast and fire.
We traveled into greenery and windy breezes
to blow out the stale air inside ourselves,
to let go of things that didn't matter.
In our new breathing space we shared like children,
and showed little torn hurts we then mended with hugs
that lasted three days.
After dark and by daylight
we remembered how to heal ourselves.
We danced until we sweated
and yelped like coyotes in the country.
Some of us jumped out of trees leaping to unknown reaches.
We sang honoring something innocent inside.
We trusted blindly with closed eyes;
with outstretched fingers we touched nature
and were guided into other's arms.
We listened in silence to everyday sound we never heard before
though nothing we knew had changed.
Love was in power here and reached out to show us
a new kind of possible leadership,
a leadership where everyone had a chance to be heard
and didn't have to fight to be heard;
love bent over backward to include and encourage
the gift in everyone
to give and give again.
We felt open to dare to dream
and tell what we each did as our service to make life, or planned to.
When it came time to eat, our bellies were sending up messages
they weren't that hungry, something deep inside had been fed
through all our speaking out.
Ever so slowly,
touched in so many ways,
we began to sense ourselves as family, as something
in that instant the earth had made to do her bidding.
We came to see we were her mouthpiece and hands;
there was new meaning in the way we picked up little papers
cleaning the campground.
When we left, we carried the mountaintop with us
into the city below.
The city was cleaner and clearer and greener
because we returned to it, because we returned to it
as whole beings.
Leslie Goldman
Your Enchanted Gardener
"A Gathering of Whole Beings"
September 26, 1985
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by Leslie Goldman,
Your Enchanted Gardener