21 Meditations of the Essenes - a Sundance Publications eBook

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The 21 meditations were designed to begin with Friday’s sunset and continue until the following Friday Noon communion… they would then begin once again at sundown and go forward on a continuing basis.

100 years or so before the time of Jesus of Nazareth as well as during his lifetime, the Essenes were an ascetic group of followers of Judaism who left Jerusalem and lived communally in the desert areas away from the cities and rules of the Romans and other sects of Judaism. The Dead Sea [Qumran] Scrolls are usually attributed to the Essenes. Some suggest that Jesus of Nazareth spent time with the Essenes before entering his time of public teaching and ministry.

There are 3 meditations each day. The morning and evening meditations were focused on lifting awareness to the higher realms of consciousness while the noon-time meditations of the Essenes called the Sevenfold Peace were designed to take the expanding consciousness of the morning and evening communions and apply them to areas of everyday living in practical ways.

The Essenes’ meditations in this eBook were transposed and compiled through the projections and filters of this stained glass window named John Hutchinson and offered through Sundance Center for Conscious Living… [see: http://sunhutch.com]... Our interpretation might be described as generally “Universalist” and from a broad-based non-sectarian spiritual perspective.

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Eternal Life - Saturday Evening Meditation

Day Time Meditation - Eternal Life

The following meditation is based upon the Essenes' teachings... the daily meditations or communions are designed to be used morning and evening in addition to the noon practice called the Sevenfold Peace. At the beginning of each meditation, the following prologue is recited:

"I enter the spaciousness of this timeless and infinite Garden with reverence to the Source and Energy of Life, to the Earth and all its fullness, to the spiritual teachers of all traditions, to the liberating purity of truth, and with reverence to all who courageously walk the Path of Spirit..."

You are encouraged to spend time sitting with the following statement before continuing to read.

"Essence of Eternal Life, fill me with the Presence of this moment and the spaciousness of your Loving Spirit."

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Help me to see the timelessness within and beyond our structures of time...

Expand my awareness to the infinite openness of now.

Assist me to let go of old concepts and ideas that no longer serve my highest and deepest journey...

Let me rest in trust of this eternal moment of Life and Love...

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When I 'fell' in love with another person, it felt so limitless and like it would never end... and that is the perhaps the closest we come in an egoic state to experience the oneness of Source Love and its eternal quality... Indeed, the timeless quality of true Love fools the ego into assumptions that two people will remain in that timeless energy and feeling forever.

The deepest Source of Life is timeless and beyond the confines of time. As we open to this energy beyond time, it does go on forever, whether we are conscious of it or not. The work of opening to this timeless eternity that Life presents is the evolving dance of lifetimes. The Essenes saw this as our purpose of being human...

The Essenes considered that the purpose of the universe can only be eternal life, immortality; and that this can be achieved by us if we progressively create the preconditions of our advance to higher and higher degrees of our individual evolution. We might call this personal self-actualization and spiritual synthesis or enlightenment. They held that there was no limit to this progress since the cosmos is an in­exhaustible store of energies available to us as we perfect our receptive organs and centers.

Through this communion-meditation we stimulate and open our intu­itive knowledge of the timeless quality of life in the universe and our own unity with the timeless present moment as well as the whole cosmic order. Through it we can learn the importance of over­coming gravity in the earthly currents of thought and become conscious of the new or spiritual currents' activity and role in the individual's and the planet's evolution.

This overcoming of weighty negative energy and absorbing and utilizing the multi-dimensional currents was perhaps the highest mystical accomplishment of the Essenes.

"Energy and Essence of Ever-present Life and Love, fill us with your Presence in this moment with the eternal quality of your Loving Spirit."

Peace be with you!

Spirit of Wisdom - Thursday PM Meditation

Thursday PM Meditation - Wisdom

The following meditation is based upon the Essenes' topics... the daily meditations or communions are designed to be used morning and evening in addition to the noon practice called the Sevenfold Peace. At the beginning of each meditation, the following prologue is recited:

"I enter the spaciousness of this timeless and infinite Garden with reverence to the Source and Energy of Life, to the Earth and all its fullness, to the spiritual teachers of all traditions, to the liberating purity of truth, and with reverence to all who courageously walk the Path of Spirit..."

You are encouraged to spend time sitting with the following statement before continuing to read.

"Spirit of Wisdom, descend upon my mind and enlighten all my thoughts"

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Thoughts fly around my thinking mind... here and there... to the past...to the future...

Quiet my mind into the present... into the stillness... that I may sense the touch of eternity...

Play the music of the angels so I may find peace in the rhythm of silence...

Spirit of Wisdom, fill me with the light of connection...

Wisdom begins and ends with inner knowing ... the attention to something much greater than our thinking processes. The interconnected web of Being has ways to let us know...

The Essenes sensed there is a cosmic ocean of all thought that pervades all space and contains all thought, which is the highest and most powerful of all cosmic energies, always and everlastingly present. In presence, we can open to this reservoir of ageless wisdom... often through the portal of intuitive 'pops' and sudden insight. We might use our mind and analytical processes to build a focal point of tension which leads to the breakthrough of wisdom and insight.

In a real sense, we are one with the Spirit of Wisdom... letting go of old beliefs, we are opening to the unlimited potential and reality of who we truly are... beyond ego... We are all-ways more than we think we are...We are One with Source energy and all that entails!

"Spirit of Wisdom, descend upon my mind and enlighten all my thoughts."

Peace be with you!

Essence of Water - Thursday AM Meditation

Thursday AM Meditation - Water Energy

The following meditation is based upon the Essenes' teachings... the daily meditations or communions are designed to be used morning and evening in addition to the noon practice called the Sevenfold Peace. At the beginning of each meditation, the following prologue is recited:

"I enter the spaciousness of this timeless and infinite Garden with reverence to the Source and Energy of Life, to the Earth and all its fullness, to the spiritual teachers of all traditions, to the liberating purity of truth, and with reverence to all who courageously walk the Path of Spirit..."

You are encouraged to spend time sitting with the following statement before continuing to read.

"Essence of Water, you are my blood and give the Water of Life to my whole body"

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Living Water flow through me even as the blood flows through my veins, bringing life energy to every cell...

Stir the pools of stagnation and murkiness so there may be purification of body and soul...

Rain down upon my being and shower me with cleansing energies...

Let the vastness of your depths reach to the deepest parts of me, that I may thrive in the Energy of Life and Loving Service...

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The Essenes knew how important water is to the earth and to our body. They respected all waterways from the vastness and power of the ocean's deep currents to the healing trickles of the smallest stream.... Water brings and sustains Life as we know it...

Today some have forgotten the connection we have to the water of the earth. Those people and corporations no longer respect the interconnected web of Life. They see no connection between polluting our water supply and the effect it will have on every area of life on Earth. The water sources of the earth, where it is still unpolluted, are being acquired, along with surrounding property, by some of the same entities that have created polluted waters elsewhere... So, rather than water as a gifted resource, it is being turned into a wealth-producing commodity by those who already have most of the world's wealth... just good business right? ...Wrong!

Water flows. It is time to let those know... who are polluting our water sources with no respect for the larger picture of Life... that it is enough!  It is not too late to turn the tide through our awareness and through our actions. It is time to shift from good business sense to good common sense. If some continue to poison our water, we poison ourselves, the earth, and All... I suspect that the waterways become polluted because many walk the earth with polluted souls of disconnection, greed, and blind self-interest...

"Essence of Water, you are our blood and give the Water of Life to my whole body and to our collective body."

Peace be with you!

The Fire of Life

The Fire of Life - Wednesday Morning Meditation

"Energy of Sun, enter my solar center and give the fire of Life to my whole body."

As I sense the solar radiance, the energy within my body is feels alive...

Bring your transforming fire through every cell from my head to my feet...

The solar flame bursts from above and continues to the fiery earth's core...

Returning and cycling around and through me and the whole of the universe...

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We are now familiar with the benefits of direct sunlight providing nourishment to our bodies. The Essenes knew the importance of the sun in our lives and realized without it there would be no life as we know it. They bathed in the sunlight for health reasons and understood the natural healing energies of the sunlight. Yet overexposure to the sun may also cause harm to the body. Some become lost in the ego's vanity of a dark tan, while others whose work has them in the sun a lot suffer from the overexposure... It is best to be wise and moderate exposure to the powerful rays of the Sun.

Native Americans understood the importance of the Sun in the ongoing cycles of life. The Sundance was a ritual dance of thanksgiving and sacrifice displaying our dependence and gratitude as well as our willingness to serve for the greater good. The dancers danced for the whole community... not for themselves.

Today some forget the community and only stress individual rights like spoiled children who want what they want when they want it. The energy of Sun reminds us that we walk hand in hand, helping one another, all under one big umbrella of radiant energies.

May the vitality our bodies receive directly from the sun enliven us so we may better serve our world and make it a better place for all...

May the radiance of the sun that draws the plants skyward, producing fruit for our bodies, also draw us toward the integrative and harmonizing energies that unite us...

Free and equal Energy of Sun, enter every cell in our bodies, renewing, healing, and energizing each and all toward the loving service of All...

Meditations from the Essenes

Greetings from Denver John...

I just completed interpreting or paraphrasing some ancient teaching from the Essene community from which Jesus of Nazareth is thought to have emerged... the information was recovered from the Qumran and Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in the last century...

The attached document [eBooklet] can be read as a whole to catch a glimpse of ancient teachings and how they relate to the spirituality of this age... or can be used as the Essenes used it... for morning, noon, and evening meditations. I have always been drawn to the the gnostic and Essene material since it emphasizes the intuitive nature of knowing and a respect for all of creation... I have paraphrased the information to make it inclusive and more generic in language...

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Let's be Kind to one another.... John

  

 ... and welcome to this Present Moment!

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 John Hutchinson - Denver, CO