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History of the Whole Being Weekend
History of the Whole Being Weekend
Date: 10/4/2016 10:25:46 AM ( 8 y ) ... viewed 1153 times
This young teen couple was reading one of the #SevenLoveCures
These are Words Men Need to Know and Women Want to Here, The series of poems I'm bringing out again.
https://itun.es/us/Aw5Tab.l
These poems, part of my legacy, were birthed in part at a special San Diego gathering called @ The Whole Being Weekend that began in 1970.
The originator was James H. Nessheim who for many years shined his grace and sensitivities upon the weekend, drawing hundreds into a spirit of collaboration and self acceptance that inspired and helped me find my place and my home in the 20th century,
James uplifted me and gave me a special place at the weekendfor many years on either Friday night or Saturday night when the whole community would gather together. He knew what each person needed to shine and my need was to be heard.
I will never forget the time that I came onstage with one of my favorite plants that was about to bloom. I was reading a poem on a cloudy day that said sometimes we have to be the sunshine for each other. The plant bloomed in front of 400 people. The whole being creates an energy that can change the weather and end the drought in our lives.
The Whole Being Weekend influence on the city of San Diego conscious community was palpable.
In the years when James worked for SDSU international students and prior they were often two Whole Being weekends a year.
There were pre-natal ones and mothers to be who brought their kids into this healing atmosphere. There were "herds" of pre-teens and later teens who were given the run of the place, allowed to run free and be just what they were--kids.
The Whole Being Weekend was
basically a test tube for the world that was possible that I call Enchanted Garden. It was in this atmosphere
that many of my ideas and the ideas of others found praise.
Jim Nessheim had .a great sense of honoring elders. Key leaders in the holistic and humanistic field were friends of the weekend.
Among these were noted authors such as mythic storyteller Robert A Johnson and Paul Brenner.
Whole Being Weekend had an in city component connected to San Diego State University where Nessheim worked as well at a place called the intersection house right off campus where we would gather on Tuesday nights for vegetarian meals.
It was here in this house that even babies were born. Penny Casanova and James Clinton Shaw, students of SDSU, gave birth to Nadine Casanova. Nadine's first breath of air contained chocolate peppermint and she has turned out decades later as quite the singer! This was a water birth with more than 20 people witnessing in the backyard.
Some of the teens reading poems here in video I made grew up as whole being babies!
For many years thanks to the likes of Mel Lions of @Wild Willow Farm and Cara H. Cadwallader Numbers of the whole being family would gather on Friday nights in San Diego to dance.
Nessheim and intersection house key figure David Burnight, both ministers from different religions, had houses that were homes both to residents as well as pivotal humanistic ideas and movements. Matthew Fox found great support here for his movement called Ceation Spirituality.
The first ever drum circle in Balboa Park was held at the first San Diego Earth Faur and the drummer's were made up of many whole being attendees.
The first poem at this first drum circle was the poem I wrote called "Song for the Homeless" from my book, "The Rebirth of Mother Earth." What is Mother Earth asking? Paul Brenner, dear friend, influenced that title,
Paul Brenner, James Nessheim, and David Burnight are still living, into their elder years.
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Andy Kean
Jeff Salz
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Amatra Barbara May
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Tera Gardner
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Stephen A. Markowitz
Fiona Markowitz
Kristin Nessheim Dyer
NEW GENERATION
AT SDSU
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Chris Goering
Shelah Ott
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