Friday, September 12, 2008

Can youth be served by Oneness Blessing?


By DANA DUGAN
Express Staff Writer

Brigitte Luise Esswein, the owner of Venus Fine Furs in Ketchum, is also one of the first residents of the area to learn to give the Oneness Blessing, or deeksha. Now a full-fledged global movement, it was created by Indian spiritual leaders Sri Raniji and Sri Bhagavan. The Oneness Temple and University is based in Kerala, India.

A deeksha is not a philosophy, teaching or belief system. It can be transferred by anyone who has received the transmission and training during a special process in India, as Esswein did.

This transfer of energy is meant to enhance spiritual traditions and personal experiences. It can be done individually or in large groups such as at the Sun Valley Wellness Festival last spring, when more than a hundred people received a blessing from motivational speaker Tony Robbins.

"It enhances and deepens your experience with the divine," Esswein said. "You are more in experience rather than analyzing."

Esswein regularly facilitates deeksha in Ketchum at Chapter One and in Hailey in a private home. She has new plans to bring the practice to the youth of Blaine County.

She will hold a meeting to discuss this with anyone who deals with youth in the valley including counselors, teachers and coaches, from 6:15-8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18 at Light on the Mountains Spiritual Center south of Ketchum.

"My hope is to convey that this could really help and support youth, ages 15 to 26," she said.

She will then conduct a two-day Oneness workshop for youth, Oct. 25-26 in the Ram Room of the Sun Valley Inn.

She said her eventual aim is to be able to "send two young people to India to receive the transmission and become deeksha givers to reach out to the youth in the valley regularly."

For more information contact Esswein at 726-7625.




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