The Teachings of the Essenes

Edmond Bordeaux Székely was born in the first decennium of the twentieth century. During his studies in the archives of the Vatican and the convent of Monte Cassino, had found the scriptures by Plinius about the Essenes, and the Gospel of Peace of the Essenes, he started to distribute (privately at first) the Essene Gospel of Peace in French, and giving lectures on it. Later he found with the Nobel Prize winner and pacifist Romain Rolland the International Biogenic Society. He founded a retreat, healing and study centre in Mexico, which today is one of the most famous and oldest wellness spas of America. Today, his intellectual heritage is kept alive by the Joyful-Life Community (www.coommunity.joyful-life.org).

Dr. phil. Jörg Berchem (M.A., M.sc.agr.) is a professional holistic health practitioner and scholar of human ecology. He studied African and Oriental Studies, Geology, Tropical Agriculture and Development Studies at the Universities of Cologne and Göttingen. Furthermore, he qualified at the Universities of Nairobi, London and Cambridge. After several intercontinental researches, mainly on ethnobotany and the relationship between men and his environment, he came back to Europe. Soon he gained additional qualifications and became a holistic health practitioner. As a visual and gospel artist, he became internationally known under his nickname and pseudonym, Jay B Joyful. For Jay, holistic naturopathy means, to meet all people seeking his advice with caring attention, to accept them in their so-being, to understand them as a totality of body, soul and spirit, and to activate their self-healing power. In his therapeutic practice he strives to unfold everybody's self-healing power, individual potentials by natural means, personal training and individual responsibility. Jay's main concern is to reconnect all people seeking his advice with their inner and outer nature and to develop a positive emotionality and love Being an autonomous scientist, he is interested in multidisciplinary topics. His publications focus mainly on ethnological, linguistic and naturopathic themes.