A Return to The Garden

The Work of a Sovereign Gardener: Companion Planting Workshop Invites ‘Garden of Eden’ and ‘Flowers of One Garden’ Scripture to Summer Camp

“The fact that we imagine ourselves to be right and everybody else wrong is the greatest of all obstacles in the path towards unity, and unity is necessary if we would reach truth, for truth is one.” — Paris Talks, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, The Baha’i Writings

Two years ago, I co-created the film Real Unity and soon after, strayed from my original hope that humanity could flourish as flowers of one garden — an organically forming field of diverse growth.

In the film, I stated various ideals that I have since questioned, though one remains steadfast: Without justice, unity is tyranny. Without eyes wide open, justice cannot be made Divine.

Rooted in the belief that the United States of America will lead the world to its spiritual destiny, unity in diversity is not just a daydream but essential for a greater peace, the kind that no man, woman, or child has ever witnessed.

God planted us in the Garden of Eden, and forevermore every garden is a microcosm of our world. Baha’is as people of Baha (Light) and Christians as Lightworkers bloom where the sun shines. While there are a variety of…