2011.07.26 19:00 - Whales all the way out

The Guardian for this meeting was Eos Amaterasu. The comments are by Eos Amaterasu.

Aphrodite Macbain: Hi Eos

Eos Amaterasu: HI Aphrodite!
Aphrodite Macbain: San
Santoshima Resident: hello to you both
Eos Amaterasu: HI Santoshima
Aphrodite Macbain: Still recovering from the retreat Eos?
Aphrodite Macbain: phone brb
Aphrodite Macbain: back
Aphrodite Macbain: Bruce was telling me great things about your lecture on Buddhism
Eos Amaterasu is in Rashomon
Aphrodite Macbain: Huh?
Aphrodite Macbain: Hi Wol
Santoshima Resident: double huh
Aphrodite Macbain: another retreater
Wol Euler: hello aph, santoshima, eos
Aphrodite Macbain: Hey Wol
Santoshima Resident: hello wol
Eos Amaterasu: Ay Wol!
Aphrodite Macbain: I was trying to get Eos to talk about his Buddhistlecture
Wol Euler: ah :)
Eos Amaterasu is in Rashomon again
Wol Euler: a fine if confusing place to be
Aphrodite Macbain: Are you the director of the Shambala Institute Eos in Rashomon
Aphrodite Macbain: ?
Eos Amaterasu: hah hah
Eos Amaterasu: that's really playing as being!
Aphrodite Macbain: heehe
Aphrodite Macbain: what is your role there?
Aphrodite Macbain: Do you mind if I ask you?
Eos Amaterasu: I studied and practiced in the Shambhala tradition, yes
Aphrodite Macbain: ah - that was in the past tense
Eos Amaterasu: well, the heart of that is alive and vibrant - I meet it everywhere
Aphrodite Macbain: Meet but not practice?
Eos Amaterasu: I don't need to crank it up: it's easier if others manifest the heart of practice :-)
Eos Amaterasu: for instance you, goddess :-)
Wol Euler smiles.

--BELL--

Eos Amaterasu must credit Van Morrison with that line, "for instance me, babe"
Wol Euler grins.
Aphrodite Macbain grins too
Aphrodite Macbain: How are the mosquito bites?
Eos Amaterasu examines himself
Wol Euler: the last few are still itching, but most are long gone
Eos Amaterasu: yeah, all clear here
Aphrodite Macbain: Excellent. A distant memory
Wol Euler nods.
Eos Amaterasu: pretty vivid one, actually :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: When are we going to hear about future plans for PaB?
Wol Euler nods.
Aphrodite Macbain: vivid memory or bite?
Eos Amaterasu carefully listened to a mosquito sound next to his right ear....
Eos Amaterasu: waited...
Wol Euler: there is distance in time to the event, but no distance to the memory of that event
Aphrodite Macbain: Hi Calvino!
Wol Euler: hello cal
Eos Amaterasu: felt mosquito legs on left arm
Eos Amaterasu: observed mosquito
Eos Amaterasu: (hi Cal!)
Eos Amaterasu: observed legs, hypdoermic syringe
Calvino Rabeni: Hello Aph / Wol / San / Eos
Aphrodite Macbain: You are very sensitive Eos...
Eos Amaterasu: heh heh :-)
Santoshima Resident: hi Calvino
Eos Amaterasu: quite interesting, actually
Aphrodite Macbain: What is?
Wol Euler nods.
Wol Euler: being bitten
Aphrodite Macbain wonders whether Wol is nodding off
Wol Euler: :-P
Eos Amaterasu: hmm, yes

Calvino Rabeni: Things are always trying to bite us, aren't they ?
Aphrodite Macbain: constantly
Calvino Rabeni: Or is it swallow us whole?
Aphrodite Macbain giggles
Calvino Rabeni: Sometimes I suspect I'm Jonah and don't know it
Aphrodite Macbain: Wow. Big lag
Eos Amaterasu: or maybe the whale
Calvino Rabeni: That thought might lead to some indigestion
Aphrodite Macbain: Why did he deserve to be eaten poor Jonah?
Eos Amaterasu: such is our world :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: I forget my Bible
Wol Euler: basically because he refused to obey god's orders
Eos Amaterasu: look in inventory
Wol Euler: hid from his duty
Calvino Rabeni: That will do it, Wol
Santoshima Resident: it was a meditation retreat of sort
Eos Amaterasu: being in the whale?
Santoshima Resident: sure
Aphrodite Macbain: Warm and wet and dark
Wol Euler: clarified a few things for him, anyway
Calvino Rabeni: It carried him somewhere new?
Aphrodite Macbain: That he didn't want to be there?
Aphrodite Macbain: ptoooie
Aphrodite Macbain: We've run out of big fish stories?
Calvino Rabeni: http://www.dltk-bible.com/cv/jonah_and_the_whale.htm
Wol Euler: heheh
Aphrodite Macbain: Thank you Cal. You are always prepared with a good quote
Calvino Rabeni: Sorry, I couldn't find the deconstructed version
Aphrodite Macbain: It's a gfood tale. I didn't remember that he was throwwwwn overboard by his crew
Aphrodite Macbain: Nineveh's not that great a place ... miles from the sea
Calvino Rabeni: It doesn't say, "the sailors felt much better after tossing Jonah overboard into the mouth of the whale"
Aphrodite Macbain: Well, that's something I guess
Aphrodite Macbain: Beautiful Stevenaia
Eos Amaterasu: Hi stevenaia
Santoshima Resident: hey stevenaia
Santoshima Resident: hey stevenaia
stevenaia Michinaga: smiles, hello
Calvino Rabeni: Nor does it say "the sailor saw Jonah in Ninevah and was jealous that he'd been deeply touched by his vision quest"
Wol Euler: hello steve
Eos Amaterasu: suggestion for 90 seconds coming up? be in the belly of the whale?
Wol Euler: :)
Calvino Rabeni: Will do :)
Aphrodite Macbain holds her nose
Eos Amaterasu: :-)
stevenaia Michinaga: waves at Wol, past her bedtime
Wol Euler: nah. I'm in Toronto

--BELL--

stevenaia Michinaga: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Wol Euler waves to Obs
Aphrodite Macbain: Wale's belly's are actually rathr spacious
Aphrodite Macbain: I could stand up on the ribs

Santoshima Resident: hello observerm? are you invisible?
Wol Euler: he hides in the bushes :)
Aphrodite Macbain: He's persent but not recorded
Aphrodite Macbain: present
Wol Euler: .
Eos Amaterasu: as it is said, so it is written
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Eos Amaterasu says archly

Calvino Rabeni: Jonah may have been thinking ... well look on the bright side, this whale is carrying me away from those sailors, they were always blaming me for things, but the whale will deliver me someplace new"
Aphrodite Macbain raises one eyebrow
Eos Amaterasu opens two eyes
Santoshima Resident: whale as place of refuge
Aphrodite Macbain: a whale as a means of transportation
Calvino Rabeni: yes, a bigger means of surfing
Aphrodite Macbain snorts
Eos Amaterasu: part of something bigger
Eos Amaterasu: an offering
Eos Amaterasu: not just top predator
Calvino Rabeni: And "when people let you down, you'll be caught by nature"
Aphrodite Macbain: offering up Jonah?
Aphrodite Macbain: Don't we wish Cal
Calvino Rabeni: I think it's true, if Jonah can escape being lunch
Eos Amaterasu: we are lunch, are we not lunch?
Aphrodite Macbain: being lunch?
Wol Euler: to eat and eat not
Aphrodite Macbain: for mosquitos
Eos Amaterasu: ricercar

Calvino Rabeni: Yes, from the point of view of the cake, having and being eaten too
Aphrodite Macbain: lol
Eos Amaterasu: observing being eaten
Aphrodite Macbain: eeew
Eos Amaterasu felt no animosity toward the mosquito
Calvino Rabeni: I think that was mutual
Eos Amaterasu: nevertheless, the after-sting hurt
Wol Euler nods.
Aphrodite Macbain: I wonder how the male praying mantis feels
Wol Euler: briefly
Eos Amaterasu: :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: being eaten as lunch
Eos Amaterasu: preying
Eos Amaterasu: :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: they prey praying pessimistically
Eos Amaterasu: (there's a poem about that that Eliza quoted once)
Aphrodite Macbain: about what?
Eos Amaterasu: about the bird offering itself as prey
Aphrodite Macbain: praying preys?
Eos Amaterasu: preying prays
Aphrodite Macbain: praying pays?
Eos Amaterasu: praying seeks not
Calvino Rabeni: Just wondering, if we can have our concepts, and be eaten by them too?
Eos Amaterasu archly again :-)
Eos Amaterasu: isn't that the truth!
Aphrodite Macbain raises the other eyebrow
Aphrodite Macbain raises the other eyebrow
Calvino Rabeni wasn't keeping track of all the raisings and lowerings of things
Eos Amaterasu is eaten alive by his concepts
Eos Amaterasu is in the belly of his concepts
Wol Euler is falling asleep with hers
Aphrodite Macbain: ptooie
Eos Amaterasu: yum :-)
Calvino Rabeni: Wol is in the belly of hers
Wol Euler wipes someting out of her eye
Aphrodite Macbain: a mosquito
Wol Euler: probably
Calvino Rabeni: The Jonah story could be seen as a dream allegory
Aphrodite Macbain: yes?
Aphrodite Macbain: Interesting manoeuvre Eos
Eos Amaterasu stood on ceremony
Calvino Rabeni: Entering the dream world, one gives up the ability of self-definition, gets carried who knows where
Aphrodite Macbain: and gets spitted up on the pillow the following moprning
Calvino Rabeni: Was that a mote in Wol's eye, I wonder
Calvino Rabeni: Was that a mote in Wol's eye, I wonder
Aphrodite Macbain: caste it OUT!

--BELL--

Calvino Rabeni: I thought I read .. "spit up, the following MORPHING"
Eos Amaterasu: indeed
Eos Amaterasu: today is a new me :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: morphing
Aphrodite Macbain lowers both eyebrows in apology
Calvino Rabeni: :) meet the new me, same as the old me...
Wol Euler smiles.
Wol Euler smiles.
Aphrodite Macbain: morning
Eos Amaterasu looks at Aphro with concern
Aphrodite Macbain needs her dinner
Eos Amaterasu: Aphrodite needs her whale
Aphrodite Macbain: Hmmm. Barbecued or steamed?
Aphrodite Macbain: maybe wale sushi
Eos Amaterasu: next year we graduate from mosquito practice to whale practice :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: whale
Aphrodite Macbain: that is called a steep learning curve
Calvino Rabeni: Where would a good place be to practice?
Eos Amaterasu: or maybe in Seattle
Aphrodite Macbain: Seattle?
Eos Amaterasu: lots of Orcas
Calvino Rabeni: Seattle?
Aphrodite Macbain: awww
Calvino Rabeni: ah
Eos Amaterasu: Vashon Island
Aphrodite Macbain: ah yes
Aphrodite Macbain: we'll go out fishing er whaling
Aphrodite Macbain: not
Eos Amaterasu: watching
Calvino Rabeni: There's also Orcas Island
Aphrodite Macbain: yes!
Aphrodite Macbain: Only 30 more sleeps (roughly)
Eos Amaterasu: just get on a rock with your seal suit
Eos Amaterasu: and offer yourself
Aphrodite Macbain: Hmm
Wol Euler: hehehehe
Calvino Rabeni: My thoughts about where to go to practice being eaten by a whale - (1) the airport, (2) turn on your computer
Wol Euler: definitely a final vision
Eos Amaterasu: the dream retreat makes it safe
Eos Amaterasu: or second life enactiment
Aphrodite Macbain: Seen any whales? I'm looking for my school
Eos Amaterasu: speak of the devi!
Aphrodite Macbain: ouch
Calvino Rabeni: Thanks, Aph
Aphrodite Macbain: hard treading water in air
Aphrodite Macbain: hard treading water in air
Eos Amaterasu: perhaps you could circle the pool
Eos Amaterasu: fish don't sit
Aphrodite Macbain: I'm not a gfish
Aphrodite Macbain: or a fish
Eos Amaterasu: gefilte?
Aphrodite Macbain: gefilt-a merm
Eos Amaterasu: being a school of fish sounds like fun
Aphrodite Macbain: It does doesn't it. You always know where to go and you learn things
Calvino Rabeni: Hello Ewan :)
Ewan Bonham: Hi Folks...:)
Aphrodite Macbain: Hey Ewan
Aphrodite Macbain: Hey Ewan
Santoshima Resident: evening ewen
Ewan Bonham: Smile..
Calvino Rabeni: Are we all in a whale together being carried somewhere?
Eos Amaterasu: Hi Ewan
Aphrodite Macbain: hopefully to land as we be earthlings
Calvino Rabeni: Or each in a separate whale?
Eos Amaterasu ponders multiple whales theories of the universe
Calvino Rabeni: Yes
Aphrodite Macbain: Parallel whales?
Eos Amaterasu: synchronized
Eos Amaterasu: orcas do jump beautifully in parallel
Calvino Rabeni: Can one escape from the whale?
Eos Amaterasu: it's whales all the way out
Aphrodite Macbain: perhaps
Aphrodite Macbain: Hi Luci
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Luci, Ewan
Santoshima Resident: greetings lucinda
Ewan Bonham: hi Luci
Lucinda Lavender: greetings all:)
Calvino Rabeni: There was some native american story, I wish I could remember ... in which the protagonist finds out, that some time back he was eaten by the monster and didn't realize it at the time, then sets about how to get back out of it to the human world

Calvino Rabeni: which was a surprise for such a story
Calvino Rabeni: Good evening Cinda
Lucinda Lavender: :)good eve
Aphrodite Macbain: How did he get out?

--BELL--

Calvino Rabeni thinks, not sure how he got out, maybe something about piling up bones of those already digested, into a tower
Eos Amaterasu: is an out another inn?
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
Eos Amaterasu: go with the swallow
Aphrodite Macbain: sounds rather painful for the monster
Wol Euler excuses herself and prepares to be spat into another existence
Wol Euler excuses herself and prepares to be spat into another existence
Calvino Rabeni: Yes, the monster had it coming, apparently
Wol Euler: goodnight all, take care
Eos Amaterasu: good night, dear Wol!
Aphrodite Macbain: enjoy your flight
Calvino Rabeni: Night Wol
Aphrodite Macbain: Nite Wol
Santoshima Resident: good bye Wol
Santoshima Resident: good bye Wol
Aphrodite Macbain: Bye
Aphrodite Macbain: Bye!
Lucinda Lavender: nite wol
stevenaia Michinaga: bed time for me too
stevenaia Michinaga: night all
Santoshima Resident: & me
Santoshima Resident: & me
Eos Amaterasu: moi aussi
Aphrodite Macbain: Moi aussi. Time for dinner
Aphrodite Macbain: Moi aussi. Time for dinner
Calvino Rabeni eyes the departing
Eos Amaterasu: thank you all, ladies, gentlemen, gentlefish
Aphrodite Macbain winds wetly at Cal
Eos Amaterasu: gentle mermaids
Calvino Rabeni: Is that dinner I smell?
Aphrodite Macbain: winks
Eos Amaterasu: the theme, indeed
Aphrodite Macbain: what dinner?
Aphrodite Macbain: what dinner?
Calvino Rabeni: Bids the survivors goodnight and jumps ship
Aphrodite Macbain: bon voyage
Lucinda Lavender: poof and they all dissapeared...
Lucinda Lavender: poof and they all dissapeared...