The Guardian for this meeting was stevenaia Michinaga. The comments are by stevenaia Michinaga.

I filled in for Paradise's session tonight.  It was quiet at the start but druth Vlodovic and Santoshima Resident arrived at the same time. The conversation moved from there....

druth Vlodovic: only the lonely again :)
druth Vlodovic: hi santo
stevenaia Michinaga: hello
stevenaia Michinaga: Santoshima, Druth
Santoshima Resident: hi
stevenaia Michinaga: Paradise is out of town and I am filling in, thanks for joining me
Santoshima Resident: it takes a few seconds to clear my screen of various windows
Santoshima Resident: thanks for being here!
druth Vlodovic: one thing V2 is good for :)
stevenaia Michinaga: what's that? (I don;t have it)
druth Vlodovic: instead of popups you get a little number in the corner
Santoshima Resident: this isa mac
stevenaia Michinaga: aww, yes all those notification windows
stevenaia Michinaga: I have a mac too and I use Phoenix Viewer
Santoshima Resident: i'll look it up
druth Vlodovic: do we have a topic?
stevenaia Michinaga: No, you are the first to arrive
stevenaia Michinaga: although I was thinking about intuition latly if not other topic arises
stevenaia Michinaga: A few thing occurred that suggests it more than random
druth Vlodovic: oh?
stevenaia Michinaga: I had a dream about arriving at a friends house to paint their house, when I told of the dream they said that they had a painter over to paint some rooms in RL
stevenaia Michinaga: on the very same day I had the dream
druth Vlodovic: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: looks for profound music
stevenaia Michinaga: they live thousands of miles away
Santoshima Resident: you were in touch
stevenaia Michinaga: there seems to be a place within us all that has this ability, yes
druth Vlodovic: with their colourful side
stevenaia Michinaga: sometiems you "know" things and there is no reason you should
druth Vlodovic: almost like in dreams where you tend to have knowledges with no source
stevenaia Michinaga: Santos poofed
stevenaia Michinaga: wb Santos
stevenaia Michinaga: hello observerm
observerm Resident waves
stevenaia Michinaga: we need to put a pillow back there for you
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Santoshima Resident: sorry something is wrong with my computer
stevenaia Michinaga: SL does that sometimes

--BELL--

Santoshima Resident: typing is slow and if I linger over the wrong spot I teleport elsewhere
stevenaia Michinaga: I love the fish swiming in air
Santoshima Resident: is this world drawing slowly tonght for either of you?
Santoshima Resident: i mean, the screen picture
stevenaia Michinaga: no, same as usual,perhaps your internet is slow
stevenaia Michinaga: one other time I was with a stanger during a sort of a retreat after spening some time looking deeply into ourselves, then asked to describe someone we see who is important to the person next to us
stevenaia Michinaga: *spending
stevenaia Michinaga: each of us described the person we did not know with great accuracy
stevenaia Michinaga: seem you can "slip" into a more intuitive state with guidance
Santoshima Resident: yes
stevenaia Michinaga: by relaxing and letting external distrations disipate
stevenaia Michinaga: I suppose like dropping
Santoshima Resident: brb
druth Vlodovic: mirages
stevenaia Michinaga: where?
druth Vlodovic: I was thinking how when I hear about these things the incident is often more random than significant
Santoshima Resident: *
druth Vlodovic: then I considered that maybe it is just a matter of things being aligned correctly, like with mirages
stevenaia Michinaga: difficult to prove either
stevenaia Michinaga: like swamp gas giving us UFOs?
druth Vlodovic: reflecting the light from venus :)
stevenaia Michinaga: or the ufo hiding in swamp gas
Santoshima Resident: ufos are swampgas?
Santoshima Resident: who knew?
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Santoshima Resident: perhaps it's moment of being open to information/sensations coming forward
stevenaia Michinaga: communication you don't normally hear... until you are ready
stevenaia Michinaga: like readings another's mind

--BELL--

druth Vlodovic: when I get things it's usually after or during a big change, when I am surrounded by the new
druth Vlodovic: when the noise in my head is replaced with observation
stevenaia Michinaga: new sensitivity to your surroundings
druth Vlodovic: steve's new career as a seer :)
stevenaia Michinaga: heh, not likely, but it seems to be more there now than I had ever noticed before
stevenaia Michinaga: bye observerm
druth Vlodovic: you've been doing a lot of meditation and stuff?
Santoshima Resident: i think I scared him by sending a note
druth Vlodovic: she's tough, even been browbeaten into sitting down now and then :)
stevenaia Michinaga: not actively meditating but that;s probably an oxymoron
stevenaia Michinaga: he/she sits when I ask :)
Santoshima Resident: you are familiar
stevenaia Michinaga: familiar?
Santoshima Resident: to observerm
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, he/she is a regular observer behind the bushes, usually
Santoshima Resident: back to meditating ....
stevenaia Michinaga: I've been doing Tai Chi, which is a form of meditation, but I don;t "sit"
stevenaia Michinaga: probably the only time I am "unplugged":
druth Vlodovic: are you concentrating when you tai chi, or sort of the opposite?
stevenaia Michinaga: no, just the opposite
stevenaia Michinaga: things move w/o thinking
druth Vlodovic: sounds like me at work :)
Santoshima Resident: but there is concentration involved,, isn't that so?
druth Vlodovic: though it's not very enlightening lol
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, me too, but there the thinking eliminates everything around me
druth Vlodovic: so you lose connecting with your surroundings?
stevenaia Michinaga: nods
stevenaia Michinaga: except for the place where I am concentrating
druth Vlodovic: ever try concentrating on everything?
stevenaia Michinaga: no, usually try to concentrate on nothing

--BELL--

stevenaia Michinaga: them, ofcourse, nothing becomes everything :)
Santoshima Resident: i am concentrating on these trout, circling in a pool of sand
Santoshima Resident: water has evaporated
Santoshima Resident: Druth, can you say about what you asked?
Santoshima Resident: do you meditate on "everything"?
Santoshima Resident: and how do you go about that?
druth Vlodovic: well you just sort of imagine your awareness and let it flow out and touch everything around you
druth Vlodovic: sounds, sights, objects you know are there etc
druth Vlodovic: its relaxing enough, but like other forms I've tried nothing ever became anything else
stevenaia Michinaga: there is something to be said about practice
stevenaia Michinaga: you do get better at just about anything
stevenaia Michinaga: except typing (for me)
Santoshima Resident: !
druth Vlodovic: I have a sort of psycological block that makes it hard to keep at things
druth Vlodovic: "practice doesn't make perfect, perfect practice makes better!" lol
stevenaia Michinaga: practice = play
druth Vlodovic: I keep telling myself, this time I will use proper fringering! :)
druth Vlodovic: I've got to go, thanks for chatting
stevenaia Michinaga: bye Druth, thanks
Santoshima Resident: i better go: typing tonight is in slow motion with mits on.
Santoshima Resident: good night to you both
stevenaia Michinaga: night San
druth Vlodovic: lol, you love a challenge :)
stevenaia Michinaga: smiles
stevenaia Michinaga: quite the action pose you have there...