2011.10.11 19:00 - Sounds and Senses

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

Eliza Madrigal: Hi Eos :)

Eliza Madrigal: Is that Aphrodite's vespa?
Eos Amaterasu: Hi Eliza
Eliza Madrigal: seems it is
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eliza Madrigal waves to Stevenaia
Eos Amaterasu: Hi Stevenaia
stevenaia Michinaga: greetings
stevenaia Michinaga: discovered and interesting "thing" during medtation today...white noise
stevenaia Michinaga: it helped empty the mind (airconditioner noise in the backbround during Tai Chi class
Eos Amaterasu: hi druth
stevenaia Michinaga: hi druth
druth Vlodovic: hey
Eliza Madrigal: Nice, Stevie
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Druth :)
Eos Amaterasu: I guess color noise is signal
stevenaia Michinaga: it seemed to empty the mind like that Star Trek Episode
stevenaia Michinaga: I;m sure Eos remembers
Eliza Madrigal: tribbles?
Eos Amaterasu pictures stuff draining out of the mind....
Eliza Madrigal giggles
Eos Amaterasu: empty thought balloon
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, and nothing zoomed in to take it's palce
Eliza Madrigal: empty chair with nothing in it
Eos Amaterasu: between the last picture and the next
Eos Amaterasu: :-), Eliza!
Eliza Madrigal grins
Eos Amaterasu raises a glass, half-full, half-empty
Eos Amaterasu: fully full, fully empty
Eliza Madrigal clinks
stevenaia Michinaga: :) isn;t fully empty actually full of empty
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eos Amaterasu wonders where you keep a portable hole
Eliza Madrigal: in dreams
stevenaia Michinaga: it does travel well, portable hole, always there when you need it
Eliza Madrigal: dream pockets
Eliza Madrigal: oops Druth found one
Eos Amaterasu: fell into one
stevenaia Michinaga: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dream-pockets/
Eos Amaterasu: "somebody spoke and I fell into a dream...."
Eliza Madrigal: ahhhhh ahhhhh ahhhhh ah ah...
stevenaia Michinaga: breathing heavilly
Eliza Madrigal: Nice poem stevie.... Astaire and Rogers...
Eos Amaterasu drags a comb across his head
stevenaia Michinaga: at least you have hair
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Eliza Madrigal: :))
Eliza Madrigal: ::::lets face the music and dance...::::
Eliza Madrigal: how does sound normally figure into your tai chi, stevie?
stevenaia Michinaga: depends, white noise was preceeeded by a very loud motorcyle outside, but meditation quieting things down quickley since it wasn;t in the moment after it passed, then the white noise engulfed me
stevenaia Michinaga: so sounds can be fleeting

--BELL--

stevenaia Michinaga: I assume it's the same with any meditation, sounds don't distract, the jsut encorporate themselved in the moment
Eliza Madrigal: not sure... suppose sound can 'be' a meditation too.. but just now noticing that more....
Eliza Madrigal: echoes
Eliza Madrigal: of course one can be caught up in music
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, like the color of the paper you paint on
Eliza Madrigal: but that any sound can open up, well, aside from the gecko I'd not 'heard it that way'
Eliza Madrigal: yes that's an interesting way to see that too
Eos Amaterasu ponders "aside from the gecko I'd not 'heard it that way'"
Eliza Madrigal: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Eos Amaterasu picures a little reptile
Eos Amaterasu: pictures
Eliza Madrigal: I tell the story here
Eliza Madrigal: (for future reference)
Eliza Madrigal: It is a silly story, but 'true' to my experience
Eos Amaterasu: wow (Eos reads story....)..... bows to that gecko and those limitless fields of sound
Eos Amaterasu: beautiful story :-)
Eliza Madrigal: :) Thank you
Eliza Madrigal: a wonderful teacher
Eliza Madrigal ponders limitless fields
Eos Amaterasu: each of our five senses can be tuned along individual axes
Eos Amaterasu: given enough evolution time :-)
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, nice story Eliza, nice when it is that easy yo see differently
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eos Amaterasu thinks of Goethe's 'anything sufficiently well contemplated begets a corresponding organ of perception'
Eliza Madrigal ponders wandering fragrant gardens... night blooming jasmine
Eliza Madrigal: hmmmm
Eliza Madrigal: could generate ever more subtle organs of perception?
Eos Amaterasu: like a perfumier
Eos Amaterasu: or protozoa
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eos Amaterasu: dogs that can smell a single bedbug
stevenaia Michinaga: waves to Observerm
Eliza Madrigal waves to Observerm :)
observerm Resident waves
Eos Amaterasu feels his wave function collapsing :-)
Eliza Madrigal: princess and the pea :)
stevenaia Michinaga: hi susan
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Susan, nice to see you
Eos Amaterasu: Hi Susan
Eos Amaterasu: we're talking of sounds and smells
stevenaia Michinaga: bye obsererm

--BELL--

stevenaia Michinaga: and meditation
stevenaia Michinaga: in meditation
Eos Amaterasu: white noise
Eos Amaterasu: geckos singing
Eos Amaterasu: night blooming jasming
Eos Amaterasu: jasmine
Eos Amaterasu: Night Shining White: "Han Gan is said to have preferred visits to the stables over the study of earlier paintings of horses, and his keen observation of actual animals is confirmed by his accurate rendering of equine movement"
Eliza Madrigal: wow "dragons in disguise"
Eos Amaterasu: the spirit of horses
Eos Amaterasu: II've been noticing more how trees and bushes are the homes and environs of little birds
Eliza Madrigal listens
Eos Amaterasu: aliveness sustaining more variety of more of itself
Eliza Madrigal: 'sustainability through diversity'
Eos Amaterasu: the birds are one leap beyond the hopping of the red squirrels
Eos Amaterasu: yes :-)
Eliza Madrigal: (reads the back of my WHF t-shirt) :)
Eos Amaterasu: :-)
Eos Amaterasu: lots of sounds from the squirrels and birds
Eos Amaterasu: the sky seems to sometimes echo from the sound of crows
Eos Amaterasu: they seem to take over a big part of the sky
Eliza Madrigal: Oh indeed! Grand beings
Eos Amaterasu: in large congregations
Eliza Madrigal: (Am tp-ing in Eden on text viewer)
Eliza Madrigal remembers Stim saying that crows patterns and parenting is strikingly similar to humans
Eos Amaterasu: i guess we humans loudly mental model
Eliza Madrigal: peculiar phrase :) listens for more ...
Eos Amaterasu feels like a gecko
Eliza Madrigal: heheh

--BELL--

stevenaia Michinaga: yup
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Eden, yes you're here... turned around a bit
stevenaia Michinaga: waves
Eos Amaterasu: good question
Eliza Madrigal: but looking cute
stevenaia Michinaga: lol
Eliza Madrigal: haha Eos :)
Eden Haiku: Yippie!!!
Eden Haiku: Always a good question yes.
Eliza Madrigal: Eden you and Susan are in similar poses : )
stevenaia Michinaga: must be the phome pose
Eos Amaterasu: both attentive
stevenaia Michinaga: Phone
Eden Haiku: Realize I'm late. what have you been talking about?
Eliza Madrigal: :))
Eden Haiku: Phone pose hehe
stevenaia Michinaga: for phone prose
Eliza Madrigal: haha
Eliza Madrigal: :) we've started to talk a bit about ways to have comfortable phone spots :) like your chair from India, Eden
Eden Haiku: Phone prose is a great topic :)))
Eliza Madrigal: not tonight though :)
Eos Amaterasu: themes include sounds, senses, aliveness and variety, animals and bushes, Eliza listening to a gecko
Eden Haiku: A Eliza's gecko, such a great archetype :) How to trannsform pain...
Eliza Madrigal: how things open up in meditation... aliveness shining forth....
Eden Haiku is Offline
Eliza Madrigal: we can relax, Being's got it covered
stevenaia Michinaga: hi dash
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Dash
Dash (dash.earthboy): hey y'all
Eliza Madrigal sends another hook for Eden
Eos Amaterasu: hi -
Dash (dash.earthboy): hey Eden
Eliza Madrigal: wb Eden :)
Eos Amaterasu: hopscotch hook dance, by Eliza
Eden Haiku: Hey Dash, loved your voice on the audio with guitar:)
Dash (dash.earthboy): ty :)
Eliza Madrigal: Oh, the Denver song? yes enjoyed that a lot too
Dash (dash.earthboy): i get requests for that one :)
Eden Haiku: Such a real human being voice. Always nice to hear human beings with real voices :)
Dash (dash.earthboy): yah
Dash (dash.earthboy): not trained or anything
stevenaia Michinaga: sorry, bed time for me and kitty
Eos Amaterasu: Eden seems to be a wave
Eliza Madrigal: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: night
Dash (dash.earthboy): g'nite Stev :)
Eliza Madrigal: Night stevie
Eos Amaterasu: 'night stevenaia
Eliza Madrigal: btw, Sunshine constructed a PaB cafe in the village... Eden, when you are not on a phone should wander by :)
Eos Amaterasu: join ya soon
Eliza Madrigal: yes me too... am blinking in and out of existence myself
Dash (dash.earthboy): yah, i'll be a short-timer tonight too
Dash (dash.earthboy): it's been a day
Dash (dash.earthboy): some fairly complex online job applications these days
Eliza Madrigal: ah, skype interviews to begin?
Dash (dash.earthboy): one had a survey that took me almost an hour alone
Dash (dash.earthboy): skype interviews?
Eliza Madrigal: goodness
Eliza Madrigal: well yes many employers interview that way now
Eliza Madrigal: so wondered :)
Dash (dash.earthboy): got a call from a Georgia university about being an application analyst
Dash (dash.earthboy): they wanted me to come back there for an interview next week
Dash (dash.earthboy): i pleaded for a phone interview
Eliza Madrigal: Hmmm big decision
Eliza Madrigal: Thank you for a wonderful session Eos, and nice to see you Dash... am a bit dizzy tired...
Dash (dash.earthboy): yah
Dash (dash.earthboy): g'nite Eliza
Eos Amaterasu: bye Eliza....
Eden Haiku: Bye Eliza:))
Eos Amaterasu: good night, stay steady.....
Eliza Madrigal: Night Eden :) Nice to see you
Eliza Madrigal: :) steady as she goes
Eos Amaterasu sees Eden partially rezzed
Eos Amaterasu: ancient professin
Eos Amaterasu: profession
Eos Amaterasu: sphynx
Eos Amaterasu: :-)
Eos Amaterasu: now we worship at the feet of databases

--BELL--

Eos Amaterasu: Bye Dash and Eden.... good night.... midnight strikes here :-)