2011.12.09 07:00 - Beliefs

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    The guardian for this session was Lucinda Lavender and attending were Jan Qualia, 

    Eliza  Madrigal, Sam,Arch, and Santoshima. I did not get any text in the link I claimed so I posted from saved text. Thanks everyone for bearing with my topic. Also...later decided to remove timestamps...

    Eliza Madrigal: Thanks so much Maxine

    Adams Rubble: thank you maxine :)

    Eliza Madrigal: many muses offered today
    Maxine Walden: thank you all!!
    Lucinda Lavender: I will try hard to make it...
    Adams Rubble: bye everyone :)
    Maxine Walden: lovely to see you, Luci
    Eliza Madrigal: Bye Adams :)
    Jan Qualia: bye Maxine, Adama
    Jan Qualia: Hi Luci
    Sam√∫√∞ (oo0oo): Thank you Maxine... Bye Adams
    Jan Qualia: that Schermer video revived my skepticism
    Lucinda Lavender: oddly unable to claim...
    Jan Qualia: funny how we are influenced by what we read and watch
    Eliza Madrigal: the fire makes it tricky, Luci
    Sam√∫√∞ (oo0oo): is your group activated Luci?
    Jan Qualia: but it has to resonate I guess
    Eliza Madrigal: have to carefully click the flower and then actually 'touch'
    Eliza Madrigal: or at least that's what worked for me after several tries
    Eliza Madrigal: Jan, I have to admit I haven't seen the video you are referencing
    Lucinda Lavender: ok now:)
    Eliza Madrigal: that I remember right now anyway
    Jan Qualia: oh thought you had
    Eliza Madrigal: :) Luci
    Eliza Madrigal: Hello Arch :)
    Sam√∫√∞ (oo0oo): Hi Arch
    Jan Qualia: Yaku gave the link the other day
    Lucinda Lavender: HI Arch
    Eliza Madrigal: oh, yes I saved that
    Jan Qualia: Hi Arch
    Eliza Madrigal: lots of accumulations :)
    Arch (archmage.atlantis): apologize
    Arch (archmage.atlantis): self
    Arch (archmage.atlantis): ummm
    Arch (archmage.atlantis): listening to Lsy Gaga
    Arch (archmage.atlantis): a moment
    Arch (archmage.atlantis): You are
    Lucinda Lavender: thanks Jan:)
    Arch (archmage.atlantis): going to Jan's link
    Jan Qualia: I found the bit near the end ...about how humans look for patterns and aganticity very interesting
    Jan Qualia: agenticity
    Jan Qualia: if we hear a rustle in the grass it is safer to assume it is a predator...we are more likely to survive then
    Arch (archmage.atlantis): Chester.....the cat who came to be with me...seems to be
    Jan Qualia: but then we look for meanings and patterns in everything too much
    Lucinda Lavender: Luci has appreciation for this link since she is pondering what she believes
    Eliza Madrigal: oh?
    Sam√∫√∞ (oo0oo): It is a tradition as long as human history..
    Lucinda Lavender: yep
    Lucinda Lavender: and even dreamed of it recently
    Jan Qualia: it's about trying gto stay opne but still having a healthy skeoticism I guess
    Jan Qualia: open
    Jan Qualia: yes Sam
    Lucinda Lavender: I can do the skepticism and then the believing too it seems
    Jan Qualia: that's what we need
    Lucinda Lavender: ARch my syvie has joined us as well
    Eliza Madrigal: "Beyond the beliefs of any religion, there is the truth of the human spirit.
     Beyond the power of nations, there is the power of the human heart." Tarthang Tulku
    Sam√∫√∞ (oo0oo): me wonders if scientific method, sometimes undermines meaning in people's lives as with cargo cult dissolution/dispossesion of certain cultures' beliefs.. saddening in a way.. something to do with speed and hastiness..
    Jan Qualia: nice E;iza
    Eliza Madrigal: such a sensitive point Sam
    Jan Qualia: yes there is a danger of scientism too
    Jan Qualia: I ried to convey that in my poem for art thing
    Lucinda Lavender: nice Jan
    Eliza Madrigal: beyond doesn't imply doing away with or degradading cultures in a sense
    Arch (archmage.atlantis): Type one and type two errors
    Jan Qualia: yes
    Arch (archmage.atlantis): inteesting
    Sam√∫√∞ (oo0oo): maybbe beyond is returning to essential connections
    Eliza Madrigal: something is there, presented in appreciation, allowing not taking so seriously/weightily, therefore (kind of) beyond
    Lucinda Lavender: can you say it again about"beyond"?
    Arch (archmage.atlantis): The pattern I am most aware of are the patterns my Mom and my Dad gave me
    Sam√∫√∞ (oo0oo): [07:10] Eliza Madrigal: "Beyond the beliefs of any religion, there is the truth of the human spirit.
     
     Beyond the power of nations, there is the power of the human heart." Tarthang Tulku
    Lucinda Lavender: thanks!
    Eliza Madrigal: this quote, funnily enough, was on the wall of the Malta farmhouse when the group retreated there
    Lucinda Lavender: really...
    Eliza Madrigal: hope it is accurate, just pulled it from a different website
    Jan Qualia: humans have a great thirst for meaning and beliefs though I think
    Eliza Madrigal: and yes, Ara had not seen it when she arranged the place
     
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    Lucinda Lavender: Luci is wondering several things
    Sam√∫√∞ (oo0oo): Sam√∫√∞ is listening to luci ;)
    Lucinda Lavender: is dopamine released during sleep?
    Arch (archmage.atlantis): yes, me too, Sam
    Lucinda Lavender: towards waking..when dreams are surfacing
    Lucinda Lavender: because I was thinking that perhaps it helps us to make connections with the patterns of the greater experience of the world
    Jan Qualia: if there any :)
    Jan Qualia: mayb it's just a great random event?
    Lucinda Lavender: Luci finds patterns that jive with the morning news sometimes
    Jan Qualia: that we superimpose pattern onto
    Jan Qualia: trying to 'make sense' of it
    Jan Qualia: Hi San :)
    Lucinda Lavender: welll...last week when the goverment stopped a lot of marijuana coming into the US...I dreamed my husband and I were bringing huge quantitiies into the country that looked like coupon books but were the substance...
    Eliza Madrigal: :)
    Jan Qualia: coupon books?
    Lucinda Lavender: and we were bringing it from canada in the dream...
    Lucinda Lavender: it looked like money too...
    Lucinda Lavender: wrapped up
    Lucinda Lavender: I have no personal connection with the drug
    Jan Qualia: illicit smugglig dreams :)
    Eliza Madrigal: hehe
    Lucinda Lavender: yes totally unrelated to me...
    Lucinda Lavender: the story...
    [Lucinda Lavender: so noticeable
    Sam√∫√∞ (oo0oo): Sam√∫√∞ thinks, "complicit snuggling dream" :)
    Jan Qualia: :) Sam
    Eliza Madrigal: related, I heard this song for the first time yesterday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akvu1AOnUIw
    Lucinda Lavender: the newpaper had a picture too that showed people with a huge influx of cash...different story than the drug one...
    Sam√∫√∞ (oo0oo): clicks
    Eliza Madrigal: Hi San :)
    Eliza Madrigal: nice to linger, open(beyond), before patterns kick in strongly and carry us away
    San (santoshima): hi Sam, Luci, Eliza, Arch, Jan ~
    Eliza Madrigal: I suppose that's a way of getting high Luci :))
    Lucinda Lavender: nods...perhaps so
    Eliza Madrigal: out in the resourceful open
    Jan Qualia: havig to watch ads
    Eliza Madrigal: sorry for ads jan, would veto them if I could :)
    Jan Qualia: they are doing this too much these days
    Jan Qualia: not your fault Eliza :)
    Jan Qualia: 'who says I can't gret stoned ' :)
    Eliza Madrigal: Eliza Madrigal laughs
    Jan Qualia: you're a bad influence Eliza ;)
    Eliza Madrigal: ^^
    Eliza Madrigal: I didn't bring it into the country, luci did
    Sam: :)
    Jan Qualia: ha ha
    Lucinda Lavender: ...:)
    Jan Qualia: Luci only dreamed about it
    Lucinda Lavender: Luci thinks that when a big story hits the news and it converges in time with an odd dream there is a pattern
    Sam√∫√∞ (oo0oo): Nice video Eliza.. thanks ::passes Jan a coupon book::
    Eliza Madrigal: :)
    Lucinda Lavender: :)
    Jan Qualia: Jan doesn't know what it is..
    San (santoshima): nor does san
    (I think I did not explain here that a coupon book looks like money all stacked up, green, attached by a perforated edge binding)
     
     
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    Arch (archmage.atlantis): Any significant dreams lately Lucinda?
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    Jan Qualia: thinks drug trafficking is significat enough
    Sam√∫√∞ (oo0oo): "[07:21] Lucinda Lavender: welll...last week when the goverment stopped a lot of marijuana coming into the US...I dreamed my husband and I were bringing huge quantitiies into the country that looked like coupon books but were the substance..."
    San (santoshima): got that sam
    San (santoshima): check
    (Now I mention another dream...in response to arch asking about this...)
    Lucinda Lavender: the one where I tell other dreamers that I do not believed in astrology...so much...
    Lucinda Lavender: in a bit of a reorganization belief wise
    Arch (archmage.atlantis): I believe
    Arch (archmage.atlantis): In all
    Jan Qualia: best to drop beliefs?
    San (santoshima): what's the meaning of the dream for you, luci?
    Arch (archmage.atlantis): As I often tell those in science
    Lucinda Lavender: that there is some kind of change going on in my ability to identify truth in astrology
    Arch (archmage.atlantis): what part of infinity do you not understand
    Jan Qualia: all of it
    Eliza Madrigal: maybe a vehicle for a certain journey for you Luci
    Lucinda Lavender: have always argued in my head about astrology
    Lucinda Lavender: and just telling the truth here
    San (santoshima): http://www.paulsix.com
    Sam√∫√∞ (oo0oo): sounds like open mindedness at work
    Arch (archmage.atlantis): This is like a tea room in Savannah
    Lucinda Lavender: :)))
    Lucinda Lavender: Arch..:)
    Jan Qualia: maybe it is whatyou bring to it rather then what it symbolizes Luci?
    San (santoshima): ?
    Eliza Madrigal: Eliza Madrigal nods @ Jan
    Jan Qualia: sips tea
    Lucinda Lavender: how can the universe be organized by cultural stories that people on this planet generate?
    Jan Qualia: yeh
    Jan Qualia:summarizes that poem I wrote
    Eliza Madrigal: I look back at all the 'beliefs' I've had, most of them ropes that eventually unraveled into something else eventually, incorporated, useful
    Lucinda Lavender: the archtypal stories are true in some way...yet ... you see I have looked for patterns in dreams determined by the stars...for 10 years...
    Jan Qualia: some could be narrowing us ?
    San (santoshima): "dreams determined by the stars ..."please explain what you mean
    an Qualia: closig us in?
    Lucinda Lavender: on the morning of the dream aspects of the planets are noted and especially the degrees and placement of the moon
    Lucinda Lavender: for patterns
    [Sam√∫√∞ (oo0oo): so.. stepping out of that canoe with astrology and looking back on that 10 year journey, and to what shore arrived upon..
    Lucinda Lavender: good question Jan
    Lucinda Lavender: yes
    Lucinda Lavender: Sam
    San (santoshima): as a question
    San (santoshima): what shore? are you arriving on
    Jan Qualia: beliefs generally are fixed things
    Jan Qualia: and life is constant change
    San (santoshima): the shore of non belief in the astrology system you relied on? 
    Arch (archmage.atlantis):
    I am a being
     hear me be
     a cat am I
     a little piget boar
     
     
     I am
     therefore I be
     born as male
     with authority
     
     
     Butt my Mom
     she set me strght
     tho I am gay
     I love her tday
    Jan Qualia: ty Ach :)
    San (santoshima): thanks, arch
    Eliza Madrigal: :) Arch
    Eliza Madrigal: actually, the early notion of belief is along the lines of love or devotion.. just becomes solidified
    Lucinda Lavender: not sure...what the shore is...San is probably putting it correctly.
    Lucinda Lavender: maybe I am grieving
    Jan Qualia: wonders if love can be solidified...though constancy in love is good?
    Eliza Madrigal: ((((Luci)))))
    San (santoshima): grief in the dream isn't so very evident
    Sam√∫√∞ (oo0oo): Sam√∫√∞ feels overlapping waves reaching the shore... loves Arch today too, and feels devotion for the wide expanses of unknowns
    Eliza Madrigal: yes
    San (santoshima): can you say?
    an Qualia: we grieve our loss of beliefs for sure
    Lucinda Lavender: yes Jan..
    [Jan Qualia: they can be so comforting and reassuring
    Jan Qualia: an anchor in a sea of flux
    Lucinda Lavender: and loss of the containment that comes with being in groups that are organized around something
    Jan Qualia: something to hold onto
    Eliza Madrigal: mmm
    Jan Qualia: seems preferable to groundlessness
    Eliza Madrigal: when I saw the horseshoe that my Meme placed above the door, I didn't believe in it but her and that evoked something else
    San (santoshima): what's "meme"?
    Jan Qualia: well groups form from similar belief structures i guess
    Lucinda Lavender: hmmm
     Sam√∫√∞ (oo0oo): :)))
    Jan Qualia: birds of a feather
    Sam√∫√∞ (oo0oo): Meme's memes
    Eliza Madrigal: sorry, yes confusing... I should say great grandmother but so long to type :)
     
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    Arch (archmage.atlantis): meme can be heard as an idea that is like a gene,,,, a
    Jan Qualia: yes
    San (santoshima): well, was asking for elizas definition
    Eliza Madrigal: perhaps the forms empty Luci, open to something else...
    San (santoshima): as it otherwise didn't make sense
    San (santoshima): to what she was saying
    Eliza Madrigal: Eliza Madrigal nods
    Sam√∫√∞ (oo0oo): imen12 is sure in two minds today
    Arch (archmage.atlantis): hve to go
    Sam√∫√∞ (oo0oo): Namaste Arch!
    Arch (archmage.atlantis): later, blessings and namaste
    Jan Qualia: bye Arch :)
     
    Lucinda Lavender: hmmmback
    Sam√∫√∞ (oo0oo): Thanks for the poem !
    San (santoshima): peace, Arch ~
     Lucinda Lavender: well..27 degrees out!
    San (santoshima): sam, what's imen12 ?
     
    Jan Qualia: is quietly imposing patterns on her reality
    Eliza Madrigal: :)
    Lucinda Lavender: :) Luci too Jan
    Jan Qualia: but they don't take :(
    Lucinda Lavender: I think for some reason I have to choose sides?
    Lucinda Lavender: odd feeling...cannot fully drop yet cannot fully carry
    Jan Qualia: dualistic notins
    Jan Qualia: must be one or the other
    Eliza Madrigal: conflicting loyalties
    Jan Qualia: why not both?
    Jan Qualia: all of it
    Eliza Madrigal: Like the little stream 
             Making its way 
                Through the mossy crevices 
             I, too, quietly 
           Turn clear and transparent. 
                        -Ryokan
    Lucinda Lavender: nice
    Jan Qualia: yep nice :)
    San (santoshima): thank you ~
    Eliza Madrigal: Bye San :)
    Sam√∫√∞ (oo0oo): social connections and wider affiliations, while leaving certain ways of knowing for growth.. yet sometimes cliqueish, almost religious adherence within circles...
    San (santoshima): cliques, sam?
    Lucinda Lavender: yes sam
    San (santoshima): like this circle?
    Jan Qualia: bye SanSan (santoshima): bye
    Lucinda Lavender: friendship based around study together
    Lucinda Lavender: around containing together
    Jan Qualia: sparrows never congregate with starlings
    Eliza Madrigal: each time I've tried to throw myself at a religion it spits me out
    Eliza Madrigal: :)
    Sam√∫√∞ (oo0oo): lol
    Sam√∫√∞ (oo0oo): odd communion
    Eliza Madrigal: heheh
    Jan Qualia: 'the lamb can lie down with the lion.....but it won't get much sleep'
    Jan Qualia: Woody Allan
    Eliza Madrigal: Eliza Madrigal giggles
    Lucinda Lavender: :))) Lucinda Lavender: chucking!!!
    Lucinda Lavender: chucling!
    Lucinda Lavender: chuckling
    Lucinda Lavender: (not spelling)
    Sam√∫√∞ (oo0oo): :)
    Jan Qualia: cos we are all unique
    Jan Qualia: never quite fit into any religion
    Jan Qualia: we have our own unique take on life
    Lucinda Lavender: yes...well thanks for patient listening...
    Lucinda Lavender: and sharing
    Jan Qualia: and we have to allw it to change and grow
    Jan Qualia: or whatever
    Lucinda Lavender: or sail to a new shore
    Jan Qualia: getting preachy
    Jan Qualia: so better go :)
    Lucinda Lavender: breathe well:)
    Sam√∫√∞ (oo0oo): Steady there Jan.. go easy on the coupon book ;)
    Eliza Madrigal: :) Thanks so much Luci, for sharing your personal journey
    Eliza Madrigal: :))Bye jan
    Eliza Madrigal: nice to see you
    Sam√∫√∞ (oo0oo): me thinks Jan has the munchies
    Lucinda Lavender: thanks Jan
    Sam√∫√∞ (oo0oo): tc Jan
     
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    Jan Qualia: trying new AO :)
    Eliza Madrigal: Eliza Madrigal thinks of Woody Allen's 'life lived backwards'
    Jan Qualia: bye
    Lucinda Lavender: I have to go scrape the windows of the van!!
    Lucinda Lavender: yakes...so many windows
    Eliza Madrigal: ooooo!
    Lucinda Lavender: hmmmthansk eliza and Sam
    Lucinda Lavender: and fire
    Eliza Madrigal: (((Luci))) nice to spend time today
    Sam√∫√∞ (oo0oo): :)) Luci!
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    Lucinda Lavender: of to the scaper..
    Lucinda Lavender: scraper
    Eliza Madrigal: unfreezing the view
    Lucinda Lavender: :)))
    Sam√∫√∞ (oo0oo): :))
    Eliza Madrigal: :)
    Lucinda Lavender: yes!!!
    Sam√∫√∞ (oo0oo): thawing
    Lucinda Lavender: :)
    Sam√∫√∞ (oo0oo): getting an upper arm workout
    Eliza Madrigal: mmm chip chip chip away drip drip drip away
    Lucinda Lavender: ...bfn:)
    Eliza Madrigal: bfn :)
    Sam√∫√∞ (oo0oo): bfn :)
     
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    A wonderful session, Luci, fun while also so helpful... a window/mirror for us all.
    "Slow down, Pay attention, Question everything, Start now."
    Posted 01:49, 10 Dec 2011
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