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

Eos Amaterasu: Hi Korel

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Korel Laloix: Heya
Korel Laloix: wow.... laggy]
Eos Amaterasu: treacle
Korel Laloix: Treacle?
Eos Amaterasu: sticky syrupy stuff you can stretch out
Eos Amaterasu: like almost frozen maple syrup
Korel Laloix: Like whatt you make caramels or tafee out of?
Eos Amaterasu: yeah, that kind of laggy stuff :-)
Korel Laloix: Will loook it up.
Eos Amaterasu: "freedom as relates to dropping" is our weekly theme
Eos Amaterasu: does dropping give way to bopping?
Korel Laloix: Never figured out te dropping things, so I might not be a good chat for this one.
Korel Laloix: Bopping?
Eos Amaterasu: yeah, let's drop it
Eos Amaterasu: bop till you drop
Korel Laloix: I am still on teh treacle thing... smiles
Korel Laloix: Maybe I should drop it.
Eos Amaterasu: being willing to manifest: bop
Eos Amaterasu: not finding oneself anywhere: drop
Eos Amaterasu: be
Eos Amaterasu: bop
Korel Laloix: Can you bop with treacle?
Eos Amaterasu: that's laggy bopping
Eos Amaterasu: we had a Real Life retreat in New Orleans once
Korel Laloix: I think that would be more sticky than lagging maybe.
Korel Laloix: How was that?
Eos Amaterasu: some great music, a bit away from the center of town...

Eos Amaterasu: how would you describe your experience, or non-experience, of "dropping", Korel?
Eos Amaterasu: cause I was thinking we could find some way to approach that in the upcoming 90 seconds, 5 minutes from now
Eos Amaterasu: and see if and how there's freedom as related to dropping
Korel Laloix: Will have to think about that.
Korel Laloix: I don't do it.
Korel Laloix: I find no realy reason to clear my mind andheart when there are very good things to fill it with.
Eos Amaterasu: "it's a little like having bees in your head - there they are" - Firesign Theater
Eos Amaterasu: :-)
Eos Amaterasu: let all those things be
Eos Amaterasu: how about we let all those things be in the upcoming 90 secs?

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Korel Laloix: I do like my quiet times.
Eos Amaterasu: :-)
Korel Laloix: And when I run I tend to clear and focu.
Eos Amaterasu: hmm, yes
Eos Amaterasu: we're more like wild animals then
Korel Laloix: Why would you say that?
Eos Amaterasu: alone, reliant on just one's own muscles and senses
Eos Amaterasu: moving
Eos Amaterasu: my sensory mind
Eos Amaterasu: hi stevenaia
Korel Laloix: I think we are social creatures.... physical, emotionally and spiritually.
Korel Laloix: Hyea
stevenaia Michinaga: hello
stevenaia Michinaga: h Korel
Korel Laloix smiles
Eos Amaterasu: true.... there's extremes - you can totally crowd-source your mind
Eos Amaterasu: let twitter be your thoughts!
Korel Laloix: And I know a few people that are lost if tey are not connected to several people all the time.
Korel Laloix: They loose their phone.. they are lost in so many ways.
Korel Laloix: I am not a twit... smiles
Eos Amaterasu: dropping your friends?
Eos Amaterasu: included in dropping?
Korel Laloix: I know a few people that shoudl drop a lot for a while.
Korel Laloix: But it is odd though.... I have frieunds I have met on line or in SL.. and I do consider them good friends.
Korel Laloix: But have never met them RL.
stevenaia Michinaga: I agree
Korel Laloix: So are those relations in needed of dropping more than RL ones?
stevenaia Michinaga: closeness does not depend on proximity
Eos Amaterasu: I think dropping applies to plusses and to minusses of relationships
stevenaia Michinaga: there is less to drop when the person's spirit is all you have
Eos Amaterasu: their spirit in you?
Korel Laloix: True... but if you don't have all aspects of a person, then does the one dimention you have get more deep?
stevenaia Michinaga: touched by their spirit
Eos Amaterasu: touching, dropping
Eos Amaterasu: partly dropping happens because nothing lasts
Eos Amaterasu: partly vividness happens in it not lasting
Eos Amaterasu: lasting or not is also droppable
Eos Amaterasu: what's left ..... is only ourselves, dear friends :-)

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Eos Amaterasu: "freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose".... and nothing left is all dropped
stevenaia Michinaga: funny how friends you have dropped... maybe because thay have moved away in RL (or SL) may be forgotten (dropped) yet upon their return, either in RL or virtually (vis facebook, for instance) they are still with you... dropping can be temporary
Korel Laloix: I think relationships are deeper then that. Peeople rally do effect you.
Korel Laloix: DOwn to thespiritual level.
Korel Laloix: THere are degrees of it for sure.
Eos Amaterasu: people continue living in you
stevenaia Michinaga: I recently met someone I hadn't spoken with for over 35-40 years, and I was able to tell her the important impact she has had on me
Eos Amaterasu listens
stevenaia Michinaga: you can only drop so much, you still carry the life lessons learned from others
Korel Laloix: And there are people tha have made enormous impacts on me as well.
stevenaia Michinaga: in fact, this person taught me that love can be dropping too
Eos Amaterasu: the paradox also seems to be in love coming out of dropping
stevenaia Michinaga: love can be either holding on to something to letting the bird fly away
Eos Amaterasu: and it can be allowed to let flow by completely giving up
stevenaia Michinaga: you mean giving away, not giving up?
Eos Amaterasu: I think by having no personal intention it emerges from universal intention
Eos Amaterasu: dropping the pro-ing and con-ing of every situation
Eos Amaterasu: that may be the micro-practice of dropping
Korel Laloix: Still not convinced that dropping is of any benafit.
Korel Laloix: Where pro or con.
stevenaia Michinaga: if you didn;t do it (drop things), you would be overwhelmed
Eos Amaterasu: maybe noticing precedes dropping
Eos Amaterasu: or more usually follows it
Eos Amaterasu: dropping the letters enables spacing between words
stevenaia Michinaga: inlife you chose what you take with you, all esle is dropped, so overtly or not, we excel at dropping
stevenaia Michinaga: or our heads would explode
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Eos Amaterasu: true. household dust is mostly skin cells dropped off
Korel Laloix: Maybe not drop, but pushed asside, or prioritiezed down.
stevenaia Michinaga: it;s jsut a matter of being more selective
stevenaia Michinaga: same thing, Korel, isn;t it?
Eos Amaterasu: maybe suspending is a better word
Eos Amaterasu: or transparentizing
Korel Laloix: Sure... but again, not sure I relaly understand thedropping idea.

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stevenaia Michinaga: I once saw it (image) as a whirlpool in my head, not a matter of everything draining out, but more a place for making new space for new things to emerge
Eos Amaterasu: game of touch and go
Eos Amaterasu: appreciate the game
Eos Amaterasu: you are not the touch, and not the go
Eos Amaterasu: that's some kind of freedom
Eos Amaterasu: hard to characterize
stevenaia Michinaga: I bearly remember that game
Eos Amaterasu: I squirreled it away :-)
Eos Amaterasu: tag?
Eos Amaterasu: we say, "that's it!"
Korel Laloix: brb
Eos Amaterasu: now "this is it"
stevenaia Michinaga: you're it!
Eos Amaterasu: let me touch someone
Eos Amaterasu: they are it
Eos Amaterasu: let me touch something, really appreciate, remember it: it's it!
Eos Amaterasu: some kind of distance in playing the play, as was observed yesterday
Eos Amaterasu: some kind of freedom
Eos Amaterasu: noticing when your attention switches
Eos Amaterasu: that's noticing dropping
stevenaia Michinaga: Korel jsut dropped out of SL
Eos Amaterasu: segued out
stevenaia Michinaga: perhaps it's time
stevenaia Michinaga: night Eos
Eos Amaterasu: yes, good night!