2016.01.28 13:00 - TSK Session: Giant Body, Imagination and Knowing

The Guardians for this meeting were Eliza and Mick.

Those unable to attend session, and those who would like to post a report, comment or question, are encouraged to do so on the following page: 2016.01.28 - Giant Body

For this coming week:
Continue reading Chapter 2 - The Body and Human Embodiment, and working with the Giant Body exercise(s) throughout the chapter. Officially, we are beginning with exercise 6, however everyone should move at their own pace and not hurry.

(greetings at the bottom of the page)
Eliza Madrigal: These sessions seem to fly by, so I don't want to wait too long to begin
Mickorod Renard: hey Bleu
Bleu Oleander: hi all :)
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Bleu :)
Bruce Mowbray: Let's start.
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Agatha Macbeth: Ready steady...
Mickorod Renard: go
Eden Haiku: ((Bleu))
Eliza Madrigal: This week is a follow up of last week, with the additions of part of chapter two, up to exercise 5 "released to space"
Eliza Madrigal: I want to say before we start, since I seem to get so caught up in the energy that I am scattered by end of session, that this week to next, covers the rest of the chapter
Wol Euler nods.
Agatha Macbeth ponders a scattered Liz
Eliza Madrigal: I hope everyone got my note about that after last session :)
Mickorod Renard: yep
Eliza Madrigal: What we worked with this week, were the first two exercises in chapter 2, and
Exercise 3 - the microlevel,
Exercise 4- just interactions and shining outlines,
Exercise 5 --Released to space

Bruce Mowbray nods.
Eliza Madrigal: So let's go around, and hear from everyone
Eliza Madrigal: who would like to begin?
stevenaia Michinaga: CAn I since I only took things to excercise 3
Bruce Mowbray: I prepared something earlier...
Bruce Mowbray: kk, steve!
stevenaia Michinaga: I must have misread something somewhere
Eliza Madrigal: Sure, we can start with Stevie then move to Bruce, Mick, etc
stevenaia Michinaga: but in any case
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, start with steve, please.
 

Stevenaia

stevenaia Michinaga: I may have mangled the excercises
Wol Euler raises an eyebrow.
Agatha Macbeth: They'll dry quicker
Bruce Mowbray: :)
Eliza Madrigal: (or have been creative with it)
stevenaia Michinaga: I was having dificulty finding the time to do these so I decided to do them before bed, as in to lul myself to sleep
Bruce Mowbray: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: and trust me I have never slept so good this past week
stevenaia Michinaga: in each case after laying down and breathing deeply I would enter the "body"
stevenaia Michinaga: almost floating through it on a blood platelet like a magic carpet
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eden Haiku loves the image
stevenaia Michinaga: then fining my way around going deeper to the atomic and subatomic level, only to find that "things " at that lever moved very fast for the smaller me, and at least 5 of the night I fell instantly asleep
stevenaia Michinaga: done
Bruce Mowbray: [wow]
Eliza Madrigal: that sounds so energetic, not mangling at all
Mickorod Renard: lovely
Eliza Madrigal: healthful to sleep too!
stevenaia Michinaga: atoms were fast, quarks were hard to see
Wol Euler smiles.
Eliza Madrigal: interesting that you stopped there... maybe moving forward will try to inch a little farther
stevenaia Michinaga: I think I could do this for a very long time
Eliza Madrigal: ty
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Eliza Madrigal: Ready Bruce?
Bruce Mowbray: kk
 

Bruce

Bruce Mowbray: To make my input go faster, I will copy paste what I wrote earlier. Hope it makes sense. Here goes…. (I hope not too mangled.)
Bruce Mowbray: Could the body of the Giant be my own body? --- My tentative hypothetical answer: “Yes, I could be the imagined Giant.”
Bruce Mowbray: The Giant’s body (now my own body) presents itself as “an infinitely complex cluster of translucent outlines.” (p.28)
Bruce Mowbray: Is the agent of exploration - which the author calls a “knowing presence” - also infinite? Or, does my imagination’s “knowledge” require perceptual filters through which it frames the properties of shape, color, texture, translucence, extension, etc.?
Bruce Mowbray: Again, a tentative “Yes.” My imagination’s ‘knowledge’ is limited by such frames and filters.
Bruce Mowbray: The exercises encourage us to imagine the Giant’s infinity of outlines as bright, alive, intangible, and ecstatic. Thus, I am a finite perceptual agent exploring myself as an infinite object. -- This seems to be my predicament in every conceivable encounter and exploration in life, including the imaginary ones. (More and more, I’m thinking that ALL encounters have such an imaginary component to them.)
Bruce Mowbray: The author intended that the outcome of Exercises 1-5 would be for us to know that “Things are fundamentally nothing but [infinite] space.” (p.30)
Bruce Mowbray: (too fast?)
Mickorod Renard: great
Eliza Madrigal reading more slowly than posted
Bruce Mowbray: However, my imagination’s exploration of my own “Giant body” seems to involve two substantially different “things”: a finite one (the agent that imagines, explores, and “knows”) and an infinite one (the Giant as myself.) – It seems a paradox that the latter would contain the former.
stevenaia Michinaga: no, fine
Bruce Mowbray: Tentative conclusion à I can imagine and “know” two things: (1) that my body is nothing but infinite, unlimited space (p.30) and (2) that my infinite body contains a finite imagining-knowing agency – limited by its own frameworks of perception and conceptualization. [done]
Mickorod Renard: fantastic
Eliza Madrigal: yes.... interesting focus on the seeming paradox there
Wol Euler: have you perhaps just discovered the self? :)
Bruce Mowbray: ty.

--BELL--

Bruce Mowbray: perhaps the self as an observing agency..

Bruce Mowbray: Mick?
Mickorod Renard: I wanted to say what Bruce said, ..but i can't
Bleu Oleander: :)
Eliza Madrigal smiles, so say what Mick would say, lol
Eden Haiku: :)
Bruce Mowbray: !! Sure you can!
 

Mick

Mickorod Renard: I spent some time doing the exercises , initially feeling like previously where it was an imaginary exploration using the imagination.
Mickorod Renard: I felt like a cross between swimming and a space walk without need for air or a rope. I just moved around as my thoughts desired yet also felt a need to twist and squirm a bit to get around or through obstacles.
Mickorod Renard: I didnt find it difficult to do as the text asked although I feel in doubt about my genuine ability as it feels a little fake.
Mickorod Renard: Whilst doing one part I did have a strange experience. i was trying to imagine not using my perspective as that from my eyes and all of a sudden flipped into another mode. It was a bit like when you try and turn something semi rigid inside out. it sort of just popped.
Mickorod Renard: It transformed me to a position with no bodily awareness but out in space looking past or through my body at a distance and then further at the body I was viewing. The feeling was very strange in that I felt the separation from body and the calm and peace of being without living attachment.
Mickorod Renard: Finally i imagined the body as glowing lines that could also be permeated and could be seen as nothing more than light although I found it quite exciting and passing through any beams made me feel tickled slightly.
Mickorod Renard: I cannot say at this point I feel I have grasped anything, I will be patient. ...done
Eliza Madrigal nods the book does suggest trying to see without usual eyes. Feel captivated by your experiences
Mickorod Renard: sorry for not being mindful
Eliza Madrigal smiles. You had the floor, so quite OK
Bruce Mowbray: That was wonderful, Mick.
Mickorod Renard: ty
Eliza Madrigal: Bleu?
 

Bleu

Bleu Oleander: I'm fascinated with the way we can use our imagination ... to take us to any place we can create in our minds
Bleu Oleander: I love that most about being human
Eden Haiku: passing though the beams...
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Wol Euler smiles.
Bleu Oleander: I remembered a video I saw once .... about the inside of a cell as imagined by an artist
Agatha Macbeth: I read that as beans
Bleu Oleander: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_zD3NxSsD8
Eden Haiku: ;)
Bleu Oleander: when I saw this I realized how far I could push my imagination
Bleu Oleander: I did however disagree with the author's conclusion when he said that the exercise lost a point of view
Bleu Oleander: I think our point of view is always there but we can of course imagine that its not
Eliza Madrigal smiles
Riddle Sideways: or not
Bleu Oleander: I loved when everything poofed
Bleu Oleander: imagination is great
Bleu Oleander: ok done
Bruce Mowbray: "focal setting = point of view?
Eliza Madrigal: ty!
Mickorod Renard: nice video, ty
Eliza Madrigal: (btw, everyone after the circle we can comment more freely so please take note of what others have mentioned if strikes you)
Bruce Mowbray: ty, Bleu.
Eliza Madrigal: Wester?

Wester

Wester Kiranov: I had the flu last week so today I'm just listening
Eliza Madrigal: Okay, hope you are feeling better?
Bruce Mowbray: Get well soon, Wester.
Bleu Oleander: awww hope you're feeling better!
Mickorod Renard: hope u r over it now
Riddle Sideways: feel better
Bruce Mowbray notes Wester is floating...
Eden Haiku: she is!
Riddle Sideways: so is Bruce
Eliza Madrigal: :) cushion seems to be playing with Wester
Bruce Mowbray: !!
Wester Kiranov: i don't understand the floating . just ignore it pls
Wol Euler: yup, you both are
Eliza Madrigal: :) Okay... Riddle?
Eden Haiku: Indeed!
Riddle Sideways: k
 

Riddle

Riddle Sideways: (also) copies from the week's notes
Riddle Sideways: Ex. 2 Internal Details
Riddle Sideways: focus is changing, but jumping around.
Riddle Sideways: passing in-out-between structures, systems
Riddle Sideways: the edge/boundry of one structure is not so solid already.
Riddle Sideways: cells/bacteria are whole systems
Riddle Sideways: yet are also absorbing, influencing and 'relating' to others around them.

Riddle Sideways: x. 3 The Microlevel
Riddle Sideways: On atomic and sub-atomic levels the interactions, relations, influencing of other neighbors still happens
Riddle Sideways: seems the same as exersize 2
Riddle Sideways: \However, the commentary is talking about 'Knowing', unknowing, unknowable
Riddle Sideways: as if the author thinks me so struck in my body-mind that free thinking can not happen
Agatha Macbeth: Bye Liz
Eden Haiku: Oh! Eliza poofed!
Riddle Sideways: [disregards early bell]
Riddle Sideways: "Our way of relating to our bodies is often very rigid..."
Riddle Sideways: some anger over doing exercise 3 as knowing and experiencing the small levels
Bruce Mowbray: I will give chat to her when she comes back.
Riddle Sideways: yet an author is preaching that it must be unknown.

--BELL--

Riddle Sideways: Ex. 4 Just Interactions and Shining Outlines
Riddle Sideways: 4A. was already being practiced earlier. Going up/down, through/across and jumping levels, systems, structures

Riddle Sideways: 4B. Now the exercise is getting to where Riddle was already.
Riddle Sideways: Seeing all structures at the time nested within each other.
Riddle Sideways: Seeing through to bones, yet seeing the shinning ghosts of the outer/covering layers
Bruce Mowbray nods.

Riddle Sideways: 4C. Gets really exciting because that was what wanted to be done
Riddle Sideways: Seeing from all view points at once.
Riddle Sideways: Focusing by not focusing singlarly
Riddle Sideways: years ago in an article read that the eye ball really focuses on one spot then very quickly move focus to another spot to build a composite
Riddle Sideways:really liked that and have that in use on the mind's eye often

Riddle Sideways: Ex.5 Relased to Space
Riddle Sideways: 5A. brightening the outlines did not always work. Dimming the outlines seems easier
Riddle Sideways: the phrase "ecstatic quality" needed to be researched, but worked in the end :)

Riddle Sideways: 5B. removing the lines, melding all was easy
Riddle Sideways: not having "Points of view" was a big opener
Riddle Sideways: not using the art of 'Perspective" as taught in art class to draw a landscape
Riddle Sideways: seemed to be what had been going on already and took force to stop at the boundries/outlines/made-up edges
Agatha Macbeth: WB dear
Riddle Sideways: wb
Wol Euler: wb
Mickorod Renard: wb
Wester Kiranov: wb liz

Riddle Sideways: One more point ...
Riddle Sideways: am having issues with the use of the word "Imagination"
Eliza Madrigal: (apologies, and thanks Bruce for notes)
Eden Haiku: ?
Riddle Sideways: think sometimes "point of view" or freeing focus setting might be better
Riddle Sideways: but imagining mostly works ok (if not used rigidly)
Riddle Sideways: done
Riddle Sideways: wb wester
Eden Haiku: impressed by 'seing through to bones"
Bruce Mowbray ponders "imagination" vs. "perception"
Eliza Madrigal: caught up now and actually your description of process is really vivid Riddle
Mickorod Renard: i too was unsure about the viewing point..if thats what the book meant
Eden Haiku: And eyeball creating composite by moving focus...
Eliza Madrigal: I think there is more room to play with things than the book suggests, which is good because we all seem to be doing so
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eliza Madrigal: Eden, ready?
Riddle Sideways: yes
Eden Haiku: yes

Eden

Eden Haiku: Trying to catch up with you all...
Mickorod Renard: nice Riddle ty
Eden Haiku: Just starting with part b of the Giant Body exercise after about a week doing part a which was very inspiring and comparatively easy.
Agatha Macbeth runs faster
Eden Haiku: Travelled to the giantess body in the sky and could feel her skin under my bare tiny feet but I didn't manage to go through a pore yet.
Eden Haiku: Kind of scared.
Wol Euler nods.
Eden Haiku: On a second attempt, I met my deceased father coming from the stars, landing and walking towards me on the skin of the giantess.
Eden Haiku: I was very pleased to see him and saw that the giant body reunites the dead as well as the living.
Eden Haiku: Thought about the communion of the saints and had a glimpse of the giant body as the mystical body of Christ.
Eden Haiku: The end:)
Mickorod Renard: Wow
Wol Euler smiles.
Riddle Sideways: ty
Wol Euler: how nice to meet your father again
Wester Kiranov: :)
Eliza Madrigal: :) am awed by such allowing
Riddle Sideways: and yes, going into somebodies pores is yucky
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eden Haiku: Reassuring Riddle :)
Eliza Madrigal: haha

Eliza Madrigal: Agatha? :)
Agatha Macbeth: Pass
Agatha Macbeth: Wollie
Eliza Madrigal: k :)
Eliza Madrigal: Wollie

Wol

Wol Euler: I haven't done as much as I wanted this week, too much RL stuff swallowing my time. But I do have a few observations.
Wol Euler: I hadn't realized until Eden said just now about the pores, that I had avoided that too. I didn't enter the body through a pore but waited until my "perceiving point" was small enough to slip between cells. Perhaps I too found that unconsciously offputting.
Wol Euler: the idea in exercise four about perceiving instead of seeing (not going to stop to look up the actual words) puzzled me a little
Wol Euler: I wasn't sure whether I "see" the exercises or not, wasn't sure how to make that distinction with certainty
Wol Euler: "I" am very seldom in the exercise space (or body), it happens around my perception
Bruce Mowbray nods, agrees with Wol.
Mickorod Renard: mmmm yes, same confusion for me
Bruce Mowbray nods again.
Riddle Sideways: nods also
Bruce Mowbray: :)
Wol Euler: looking at the beginning of Bleu's video was another difference: I don't see the bodybits in that kind of colour and detail, I "see" volume and motion and interaction, and the space between
Wol Euler: which I realized during the exercise is very much like how I keep a building project in my head
Wol Euler: not drawings but volumes and surfaces, and the processes that act on them

--BELL--

Wol Euler: at all scales, from a block in the city to the screw in a doorhandle
Wol Euler: one last thing, then I'll shut up
Wol Euler: I loved exercise five!
Wol Euler: it was so exciting!
Mickorod Renard: :)
Eliza Madrigal: :))
Mickorod Renard: tingly for me
Wol Euler: when the outlines became lines
Wol Euler: like ribbons in space
Eden Haiku: the architect in you Wol :)
Wol Euler: and I could ride on them like a rollercoaster, or a bicycle on a hilly road
Wol Euler: it was lovely
Bruce Mowbray: :)
Bleu Oleander: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Eliza Madrigal: wonderful, yes!
Mickorod Renard: nice Wol
Wol Euler: and the "line" was only a momentary perception, because the entire 3d surface was that line, all the possible lines, all existing but only one real for me at the moment
Wol Euler: wonderful!
Wol Euler: (done)
Mickorod Renard: nice
Eliza Madrigal feels very full, listening to accounts
Riddle Sideways: now have that image of Wol on bicycle stuck
Eden Haiku: A roller coaster exercise, wow!
stevenaia Michinaga: I have to step away, see you soon
Wol Euler grins.
Riddle Sideways: by by
Mickorod Renard: bye Stevie
Bruce Mowbray: bye, steve. ty.
Agatha Macbeth: Step well Steve
Eliza Madrigal: bfn Stevie
Wester Kiranov: bye steve
Wol Euler: bye stevie, take care
Eden Haiku: Bye Steve:)
Eliza Madrigal: I spent some time with that 'seeing without eyes' question and what I came to feel was that this is where we begin moving into our bodies more, in a way, out of our heads as primary see-ers... where the knowledge moves from academic to hands on, in a way, in mind to in hands...
Eliza Madrigal: or at least that's my sensibility about why it was phrased that way
Eliza Madrigal: I've often noticed that my energy can be concentrated in my face....
Agatha Macbeth: 0.0
Eliza Madrigal: and have had a practice of trying to let that be more evenly distributed
Eliza Madrigal: hah, that may sound weird, but it is one way to work with the idea maybe
Wol Euler nods.
 

Eliza

Eliza Madrigal: So my report is...
Eliza Madrigal: I was helped a great deal by listening to others last week,
Bruce Mowbray nods, has had the same feeling.
Eliza Madrigal: and by inspiring sessions during this week
Wol Euler nods.
Eliza Madrigal: I feel as though it was a rough runway, but then there was lift-off...
Eliza Madrigal: others described something I went through, in seeing my predelections for skipping some parts
Eliza Madrigal: taking short cuts to get to the fun stuff
Eliza Madrigal: I wanted into those outlines!
Wol Euler smiles.
Eliza Madrigal: but I did slow myself down a bit. Earlier in the week I wrote another report on the wiki as well, about going into a kind of sally naturally, but then deciding not to go in that direction
Eliza Madrigal: there is a lot of energy where we are now
Wol Euler: oh yes
Eliza Madrigal: so it is easy to feel a little overloaded
Riddle Sideways: or freed
Eliza Madrigal: but I think as long as we pay attention to ourselves, we can go at the paces we are comfortable with
Eliza Madrigal: YES
Bruce Mowbray nods, agrees.
Eliza Madrigal: I want to paste one section...

"We may begin the exercises by 'imagining', but may progress beyond that to learn to 'know' in new and quite incontrovertable ways.

Our 'knowing' is usually a simple conjuring up of conventional elements; but we may now learn, instead, more about how the conventional world of appearance merges and unfolds in terms of bodies, knowers, and things known.

This new type of knowledge *may* be concerned more with an open field or dimension--which makes it possible to take up various points of view-- than with the observed objects deriving from such particular points of view.

We will have to explore further to decide. Perhaps there is a balance possible between the two concerns."

Eliza Madrigal: ty done
Riddle Sideways: ah, thank you. that is the issues with "imaging"
Wol Euler: thank you Eliza, and everyone
Bleu Oleander: say more about "imagining"?
Mickorod Renard: thank you all very much
Eden Haiku: Will try Wol's strategy and scale down my view point in order to slide down between pores so as to avoid the sweaty pores of the giant body :)
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, Bleu... I would like to hear that.

Riddle Sideways: had issues with this all being Imagination
Bleu Oleander: how so?
Mickorod Renard: I wonder if imagining has another meaning in other languages
Eliza Madrigal: we begin with imagination
Riddle Sideways: and not taking it to 'knowing'
Eliza Madrigal: ah

Bleu Oleander: what is the threshold for you?
Bruce Mowbray remembers that Einstein's "thought experiments" involved imagination -- and often, paradox.
Wol Euler: I think that is his point, though, when he talks about knowing through our bodies
Bleu Oleander: from imagining to knowing
Eliza Madrigal: good question, to ask about our thresholds
Bleu Oleander: isn't imagining knowing as well?
Riddle Sideways: yes
Riddle Sideways: yes, to Eliza
Eden Haiku: Imagination as a vehicle transporting us to nodes of reality maybe?
Eliza Madrigal: I think of it as 'traction'... imagination like reaching, and knowing like riding
Eliza Madrigal nodding Wol and Eden
Wol Euler: let us remember this point of the discussion, to come back to it much later :)
Bleu Oleander: my imagination feels more like riding for me
Bruce Mowbray loved Eliza's metaphor of runway and takeoff -- That's how I think of imagination.
Eden Haiku: Yes, me too, lovely metaphor!
Eliza Madrigal: there is some point at which, maybe like Bruce's or was it Mick's *pop* where it seems to turn and engage
Mickorod Renard: I am still not sure
Eliza Madrigal: where one isn't 'trying' anymore as much
Wol Euler nods.
Bruce Mowbray: a "shift," Mick?

Bleu Oleander: I think of imagination as creating perceptions without the input from the senses
Eden Haiku: When we know IT IS real :)
Eliza Madrigal nods nods
Eliza Madrigal: interesting Bleu... your line seems to be unique
Bleu Oleander: unique?
Eliza Madrigal: when I'm in imagining stage I'm usually pulling up materials or possibilities
Mickorod Renard: I guess one can imagine something very real
Bleu Oleander: how do you see it?
Eliza Madrigal: not yet really actively working with it yet

--BELL--

Eliza Madrigal: but then again I can remember my kids in deep imaginative play, which was a bit different...already engaged
Bleu Oleander: but you are when you imagine materials or possibilities ... you're working with interior perceptions, no?
Mickorod Renard: bleu's bit I think of imagination as creating perceptions without the input from the senses'...seems a good explanation
Bruce Mowbray: One can play with toy animals.... or one can play as if she were an animal... Which is more "real"?
Wol Euler: do we know the landscape of familiar places in SL, or do we imagine them?
Riddle Sideways: good point
Wol Euler: I surely know my own dreams ...
Eliza Madrigal: hmmm
Bruce Mowbray: I was quite disoriented when the PaB lands changed, Wol. So, perhaps my imagination was weak with that.
Eliza Madrigal: dreams are a good example too, ie when is one lucid
Bleu Oleander: what's perceived in the interior is just as real as any perception
Eliza Madrigal: I do think this exercise gives us sight of our own thresholds, ie "where do we stop?" "where are we hesitating?"

Eden Haiku: this reminds me of a conversation I had decades ago with other 12 years old girls :)
Wol Euler listens.
Eliza Madrigal: Oh, Eden? :))
Eden Haiku: Well,,,no story really, just is this real? is this just a dream you know...
Mickorod Renard: we may never know that 'pop' thing I had though:
Bruce Mowbray: I think children's story-myths are meant to carry us over the threshholds.
Eden Haiku: mmm, yes...
Bleu Oleander: all perceptions are real ... some which get input from the senses may prove more useful for navigating the world and surviving

Eliza Madrigal: does anyone have a sensibility about where the energy of the explorations comes from? that ecstatic-ness mentioned?
Bruce Mowbray: Wow. Wonderful question, Eliza.
Eden Haiku: loves that: all perceptions are real. Thanks Bleu.
Mickorod Renard: I wondered that, many of us shared that same moment
Wol Euler: to me it's a feeling of liberation from constraint that I didn't know I was under
stevenaia Michinaga: back
Wol Euler: wb
Bruce Mowbray: wb
Eliza Madrigal: hm
Eden Haiku: Yes, it is exhilarating
Agatha Macbeth: Hm
Wol Euler: the dictatorship of being stuck in a body at one point in spacetime
Bleu Oleander: perhaps from a unmooring from a world of the senses?
stevenaia Michinaga: back to my original "trip metaphor, everyone love a road trip, this one is fueled by the mind

Mickorod Renard: I would like to add, when i had the pop and ended up viewing from somewhere outside my body,,there was something else I noticed. It was that I felt that the source of my conciousness wasnt actually in my body and that that had been an illusion all my life and that it rests elsewhere
Wol Euler: oh!
Bleu Oleander: road trip of the mind ... nice
Eden Haiku: oh!
Eliza Madrigal nods...
Agatha Macbeth: Oh!
Bruce Mowbray: fascination perception, Mick.
Eliza Madrigal: liberation
stevenaia Michinaga: BFN, can't wait to read what I missed
Mickorod Renard: obviously i am caged up again now
Wol Euler: bye again, stevie, take care
Bruce Mowbray: bye, steve.
Riddle Sideways: by
Eliza Madrigal waves :)
Agatha Macbeth: Byee
Wester Kiranov: bye steve
Eden Haiku: Bye Steve :)
Bleu Oleander: bye steve
Riddle Sideways: good, Mick
Eliza Madrigal giggles
Mickorod Renard: :)
Wester Kiranov: time for me to leave too
Eliza Madrigal: We've passed session time....
Mickorod Renard: bye wester
Wol Euler: bye wester
Eden Haiku: Take care Wester :)
Riddle Sideways: by
Bruce Mowbray: bye, Wester.
Eliza Madrigal: thanks everyone, so very much.

Wol Euler: I have to admit, I feel quite envious of the people who met somebody during their giant body explorations

Eden Haiku: Thanks to you Eliza :)
Mickorod Renard: ok, bye folks..am still around one more week
Wol Euler: Eden and -- was it Mick?
Bruce Mowbray: bye, Riddle.
Bleu Oleander: another time that flew by!!
Bruce Mowbray: bye, mick.
Eliza Madrigal: These sessions overflow and I'm so glad to read the other sessions as well - journey is very exciting with others
Eden Haiku: Bye Mick!
Wol Euler: bye all, take care, imagine well
Mickorod Renard: bye :)
Eliza Madrigal: bye everyone who must go, thanks so much for being so all in :)
Bruce Mowbray: Thank you, Eliza and everyone.
Eden Haiku: Traveling companions are great :)
Agatha Macbeth: Everyhone's a winner baby
Mickorod Renard: thankyou everyone
Eliza Madrigal: when we show up together there is just nothing like it :)
Wol Euler smiles.
Eden Haiku: waves to those leaving :)
Eliza Madrigal: new fancy suit Riddle?

Bleu Oleander: like a beautiful song being sung by a choir
Riddle Sideways: this ol thing?
Eliza Madrigal smiles
Eden Haiku: Great metaphor Bleu :)
Eliza Madrigal: indeed Bleu
Wol Euler: elegant.
Bleu Oleander: til next time .... hugs all
Riddle Sideways: hugs
Eliza Madrigal: hugs and thanks, Bleu
Wol Euler: goodnight all, take care
Eden Haiku: Hugs
Bleu Oleander: bye bye
Wol Euler: tahnk you again, dear Eliza
Eliza Madrigal: Nigh Wol, sleep well
Agatha Macbeth: Are you supposed to be green Tara Liz?
Eliza Madrigal: ((ty!))
Eden Haiku: Goodnite Wol :)
Wol Euler: for herding us all so well
Eden Haiku: Our hurding George :)
Eliza Madrigal: my other appearance is more Tara-y I think
Eliza Madrigal grins
Agatha Macbeth: Hm

Eliza Madrigal: did you see they talked about naming the new planet George? heheh
Wol Euler: o.O
Eliza Madrigal: weird
Agatha Macbeth: Well anything's better than planet X
Eliza Madrigal: but they moved on from that idea :)
Eden Haiku: No?
Eden Haiku: Oh, that's sad :) Puppy would have appreciated that :)
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Riddle Sideways: there is a dog star
Eliza Madrigal: true
Eden Haiku: ?
Agatha Macbeth: Are you Sirius?
Eden Haiku: What is it Riddle?
Wol Euler: oh damnit to hell.
Wol Euler: I forgot
Agatha Macbeth: Wot?
Eliza Madrigal looks at Agatha
Wol Euler: what's his brother's name?
Riddle Sideways: hmmmm, maybe dreamed that or saw in a comet
Agatha Macbeth: Who?
Wol Euler: Sirius Black, what's his brother's name
Wol Euler: grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Eliza Madrigal: Regulus
Eden Haiku: Sirius Black you mean?
Agatha Macbeth: Jet?
Wol Euler: "are you sirius?" "no, I'm regulus"
Wol Euler: thank you
Wol Euler curtseys.
Eliza Madrigal: :)))
Agatha Macbeth pushes Wol in the water
Wol Euler: heheheh
Eden Haiku: Regulus, that,s it!

--BELL--

Wol Euler grins.
Eliza Madrigal: the exercises seem to lead naturally to space ...sometimes when I'm in the body I shift images and just float around.... stevie's right that it is good for sleep
Wol Euler: bunch of geeks <3
Agatha Macbeth: He's a Regulus guy
Eden Haiku: hehe
Eliza Madrigal: fancy geeks <3
Eliza Madrigal: love you guys....
Agatha Macbeth: The geeks shall inherit the earth
Wol Euler: I do fall asleep while doing the exercises, but I just put it down to being overworked
Wol Euler: not to any intrinsic quality
Eliza Madrigal: I'm sure it is that too Wol...
Eden Haiku: Yes the exercises have a special quality...Peace inductive :)
Eliza Madrigal: but anything that lets one deeply relax
Eliza Madrigal: I think I would have been stuck longer if not for the beautiful reports from others
Wol Euler smiles.
Eliza Madrigal: really loosened things up
Riddle Sideways: like ice breakers?
Agatha Macbeth: You loose woman you

Eden Haiku: Yes, listening to other experiences really liberates...
Eliza Madrigal: Eden took over Riddle's session and wrote a wonderful piece....
2016.01.26 07:00 - Riding the Subway into the Giant Body (Tuesday Morning Soliloquy)
Riddle Sideways: and did a Wonderful job
Riddle Sideways: and report
Riddle Sideways: and story
Riddle Sideways: Thank you
Agatha Macbeth: That's our Edie

Eden Haiku: Thanks Riddle. What happened to you?
Riddle Sideways: was in San Francisco
Eliza Madrigal nods.... thought about the Giant Body as movements... like when you see groups of birds or animals in formations....
Wol Euler: oh, poor you :)
Riddle Sideways: sent an email to group
Agatha Macbeth: Is the bridge still up?
Riddle Sideways: yes
Eden Haiku: Ah! so many emails in inbox I never find anything....Sorry I missed it Riddle
Agatha Macbeth: Yay
Eliza Madrigal: :)

Eliza Madrigal: hugs all, closing my eyes and jumping now <3 byeeeee
Agatha Macbeth: Jump well
Riddle Sideways: byeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Eden Haiku: Bye Eliza darling :)
Wol Euler: :)
Wol Euler: I shall move on too
Wol Euler: goodnight, my dears
Riddle Sideways: yes
Wol Euler: imagine well
Riddle Sideways: niters
Wol Euler: and don'T get lost.
Eden Haiku: Have fun TSKeing!!!
Wol Euler: clumsy aggers!
Agatha Macbeth: Yep
Agatha Macbeth: The fall guy
Wol Euler giggles.
Wol Euler: easily amused
Agatha Macbeth: A bientot edie

Beginning of session:

Eden Haiku: I notice you cut your hair :)
Eliza Madrigal smiles... twisted it around
Eliza Madrigal: took ages
Eliza Madrigal: lol
Eden Haiku: Ah!!!
Bruce Mowbray: :)
Eliza Madrigal giggles
Eden Haiku: Hello Bruce :)
Eliza Madrigal: Eden you wrote the most wonderful piece about your exploration this week
Eliza Madrigal: I placed a link that I hope others saw, but hope you'll mention again
Eden Haiku: oh, thank you Eliza :) Had much fin doing this!
Eliza Madrigal: so beautiful
Eden Haiku: Typos typos...
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eliza Madrigal: how are you doing, Bruce?
Bruce Mowbray: Doing well, thank you.
Bruce Mowbray: and you? any tornadoes where you are?
Eliza Madrigal: those are farther north thankfully
Bruce Mowbray: Whew!
Eliza Madrigal: we've just had days of constant rain
Bruce Mowbray: oh my.
Eliza Madrigal: we usually get water spouts, rather than tornadoes
Eliza Madrigal: neat looking... but wouldn't want to be out on a boat that day :)
Eliza Madrigal: have the snow storms cleared there?
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Wester :)) Stevie :))
Wester Kiranov: hi all
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, bright and warm now.
stevenaia Michinaga: waves
Eliza Madrigal: nice
Eden Haiku: Hello Wester! Steve!
Bruce Mowbray: Hi, Wester, steve!
Wol Euler: evening all!
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Wol :)) glad you made it
Bruce Mowbray: Hi, Wol.
Wol Euler: back in a sec, just making tea
Eliza Madrigal: ok
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Mick :) Is it next week that you'll be traveling?
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, Mick.
Eden Haiku: Hello Wol and Mick:)
Mickorod Renard: Hiya folks
--BELL--
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Aggers :))
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, aggers.
Mickorod Renard: ags
Eden Haiku: Agatha :)
Agatha Macbeth: Greetings
Eliza Madrigal: Not sure I've ever seen you with short hair, Agatha, looks sleek
Wol Euler: oh good lord
Wol Euler: who's that
Bruce Mowbray: !!
Eden Haiku: :)
Wol Euler: quite a departure :)
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Mickorod Renard: Hi riddle
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Riddle :)
Riddle Sideways: hi ALL
Eden Haiku: Hi Riddle :)
Bruce Mowbray: aggers is exploring her new giant body... and look what she found!
Wol Euler grins.
Agatha Macbeth: Maybe I got the sattelite by mistake
Bruce Mowbray: Hi, Riddle.
Agatha Macbeth: (sp)
Mickorod Renard: wa hay
Eliza Madrigal grins at Bruce