Suggested Theme Topics for Discussion at the Pavilion and Elsewhere - posted April 19, 2012
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Narrative / narratology / story
Masks
Guilt
Intuition
Resistance
Anger
Anxiety
APAPB
Self and relationship
Being
Belief
Body awareness
Assumptions
Boredom
Causality
Chakras
Celebration
"Center"
Change
Clarity - Dec 2012
Compassion
Consciousness
Generosity/Charity
Choice
Comfort
Conflict
Connection
Consistency
Control
Courage
Curiosity
Deception
Destiny
Doubt
Dreams
Ego
Emotions
Empathy
Envy
Equanimity April 22, 2012, Jan 5, 2013
Eudaimonia
Expectation
Failure
Faith
Fear
Filling Up (flip side of dropping) - Nov 2012
Focus
Forgiveness
Freedom
Frustration
Generosity/Greed
Gratitude
Ground/Grounding
Habit
Happiness
Hate
Health
Hidden Layers - Jan 2013
Hindsight - Nov 2012
Hope
Humility and humble opinion
Humor
Identity
Ignorance
Imagination
Impulse
Indulgence
Inheritance
Intention
Interdependence
Intimacy
Intuition
Joy
Judgment 13/5/12
Justice
Karma
Knowing
Laws (e.g., attraction)
Limits
Loneliness ("Solitude and Loneliness" - inspired by Alone Together) - Dec. 23, 2012
Love
Loyalty
Madness
Magic
Meaning Jan 2013
Meditation
Memory (in search of) 3/6/12
Metaphor
Moods
Nine seconds 15/4/12
Nothing (nothingness) Dec 30, 2012
Now
Numerology
Obligation
Observation
Obsession
Observation
Omens
Patience as related to balance - Feb 2013
PaB and Christianity, or - the relationships of PaB and PaBers to monotheistic religions and to people that follow those religions and practices. 28/4/12
Paradox
Paranormal
Parenting
Passion
Past lives
Path
Peace
Perspective
Personality
Physical existence
Place
Play
Pneuma
Power
Premonition
Preparation - Dec 2012
Presence
Pride
Projection
Purpose
Regret
Rejection
Relaxation
Resentment
Resilience
Resistance
Respect
Rest
Reverence
Ritual
Romance
Role Play
Sacred
Sallies 27/5/12
Satisfaction as related to Enoughness - Jan 2013
Seasons
Self
Sex
Shadow
Shame
Showing Up
Spirits
Sport
Strangeness
Stillness 5/5/12
Strategy
Stress
Superstition
Symbolism
Synchronicity
Synergy
Thought
Time
Timelessness
Tolerance
Transcendence 20/5/12
Transition
Transmigration of "souls"
Trickster
Trust
Will
Wisdom
Wonder
World
Worry
Influences of neuroscience and neuro-philosophy on ideas of mind and self
Knowledge and Knowing - especially, outside the constraints of Pattern and Information
Contemplation
Practice "as you understand and go about it"; the whole-life perspective
Embodiment; Embodied Ways of Knowing
The nature of emotions, felt senses, and somatic knowledge
Personal Knowledge, Self-Knowledge, Personality and Character
Personal Purpose and Motivation
Keeping Commitment and Focus in Practice
Help, in all its Guises
Insight and Discernment
Qualities and qualitative knowledge
Creativity, Imagination, and Intuition - "Imagination is the Gateway to Reality"
Traditional metaphors for ways of knowing - Heart, Mind, Soul, etc.
Traditional concepts of trans-personal /trans-intellectual knowledge and wisdom (and their renewal) - e.g. Conscience, Spirit, Soul
Levels and Contexts of Knowledge - e.g. personal, transpersonal, psychological, spiritual, etc.
Cultural aspects of Knowledge - Evolution of Culture
Collective Intelligence
Communities of Practice; Sangha
Personal learning styles
What makes a "Sangha“? How does a Sangha come into being? Does "knowing" happen for a Sangha that does not happen for an individual apart from the Sangha?
Revisiting the Lojong series -- Mind Training in Seven Points
What is "personality"? (How do I account for it in my daily life; mine; others)
Transpersonal themes
Ways of learning
"The Effect of Language on Imagination" - Dec. 16, 2012