The Guardian for this meeting was Lucinda Lavender. The comments are by Lucinda Lavender.

Attending were ParadiseTennant,Aubergine Mint, SophiaSharon Larnia, Wolfscar21, Calvino Rabeni, Miralee Munro, Katira Silent,Roland Maven.

Aubergine Mint: hiya
Lucinda Lavender: getting in here...
Paradise Tennant: smiles hiya
Lucinda Lavender: caught in emails for a moment there.
Lucinda Lavender: Hiya:)
SophiaSharon Larnia: Hi Paradise, Lucinda, and Aubergine :)
Lucinda Lavender: Hi Aubergine:)
Aubergine Mint: is this the same group that was here a year ago?
Lucinda Lavender: Hiya Sophia Saron:)
SophiaSharon Larnia: yikes lag!
Lucinda Lavender: taking a deep breath:)
SophiaSharon Larnia breaths deeep
Lucinda Lavender: perhaps so ...Play as Being?
Lucinda Lavender: sending a notecard:)
Paradise Tennant: smiles at all the deep breaths :)
Aubergine Mint: yeah
Aubergine Mint: thanks
SophiaSharon Larnia: Hi Augergine, welcome again
Aubergine Mint: haven't been here in a while
Lucinda Lavender: Aubergine...the session is recorded...is that all right with you?
Aubergine Mint: sure
Lucinda Lavender: put on a wiki:)
Lucinda Lavender: great:)
SophiaSharon Larnia: hi wolfscar
Lucinda Lavender: Hi Wolfscar:)
wolfscar21 Resident: hi
Lucinda Lavender: have you been here before?
Paradise Tennant: hiya wolfscar
Lucinda Lavender: welcome...
Lucinda Lavender: we have 4 sessions a day and this is the 7pm 2LTime
SophiaSharon Larnia: :)
Lucinda Lavender: The session is recorded and posted to the wiki:)
wolfscar21 Resident: srry everyone im new on here still havent figured everything out
SophiaSharon Larnia: no worries Wolfscar!
Lucinda Lavender: Every 15 minutes there is a 90 second break...
SophiaSharon Larnia: welcome to sl!
Lucinda Lavender: of a chance to sit back and observe...take a breath.
SophiaSharon Larnia: to sit, you right click on a cushion and chose sit here
Lucinda Lavender: feel free to join in if you wish...
Aubergine Mint: is there a group to join?
Lucinda Lavender: Not quite sure why but Aubergine has question marks over her head
--BELL--
Aubergine Mint: I do?
SophiaSharon Larnia: yes, Aubergine, on the board to your avatar right :) On the other side of the white roses
Lucinda Lavender: Lucinda nods...your name is invisible to me now:)
SophiaSharon Larnia: (the group that is)
SophiaSharon Larnia: sorry bell :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: I didnt mean to ignore you haha
Paradise Tennant: smiles at bell and at sophia :)
Aubergine Mint: how do I fix that?
Paradise Tennant: don't think you do .. it is a system glitch
SophiaSharon Larnia: I have no idea, havent been in SL much to figure it out
Paradise Tennant: maybe logging off and on may help
Paradise Tennant: unless it does not bother
Lucinda Lavender: yes...saw it happen to someone last evening...
Lucinda Lavender: name was there then gone...
SophiaSharon Larnia: the moon is round and bright, my room is full
Aubergine Mint: weird
SophiaSharon Larnia: lights up the room, barely need a light
Lucinda Lavender: a somewhat cloudless sky...?
Paradise Tennant: smiles at sophia and looks up at a dark sky no moon ..low cloud
SophiaSharon Larnia: its shining throught the opening :)
Lucinda Lavender: creating shadows?
Paradise Tennant: sophia bathes in moonlight :)
Lucinda Lavender: ah...and my cats are bathing each other in the chair nearby
Paradise Tennant: lol
SophiaSharon Larnia: smiles
Lucinda Lavender: happy cats
Paradise Tennant: that is always nice to watch ..love seeing animals care for each other :) there is a profound lesson there
Aubergine Mint: we should be as kind
Lucinda Lavender: yes...they feel it is their job to to do it seems
Lucinda Lavender: they are sisters...
SophiaSharon Larnia: reminds me of the book goodbye moon havent read that for years and years
Lucinda Lavender: :) very familar with that one
Lucinda Lavender: read it to my kids and to hundreds of other peoples kids:)
SophiaSharon Larnia: hehe
Lucinda Lavender: preschool teacher since 78
Lucinda Lavender: Hiya Cal
Aubergine Mint: hi Calvino
SophiaSharon Larnia: hi Calvino
Calvino Rabeni: Hello everyone :)
Lucinda Lavender: hope that isn't bragging...
Paradise Tennant: hiya cal :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: "Goodnight room. Goodnight moon. Goodnight cow jumping over the moon. Goodnight light, and the red balloon..."
SophiaSharon Larnia: I had this very strange idea of awareness the other day
Lucinda Lavender: listening...
Paradise Tennant: listens
Lucinda Lavender: HI miralee:)
Calvino Rabeni: Hello Mira :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: what if all experiences were remembered at the same time
Lucinda Lavender: so curious about your idea...
Miralee Munro: Hello
Aubergine Mint: hi Miralee
SophiaSharon Larnia: Hi Miralee
Paradise Tennant: hiya miralee :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: sorry big time lag here :(
Miralee Munro: My hair may not be helping.
Lucinda Lavender: by one person/many experiences?
SophiaSharon Larnia: All experiences experienced at the same time, everything
SophiaSharon Larnia: one being
Lucinda Lavender: Hi Katira
Calvino Rabeni: Welcome, Katira
SophiaSharon Larnia: whatever that is
Paradise Tennant: hiya katira
SophiaSharon Larnia: hi Katira
Miralee Munro: May I introduce Katira to you all?
SophiaSharon Larnia: welcome :)
Katira Silent: hello sorry Lucinda didnt' mean to sit on you.
Aubergine Mint: hi Katira
Lucinda Lavender: ah... yes please do
Miralee Munro: Katira, the conversations here are recorded and put online.
Lucinda Lavender: oh I mean please introduce
SophiaSharon Larnia: and by all experiences, I mean all sensory experience embodied etc
SophiaSharon Larnia: and not
Calvino Rabeni leans forward towards the not
SophiaSharon Larnia: hehe
--BELL--
Lucinda Lavender: Hi roland...
SophiaSharon Larnia: hi Roland
Lucinda Lavender: Been here before?
Roland Maven: Hi
Roland Maven: Yes - one time
Paradise Tennant: hiya roland
Lucinda Lavender: we are in the midst of a silent 90 seconds...
Roland Maven: High
Roland Maven: and hello
Lucinda Lavender: So I eagerly wait to hear more Sophia Sharon...as I eagerly await hearing of Katira...
SophiaSharon Larnia: smiles
Roland Maven: Any get their burningman tickets yet?
SophiaSharon Larnia: just an idea I had driving
SophiaSharon Larnia: what is being?
SophiaSharon Larnia: :D
Katira Silent: I feel that new uncomfortable feeling of not knowing what we are doing.. IM in that observation state of scoping out my surroundings and assessing my comfortabitly
Calvino Rabeni: same here
SophiaSharon Larnia: :)
Roland Maven: While we are waiting - let's pick a topic
Lucinda Lavender: many sessions here center around exploring being and awareness...
Paradise Tennant: smiles yes that helps
Lucinda Lavender: and sophia has just had an awareness she was describing...
Lucinda Lavender: Katira...this has been a very lovely group for exploring ideas ...for me
Calvino Rabeni: one piece of being - a very large one - is that second life "life" is and incredibly rich and complex social environment - all kinds of things are at play
Calvino Rabeni: Its a musical ensemble
SophiaSharon Larnia: just imagines every object or not objective thing experienced, wonderig what if all time was one moment, that would mean everything would be experienced at one time
Calvino Rabeni: a collage
SophiaSharon Larnia: even a collage has a pause
SophiaSharon Larnia: im notsaying this very well tonight
SophiaSharon Larnia: part of it is lag
Calvino Rabeni: the pause is a time for me to slide the collage pieces aroung seeking the picture that is meant to be
Paradise Tennant: smiles at sophia thought that was very well expressed
Lucinda Lavender: :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: but you see, it all one time, one experience
SophiaSharon Larnia: its*
Lucinda Lavender: the pause is for me a moment to pull my energy back ...
SophiaSharon Larnia: in my imaginarium
Calvino Rabeni: I work on the "glue" during the pause, because otherwise the little pieces keep falling off
Lucinda Lavender: allowing ...lovely
Roland Maven: thanks sophia for helping me to remember
Miralee Munro: Sophia, so you have been wondering, "What is being?"
SophiaSharon Larnia: as always
Miralee Munro: You always wonder what it is to 'be'?
Roland Maven: Being is Being Present
Calvino Rabeni: Being - is a word that whispers a temptation
SophiaSharon Larnia: but just wondered if each individual experience is perceived to occur separate from other experiences
Roland Maven: I think all being IS Creation
SophiaSharon Larnia: if there was no time, and no individual
SophiaSharon Larnia: the all experience would happen at once
Lucinda Lavender: see it as separate but actually connected...
SophiaSharon Larnia: right
Roland Maven: Aspects of the whole
SophiaSharon Larnia: no aspects
Roland Maven: ok
SophiaSharon Larnia: just something rattling in my head
SophiaSharon Larnia: :)
Roland Maven: :)
Miralee Munro smiles
Miralee Munro: Rattle, rattle ...
SophiaSharon Larnia: I come here to talk about these ideas and they evolve over time
SophiaSharon Larnia: this was dozy
Miralee Munro: I used to think it was my brain rattling around in my head.
Miralee Munro: lol
Lucinda Lavender: once had a dream in which a man said to my dreaming friends...time to get ready for a time of transformation...which will be a little like being a mushroom
SophiaSharon Larnia: :D
SophiaSharon Larnia: a mushroom?
Calvino Rabeni: could be.. most of the mushroom is invisible and bides its time under the ground
Roland Maven: I love mushrooms
Lucinda Lavender: and this brought me to imagine that there is this underground mycelium
Paradise Tennant: smiles at lucinda .
Lucinda Lavender: that does connect them
Calvino Rabeni: the visible part that pops out is only sudden and occasional
Calvino Rabeni: being is like that too
Roland Maven: and at the right time
Miralee Munro: Mmmmmmm .... I'm being all the time.
Lucinda Lavender: did not know about the mycelium before the dream tho had to look that up
SophiaSharon Larnia: hehe
SophiaSharon Larnia: wow luci thats funny
Paradise Tennant: do you remember more of the dream cinda
SophiaSharon Larnia: amazing what the subconcsious unearths
--BELL--
Miralee Munro stands up and slips away during the pause .... gently smiling and throwing kisses ....
Katira Silent: tippy toes out also
Katira Silent: thankyou
SophiaSharon Larnia: bye Miralee and Kitira
Calvino Rabeni: Goodbye Miralee and Katira, take care
Paradise Tennant: good nite miralee :) katira
SophiaSharon Larnia: Katira sorry
Lucinda Lavender: started with seeing the dreamers sitting together...one had an orange drum she made a sound with...then the man spoke to us...about the mushroom. Bye Miralee and katira:)
Paradise Tennant: were you all dreaming the same dream
SophiaSharon Larnia: in a drum circle ?
Roland Maven: played drums last night - wonderful
SophiaSharon Larnia: kewl
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Lucinda Lavender: don't think so but these are just the elements of the dream...drum, sound, man, mushroom, transformation
SophiaSharon Larnia: wonders if all experience at once is like a big bang moment.
Lucinda Lavender: maybe we were dreaming together!
Paradise Tennant: fungi to clarity
SophiaSharon Larnia: giggles
Roland Maven: I do believe creation is the big bang
Aubergine Mint: big bang dreams
SophiaSharon Larnia: beginning is the end
Roland Maven: Creation never stops
Roland Maven: we are creation
Roland Maven: Of course - that is my perspective
Lucinda Lavender: yes...and destruction?
SophiaSharon Larnia: yes, mine too your milage may vary :D
Roland Maven: Yes, destruction and creation
Lucinda Lavender: decay...
Paradise Tennant: or transformation
SophiaSharon Larnia: only in a world of change is decay possible
Lucinda Lavender: that about says it all...
SophiaSharon Larnia: to change it has to have its opposite
Lucinda Lavender: birthdeathbirthdeath
Roland Maven: on going expansion
Roland Maven: contraction and expansion
Roland Maven: Love and fear
SophiaSharon Larnia: rebirth is only possible in a world of change
Roland Maven: Stevenaia - say's hello to everyone
SophiaSharon Larnia: says hello back :D
Lucinda Lavender: Hi steve
Paradise Tennant: smiles :)) waves back
Lucinda Lavender: waving through to you...
Roland Maven: :) I told her
SophiaSharon Larnia: my brain is cracking today
SophiaSharon Larnia: laughs
Roland Maven: Share some with us
SophiaSharon Larnia: hehe
SophiaSharon Larnia: while i sit here calmly <shrugs>
Roland Maven: Tell us more
Lucinda Lavender: cracking sounds like fullness somehow...
Paradise Tennant: letting moonlight in :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: I get ideas and they stay with me for a while, think about them, turn them over in my head
Lucinda Lavender: allowing words to show the way
SophiaSharon Larnia: words dont mean anything to me lol
SophiaSharon Larnia: which i realize is an extremely odd thing to say
Lucinda Lavender: ah...do they seem separate from experience?
SophiaSharon Larnia: no, just so vague and multifaceted at the same time
Aubergine Mint: depends on how you use them
SophiaSharon Larnia: on a daily living level, take it as its intended perobably
SophiaSharon Larnia: but when trying to talk about experience its a lot more difficult
SophiaSharon Larnia: maybe im just autistic lol
Lucinda Lavender: yes...thinking I know what you mean perhaps...
Lucinda Lavender: about the difficultness of talking about experience
Paradise Tennant: well words are hollow constructs a poor .. tool to express something so broad as experience
--BELL--
Lucinda Lavender: Curious if anyone has had a seemingly new experience to day...
Aubergine Mint: have a nice evening
Lucinda Lavender: thanks Aubergine...
SophiaSharon Larnia: bye Augergine, nice to see you!
Paradise Tennant: and you aubergine :) namaste
Aubergine Mint: bye
Lucinda Lavender: nice to meet you...
Roland Maven: Hope to see you again
SophiaSharon Larnia: bye Roland come back sometime :)
Roland Maven: will do :)
Lucinda Lavender: And Roland too:)
Paradise Tennant: smiles nite roland
SophiaSharon Larnia: smiles
SophiaSharon Larnia: maybe in the morning my mind will be clearer :)
SophiaSharon Larnia: good night all <3
Paradise Tennant: smiles nite nite sophia .. namaste :))
SophiaSharon Larnia: :)
Lucinda Lavender: good night Sophia Sharon:) sleep well...
SophiaSharon Larnia: you too!
Paradise Tennant: and dream of mushrooms
Paradise Tennant: !
Lucinda Lavender: Today I went to the Puppet Theater...
Lucinda Lavender: and heard a show about Anansi the Spider
Paradise Tennant: smiles and listens
Lucinda Lavender: very funny and good!
Lucinda Lavender: Cal do you know about Anansi?
Lucinda Lavender: kind of a trickster fellow
Paradise Tennant: yes !
Paradise Tennant: the myth was retold in American Gods
Lucinda Lavender: ah...
Lucinda Lavender: curious about that...
Lucinda Lavender: a program?
Paradise Tennant: no a fantasy novel and a great one
Lucinda Lavender: I will look that up...
Paradise Tennant: http://www.amazon.com/American-Gods-Novel-Neil-Gaiman/dp/0060558121
Paradise Tennant: good writer
Lucinda Lavender: yes..
Lucinda Lavender: in todays play anansi created a web..
Lucinda Lavender: and I thought about www
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Paradise Tennant: find it rather amazing still
Paradise Tennant: like some kind of magic
Paradise Tennant: a mist that connects :)
Lucinda Lavender: yes...
Lucinda Lavender: bringing us into a flow...
Paradise Tennant: yes
Lucinda Lavender: thought for the next pause?
--BELL--
Paradise Tennant: flow
Calvino Rabeni: The flow I encountered is ...
Calvino Rabeni: (end of statement, sorry)
Lucinda Lavender: :)
Paradise Tennant: actually .. flow is :)
Paradise Tennant: is perfect
Calvino Rabeni: nameless .. but. Can be acted within and through
Paradise Tennant: always feel it as acting through me somehow
Paradise Tennant: when I get that sense there is always a feeling of rightness
Paradise Tennant: o000o is saying hi to you lucinda
Lucinda Lavender: ok:)
Lucinda Lavender: I say hi to him...
Lucinda Lavender: just had message from him about the found poem yesterday evening
Paradise Tennant: lol I am a conduit of hi's
Lucinda Lavender: Yep the conduit
Calvino Rabeni: Yes, tell o thanks for that poem, if you can
Lucinda Lavender: certainly have to say...that there are times of stronger sense of flow than others...
Calvino Rabeni: how is it now?
Calvino Rabeni: or maybe the question is where?
Lucinda Lavender: steady sort of flow now...nothing seems too stirred...or pushed. Somtimes I sense it sort of in the air...or my stomach
--BELL--
Paradise Tennant: do you feel it most in music cinda ?
Lucinda Lavender: quite a bit...yes
Lucinda Lavender: and in the awareness of darkness and light in a room
Lucinda Lavender: emptiness and fullness
Paradise Tennant: I find it mucis a lot .and often when I am working with numbers .. and sometimes in the placement of things and how i move my body
Lucinda Lavender: nodding
Lucinda Lavender: numbers!
Paradise Tennant: often in groups too .. when ideas or solutions are brewing
Paradise Tennant: or communication being shared
Lucinda Lavender: interesting place...groups yes
Lucinda Lavender: have noticed that when I try doing something with attention/intention there is a stronger sense
Calvino Rabeni: A wide river seems barely to move ... in the shallows it becomes turbulent and spits water every way chaoticaly ... and in a narrow box canyon it flows deep and straight
Calvino Rabeni: the focusing of attention intensifies the felt sense
Paradise Tennant: yes when you lay out what you want to do in your mind first .. find the flow comes more easily
Paradise Tennant: cooking too
Paradise Tennant: there is flow in cooking
Paradise Tennant: wb cinda
Lucinda Lavender: thanks:)
Lucinda Lavender: thinking about that time...I had a dream about going to a bookstore with Cal...
Paradise Tennant: smiles and listens
Lucinda Lavender: and saw the book...be here now on the shelf
Lucinda Lavender: so one week later...cal invited me not knowing I had that dream...
Lucinda Lavender: and so I said well I better...
Lucinda Lavender: be here now...
Lucinda Lavender: ha !
Paradise Tennant: smiles a big smile
Lucinda Lavender: lovely time there...music, poetry, stories...
Lucinda Lavender: that does not happen that often but feels like flow
Paradise Tennant: hmm there is definite flow in stories lyrics
Lucinda Lavender: oh...for got...this morning upon waking saw the computer screen and there was a message from Arch...
Paradise Tennant: music there is of course flow but sometimes I find it almost bigger than that ..like a wholeness
Paradise Tennant: listens
Lucinda Lavender: wholeness yess
Lucinda Lavender: not sure what Arches message was...but it was on a gray background
Lucinda Lavender: this was a dream...
Paradise Tennant: in your dream there was a message from arch
Paradise Tennant: wow
Lucinda Lavender: just trust that much of dreaming is in the flow...
Paradise Tennant: yes
Lucinda Lavender: and music too
Lucinda Lavender: the vowel sounds...
Lucinda Lavender: the concentration
Lucinda Lavender: the love that is pouring forth
Calvino Rabeni: that's very interesting, to get a dream message like that.
--BELL--
Lucinda Lavender: I then wondered what the message had been
Lucinda Lavender: sorry bell:)
Paradise Tennant: smiles poor bell
Lucinda Lavender: nodding...
Paradise Tennant: maybe just his presence
Lucinda Lavender: and on a gray page...
Paradise Tennant: powerful to have someone reach you in a dream
Lucinda Lavender: the mixture of dark and light
Paradise Tennant: sort of like planes of reality colliding intermeshing
Lucinda Lavender: this evening is foggy here...misty
Paradise Tennant: where pema is they get vog
Paradise Tennant: voggy days
Paradise Tennant: sulphur mist from the volcano
Lucinda Lavender: ah!
Paradise Tennant: have been waiting a long time for a word like that for scrabble
Lucinda Lavender: interesting!
Paradise Tennant: sorry sleepy where pila is
Lucinda Lavender: will tell my husband as he is a fan..
Lucinda Lavender: pila yes
Lucinda Lavender: Cal ...curious what you are thinking about...
Lucinda Lavender: sorry should not put anyone on a spot!
Lucinda Lavender: sorry
Paradise Tennant: smiles what are friends for though ?
Lucinda Lavender: but feel I get excited and chatty...:)
Lucinda Lavender: true...connection and flow
Calvino Rabeni: Yes what are friends for ..
Calvino Rabeni: keep me on my toes :)
Calvino Rabeni: I was thinking about poetry and writing
Calvino Rabeni: still
Lucinda Lavender: ah...
Paradise Tennant: listens
Calvino Rabeni: William James metaphor - the stream of consciousness - I wonder if he chose it for the flow aspect
Calvino Rabeni: And there is a bigger river, the people we know are rivers within rivers
Calvino Rabeni: currents perhaps
Paradise Tennant: water molecules ?
Calvino Rabeni: More than a molecule, less than a river ... and partly self-chosen
Lucinda Lavender: interesting...it is how the presence passes on...a medium for our beingness
Calvino Rabeni: I was also noticing, sometimes the process of multiple threads and chats and emails and all that media presents, has a flow, other times a jarring fragmentation
Lucinda Lavender: at the hour I will take my leave...
Calvino Rabeni: I was also thinking about those "on the verge" experience states
--BELL--
Paradise Tennant: smiles thank you cinda ..
Paradise Tennant: you were really thinking cal :)
Paradise Tennant: so many thoughts ... tumbing almost
Paradise Tennant: sigh will have to chase the dog around to get him boots and sweater :) very very very cold here :)
Paradise Tennant: listen for more on the verge of experience states
Lucinda Lavender: thank you both also...good luck with that Paradise:)
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Calvino Rabeni: I've been on the verge of getting up and going grocery shopping all evening
Paradise Tennant: lol
Paradise Tennant: perfect
Calvino Rabeni: the feeling started easy then intensified
Paradise Tennant: verge of experience
Calvino Rabeni: and now either I'll go, or it will turn into something else
Calvino Rabeni: become stale or transform - no way to know
Paradise Tennant: smiles always the case it happens or morphs
Calvino Rabeni: Yes
Calvino Rabeni: anyway off I go ... :)
Calvino Rabeni: "Goodnight room. Goodnight moon. Goodnight cow jumping over the moon. Goodnight light, and the red balloon..."
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Paradise Tennant: thank you cal ..perfect way to close the session
Calvino Rabeni: :)
Paradise Tennant: will try dream of cows and red balloons :)</shrugs>