B. October 2010

Sign Posts

(in progress)

Play as Being Village, Art as being exhibition,
Museum of Sacred Art, Five Bells pub, and on the right, Kuan Yin Terraces)
Ballon takes you to village art exhibit up and through molecule, and back to the platform

Kira café - moved to SE corner of the Mieum sim. The Village Hall was also moved to ….
The land was sold. Much relieved to see the common gathering areas have remained relatively very similar looking, and the molecule sculpture was preserved. Storm has also added a balloon tour to the new layout of the land.

Stuttgart Retreat -

Time Sessions -

Thinking about the time sessions, looking from a distance as one who has not been participating in discussions at PaB as I have previously, it seems there are less ‘theme’ session in the PaB group as whole, and almost less to ‘point to’ in regard to what the group is doing. When you read the chat logs, they are as vibrant as ever… there is nothing taken away from our discussions.

Theme Sessions -

2010.10.23  07:00 Theme session: Stuttgart Retreat reports
 

Art as Being  -

2010.10.03  12:00 SLT Art of Being Special Session - BEING PUZZLED
 

Dream Circle -

2010.10.27 07:00 - October Dream Circle

Art Museum in Bieup -

By Adams by email (a short excerpt):

Theophany, Spiritual Light and the Transfiguration Exhibit

The following may interest a few of you:

Next Meeting October 17, 2010 - 11:00 am SLT

The September workshop visited the Monastery of St. Catherine where we looked at a portion of the icon collection. Developing out of the liturgy, a cycle of Twelve Feasts was celebrated in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Among these was the Transfiguration, , a magnificent 6th century mosaic in the apse of the church.

Icons were venerated as a visual counterpart to the Gospel for those who were illiterate. After praying and fasting for a period of time before starting an icon, the first thing Byzantine icon painters did was to sketch a giant eye, the "eye of God" looking out toward the viewer. Some of the Church Fathers saw the icons of the Eastern Church are the membrane between the spiritual and material worlds. The image on the icons was a view into Paradise as it is after the end of the world, thus a view of a timeless world. The iconography remains the same in mosaics, manuscript illuminations and other visual forms but the figures do not have the same presence as they do in an icon.

The textual source for the Transfiguration is the synoptic Gospels. Christ meets together with Moses and Elijah on a mountain thus conveying Jesus as the fulfillment of the prophecies. Christ is transfigured into a powerful light, "uncreated light", overpowering the three apostles who witness the event. The early Christian ascetics also experienced light during their meditations and many of them equated the experience with the Transfiguration. For a long time there was discussion of whether these "visions" were in the mind or experienced bodily as well.

Light appears, often in connection to a deity, in almost all the spiritual traditions known. It is sometimes called uncreated light, divine light, or inner light. It refers to light not from the sun, candles or electric light bulbs, but a light experienced spiritually.

In the October workshop, we will look more closely at the Transfiguration and “uncreated light”. How does this light relate to the divine or inner light as it appears in other traditions? How is it reflected in the iconography?

Weekly Guardian Sessions -

2010.10.03 08:00 - Guardian Session: Email Discussion Only
2010.10.10 08:00 - Guardian Session
2010.10.17 08:00 - Guardian Session: Linking to Emptiness is Highly Recommended
2010.10.24 08:00 - Guardian Session: Namaste Lunatics & Turn Turn Turn

Working Group -

2010.10.12 14:00 Meeting Minutes
Turnover of new members to the working group

Hana Furlough, Aphrodite MacBain, Bruce Mowbray

October Guardians - Bolonath left the group

October Scribes -

Guardian List taken off SL group list Nov 1.

Quilty Bookmite
Trevor Berensohn
Dakini Rhoade
Wol Euler
Becka Finesmith
Qt Core
Myoko Fhang
Bertam Jacobus
Moon Fargis
Lia Rikugun
Hana Furlough
Liza Dreischer
Fox Manacular
Vajra Raymaker
Ewan Bonham
Bolonath Crystal (left in Oct but still in list)
Scathach Rhiadra
Stim Morane
Storm Nordwind
Bleu Oleander
Lucinda Lavender
Reverielarke Wirtanen
Adams Dubrovna
Artemisia Svoboda
Genesis Zhangsun
Riddle Sideways
Paradise Tennant
Wester Kiranov
Fefonz Quan
Neela Blaisdale
Susi Alcott
Stevenaia Michinaga
Arisia Vita
Cosmicflower Ushimawa
Caledonia Heron
Dorje Bosatsu
Gaya Ethaniel
Myna Maven
Fael Illyar
Agatha MacBeth
Adams Rubble
SophiaSharon Larnia
Solobill Laville
Yakuzza Lethecus
Calvino Rabeni
Sky Szimmer
Bruce Mowbray
Aphrodite MacBain
Pila Mulligan
Strannik Zipper
Arabella Ella
Maxine Walden
Tarmel Udimo
Pema Pera
Eden Haiku
Zen Arado
Geo Netizen
Doug Sosa
Adelene Dawner
Corvuscorva Nightfire
Eliza Madrigal
Sylectra Darwin
Pia Iger
Mickorod Renard
Kallie Kira
Eos Amaterasu
Quen Oh