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What is PlayAsBeing?
This is Calvino Rabeni's personal page for PlayAsBeing group. PlayAsBeing is a contemplative dialogue group hosted in the online "world" called Second Life. For an introduction, see the list of articles About PlayAsBeing.
Off-Site Picks / Reading
- The Art of Hosting.
- The Circle Guidelines at Peer Spirit.
- Anything at Edge.org, but especially the World Question Center and the question What Have You Changed Your Mind About? Why?
- TED - Ideas worth spreading
- Counterbalance Foundation events, such as Becoming Human: Brain, Mind and Emergence
- The Blog of Collective Intelligence
- The Focusing Institute, especially Thinking Beyond Patterns
- The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Online Papers on Consciousness <-- Danger! Do not click there!
- Online Research in Philosophy <-- Or there either!
- My Picksand Cointelligence Links <-- And especially not there or there!
PlayAsBeing Pages
- Poetry as Practice
- Calvino's Selections (poetry)
Writing Outside PlayAsBeing
- Homework Suggestions for Kira's Ways of Knowing workshop
- My reports for Ways of Knowing.
Guardian Contributions
Scribe Pages
Guardian Sessions
- 2014.05.25 19:00 - Bears in the Woods
- 2014.03.16 19:00 - We're in trouble now, call in Reason ... wait, was that WHY we're in trouble?
- 2014.02.09 19:00 - Tetralemma
- 2014.01.12 19:00 - A wisp of fast technology and limits to consciousness
- 2014.01.05 19:00 - Sounds of small stones being shifted
- 2013.12.15 19:00 - Experimenting with Contemplative Dialog
- 2013.12.08 19:00 - Distinct and Blurred
- 2013.12.01 19:00 - Check Up and Check Out
- 2013.11.24 19:00 - CookLifeArt
- 2013.11.17 19:00 - Moon Choices Imagination How-not-to-Vote
- 2013.10.20 19:00 - Walk and Talk
- 2013.09.22 19:00 - This is only a Test, not a real Emergency
- 2013.09.15 19:00 - The Midnight Sponge - No Questions Asked
- 2013.09.01 19:00 - To Help
- 2013.08.25 19:00 - Solananacea on Ice
- 2013.08.18 19:00 - Stone Soup
- 2013.08.11 19:00 - The Night of the Meteors
- 2013.07.21 19:00 - Looking for Spiders
- 2013.07.07 19:00 - Winding Trails in a Forest of These
- 2013.06.30 19:00 - Actually I believe our whole body thinks
- 2013.06.23 19:00 - Mr. Laggy and the SuperMoon
- 2013.06.16 19:00 - Don't play with that robot, and eat your spinach *
- 2013.06.09 19:00 - Family
- 2013.05.26 19:00 - Duck Fu and Manitou
- 2013.05.19 19:00 - Meaning Without Language
- 2013.05.12 19:00 - Personal / Technical Small Talk
- 2013.05.05 19:00 - Unpacking and Packing
- 2013.04.14 19:00 - Dis Joint
- 2013.03.31 19:00 - Decency is being satisfied with a small bite
- 2013.03.24 19:00 - Stories and Pictures
- 2013.03.17 19:00 - Out on Various Limbs
- 2013.03.03 19:00 - Desert Caravan
- 2013.02.24 19:00 - AFK with a BLT...Bucket List
- 2013.01.27 19:00 - What new amazing thing has anyone seen?
- 2012.12.23 19:00 - Scents of Money, Time, and Travel
- 2012.12.16 19:00 - Just This
- 2012.12.09 19:00 - This Time of Year
- 2012.12.02 19:00 - Some Old Friends
- 2012.11.25 19:00 - What's it Like to be You, in Your Lifeworld?
- 2012.11.18 19:00 - The Little Story that Could
- 2012.11.04 19:00 - Falling Leaves
- 2012.10.28 19:00 - It was a dark and stormy night
- 2012.10.21 19:00 - Talking Trash
- 2012.10.14 19:00 - Circulating
- 2012.09.30 19:00 - Caravanserai
- 2012.09.23 19:00 - ¿ What's the .?
- 2012.09.16 19:00 - Spirits and Stories
- 2012.09.09 19:00 - Subliminal
- 2012.09.02 19:00 - A Place to Trust ... Could be Anywhere
- 2012.08.12 19:00 - Sea Travel
- 2012.07.08 19:00 - Let's Get Empirical
- 2012.05.13 19:00 - Facing, Finding, Order, Chaos *
- 2012.05.06 19:00 - Poised, Brisk, and Buoyant
- 2012.04.29 19:00 - Maps and Models We Like to Play With
- 2012.04.22 19:00 - Just add fresh milk, put in a warm place, and wait
- 2012.04.15 19:00 - A Poolside Chat
- 2012.04.08 19:00 - Marrying the Field
- 2012.04.01 19:00 - Moments, Joined by a Thread
- 2012.03.25 19:00 - Seeing, Twice ^ Cat Rescue ^ Pair o' Poems
- 2012.03.18 19:00 - Night Spaces & Science Songs
- 2012.03.11 19:00 - The Inside of Outside
- 2012.02.26 19:00 - Ways of Belonging
- 2012.02.19 19:00 - The Space Between Us *
- 2012.02.12 19:00 - Where Do the Voices Come From?
- 2012.02.05 19:00 - Alien Jazz Joint
- 2012.01.29 19:00 - 'Twas Bloggish and the Slithy Toves... *
- 2012.01.22 19:00 - The Lateral Brilliance of the Water Dragon
- 2012.01.15 19:00 - The Metaphor Train Stops Here
- 2012.01.08 19:00 - Vital Center
- 2011.12.25 19:00 - After Dinner Conversation
- 2011.12.11 19:00 - Navigating Celestial Currents: We ARE the Crossroads
- 2011.12.04 19:00 - Ways of Remembering
- 2011.11.27 19:00 - Considering Sangha
- 2011.11.20 19:00 - When a story comes knocking
- 2011.11.13 19:00 - Force of Habit
- 2011.11.06 19:00 - A Surface Between Worlds
- 2011.10.30 19:00 - Tracking, Gathering and Mulling
- 2011.10.23 19:00 - All the while it all seems perfectly normal
- 2011.10.16 19:00 - All Our Faces Are Belong to Us
- 2011.10.09 19:00 - Myths of Creation and Re-turn
- 2011.10.02 19:00 - Participation
- 2011.09.25 19:00 - One Good Turn
- 2011.09.18 19:00 - Hopping from Topic to Topic
- 2011.09.11 19:00 - Something Orange This Way Comes
- 2011.09.04 19:00 - Mycelium is Yourcelium
- 2011.08.28 19:00 - What is this "awareness" thing good for?
- 2011.08.21 19:00 - in which Truth seems to need Play
- 2011.08.14 19:00 - Wisdom / Culture / Story
- 2011.08.07 19:00 - Trust and Playing By (With or As) the Rules *
- 2011.07.31 19:00 - Domestic and Not so Much that Way
- 2011.07.24 19:00 - Would you like a little neuroscience with that?
- 2011.07.17 19:00 - Where Angels Fear to Tread
- 2011.07.10 19:00 - Stories and Questions
- 2011.07.03 19:00 - Roses by Other Names
- 2011.06.26 19:00 - Waiting, Walking, Singing, Talking
- 2011.06.19 19:00 - Reality as Conversation #2
- 2011.06.12 19:00 - Reality as Conversation
- 2011.06.05 19:00 - Sightings
- 2011.05.29 19:00 - What voices may come
- 2011.05.22 19:00 - Dreaming Things Up
- 2011.05.15 19:00 - Rules of Engagement
- 2011.05.08 19:00 - Mixed Influences
- 2011.05.01 19:00 - What our spirits feel free to mean through certain words
- 2011.04.24 19:00 - Surfaces and Depths
- 2011.04.17 19:00 - Autopoietic dreams; Outsourcing intersubjectivity
- 2011.04.16 13:00 - Theme Session on Original Face group *
- 2011.04.10 19:00 - As We Like It
- 2011.04.03 19:00 - Waiting on a Bridge for (and to) Reality
- 2011.03.27 19:00 - Gently Down The Stream
- 2011.03.20 19:00 - Embodiment Effects
- 2011.03.18 19:00 - Stories that Could be True
- 2011.03.13 19:00 - Magic, Tragedy, and Ooglification
- 2011.03.06 19:00 - Some of Our Favorite Things
- 2011.02.27 19:00 - Some People and their Sliders
- 2011.02.20 19:00 - A Little Jive is Good for You
- 2011.02.16 01:00 - We work with what we have
- 2011.02.13 19:00 - Poetry as Practice #3
- 2011.02.07 01:00 - Meditation and Inquiry
- 2011.02.06 19:00 - Poetry as Practice #2
- 2011.01.30 19:00 - Poetry as Practice #1
- 2011.01.23 19:00 - Schemes and Dreams
- 2011.01.19 01:00 - What Wanted To Happen
- 2011.01.16 19:00 - Changing Experiences
- 2011.01.09 19:00 - Poeta Nascitur? Fit?
- 2011.01.03 13:00 - Alone With Others and Connected
- 2011.01.02 19:00 - The Relational Self
- 2010.12.26 19:00 - Holiday Transitions
- 2010.12.19 19:00 - Field Effects
- 2010.12.12 19:00 - Imagination Bodies Forth the Forms of Things Unknown
- 2010.12.05 19:00 - Stone Man Plays the Field
- 2010.12.05 01:00 - Stone Man's Vision
- 2010.11.28 19:00 - Weather Report
- 2010.11.21 19:00 - Slow... Changes...
- 2010.11.14 19:00 - Body of Experience
- 2010.11.07 19:00 - Indirect Connections
- 2010.10.31 19:00 - Being Disguised
- 2010.10.24 19:00 - Qualities without Names
- 2010.10.17 19:00 - Awareness, Considered *
- 2010.10.10 19:00 - Tao and Nature
- 2010.10.03 19:00 - Dreaming Up What Is
- 2010.10.01 01:00 - Tea and Stories
- 2010.09.26 19:00 - We Find Ourselves on a Ship
- 2010.09.19 19:00 - Skillful Means - and In-Betweens *
- 2010.09.12 19:00 - Dramatic Universe
- 2010.09.09 19:00 - Pursuit of Happyness
- 2010.09.05 19:00 - Ship of Souls *
- 2010.09.05 01:00 - Getting more awake
- 2010.09.04 01:00 - Breathe while Working
- 2010.09.03 19:00 - Serious Digging
- 2010.08.29 19:00 - Hello, World
- 2010.08.22 19:00 - Joy needs no punchline
- 2010.08.17 13:00 - Thinking in stereotypes
- 2010.08.15 19:00 - You don't ever let go of the Thread *
- 2010.08.13 19:00 - Seeing and Being Seen
- 2010.08.08 19:00 - Spirit Walks
- 2010.08.03 13:00 - Just The Wave Remains
- 2010.08.01 19:00 - Between Desire and Paradise
- 2010.08.01 01:00 - What's going on "in here"?
- 2010.07.31 19:00 - Chat and Contemplation *
- 2010.07.25 19:00 - Contemplating Peace-ing and Bless-ing *
- 2010.07.22 19:00 - Contemplation and "Starting at the End"
- 2010.07.18 19:00 - Multicausal
- 2010.07.17 01:00 - Husserl's Strip Club
- 2010.07.13 13:00 - Big Tao / Little Tao
- 2010.07.13 01:00 - Culture and Climate
- 2010.07.11 19:00 - Goldilocks and the Three Levels of Listening *
- 2010.07.04 19:00 - WOK-ing Around
- 2010.06.27 19:00 - The W Factor
- 2010.06.24 19:00 - Short and Sweet
- 2010.06.20 19:00 - Word Time Travel *
- 2010.06.14 01:00 - The Body In Question, Pt. 2
- 2010.06.13 19:00 - The Body In Question, Pt. 1
- 2010.06.06 19:00 - The Time Wall
- 2010.05.30 19:00 - About Face
- 2010.05.23 19:00 - Authenticity, Love, Sex, Mathematics
- 2010.05.18 19:00 - Conflict
- 2010.05.16 19:00 - Life, Death, News, War, Science, Dreams
- 2010.05.14 19:00 - Fresh (on the) Air
- 2010.05.13 13:00 - Appearances Considered Harmless
- 2010.05.09 19:00 - Where does practice "come from"?
- 2010.05.07 19:00 - Various Games
- 2010.05.02 19:00 - The "language thing" again :)
- 2010.04.25 19:00 - Connected Wandering
- 2010.04.18 19:00 - Dream & Cultivate Receptivity?
- 2010.04.07 13:00 - On Creativity
- 2010.04.04 19:00 - Information-for-Somebody
- 2010.03.28 19:00 - "Magic" in various disguises
- 2010.03.22 19:00 - One Impression
- 2010.03.21 19:00 - A little drop by the pool
- 2010.03.14 19:00 - Evolution Dreams Up "The Brain"
- 2010.03.13 07:00 - Clouds, pictures, and remembrance
- 2010.03.08 19:00 - Less is More
- 2010.03.08 13:00 - If this had a title, it would go here
- 2010.03.07 19:00 - Step 1 (of 12?)
- 2010.02.21 19:00 - Self Observation and the Mind
- 2010.02.14 19:00 - What is this thing called, Mind?
- 2010.02.07 19:00 - Knowledge (of ?) Good and Evil
- 2010.02.05 19:00 - Stillness and Movement
- 2010.01.31 19:00 - Appearance of Appearance
- 2010.01.29 19:00 - Way of the Lotus
- 2010.01.28 19:00 - Private Retreat
- 2010.01.26 01:00 - Time, Space, Knowledge ... Beer
- 2010.01.25 19:00 - "Being" Gets a Job / Ghost Stories
- 2010.01.24 19:00 - Comfort and Drama
- 2010.01.17 19:00 - Groups and Fields
- 2010.01.10 19:00 - Dreams, Plans, Places, Pomo
- 2010.01.03 19:00 - Looking into Intention and Feeling
- 2009.12.31 19:00 - PaB 2009 Finale
- 2009.12.31 13:00 - Insides, Outsides, Depths - Wild Things
- 2009.12.27 19:00 - What Mothers Can Do / YSBS Theme
- 2009.12.21 01:00 - My Christmas Blog
- 2009.12.17 01:00 - Tangled World
- 2009.12.10 01:00 - Food for Thought
- 2009.12.08 01:00 - Island Life
Selected Pages
- What Does PlayAsBeing Mean to You? *
- 2012.01.17 13:00 - Language, Animal Morality, and Red Meat
- 2011.12.11 19:00 - Navigating Celestial Currents: We ARE the Crossroads
- 2011.01.13 01:00 - Boredom Is Interesting
- 2011.01.10 19:00 - Chaos Arising
- 2010.12.02 01:00 - Spiritual Bypassing and Recollective Awareness
- 2010.11.29 13:00 - Layers and Prayers
- 2010.11.09 19:00 - Heart Seeing
- 2010.10.14 01:00 - Emotional Response, Greetings and SL Communication
- 2010.10.10 19:00 - Tao and Nature
- 2010.10.10 13:00 - considering the I Ching
- 2010.08.10 13:00 - Tao of Snowglobe *
- 2010.07.20 13:00 - Contemplation
- 2010.07.16 19:00 - Bell!
- 2010.07.15 13:00 - Theme session: What does Play as Being mean to you? *
- 2010.07.13 19:00 - Midsummer Evening
- 2010.07.12 19:00 - Thunderstorm Transformations
- 2010.07.09 19:00 - A good lie will have traveled half way around the world while the truth is putting on her boots.
- 2010.07.05 01:00 - Symbiosis
- 2010.07.02 19:00 - Habits...
- 2010.07.01 01:00 - Synchronicity, Apophenia, Superstition and Overindulgence.
- 2010.06.29 19:00 - Joy and Pain
- 2010.06.25 19:00 - Not Logging
- 2010.06.23 01:00 - Love, trade and other alternative lifestyles
- 2010.06.22 01:00 - Newbie time
- 2010.06.21 01:00 - Water in the fountain
- 2010.06.17 01:00 - Right and Wrong or Have a Cup of Tea
- 2010.06.16 01:00 - combining energies
- 2010.06.10 01:00 - Perceptions of Disability and Relationships
- 2010.06.08 19:00 - Conscious Embodiment
- 2010.06.06 01:00 - don't fear fear
- 2010.06.05 13:00 - Being pays us a visit again
- 2010.06.04 01:00 - Language is taken for granted
- 2010.06.03 01:00 - Immigration and 'Help'
- 2010.05.25 19:00 - Suddenly Listening
- 2010.05.25 01:00 - Jumble
- 2010.05.19 19:00 - Who "owns".....
- 2010.05.18 01:00 - Body choice
- 2010.05.17 13:00 - Run Wild, Run Free
- 2010.05.15 19:00 - Please Beware The Monkey
- 2010.05.15 13:00 - male and female energies
- 2010.05.06 19:00 - The Learning of Ouch
- 2010.05.05 19:00 - quiet chat
- 2010.04.22 01:00 - Forgiveness Makes You Happy
- 2010.04.21 01:00 - the canals of Bangkok
- 2010.04.20 07:00 - Cat Mind
- 2010.04.15 19:00 - Transconceptual Mind and Communication
- 2010.04.14 01:00 - A brand new year in Thailand
- 2010.04.09 19:00 - Standing, Pondering a Sky with Happy Feet
- 2010.04.07 01:00 - "Fed" Cal is telling a story
- 2010.04.02 01:00 - Now is more difficult than before
- 2010.04.01 01:00 - Playing With Stuckness
- 2010.03.29 01:00 - Sleeping in a Painted Room
- 2010.03.25 01:00 - Creativity and Dreams
- 2010.03.18 19:00 - Finding the Space to Open
- 2010.03.17 01:00 - The Yoga of "non-individualistic thinking"
- 2010.03.09 19:00 - Luscious Pool of Being
- 2010.03.09 07:00 - Guides
- 2010.03.06 07:00 - inspiration in sl, and fighting TSK
- 2010.03.02 19:00 - Juicy Mirror
- 2010.02.28 19:00 - Beyond the Beliefs!
- 2010.02.24 01:00 - The game of genes
- 2010.02.19 01:00 - Unwinding a headache
- 2010.02.18 01:00 - Meditation and Retreats
- 2010.02.16 19:00 - No Time
- 2010.02.15 01:00 - Finding the lost bits
- 2010.02.12 19:00 - The Niceness is Not the Turtle
- 2010.02.12 13:00 - silence and non presence
- 2010.02.11 01:00 - Acceptance and Blame
- 2010.02.10 13:00 - PaB As A Lab
- 2010.02.08 01:00 - Talking Stick
- 2010.02.06 19:00 - Reverberations
- 2010.02.05 01:00 - Poor little Mindfulness
- 2010.02.04 19:00 - Locale, Crestone and SL/RL interplay
- 2010.02.04 01:00 - Communication and Lojong Study
- 2010.02.03 01:00 - the benefits of suffering
- 2010.02.02 13:00 - Malta retreat: local organizer's report
- 2010.02.01 01:00 - Meaning, Purpose, True love & a Story
- 2010.01.30 19:00 - Enlightenment, Now What?
- 2010.01.30 13:00 - Ink and Invocation
- 2010.01.27 01:00 - A joyful session
- 2010.01.25 01:00 - Talking without words
- 2010.01.24 13:00 - Boundaries and Edges
- 2010.01.22 19:00 - Complaining
- 2010.01.19 07:00 - Aiki PaB *
- 2010.01.13 19:00 - Images and Words *
- 2010.01.13 01:00 - consciousness, the universe and a message to the future *
- 2010.01.12 19:00 - Fountain in Still Water
- 2010.01.12 01:00 - Poetry into Presence
- 2010.01.11 01:00 - Avatars want to be Human
- 2010.01.09 13:00 - I Ching
- 2010.01.08 01:00 - This is water *
- 2010.01.07 19:00 - Hearing the Silence of Sound
- 2010.01.05 19:00 - Space In Tension Ality
- 2010.01.04 01:00 - The darkness does not always need the light
- 2010.01.01 01:00 - Like a Submarine
- 2009.12.31 01:00 - Labels and Gauging Openness
- 2009.12.28 19:00 - attention and autopoiesis
- 2009.12.28 01:00 - Natural Rhythms
- 2009.12.27 13:00 - Rules, roles and trains
- 2009.12.26 13:00 - Unpacking Anger
- 2009.12.26 01:00 - What did you learn?
- 2009.12.23 19:00 - Children Play
- 2009.12.23 01:00 - the war within
- 2009.12.22 19:00 - I Contain Multitudes
- 2009.12.22 01:00 - Seeing avatars
- 2009.12.21 19:00 - Midwinter Night *
- 2009.12.18 01:00 - Poetry will always be better than TV
- 2009.12.17 19:00 - Finding the Middle Ground
- 2009.12.16 01:00 - from silence to intuition
- 2009.12.15 01:00 - Notes as Bridges and Mirrors
- 2009.12.14 01:00 - Intersubjectivity
- 2009.12.11 19:00 - The Limits of Empiricism
- 2009.12.09 01:00 - sound and oscillation
- 2009.12.08 19:00 - Theme: Facilitation - I *
- 2009.12.07 19:00 - Piet Hein and Wu-Wei
- 2009.12.06 01:00 - Warm tea and reality
- 2009.12.05 19:00 - Like Being on Top of a Mountain
- 2009.12.05 01:00 - A Little Push
- 2009.12.04 19:00 - Why We Are Here
- 2009.12.02 01:00 - Being sentient
- 2009.12.01 01:00 - Until which sunset?
- 2009.11.30 19:00 - Precognitive experience
- 2009.11.30 01:00 - Giving, receiving, sharing
- 2009.11.29 19:00 - Homework
- 2009.11.28 19:00 - A Boat Called "No-Boat" *
- 2009.11.26 01:00 - Transformation
- 2009.11.25 19:00 - Supreme Creator
- 2009.11.25 01:00 - Wu-wei and karma
- 2009.11.24 01:00 - Learning to make the perfect cup of tea
- 2009.11.22 13:00 - On Forgiveness
- 2009.11.20 01:00 - The mind is massively parallel
- 2009.11.18 01:00 - Meeting a syncretist
- 2009.11.16 19:00 - The looseness of play
- 2009.11.16 01:00 - Dimensions
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