Calvino

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 Being Human web site and video site.
• The Art of Hostingand 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!
• And one of the more addictive internet resources - Google Scholar.

PlayAsBeing Pages

• My pick for a great personal view of PlayAsBeing is the interview of Bruce Mobray in the PlayAsBeing Chronicles.
• Poetry as Practice
• Calvino's Selections (poetry)

The Original Face Group

• Time of Fullness
• The Original Face Group (Main Ideas / Principles)

Writing Outside PlayAsBeing

• Homework Suggestions for Kira's Ways of Knowing workshop
• My reports for Ways of Knowing.

Guardian Contributions

Scribe Pages

An early experiment was the monthly group review of sessions, the Scribe Project.

• 10 - 12 - May the Circle be Unbroken
• 10 - 12 - The Three C's
• 10 - 12 - Dig This
• 10 - 12 - PaB, A to Z
• 10 - 12 - Same Same, But Different
• 10 - 12 - A Play in Three Acts
• 10 - 12 - Now "here" this
  
• 10 - 12 - Person, Pattern, and Practice
• 10 - 12 - Tell Me A Story

Selected PlayAsBeing Pages

• What Does PlayAsBeing Mean to You?
• 2013.06.16 19:00 - Don't play with that robot, and eat your spinach
• 2012.05.13 19:00 - Facing, Finding, Order, Chaos
• 2012.02.19 19:00 - The Space Between Us
• 2012.01.29 19:00 - 'Twas Bloggish and the Slithy Toves...
• 2012.01.29 13:00 – Wherefore Wu Wei?
• 2011.08.07 19:00 - Trust and Playing By (With or As) the Rules
• 2011.04.16 13:00 - Theme Session on Original Face group
• 2010/10/14: Bruce Mowbray
• 2010.10.17 19:00 - Awareness, Considered
• 2010.09.19 19:00 - Skillful Means - and In-Betweens
• 2010.09.05 19:00 - Ship of Souls
• 2010.08.31 01:00 - Changing world views
• 2010.08.15 19:00 - You don't ever let go of the Thread
• 2010.08.10 13:00 - Tao of Snowglobe
• 2010.07.31 19:00 - Chat and Contemplation
• 2010.07.25 19:00 - Contemplating Peace-ing and Bless-ing
• 2010.07.15 19:00 - What the Nose Knows
• 2010.07.15 13:00 - Theme session: What does Play as Being mean to you?
• 2010.07.11 19:00 - Goldilocks and the Three Levels of Listening
• 2010.06.20 19:00 - Word Time Travel
• 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
• 2010.01.08 01:00 - This is water
• 2009.12.21 19:00 - Midwinter Night
• 2009.12.08 19:00 - Theme: Facilitation - I
• 2009.11.28 19:00 - A Boat Called "No-Boat"

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
• 2014.01.05 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
• 2013.05.19 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
• 2013.01.27 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
• 2012.11.11 19:00 - Creative Frontiers
• 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
• 2012.09.16 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
• 2012.05.13 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
• 2012.03.04 19:00 - Cat Story Stories; When Worlds Collude
• 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
• 2011.09.11 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