Conference hydra::dejavu

424.0. "Starting a meditation group" by FDCV01::ARVIDSON (Say *NO* to anti-taping chips!!!) Thu Jul 23 1987 17:48

Some of this is from the Lucid dreams note.  I copied some of it here because
a new note would be a proper way to start a discussion.

For more than a year my wife and I have been involved with friends in creating
a community.  Every Thursday night we would meet with 8-10 other people.  We
start with a Spiral Meditation at 7:30, a sugar/fruit break then either a
healing, ritual, tarot or dream interpretations.  As of a month ago the person
who lead the group, who we affectionately call 'Baba Dick', decided to bring
the gourp to closure.  He felt that as a group we had grown as much as we could
and that the best for us was to go our own ways.  So we had a closing Workshop
Weekend to welcome in the Solstice(SP) on the Cape.

I mention this because my wife and I will be starting a group shortly.  The
intention of our group will be determined by the group when we start.  But,
we would like to continue the meditation then proceed with what interests the
group.  I will post more info here when we decide to start it.

I mention this as recruitment, but also to say that you can start a group of
your own.  There are many people who participate in this forum and are more
than willing to participate in person.  Also, I live in Marlboro and that may
be a haul for some and our apartment isn't a large hall.

To start a group all it takes is:
	- Willingness to grow
	-      "      to share
	-      "      to build a community
	-      "      to trust yourself and the others in the community you
			build
	-      "      to open your house to new friends

The participants, you included, will guide the group.  Every week someone
volunteers to bring the cookies, tarts, or fruit.  And the price of admission
is a greeting hug and to be open.

I know this is getting off the subject of the note, but it relates to your
concern of interpreting your dream.  It doesn't take a therapist, or a person
or group known for their ability to intuit just other people who grow with you
and see you for who you are.  (This is not to say you don't learn or shouldn't
go to a therapist or a group known for their abilities, just that those same
abilities are within us.)

IDIC,
Dan

    
    For a good book on 'community', see note 398.3 for the table of
    contents to "The Different Drum", by M.Scott Peck.