Agenda
- Check in
- Opening Blessing
- Review WWWs
- Weekly event logistics
- Year Plan
- Review Agenda
- We Believe
- Evaluations
- Closing Blessing
Next business call
- New Videos
- Strategic Planning
Check-in
- Ben ... I stayed up until 1am last night at my girlfriend’s, so I’m feeling sleepy
- Brandon … I'm a little confused, figuring out where I'm going to be spending my time and energy … feeling like I don't have enough cycles for everything
Opening Blessing
There has never been a more interesting time to be alive than this moment. Many, many things are changing. Even the pace of change is changing. May we find the trimtabs to shape that change toward more life. --Blessed Be
WW(W)s from last time
Ongoing
- Brandon … Try for a streak of 3 days in a row with bedtime at 9:30 every night, wake up with alarm at 5:30
- Brandon … Meditate regularly (at least 3) with Eric
- <s>Brandon … Coach regularly (at least 3) with Ted</s>
- Ben … Send Brandon/Eric a video message each day about what I did and watch theirs
- <s>Ben … meditate regularly (at least 3) with Eric</s>
- Ben … spend at least 15 minutes a day (at least 3) on my story (getting there)
- Eric … Send Brandon/Ben a video message each day about what I did and watch theirs
- Eric … Work on Buckleberry or Auberge Paradis at least 15 minutes a day
- Eric … Meditate regularly with Ben</s>
- Eric … Meditate regularly with Brandon
- Eric … Practice viscerally connecting with Gaia at least once a week
Time-specific
- <s>Brandon … discuss September in Ottawa with Shelley (around September 22) … by next call
- Brandon … get pictures from last two events for newsletter … by today
- Ben … finish the graphics for the newsletter … by next call</s>
- Ben … update the News section … by next call
- Ben … find photos for the first 6 months of the calendar … by next call
- Eric … find photos for the other 6 months … by next call
- Eric … post the Life is Precious video to YouTube and Facebook … Saturday morning
- <s>Eric … post Gaia on the Beach to wiki … This afternoon</s>
- Eric … draw the schematics for Buckleberry … by next call
Weekly Events Logistics
Service rotation: Eric, Ben, Brandon, Rico, Shelley
- June 1 Falcon 9 launch, CRS 11 … 5:55 PM EDT
- June 3 Service: 8:30 AM PDT / 11:30 EDT … Ben
- June 4 Business Call: 8:30 AM PDT / 11:30 EDT
WW(W)s
Ongoing
- Brandon … Try for a streak of 3 days in a row with bedtime at 9:30 every night, wake up with alarm at 5:30
- Brandon … Meditate regularly (at least 3) with Eric
- Brandon … Coach regularly (at least 3) with Ted
- Ben … Send Brandon/Eric a video message each day about what I did and watch theirs
- Ben … meditate regularly (at least 3) with Eric
- Ben … spend at least 15 minutes a day (at least 3) on my story (getting there)
- Eric … Send Brandon/Ben a video message each day about what I did and watch theirs
- Eric … Work on Buckleberry or Auberge Paradis at least 15 minutes a day
- Eric … Meditate regularly with Ben
- Eric … Meditate regularly with Brandon
- Eric … Practice viscerally connecting with Gaia at least once a week
Time-specific
- Brandon … talk with Shelley about outcomes we want from SolSeed (in particular who we want to be as individuals and as a family) … by the end of the holiday weekend
- Ben … think about outcomes in terms of who I want to be … by next call
Year Plan
September trip
- This is looking unlikely for the Sanders
- Ben will go anyway, but it won't be the same without them
Summer Solstice
- Ben: We could take a camping/whale-watching trip to Orcas Island
Revisions to We Believe and the outcomes we focus on
The changes that are coming need some acknowledgement somewhere
- Brandon feels that transhumanism has much greater implications (in the near term), and will be the driver for whether life transcends the bounds of this planet … so transhumanism is the thing we should be shaping
- Ben is okay with talking about transhumanism in the creed, but not with making it the central thing
SolSeed struggles with being an overly abstract set of ideas and could benefit from being more grounded
- The Gaia statue and how it helps us connect viscerally to Earth is a good example of groundedness
- What is the religion trying to accomplish in our personal lives?
- What are the services in service of?
- When telling people about the Great Birthing, it makes us seem disconnected from reality because it seems so impossible to work toward that outcome … it may not be good for us to lead with that
- Eric: I've been leading with religiously and scientifically valuing nature and deep time … but that doesn't explain what we're going to achieve in the world
- Eric: It appears to outsiders that we're four people working on four different missions … how do we explain that?
- "If you join, you'll get moral support for any mission you're on that's in line with our values"
- Ben: But we do need a unifying practice … are the services and meditation calls enough?
- Eric: The core practices enabled me to make the decision to buy Buckleberry
- Brandon: I don't know if they motivate me … they help me stay in touch with my values, but so does a hike to look at birds … the services help me connect with the "isness" of precious life, being present to its being
- Eric: The steady repetition of the service keeps reminding me what my values are … keeps me from getting sucked into the values of the culture I'm immersed in, e.g. increasing my status at work
Eric: Until shortly after I joined SolSeed, I was really focused on gaming, but I don't do that anymore
- Brandon: I've also struggled with gaming, movies, TV, and other escapist consumption … those addictions are certainly blunted by our practice
- Eric: Can we sell the fruit of not wasting your free time on entertainment? … It's hard to even be aware of that as an addiction because there are so many particularly harmful addictions like drugs … an addiction doesn't need to damage your health or suck up your income to be a serious addiction
- Brandon: It's been really hard to avoid filling our kids with sugar, both the literal kind and the consumption addiction kind, e.g. Pokemon Go or looking at videos … we are huge outliers among the families we associate with, although there is one neighboring family whose values are super aligned with ours
Evaluation
- Ben … I’m really glad that we’re finding an approach that seems to be getting Brandon more motivated
- Brandon … I'm really glad that our connection and trust is deep, so that my questioning doesn't feel super threatening … a little threatening, but we know who we are from a values perspective, and that that's not going to change
Closing Blessing
We live in extraordinary times. The world around us can feel overwhelmingly complex and powerful. And while we must react to these vast forces, we don’t seem to have the levers that will make any difference. May we start where we are and shape ourselves that we may build outward toward being able to reshape the world. May we Bring Life! -- Blessed Be