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DATE SATURDAY, MARCH 21,2009 START TIME 7:45 AM [PDT] DIAL-IN NUMBER 1-218-936-4700 PARTICIPANT ACCESS CODE 26423

Notes and Agendas at: http://solseed.org/Group_Experiences

Opening Words & Reflections (5 min)

From Silo's Message (Part 3, The Path)

(Ted) If you believe that your life will end with death, nothing that you think, feel, or do has any meaning. Everything will end with incoherence and disintegration.

(Shelley) If you believe that your life does not end with death, you must bring into agreement what you think with what you feel and what you do. All must advance toward coherence, toward unity.

(Lion) If you are indifferent to the pain and suffering of others, none of the help that you ask for will find justification.

(Brandon) If you are not indifferent to the pain and suffering of others, in order to help them you must bring your thoughts, feelings, and actions into agreement.

(Ben) Learn to treat others in the way that you want to be treated.

(T) Learn to surpass pain and suffering in yourself, in those close to you, and in human society.

(S) Learn to resist the violence that is within you and outside of you.

(L) Learn to recognize the signs of the sacred within you and around you.

(Br) Do not let your life pass by without asking yourself, “Who am I?”

(Be) Do not let your life pass by without asking yourself, “Where am I going?”

(T) Do not let a day pass by without giving an answer to yourself about who you are.

(S) Do not let a day pass by without giving an answer to yourself about where you are going.

(L) Do not let a great joy pass without giving thanks internally.

(Br) Do not let a great sadness pass without calling into your interior for the joy that you have saved there.

(Be) Do not imagine that you are alone in your village, in your city, on the Earth, or among the infinite worlds.

(T) Do not imagine that you are enchained to this time and this space.

(S) Do not imagine that in your death loneliness will become eternal.

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." -- Meditation (maybe this could be opening or closing words for next time? - Ben) (I wouldn't mind..! - L)

Check In (10 min)

Topic (20 min)

I'll clean this up in a bit -- concentrating right now. enrollment conversation - inspiring a possibility for their own lives -- talk re: fetures (creed, member, wiki) -- doesn't inspire. Help people to see a possibility - life you love, express in, illustrate w a story about how it comes alive for you.

usu. want people to say yes, so attached, & comes out in lang. pressure, -- give an opportunity to choose, and not

Distinctions from Landmark Wisdom Course [can somebody else read this aloud?]

If you have a new vision/conversation/idea that you want to engage people in. Think of Sol Seed / Spiriata / "Unnamed" Church as a new kind of conversation that nobody else is really having. How do you take it from the level of non-existence to the point where EVERYONE is inside that conversation and it seems weird to think that there was ever a time that it wasn't like that?

Example: Brushing your teeth. There was a time NOBODY did it. What was it like for the first people who tried to spread that idea? Now it is so ubiquitous, that it's almost strange to think of somebody inventing the idea.

Maybe we could talk about these another time when I could speak, because they're FRIGGIN' powerful!

Through the whole process you are consistently doing three things: Adding time, Adding membership, Adding Media.

In the list below, each stage is comprised of two parts, the energy that characterizes the stage is on the left, the barrier that you have to transform your relationship to is on the right.

Stages of a Conversation [ consider these stage in light of the above ]

  1. Listen / Express
  2. Remember / Forget
  3. Strengthen & Build Support / Fail
  4. Predict & Tune / Succeed
  5. Enhance / Flood
  6. Distinguish / Understand & Explain
  7. Enroll / Lose

Works for me.

Homework and Next Call (10 min)

Potential Topics

Closing Words (5 min)

From Silo's Message (Part 1, The Book):

T- V. Intimation of Meaning

S-The third day.

L-1. At times I have anticipated events that later took place. Br- 2. At times I have grasped a distant thought. Be- 3. At times I have described places I have never been.

  1. At times I have recounted exactly what took place in my absence.
  2. At times an immense joy has surprised me.

    3. L- 6. At times a total comprehension has overwhelmed me.

  3. At times a perfect communion with everything has filled me with ecstasy.
  4. At times I have broken through my reveries and seen reality in a new way.
  5. At times I have seen something for the first time, yet recognized it as though I had seen it before.

…And all this has made me think. It is clear to me that without these experiences I could not have emerged from the non-meaning.

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