This kinda encapsulates my weekend. I made a mistake and didn’t take paints and a canvas with me.
My Right Mind was soooo not used (not being pulled from) and my Left Brain needs ‘things to do’ while it waits.
It was nice to see the kids. Both girls made it as did one boyfriend (he drove, that was awesome), 1/3 SPP son stayed home. He’s even less of a people person than I am. Happy at home in his cave. Though if we had a motor home again, I think he might join in. Took care of the ducks and rabbit for me.
John was super busy the whole time ‘doing’ like Gens do. I was with a sacral Gen, emo Gen and 2 Emo MGs… oh and both dogs, one who I don’t know his type but he’s super self sufficient and one who is a Projector it turns out and was/is on overload mode most of the day - it’s a challenge keeping him/his mind occupied/out of his own way … like if he were a kid, I’d have solo activities at hand to keep feeding him. As it is, he whips through rawhide type things really fast and there wasn’t any way to walk him sufficiently. Part of it was about new exposure too though so - not giving up. Forgot my squirt bottle 🤦🏻♀️
On the way home, John asked if I enjoyed myself - in that moment what came out was “I feel brain dead” and also wished that he hadn’t been so busy - he was part of the crew that prepped the site for two weekends in a row and the doing just never ceased.
I should’ve brought my paints and a canvas. Maybe next time.
Also started researching battery powered printers so I could potentially print off charts “in the field”, but there’s something about that feeling like it could be a genie that might be difficult to put back in the bottle. Locally, for me, anonymity feels like a blessing.
I did bring a book, but that felt like a bit too much of a wall.
Didn’t over do, which was an accomplishment.
Didn’t feel pressured to prove anything.
Didn’t have any direction decisions to make.
Lots of drugs and alcohol there - have never been a fan for myself … my open head already has plenty to think about that doesn’t matter 😋 - also I don’t have a life that needs escaping from, which I get to be reminded of when I spend any time around … you know … people 😆
Did have a bit of needy creep in (my transference) … but I think that was Mind trying to make mischief.
Heard someone say something along the lines of “she just shows up and doesn’t do anything” and the person she was with said “but she’s very supportive of him” … made me laugh … felt recognized 😄
Weather was amazing.
Most of the music was amazing (apparently I missed some screetchers on Friday night thanks to ear plugs)
Haven’t got the right tent yet - but did buy an awesome double sleeping bag at a Local REI store that I didn’t know was here. Efficient progress.
Shopping for an event is always fun for me.
Way more fun than the actual going 😂
Anyhoo. It’s Day 2 of being back and I’m starting to feel a little more like myself again.
Sleeping alone is helping :)
Here’s Ra -
“If I did not have students in my life I would not be very clever. My intelligence has always been determined by the level of my students. That is the way that it works. It is something to recognize about intelligence, human intelligence, that human intelligence is something that is nurtured in connectivity and it's something to see about the way in which our minds, the way in which they tap into things have no control over it.
That's the most interesting thing. You cannot go to that favorite place of yours just because it's in the definition and tap into that, because certain aspects of that are not going to raise their hand.
So again, it goes back to one of the bedrocks of coming into this knowledge, is to begin to understand that yes, your first responsibility is to yourself. There's no question about that. Your first responsibility is the correctness of your actions, but the correctness of your actions ultimately lead to a realignment in terms of the world that you live in and who you connect to. And who you connect to is no longer just the obvious of the deep impact of conditioning on people's lives and what it means to have open centers and hanging gates and all of that.
But to begin to understand that there are levels of conditioning that are so deeply influential in the way in which we think, in the way in which we process information, because in fact we are designed as outer authority to be able to communicate effectively to the other. Not all others, that‘s what base orientation teaches us. Base orientation says that no matter how articulate you are and how impassioned you are with your particular subject that you cannot reach everyone. You cannot. There are those that simply cannot hear it and it is just the way that it is.
And we have to see that at this level what you're looking at is the manipulation of the way in which your resource system works. If you're, for example, somebody who's strategic left minded it can seem frightening and shocking that that actually takes place.
If you're right minded it's actually made for you because after all this is nine-centered configuration and, the first true nine-centered personalities as groups will probably emerge in the right before they become a real commonality in the left simply because of the nature of the construct, is that they have to be initiated from the outside.
It‘s something that you really begin to understand. That is, the moment that you have an encounter with somebody and you're aware of their limitations, their intellectual whatever limitations without attributing anything negative to that, the fact is that you have to change your dialog to communicate with them, that you have to step down the value of the communication. It‘s what exactly the Voice did to me, it was the most humiliating thing I ever went through was to understand how fundamentally stupid I was compared to this incredible intelligence.
One of the things that you have to see is that the underlying spiritual value of this knowledge is the freedom to release oneself from mind and mind being in control. And when you see how any person coming up to you can bring out a specific highlight in the way in which your mind is going to process its connection to that person that is really something to grasp. And it is a two-way street, because they're bringing out the motivation it means that this is something that they will resonate to. And it means that your outer authority is going to be able to influence them.
Yet, at the same time your outer authority, that is, what that perspective outer authority is going to be, that the experiential background of it, that is, its history, its root is something that's being manipulated and that certain things are not available to you in that situation to tap into and other things are.”
-Ra Uru Hu