Death Rituals
This evening, the mojo_meeting will meet @ the Flipside Warehouse!
We gather @ 7:30pm, start a 15 minute meditation @ 8:00pm, & follow with discussion until 10:30pm.
You may join us at any time you like; but please be respectful/quiet if you happen to enter during the meditation.
Tonight's topic: Death Rituals!
What are the Mojo Meetings?
The Mojo Meetings are a spirituality discussion forum.
All faiths welcome, including atheists! (We have some!)
We've had discussion, speakers, lectures, rituals, potlucks, celebrations etc. It's super fun.
The meetings will be every Tuesday night from 7:30pm until about 10:30pm. We'll get started at 8pm sharp with a 15 minute meditation, if you arrive during that time, please quietly join us.
Bring something to drink and eat if you like. A chair or pillow would be good too- although there are chairs and couches. There has even been a suggestion to bring items for a temporary altar (to help establish our space). But, take everything home with you that you bring, including trash! Leave No Trace!
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We are going to be doing the topics a little differently this time around: we will do the grab bag method. You can add topics to the mix for future meetings. If you want to speak on something or have a speaker, let us know ahead of time so interested people can show and/or it can be announced as something special. At the end of the meeting, we'll pick the topic for next week, so that people will be able to prepare themselves for the next week's discussion.
If you would like to have out-of-meeting discussion you can go to our online community forum. You don't have to sign up with livejournal to do so (although it's free), you can post anonymously, but please sign your name so we know who we are talking to.
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And here's a wealth of curious resources concerning death, if you're interested:
Death & Culture (wikipedia)
Kearl's Guide to Sociological Thanatology (possibly one of the most excellent resources I've ever seen)
Thanatology (wikipedia)
Seeing the Difference: A Project on Viewing Death and Dying in Interdisciplinary Perspective (whoa... i get chills throughout my body when i read this
Category: Death customs (wikipedia)
Rituals of Death (brief notes from an Anthropology of Religion course @ Univ. of Waterloo)
Death (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
DeathNET: an international archive specializing in all aspects of death and dying - with a sincere respect for every point of view.
Death... the last taboo
Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
Death, Mourning, and Burial: A Cross-Cultural Reader
Celebrations of Death: The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual
Death and Bereavement Across Cultures
Death, Bereavement, and Mourning
Death and the Regeneration of Life
Cross-Cultural Beliefs, Ceremonies, and Rituals Surrounding Death of a Loved One
The Natural Death Centre
Society > Death (@dmoz directory of the web)
And here're a few of my own journal entries that relate to death:
The Covenant of Survival
What dreames may come?
'pon the left hand side...
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
underworld metamorphosis
Camus & Kafka (or: Death & Metamorphosis)
We gather @ 7:30pm, start a 15 minute meditation @ 8:00pm, & follow with discussion until 10:30pm.
You may join us at any time you like; but please be respectful/quiet if you happen to enter during the meditation.
Tonight's topic: Death Rituals!
What are the Mojo Meetings?
The Mojo Meetings are a spirituality discussion forum.
All faiths welcome, including atheists! (We have some!)
We've had discussion, speakers, lectures, rituals, potlucks, celebrations etc. It's super fun.
The meetings will be every Tuesday night from 7:30pm until about 10:30pm. We'll get started at 8pm sharp with a 15 minute meditation, if you arrive during that time, please quietly join us.
Bring something to drink and eat if you like. A chair or pillow would be good too- although there are chairs and couches. There has even been a suggestion to bring items for a temporary altar (to help establish our space). But, take everything home with you that you bring, including trash! Leave No Trace!
--
We are going to be doing the topics a little differently this time around: we will do the grab bag method. You can add topics to the mix for future meetings. If you want to speak on something or have a speaker, let us know ahead of time so interested people can show and/or it can be announced as something special. At the end of the meeting, we'll pick the topic for next week, so that people will be able to prepare themselves for the next week's discussion.
If you would like to have out-of-meeting discussion you can go to our online community forum. You don't have to sign up with livejournal to do so (although it's free), you can post anonymously, but please sign your name so we know who we are talking to.
--
And here's a wealth of curious resources concerning death, if you're interested:
Death & Culture (wikipedia)
Kearl's Guide to Sociological Thanatology (possibly one of the most excellent resources I've ever seen)
Thanatology (wikipedia)
Seeing the Difference: A Project on Viewing Death and Dying in Interdisciplinary Perspective (whoa... i get chills throughout my body when i read this
Category: Death customs (wikipedia)
Rituals of Death (brief notes from an Anthropology of Religion course @ Univ. of Waterloo)
Death (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
DeathNET: an international archive specializing in all aspects of death and dying - with a sincere respect for every point of view.
Death... the last taboo
Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
Death, Mourning, and Burial: A Cross-Cultural Reader
Celebrations of Death: The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual
Death and Bereavement Across Cultures
Death, Bereavement, and Mourning
Death and the Regeneration of Life
Cross-Cultural Beliefs, Ceremonies, and Rituals Surrounding Death of a Loved One
The Natural Death Centre
Society > Death (@dmoz directory of the web)
And here're a few of my own journal entries that relate to death:
The Covenant of Survival
What dreames may come?
'pon the left hand side...
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
underworld metamorphosis
Camus & Kafka (or: Death & Metamorphosis)