Also posted to Thresholds_Walk...and you have been aproved, as you know..(grins)rialianMarch 20 2007, 03:18:17 UTC
===Organizer note...(grins)
===I have no problrm with folks coming with part of their mindset being one of "things I will be doing are partially in prep for the main ritual"...but I will say that folks do not HAVE to have this as part of their mindset.
===(One of the reasons I do not attend Stones Rising is that it became a week-long ritual-fest...and I am simply not into that. Ritual (for me) is an acknowledgement, not the main reason for attending.)
===I am not trying to pour cold water on things...by all means, keep this energy up! I do want folks to know that they are not expected to be in ritual if they attend...the door is quite open if they wish to be part of the ritual, and it will be part of the environment of the gather...but it is not THE REASON to be there.
===Teh reason is to be able to be in an environment that allows for folks to explore wha tthey are, to be with folks that allow them to be what they are, and both allows for rituals like this, and for the more antisocial unseelie sorts to be at their campfires, chatting quietly in the darkness. We need those various liminal spaces...and sometimes not being part of a ritual is the most honoring and respectful thing one can do. I want those currents at Thresholds as well. (smiles)
===All that said...I am grooving on the energy and the ideas you all are having. I am pleased with what I am seeing, and I quite approve.
===I have no problrm with folks coming with part of their mindset being one of "things I will be doing are partially in prep for the main ritual"...but I will say that folks do not HAVE to have this as part of their mindset.
===(One of the reasons I do not attend Stones Rising is that it became a week-long ritual-fest...and I am simply not into that. Ritual (for me) is an acknowledgement, not the main reason for attending.)
===I am not trying to pour cold water on things...by all means, keep this energy up! I do want folks to know that they are not expected to be in ritual if they attend...the door is quite open if they wish to be part of the ritual, and it will be part of the environment of the gather...but it is not THE REASON to be there.
===Teh reason is to be able to be in an environment that allows for folks to explore wha tthey are, to be with folks that allow them to be what they are, and both allows for rituals like this, and for the more antisocial unseelie sorts to be at their campfires, chatting quietly in the darkness. We need those various liminal spaces...and sometimes not being part of a ritual is the most honoring and respectful thing one can do. I want those currents at Thresholds as well. (smiles)
===All that said...I am grooving on the energy and the ideas you all are having. I am pleased with what I am seeing, and I quite approve.
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