yup, the workshop is really going to be good.
Wilbert Alix knows the space well and has the room in awe. this event is in the form of a vision quest and he's had us sit in a circle by age to generically look at the transitions in life that we must make at different ages so that we can trick ourselves into assessing the things that we need to complete to have the next step.
his language is tangible and he swims in a sea of know how on neo-shamanism.. his distinguishes shamanism from meditation by making the point that it is about overload to get to neutral whereas meditation is more about going directly to neutral. indulgence vs abstinence. i dont quite experience transitioning that way, but this sells and holds together well.
one funny thing only. it is rare that there are no 'funny things' in people's spiel's. fewer the less spiel. and i'm glad to know people where there's never been any 'funny'.. but i digress.. he made the point that you can live for weeks without food, days without water, minutes without air.. well, not that succinctly, but essentially. leaving out.. and actually sort of denying.. that you dont even live seconds if you stop producing heat.
to this day there's a bit of confusion about 'fire' as opposed to 'air', but no matter, breathing is good.. even though the intent and energetic focus have to come first..
there'll be 8hr of him tomorrow, first a lecture on connecting to the body.. and then his dj-ing. its almost worth running out to get an hr recorder just to get the gist of the mix.
i'm 8th youngest. there's one woman, a year older that i like, but she's attached. i know one other person. dinner's ready.