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The first of May - what is this?
On the First of may, all the Morris dancers will assemble on the highest hill in the district and "dance up the Sun".
Their tradition is that if this is not done, the Sun will not rise.
Each and every one of them know this is fantacy, and yet they do it in ernest.
And it enriches them by virtue of their fantastic gift.
Here is the tune. It has progressed from here into a lot of pop music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJCwOMLCtaE
Here is the event of dancing-up the Sun:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSEA9_Twpls
Here are some darker roots:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxQ5BcY8feI
It happens all over the world somewhere near you if you care to go look.
What is this?
Is this a game for fun, or is it the game of being?
What is this?
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Chris Kelly 20+
As a child we would celebrate with song, dance the inter-weaving of colorful ribbons wrapped around the May Pole ... (no sexual innuendo at all ... wink wink). Like Samhain (Halloween) it is considered a time of year when the veil between this world and the next is very thin. So we celebrate life, renewal, sex and spirit.
::Lifting a pint in toast:::
Sláinte mhaith!
Mitch SMith 50+
The Maypole is so much more than sex. It is a place that the fertility gods come down to kiss us, with no more than their eternal love for us.
Here in the south, the Beltaine is the Samhain, and the Samhain is teh Beltaine. Sunwards is widershins here, the cone is the vortex and the vortex teh cone. I spend a lot of time teaching my fellows silently in twists. No one hears it, no one sees it, but all feel it. THis is the absolute expression we call prayer.
Mitch SMith 50+
Mitch SMith 50+
In the 6 months I served as leader of teh Outlanderz tribe, I had established an extreme outpost member who joined us in the early days to belong to a tribe that had meaning.
She was about 7 days beyond any help that we could send her, SO I advised her to join the strongest tribe near her. She refused - She would not ever leave us.
Over teh weks, I became more and more involved with local strategics, but every day I checked in on her - and by her own resource she had beaten off all who attacked her. And bit by bit, as my tribe gained fame as the most potent force on the map, no one would touch her. So far away .. so out of reach from anything we could do.
And so, she became strong .. and she started teasing and goading those around her - and pushing them to their absolute limit. And all were in fear of the Outlanderz, and our arm had grown long - through treaties and aliegences, we had come to dominate the game.
And so, she decided to come join our heartland and set out on a very risky migration - it took her 7 days to come occupy some real estate that my general-heros had provided for her.
And the whole trib efollowed her migration journey, all of us holding our breath and hoping she'd make it through dangerous waters.
And then on teh 7th day she came home into our heartland - and every one in the tribe shouted for joy!!!!
This was the happiest day of us - in many lives in our tribe who had not experianced such communal achievement!! What a happy day!!!
She later moved from her home in Greece to the USA and married one of my most trusted generals. In the real world.
Her name, in translation was - "Clever fox"
I am so proud of her. and yet .. I am so proud of everyone - we can all do this.
Outlanderz was populated by people from all different cultures, all walks of life and all ages.
Between us, we pwned . And the word pwn came from us. Because we had no time for spell-checking. We just knew .. and did.
Mitch SMith 50+
My Clever-Fox friend wrote me bout the plight of Greece as the Euro was crushing them in debt.
So I spent about 2 weeks designing a new currency for her and her Greek friends to supplant the Euro and re-establicsh their national worth beyond the artificial values of teh world that had drained them.
It would start on a single urban block containing a bakery, a butcher and a comms shppe.
All money going in and out of that city block in Athens would have to pass a currency-exchange barrier.
And, bit by bit, the currency would subsume the whole of Europe - one block at a time.
But I stopped designing this currency the instant that I saw that I, as the original issuer of the currency of value would gain absolute power of who entered and who left the realm of the curency.
I would, in effect, have the power of life and death over the whole of Europe.
And that would destroy me and anyone who came in touch with me.
At theat moment, I understood the dilema of bankers.
It is up to us to rescue them.
THey are in gret pain - and they cannot save themselves.
Let us invite them all back home over dangerous waters .. let us have the community joy on the landing of each and every one.
This is the great challenge of our time.
It is forgiveness.
I have commenced performing small mirracles.
Come to me and help. I cannot do this alone.
Chris Kelly 20+
Mitch SMith 50+
Find natural extensions that overcome destructive conventions.
Share them.
Help find ways for people to stop playing games and start living.
The rest of it sounds trite, but is still quite cogent:
Practice compassion, increase empathy, align your work to your love, pray for others (whether you believe in god or not - it really doesn't matter).
Most of all - share your small mirracles.
That way, a network forms-up, and we might get a chance to do some significant healing of those who know nothing but their isolated self.
I told the story of how I converted a war-game community into a successful unit by means of voluntary contribution and teh elimination of competition within the tribe.
The over-riding principle was to overcome feelings of resentment for those who contributed less. THis was the hardest bit, but once achieved, it ignited a true functioning community.
I suppose it is the principle of shifting comparisons away from each other and towards our life itself. I made a very strong distinction between the "freeloader" and the parasite. Turns out, there weren't enough freeloaders to hurt the community .. and they gradually came to contribute.
Mitch SMith 50+
The convergence.
Here's how we do it:
I pray for you, you pray for me.
We each find more partners to pray for.
We can connect each other directly if it seems right, but that is not necessary.
What is necessary is that we empower those we connect with to conect - through prayer.
And WTF is prayer?
It is this simple:
When you think of someone, just imagine a pulse of positive energy going to that person.
You will be prompted to think of them as you are reminded - you need no list or ritual.
You just do it.
In a very short time, we will establish a network of empathetic pairs that will flood the Earth.
It is exponential.
THis empathy? What is it?
It is what words say is "love" .. and it cannot be beaten, because it is convergence - no lie can survive such an environment.
ANd this is how we bring the lost ones home.
Let's do it.
Mitch SMith 50+
Here is the unstoppable power of volluntary empathetic pairs!
When I was doing the war game tribe thing, I had a few psychopaths in my trib ewho were deliberately vexing vulnerable members of my allies.
So I invented the "death match" where, by through my power, I enforced that the victor and victim would conduct a fight to the death.
Through that I was invoking the "art of war" principle that the victim would exert at many more times of power than the victor - and would defeat him.
This was not the case. The Victor was freed to exact all kinds of dimensions of pain that the victim could not imagine. This was a grave mistalke on my part.
Because it is not about "smart" it is about love.
WHat I SHOULD have done was find another psychopath and pitch them against each other - their zeal and arrogance could never resist, and they would fight to the death of the last man.. And then, I should have had my tribe eat the survivor as a ritual act of renewal. At that point he would be too weakenned to resist and would die in a whimper that would not corrupt my leadership.
Let me tell you a thing about leadership:
You cannot be seen to take unilateral action against any member of your tribe. ..
Why not?
Because each and every member of the tribe will begin to see you as a potential threat, and the trust in your leadership will be diminnished with each and every act you take to enforce your right of leadership beyond the consensus of the tribe.
GO away and think hard on this .. and then you will understand what it is to be a leader of humans.
ALl leaders I see in the world today think that they have leadership through military force.
They could not be more wrong.
And you and I who are not despotic leaders have their balls in our hands.
I just wanted you to know that ;)