After posting an invitation on FB, for folks interested in taking A Place to Be forward , Aga arrived for a week from Newcastle and Diogo drove down from Badajoz for a an evening, stayed overnight and drove back early next day ... a lovely meeting of minds over a meal and three visions energising one, inspiring all to move forward ... and each bringing others into the mix .... Portugal still calling ... let's see ....
After so much time embracing solitude, a week one to one was an interesting opportunity to practice being in relationship ... starting on the same wavelength, adjusting the dials to match frequencies. ... keeping space for silence and reflection ... and observing all that, enjoying the self-discovery as well as finding out more about future collaborators, their aspirations ...
The routines were shared, amended ... the sea turned turbulent and offered elemental fun ... sun, sea, sand and wind whipping up the waves ... Malaga.eu reported 12 drownings already this season, warning of the dangers of the waves ... no mention of ingesting alcohol and heavy food before swimming, though herein lies the real danger ... closer examination of the data may be revealing ... after all, surfers seek out the biggest possible waves ... anyway, the sea has calmed now and the dance of embracing the undertow, passing over, under or through the breaker waiting in the brief calm, riding the wave back in, tumbling over the gritty sand has been exhilarating. .. or maybe safer to obey the red flags and all the other rules to keep us safe ...
As for frequency matching. .. this story comes with the usual warning about words, paradoxes and all that ... if some of it resonates, fine, if not fine also ...
The tale imagines the brain, with all its infinite complexity, as basically a radio transmitter and receiver. .. maybe some memory storage in there too, but the evidence has not been found ... which leaves us with all the thoughts ever thunk out there in the noosphere ready to be accessed as required ... the frequency of the universe is taken as ohm (whatever that is, we are well past the rational now) and the gift of the quiet mind is tuned closely to that ... the wavelength is taken as some paradigm shifting process ... coarse vibrations being associated with pain, suffering, violence and so on ... finer ones with peace and equanimity ... at ohm it's Love, our basic state once all the layers of delusion and confusion are stripped away ...
Drugs, alcohol, rubbish food, rubbish thoughts generally coarsen ... advocates of hallucinogenic shortcuts may disagree ... feel free! Hormones also disturb the equanimity and these are harder to manage, maybe impossible given the processes of the human body ...
All of which illustrates some of the challenges of creating intentional community where rules are kept to a minimum and leadership spread equally ... plenty of folks have written of their experiences dancing this dance ... processes tried and tested are shared ... looking forward to getting to that stage ... meanwhile the idea has picked up some energy ...
And the Casa del Puente has enjoyed hosting two beautiful souls with dreams of the future ... and Susie and Aga made a lovely connection too ... from this week we have four decades engaged on the ground, with other generations ready to join ...
If you are looking for Diogo, by the way, we missed the photo since time was tight, as was the light ... you can see him on the blog from Coimbra in March 2015 maybe. .. when we first connected ...
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