On Archetypes and Individualism
Friday, February 28th, 2003 02:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flwydI've had some caffine today, and I've been in that lucid productive state. I got my Natural Language homework done quickly, I got my FAFSA almost completely filled out (pending a quick bank query), and I've invited a bunch of folks to participate in my May Open Full Moon nonverbal ritual. (Details of that are below, and I'd love to have any of you locals help out.)
I've also been involved in a bit of a debate about archetypes and individualism. I tend to establish my positions best while I'm explaining it to people, so this has been an enjoyable and intriguing outpouring. Perhaps I've been getting too much sleep and too little caffine lately. I've been chez productiv.
I will be leading a nonverbal ritual for the Denver Open Full Moon on Friday, May 16th. OFM ceremonies are lead by a different person or group each month, and provide a wide variety of area pagans an opportunity to participate in open ritual and pagan community.
Nonverbal ritual is a practice I've played with over the past year. The idea is to engage in a pagan ritual with familiar elements, but which involves no words. Instead, participants convey ideas, emotions, and stories through hand gestures, body movement, facial expressions, wordless sounds, and a host of other inventive devices. People often begin such a ritual with a little uneasiness, but almost everyone experiences something wonderful as they learn how to share without words.
I envision the May Open Full Moon ritual in several parts -- ceremony, story-telling, and participation. After I explain the concept and give some instructions, the players will call quarters, cast the circle, and establish the space in a familiar but novel way. The players will then share a piece of performance mythology with the group. The player/audience distinction will then fall, as people spend time together in pairs or small groups exploring their nonverbal powers. The whole group will then return to the circle and be part of a community without words. As we begun, we will close the circle in a familiar yet fresh way.
If this sounds exciting and you would like to be a player in this unique experience, I invite you to do so. I would like to have a planning meeting and play around with nonverbalism on Sunday, March 23rd at 2pm at my home in Boulder. Subsequent rehearsals would be held on weekends in April and the weekend before May 16th. Even if you can't make the meeting on the 23rd, please contact me if you are interested in being a part of this production. I hope to assemble a diverse, playful, exciting, and all-around wonderful group for this. I would be honored if you can devote some time and be a part of it. If you're unable to be a part of the organizing team, I would still be honored by your presence on May 16th.
You can learn more about Open Full Moons at
http://www.cats-cradle.com/hearthstone/
Blessed be,
Trevor
tstone circled-a trevorstone.org
I've also been involved in a bit of a debate about archetypes and individualism. I tend to establish my positions best while I'm explaining it to people, so this has been an enjoyable and intriguing outpouring. Perhaps I've been getting too much sleep and too little caffine lately. I've been chez productiv.
I will be leading a nonverbal ritual for the Denver Open Full Moon on Friday, May 16th. OFM ceremonies are lead by a different person or group each month, and provide a wide variety of area pagans an opportunity to participate in open ritual and pagan community.
Nonverbal ritual is a practice I've played with over the past year. The idea is to engage in a pagan ritual with familiar elements, but which involves no words. Instead, participants convey ideas, emotions, and stories through hand gestures, body movement, facial expressions, wordless sounds, and a host of other inventive devices. People often begin such a ritual with a little uneasiness, but almost everyone experiences something wonderful as they learn how to share without words.
I envision the May Open Full Moon ritual in several parts -- ceremony, story-telling, and participation. After I explain the concept and give some instructions, the players will call quarters, cast the circle, and establish the space in a familiar but novel way. The players will then share a piece of performance mythology with the group. The player/audience distinction will then fall, as people spend time together in pairs or small groups exploring their nonverbal powers. The whole group will then return to the circle and be part of a community without words. As we begun, we will close the circle in a familiar yet fresh way.
If this sounds exciting and you would like to be a player in this unique experience, I invite you to do so. I would like to have a planning meeting and play around with nonverbalism on Sunday, March 23rd at 2pm at my home in Boulder. Subsequent rehearsals would be held on weekends in April and the weekend before May 16th. Even if you can't make the meeting on the 23rd, please contact me if you are interested in being a part of this production. I hope to assemble a diverse, playful, exciting, and all-around wonderful group for this. I would be honored if you can devote some time and be a part of it. If you're unable to be a part of the organizing team, I would still be honored by your presence on May 16th.
You can learn more about Open Full Moons at
http://www.cats-cradle.com/hearthstone/
Blessed be,
Trevor
tstone circled-a trevorstone.org
