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Uncertainty...Still In FUN Mode

Posted on Mar 22nd, 2006 by ShiftingShamanics! : ShamanicShifter ShiftingShamanics!

What am I doing here at Zaadz?  So far only three circle companions have joined Zaadz from outside...The first, one of the Milwaukee companions, does not participate here even though he signed up, yet he was the one who led me here through Thinkarete.  (At first I was unable to even find Marshall here, because he took on a spoof of an identity.)  Last night two circle companions who live far away from Milwaukee showed up for a very rare visit and during our fun together, I was able to talk Companion L.C. and Crabbee to sign up so I could have someone to converse with over at the FUN Restoration Projects pod. 

Although FUN Restoration is not on the "most popular" list at the Zaadz pod directory, there are many members signed up - yet little participation, even from me, really (due to a full schedule).  Now I am realizing that once again I have taken a more radical approach to presenting FUN and F.U.N. (as Freedom, Unity, Now & New) as what folks here are calling an integral life practice, that synergizes spirituality, philosophy, science, and art, as an AQAL, contemplative yet activist, (w)holy fool-ish, shamanic way of many ways. 

My presentation and pod might be truely welcoming to a relative few who resonate with and grok the FUN flow deeply and weirdly, yet fun and the FUN is being expressed just as well if not better within several other Zaadz pods.  We already have online circles that are gaining momentum slowly but certainly, so why not simply fall back to those sites? 

A week or so before I came to Zaadz, several of the circle companions who have been blogging their shamanic ways as a widespread, weird shaped circle decided to steer clear of joining any additional services, networks, message boards, groups, and the like.  We are collaborating on the book project I list under goals here, though I am the instigator and coordinator, and we wanted to draw back and re-focus on the Book on Shaman Antics for FUN Restoration and devote more energy to updating the weblogs we already keep as a feature of our shared shamanic practice-way.  This includes several group weblogs as well as several individual weblogs so far, and a few online circles - message boards and listserves. 

So, after much bantering I talked these few into joining me here, and I am still waiting to see if I can create a nexus of our webby presences here in the funner than most places Zaadzster spaces - whenever it becomes possible to customize this weblog more and at put a blogroll of links and other blog fun ad-ons on the sidebar here.  (Links on the profile are ok for a start, but I am planning a longer blogroll of several lists!) 

Several of the non-Zaadz circle companions let me know they consider Zaadz to be a great "business class" approach to consciousness shifting, presenting one of the most striking and amusing arrays of already "awakened" and "enlightened" sages and practitioners in one of the widest, biggest variety stores of "neo-approaches" to self-mastery that has ever opened before their eyes during self-educational and transformational web journeying.  They are enjoying following the links here though they are undecided about joining.  

Several circle companions have even taken vows
of anonymity, and practice shamanic shifting and jesting as contemporary anchorites, embedded in worldly settings to better shamanize behind the scenes, seems, schemes, and seams of ordinary reality.   They revel shamanic freeing, healing and revealing shifts each in their individual ways, radically cloistered yet readily available through sacred circle spacetime in our unfolding contemporary version and vision of monastic life. Some few have even taken vows of silence - not to speak outloud except when blessing, praying, singing, chanting, transformational storying, teaching, or counseling.  (These circle companions get by in most situations, by choosing words re-creatively and care-fully!)

Foolish Me?  I act (and act-out) as the current public-to-cloister inter(clown)face of our circle of circles, and school of the fool and weird dis-order - linking the overlapping circles of online, hidden (in plain sight), and public projects, until I am ready to turn over the job, and can recruit the next someone to coordinate things, then resign and draw back.  Some of us can be found easily, and some of us might be found out by but a few, here and there.  Some of us are now very old and some still young, by earth years, yet we are all the same age in cosmic years - the original age of zero, called TODAY! 

So, what are we doing here at Zaadz, anyway?  Having FUN, so far.

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CalmEagle : pilgrim
15 days later
CalmEagle said

Shamanic,

I'm finding I joined maybe mor epods than I can participate in and run my own at the same time and participt ein the think tank etc etc….I think I am going to be scaling back toi waht's do-able and then slooowwwly expand out from there.  On the up side, isn't it nice to know all these creative peole are around?

Namaste,

CalmEagle
(Soup's On!! pod)

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