[FoRK] Federation of Damanhur

[Lion Kimbro]

  So, I've met a Findhorn inhabitant, named Michael Lindford.


  I met him here:

    http://www.thegreatstory.org/ev-salon2.html

  ...you can look up his name.


  There we were, some 100-something people in a circle, having a
  huge argument that had gone for an hour or two, tensions within
  the group swirling about.  Uncertain, confused, sad, feeling powerless,
  feeling angry, all sorts of things.

  A silence came over the whole group, for like 5 minutes.

  Then Michael Lindford stood up, and in complete and total
  sincerity and authenticity, said:

    "I'd like us to invite not only the peoples and the animals
     of the world, but to also remember and cherish the cosmos,
     the Earth, the plants, the angels, and the elementals: the
     gnomes, the undines, the sylphs, and the salamanders,
     that have graced us here today."

  The spirit of the room *immediately* changed.  Every
  clapped, cheered, and rejoiced.  The tension was
  *immediately* relieved.  Everybody changed.


  I'll grant that it's *nuts.*

  But it **works.**


> Think how much more they could get done if they had faeries, like
> these guys:

  It is entirely plausible to me that -- if they don't have the faeries
  already, that Damanhur may be missing a crucial element of
  their existence, and that it is only by including the fairies that
  they may be able to reach their goals.

  That said, I think they *do* have a concept of fairies...


  It is my belief that we have seriously and dramatically
  underplayed the role of the imagination in our society, and that
  a great emergence of imagination will be an essential part
  of the development of the global heart.

  I don't think we all need to go "coo-koo," but I think that there
  is room for exploration here.  It strikes me that in a very real
  and material sense, our concepts of "FoRK" as a group are
  purely imaginary, and that in a very real and material sense,
  Mickey Mouse exists and has fundamentally shaped and altered
  the flow of history.

  I know that there are characters and storylines in video games
  that have altered my own life in crucial respects.  I believe that
  imagined characters and storylines are worthy of greater
  intellectual respect.



On Nov 28, 2007 10:50 AM, Jeff Bone <jbone at place.org> wrote:
>
> On Nov 28, 2007, at 11:58 AM, Lion Kimbro wrote:
>
> >   I've recently been studying the Federation of Damanhur...Yet,
> > they really "get it done."
>
> Yeah, but they don't have faeries.
>
> Think how much more they could get done if they had faeries, like
> these guys:
>
>    http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/aug3/findhorn.htm
>
> :-/
>
> jb
>
>
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