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Post by billmcelligott on Aug 8, 2006 14:04:36 GMT
Can't Karen come over here and tell us.
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Post by waynecowley on Aug 8, 2006 14:28:31 GMT
Sounds like she's a bit busy at the moment
Wayne
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Post by taylorsman on Aug 8, 2006 14:49:18 GMT
Congratulation to Sister Karen and my Fraternal Best Wishes to her too.
BTW Wayne what is T3P?
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Post by billmcelligott on Aug 8, 2006 15:05:30 GMT
Its another forum Steve, The Three Pillars.
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Post by waynecowley on Aug 8, 2006 15:07:32 GMT
That's right www.thethreepillars.comA lot of the US brethren that were regulars at thelodgeroom.com before it's demise are active there Wayne
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Post by taylorsman on Aug 8, 2006 17:30:12 GMT
Thanks Gentlemen. I won't be going there. This Forum and TFM will do me for the present.
Anyway, I look forward to Karen telling us what she can about it.
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Post by imakegarb on Aug 13, 2006 3:54:57 GMT
Hello everyone!! First of all, I am soooooo sorry I was not here sooner. There was one Internet connection for all of us and I was not able to log on much at all. When I did . . . I couldn't recall the url (staffs.com . . . no . . . staffs.pro37 . . . no. . . staffs . . . ack!!!!!). I'm home now and . . . what can I say but and and I'm afraid this isn't a tyled setting, so I don't feel I can go into details here. But it was three hours that, at times, was a bit scary but also very much altered the way I view the world. And then I went straight into the GL's annual conference, which included four times in lodge, two passings and four raisings (we EAs got kicked out after opening and then back in time for closing. Aside from my initiation, I haven't yet been thru a full lodge. And I wasn't in lodge for the entire initiation); there also were classes and workshops and talks until 1 and 2 a.m. and lots and losts of Then I get home and . . . One of my friends, who dropped acid in the 1960s, was one of the first of my friends to welcome me back to Oregon. He tells me he noticed, right away, I was feeling disoriented (and he was/is right). And that he's experienced this himself. He tells me that initiatic and psychedelic experiences are similiar in that my view of the world has been totally transformed. This followed by days and days with people who've had the same experience, which extends that state of consciousness. And that now I have left reality and I've returned to Sangsara, the world of Karmic illusion (an observation I'd already made on my own. So ). And that I'll feel a little less disoriented in a few days. Maybe (ponder . . . all of it . . . ponder). Anyway . . . Tomorrow I get to study with my mentor and it appears I'll get to witness an initiation at one of the other AFHR lodges later this month. My lodge is dark this month and I'm told we'll have a passing in September so . . . I get to study in the hall quite a lot ;-p I also want to thank you all for your help, all I've learned from you and all the patience you've shown me. You all are wonderful.
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Post by gipsyrose on Aug 13, 2006 6:07:14 GMT
Congratulations Karen. Sounds like you have been very busy.
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Post by taylorsman on Aug 13, 2006 6:10:18 GMT
Congratulations Sister and I am glad that it went well for you.
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Post by munkholt on Aug 13, 2006 10:35:07 GMT
Congratulations, Karen. Best wishes for your journey.
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Post by maat on Aug 14, 2006 0:00:20 GMT
Heartiest congratulations Bro/Sis(?) Karen upon your initiation into Freemasonry.
Sounds like a really looong but wonderful weekend. Given the importance of an initiation it must have been almost too much for someone so new to take in. Well at least you have lots to think about.
Keep us posted on your progress.
Cheers Maat
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Post by imakegarb on Aug 14, 2006 2:51:47 GMT
Thank you all, so very much. And it was a lot to take in. Luckily, I'm getting lots of help absorbing it all. Going straight into a week-long conference was such a great blessing. The energy in that place was tremendous.
BTW, it is "brother". However, I do answer to sister as I know the sentiment is the same (very warm, happy smile).
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Post by ingo on Aug 14, 2006 14:48:56 GMT
Congrats to your initiation in Freemasonry, Bro. Karen!
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Post by corab on Aug 14, 2006 21:52:25 GMT
Congratulations, Bro. Karen:-) It's been a long wait, but no doubt you know it's been worth every agonising second (a lavender bath!) of it.
S&F,
Cora
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Post by cezarek on Aug 16, 2006 10:14:18 GMT
Congratulations, Brother. I really hope you'll enjoy it as much as the rest of us here.
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Post by imakegarb on Aug 17, 2006 3:46:20 GMT
Oooooooh, I'm still walking on air. I'm happy in my studies (my copy of Masonry Defined arrived in the mail today ;D ), I'm happy in my memorization (coming easier than I'd expected), I may be attending an initiation at my sister lodge on Santa Cruz a week from Sunday and I'm just very ;D ;D ;D
And I did get in a Lavendar bath but . . . I dunno. I just couldn't sleep the night before and my efforts to nap the day of utterly failed. However, like any spirit quest, a bit of sleep deprivation, I think, helps scads. And the dreams afterward were, and still are, incredibly vivid.
My only regret is I'll usually only be able to attend lodge only once a month (twice if I can find air fare to a city where one of my sister lodges meets). I very much love being in lodge. I'm still stumbling thru a bit but I'm learning and there's soooooo much there. Some of it I see, some of it is revealing itself in dribs and drabs.
All makes for a very, very happy Karen ;D
Thank y'all so very much.
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