It was great to feel the network, and meet more of the network, and see how
it interfaces with other networks :)
I had a super time there, learnt a bit about stuff and stenciling, got to
meet similarly-orientated-in-brain-space people from different places :)

I like the idea of spirit-u-ality being more "in the spirit of" or sharing
a similar "ethos" or "motivation". Also thinking more about resilience has
brought fruits, as well as looking at human convivial technologies.

"Open Space" "bar camp" "walking and talking" "travelling together"

On researching a young catholic movement I was involved in (before I
lapsed) I came across Cursillo, as the central framework it was based upon.

The pixelache camp might be secular versions of this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursillo (and the trip to the island may have
fulfilled the cursillo stipulation of 3 days).

The *cursillo* focuses on showing Christian lay people how to become
effective Christian leaders over the course of a three-day weekend. The
weekend includes fifteen talks, some given by priests and some by lay
people, those talks are called "rollos". The major emphasis of the weekend
is to ask participants to take what they have learned back into the world,
on what they call the "fourth day". The method stresses personal spiritual
development, as accelerated by weekly group reunion (after the weekend).

These are old technologies, but effective.
ciao ciao


On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:36 PM, John Hopkins <jhopkins@???> wrote:

> Moi!
>
> I also would like to make a few (somewhat incoherent) comments following
> the
> energized and energizing crossings-of-path that took place in the
> Brico-Pixel
> universe.
>
> I greatly enjoyed meeting all of you (many for the first time!), and some
> of you
> (not seen in some years). And I very much am thankful for such a network of
> people who are, indeed, earnestly thinking about (and experimenting with)
> how to
> live life in a way that is about sharing and community and so on.
>
> As one of the few bricos of North Amurikan origin, I feel that what all of
> you
> are doing is crucial so that the social systems that you are participating
> in
> don't go the way that the US has gone and continues to go. And I am so
> thankful
> to be a part of this energized network that is a powerful answer to the
> hegemonic forces preying on people everywhere.
>
> To James' comment about the 'spiritual' -- I would rather not be placed
> too directly in the
> ghetto of Western intellectual thought that has been imposed on such a
> word.
> However, that said, I think that most of you might agree with me that the
> brico-pixel experience was very much embodied, and in a holistic sense
> something
> *felt* in the heart, the brain, the toes, the skin, and so on ;-) --
> difficult to
> articulate that feeling -- but none-the-less when I speak about
> resonances, I am
> not talking something ethereal or in any way related to an intangible
> religious
> or intellected abstraction. (at this point I have to call on the
> techno-shamans
> for vigorous support ;-) Maybe this concept of spiritual I would be happy
> to be
> associated with: something to resonate with, something to break bread
> around!
>
> Of course, I do invoke other systems of thinking that lie outside the
> broadly
> traditional Western worldview -- but it is clear to me that so much of
> what we
> think and do still (as bricos) remains in a blind spot in the more
> traditional
> intellectual (and physical!) ways of going. We will not be able to
> effectively
> address what is 'going on' in the world using what we have been taught,
> what we
> have grown up into, or what thinking dominates the social system that we
> are fully embedded within. From what I see of other bricos, I am reminded
> that
> making a new pathway is crucial... along this new pathway, I find reductive
> words like "resonance," "dialogue," and "energy," -- re-making the
> definitions
> of these words in ways that more accurately reflect (my own) experience of
> reality, the only thing I can do is to share or demonstrate the source of
> those
> new definitions.
>
> To articulate a potential pathway that does not lie wholly within the known
> seems to be something that many bricos struggle with -- of course many do
> not
> stop at the articulation, but move directly on to the action, creating a
> way of
> going, a way of living. This is, of course, more crucial than any
> articulation:
> building a new pathway for the self, and sharing that with others. I
> felt/feel
> honored to be in the presence of all of you.
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
>
> PS - And I would very very much like to thank Tapio for his bountiful
> generosity
> during our collective stay with him !!!!
> --
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++**++++++++++++++++++++
> Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD
> Watching the Tao rather than watching the Dow!
> from the Finnish Archipelago
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> http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/
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