oooh - deep thoughts

Immersed as I am in moving and painting (yay!fumes) I have been wanting to share what minor bits of cogitation have passed through. This shouldn't take long.

Council of the Magickal Arts needs a ritual for the Beltane event on the importance of Public Displays of Affection and how to let your guard down and experience the world firsthand. The pagan community is supposed to know better than to experience the world through filters so much of the time: reality TV, soft indoor living, white lies, skipping the hand-shakes, every kind of living vicariously and separating yourself from what's real. I heard people out there complaining about PDA and they didn't mean electronics. Grr. If you don't want to see it, you don't want to acknowledge it, and where love and the validity of others is concerned, that means you're falling back on denial and emotional distance as tools to deal with people and the reality of the complexity of interactions between us all. Fucking deal, people.

It also needs several more people attending who are known to me, because nobody from the Dallas area was there this time, but there were frickin' FOURTEEN people from Houston at the polyamoury society meeting. And half of Camp Kallisti were in other countries or something. DAMMIT. Dinora is going to take Rainbow Camp into her velvet-gloved fist, and I'm going to help. There will be discipline of the naughty kind until everyone gets back in gear for next event. I may even bring my Aunt and some of my friends if I can drag, beg, or blackmail them into going.

Entertainment: CUBE was a great movie, and I wish I'd been exposed to it earlier, when the concept would have been more subversive to me. It's getting harder to horrify me, lately. Everything seems ideologically necessary, and it's hard to be caught up in fright when you're also in wonder and intrigue and bemusement and idle speculation. After too much exposure, your mind comes to resemble the world itself, hence even the choice of movies leads back to my original thought on how experiential religions need to get out there and experience.