All Hallow's Eve Festivities
October 29

When: October 29th

Where: The group home of Terry, Paul,
Marcus, Carl and Will in the West SFV at 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka 91306

7pm: POT LUCK and Sandwich Buffet! Bring a dish big enough for 10 CATEGORIS
If your name ends within the letter range listed below please bring something as indicated:
A-F: cheeses, meats & tasty things for sandwiches; G-M: juices or fresh fruit;
N-R: salads; S-Z: desserts & treats;
LTD: breads, spreads, paper goods, and marshmallows to roast.
· Bring your favorite scary story and/or music to dance to!
· HOT TUB - AVAILABLE ALL EVENING - CLOTHING OPTIONAL !
8pm: ALL HALLOW'S EVE RITUAL (outside under the stars)... Bring something you want to let go of - like a symbol or written note. It will be cleansed in the cauldron's flame...
9pm: Halloween Party follows…. Dress as your favorite SF or fantasy character. You are welcome to do some sort of dramatic or funny presentation appropriate to your costume. Audio equipment is available for sound effects - call ahead to plan it with Paul if you have something elaborate in mind.
PRIZE TO BEST COSTUME/PRESENTATION COMBINATION
Be creative! The prize will be something delightful!

11pm: Scary Story Telling - near fire-place in the living room
12pm: "Video at Midnight" on our Big Screen TV! "ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW"
Cost: $7.50 non-members and $5.00 members

Samhain

Pagan holiday on which the veil between the worlds of spirit and matter is lifted and it is possible to be spiritually in touch with our ancestors and those we loved who have passed on. Ancient knowledge may be shared with the living. Rituals are performed to keep any negativity from the past out of the future. It is a time of both endings and beginnings.

"On this night of Samhain, Summer's end, we greet the Winter, knowing full well that at bright Beltane we will be saying farewell. Let us be Merry despite the growing icy chill. In Death is Life and in Life Death. The Sabbat Wheel is ever turning...Samhain fires are burning. Come tread the sacred ground, let loose of all that bound and set your spirits free! Blessed be."

Sensitivity Group A
Saturday, October 2

When: Saturday, October 2nd from 11am on into the
evening... (11 am - 4 pm)

Theme: "Exercises verbal and non verbal, in the Jacuzzi
and out -- ways to grow closer" is the theme of this Experiential Meeting.

Where: At the group home of Terry, Paul, Marcus, Carl and Will at 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka 91306.

Bring: Finger foods to feed each other for a
"Tribal Feast" pot luck lunch.

We'll order out for dinner & from 6pm on we'll watch some beautiful, fascinating Sci Fi on our new Big Screen - High Definition TV. Call us with suggestions on what you might like to watch, for example, if you have a favorite, STAR TREK MOVIE (Classic, Next Gen, DS 9…), BABYLON 5, or ROBIN WILLIAMS: BICENTENNIAL MAN. Or, if you are in possession of a Sci Fi DVD (NOT HORROR), such as a movie featuring beautiful views, we'll consider it. If no votes come in, we'll choose one from our own extensive library of DVDs at the meeting.

LAGUNA BEACH, CALIFORNIA
Loving Beyond the Matrix
OCTOBER 22-24, 2004

The World Polyamory Association's Southern California Conference, LOVING BEYOND THE MATRIX, will be at Aliso Creek Inn (October 22-24, 2004) in Laguna Beach, 1 hour south of Los Angeles. The Laguna poly conference includes interactive workshops on pair bonding, romantic love, multiple-partner sexuality and choreographing the dance of poly loving. There will be panel discussions, jealousy management experiments, opportunities for networking, a fun party and a half-day experience of living compersion-empathy for others' love-joy. Participants will move from experience to experience together, in plenary sessions orchestrated to build community. Presenters include Leanna Wolfe, Sasha and Janet Kira Lessin, Harold Kornylak, Les Nuckles, Dave Doleshal, Ed Seykota, Will Jones, Anastas Harris, Steven Vogue, Dawn & Akien and more (to be announced). Sophia Songhealer provides music and guides a tantra ceremony. The theme of this conference is Loving Beyond the Matrix. What does it mean to love beyond the matrix? To step outside the box and be authentic and real? To express one's true desires, with no hesitation or restrictions? With childlike innocence, to love with total abandon, full intensity and unbounded joy as you did when you first opened your eyes and believed that all was good?Who told you how you loved was wrong? Who chided you with scorn and disgust and directed you, this is the way love is and has to be? Who shamed you and defined you, sculpted you and molded you, melted you and condensed you till you looked the way they wanted you to look, felt the feelings that they allowed you to feel, expressed the way they wanted you to express including using the voice, tone and fashion they permitted?And when did you buy into it? Sure there were a series of rules, regulations and shoulds. You once upon a time recognized them as outside of yourself. But when did you internalize them and begin to believe their voices were your own?Or have you rejected them? Or do you think you've overcome them but still find yourself subconsciously, involuntarily responding to stimulus. How can we move to love beyond the matrix, the conventional reality that somehow we all agree by consensus, that conformity and fear to be what's real? We explore these options at the 2004 Southwest Regional Polyamory Conference, Loving Beyond the Matrix. Join us in Laguna Beach on October 22-23, 2004 as we create new paradigms to re-shape the world

Loving Beyond the Matrix Location: Laguna Beach Dates: 10/22-24/04 Phone: (808)-244-4103 for info. Web address: www.worldpolyamoryassociation.com. Janet and Sasha Lessin along with Dave Doleshal are co- facilitating this conference.

Terry and Paul Brussel- Gibbons and Marcus Brussel Jenkins present Hypnofantasy Hypnomassage: Green Eyed Monsters Vanquished, your Senses Heightened, Inhibitions shed! Guided meditation, followed by massage in dyads, triads and loving groups.

 

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Long time Live the Dream member, Anne Friend, discorporated last Tuesday, September 21st surrendering to her fight with cancer. She had a long-term relationship with Paul Brussel-Gibbons and was one of Terry's long time friends too. She was known for her being an activist in the peace movements and always found some creative way to make a statement no matter what the consequence may have been - even if it meant being arrested for civil disobedience! She was a wise counselor and a patron of the arts. We all enjoyed her hosting our annual holiday parties and we will miss her dearly.
Memorial Services are tentatively planned for Dec 4th - call for details.

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