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Today the topic of Naturalness took a very nice turn, overlapping a few ideas, which together seem very dynamic to me. Mick and Ara wrote about Ethics from a few angles. Gaya spoke of not relying on substances for certain affects but rather learning to work with our awkwardness or shyness. Stim then made mention of holding the limitating aspects of something open, finding options (the talk isn't yet posted so I am paraphrasing), and Mitsu brought forth this imagery of the halo, which I am inspired by in the context of one's natural aliveness.

Synthesizing these ideas, what came up to me was something that I've been turning over for a few weeks, which is what I called a 'hierarchy of desires'. I had spoken about this in a PaB session before with someone, in the context of making decisions, and in the context of 'desires of the heart', but hadn't made the connections of Renunciation to Ethics to Naturalness to Aliveness.

This came today when Stim drew attention to this way of looking at things and suggested that giving value levels to concepts was a useful tool but not necessary. So later on, I layed down for a while to think about it, and began to allow the value levels to soften. This idea then became more layers unfolding than a hierarchy, and the idea of renunciation more an active process than a practical decision being made not to, for instance, stay out late on the night before an important morning appointment.

Which brought me to the Resonance we sense with others/ideas, and what we talked about a few weeks ago, of a kind of recognition of 'Namaste' or divine speaking to divine.

Having written that out, maybe I can get to homework. :)