18th November

Eleven of us today as Kathy joined us for the first time. Started off showing the TED video on current thinking about child development and it was impressive. The comparison was made of a butterfly and a Caterpillar but we are the caterpillars. It is the baby that has the wings of exploration into new ways of thinking. The frustration of the kiddie and the eventual joy shown when solving a light/music puzzle was a picture.
The discussion afterwards showed we all came to different conclusions but we were all impressed by their problem solving.
After a break we reviewed an article on various ideas of Eastern thought part of which is below.

There Is No Final Destination To Reach
In life, you will never reach an "end point" where you feel you have finally made it. Even death is not an end point because your energy will continue further into new experiences of the non-physical nature and may further manifest into a new physical form as a matter of movement. There is no "end" in life because this whole movement was never about fulfilling any fixed agendas – it's just energy experiencing itself. Life, as a movement, is all about experience – and one experience is not better than the other from an absolute perspective, even the most elevated experience is still just an experience, nothing more nothing less. Having this perspective keeps you grounded in reality and acts as a "leveler" each time you feel that you've reached "perfection" or have illusions of reaching such a place.
Every time you reach a certain stability with one experience you will want to move on to a new experience. Even awakening/enlightenment is an experience. Living consciously is an experience different from the experience of living unconsciously, aligning with your natural vibration is an experience different from the experience of disconnected living – but in the end its all just experience, to say one experience is better than the other is like saying that being an adult is better than being a child, because that's not really the case. Being a child is an experience of its own and being an adult is another experience having its own flavor – of course, it seems to be better to have more control and maturity in life, but that's just one perspective, and such a perception also constitutes an experience. There is never going to be final destination where you feel you've reached the "peak" perfection of life, there will always be the next thing.