OK... so I got a little carried away. I am just learning how to use iMovie.

So here are the details. Sunday December 21st is the Solstice. I thought it would be a wonderful experiment to honor this time with you all. Here is what I encourage. If you haven't used the Meditation House before, have a visit and look around: Meditation House. We will get together at 7:00 am PST (that me be early for some on the west coast for a Sunday... and it may be quite late for those in other parts of the country/world).

I encourage you to come early and Light a Candle. Use the Meditation Timer in the Listening Station on the right-hand side bar. There are many different lengths... I am suggesting 20 minutes (but since no one else but you knows how long you sit or how you do it, it is up to you). If you can't make the 7:00 am PST then come when you can during the day of the Solstice. We can see how many people the meditation hall can hold?

Thanks ahead of time for joining me/us in this experiment in celebration and meditation... Wishing you a soulful solstice,

Steven

thanks for the invite steven!  i think you did a fabulous job on the imovie!  impressive!  

i look forward to (hopefully) many of us sitting together. 

This is what I shall meditate on:

Happy trails, D.

Thanks for the invitation Steven, what a great video... Winter soltice means more sun! Hurray!

I've sent this on to others, and have posted it on myspace.  See you there.  Namaste.

By the way, at sunset on the 21st, the first Chanukah candle will be lit.  Lights will shine throughout the world. 

Thanks Steve. As my British pals say, "brilliant." I love the film too. Great job, Steve. It warmed my heart.

Happy trails, D.

Thank you for this awesome site.  Namaste to each of you.  Happy, happy to more daylight.

 Snow on the ground here in Big Sur... mostly up higher in the mountains. Sometimes in parts of California its easy to forget it is winter. The snow reminds me the winter solstice to growing closer and we will be making the big turn around the sun to longer days...

for now, the night grows here on the northern part of this blue sphere.

Steven Harper

What a day to spend with family and friends!

Snow here in Ashland; slipped and fell hard yesterday leaving the hot tub area where I live on steps; some big swelling went down a lot, nothing broke or sprained; fell a few years ago the same place; blood and bruises and can feel every step.  The darkness of winter is my time for hybernation.  With my computer freaking out (two restore points so far), two small fires in my kitchen (one trying to make popcorn killed my microwave oven) the other a sock fell into the regular oven caught fire.  The fall yesterday was after a massage by someone I had a crush on but now don't.  Maybe I should not have mailed a free drawing to someone I didn't know (who based on her you tube site might not be a nice witch).   What hurt most was my daughter preferring TV to my rare phone call to her after mailing her and my grandkids cash!)  I feel ok but apparently have to slow down now.I think winter is about that.  Finally went to a Doctor, he had the nurse prick my finger which I wasn't happy about; I asked if I could prick it myself after sterilizing something and they said no.  The place was literally crazy.  They are all so set in their ways.  Just as I and many I know are.

Hopefully returning to light in the physical Universe and otherwise asap.  :)  Let There Be Light (Truth & Love).

Thank you, Steve!  It's wonderful!

The solstice celebration is universal and much older than we know. Across many cultures of the world solstice ceremonies are preformed. We join a long long lineage and many wisdom traditions when we celebrate the solstice.

Multiple holidays have come into practice around these solar events. For the December solstice, Christmas is the most popular holiday to have arisen. In addition, Yalda, Saturnalia, Karachun, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and Yule are also celebrated around this time not to mention the many indigenous peoples whos ways are not so widely known.

Steven Harper

Light a candle for the return of the light at the solstice turning point.. 

Happy trails, d. 

The Cosmic Coyotes were out on this Solstice morning. At 6:53am I signed in to the Meditation House, went off to the Candle site and when I came back... iThou site had crashed... just a few minutes before our 7:00 am meditation.

I got a few calls and made a few, but in the end the virtual world collapsed at the time we had set and the other world called. Oh well, sometimes experiments have a life of their own. Thanks to all who tried to show up.

Happy Solstice to All and to All a Good Day (and Night).

Steven Harper

Celebrate more sun and warmth :)

thou art that

i looked forward to the solstice observance when Steven Harper announced it....last night cousin scott brought back jeff kripal's history of Esalen at late:30 without reading it. i tossed and turned most of the night wondering about what Dick Price called rorschach U.  Within moments of logging into the meditation house this morning the site crashed and i spent the day thinking i caused it. i'll try to do better by summer solstice. appreciation...henry

Blessings to all on this the shortest day of the year. May the sun and Light return to us all. Especially, may the sun and warmth return soon in this northern bitterly cold land.

Namaste, 

Happy trails, d. 

Joyfile,

Great Buddha quote. Thank you........ 

Happy trails, d. 

Blessings to all who came and sat in the solstice... As Steve mentioned, the coyote and server gods were making mischief.  Will be looking to make a move to a new server in 2009 that might serve as a more solid ground for our work...

Much love,

Albert 

Happy trails, d.