An article that appeared in the newsletter by Desiree R Kannel, a noted writing coach in Long Beach, CA., caught my attention. The newsletter article was on the August 21st Eclipse. Desiree began the article with a quote by AnneDillard that read: “Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him.”
After a chuckle, my mind went into random associations – Solar eclipses I remembered in my lifetime were the: July 9,1945, June 30,1954, July 20,1963, July 21,1972, Feb 26, 1979, May 30, 1984, I not sure all the reasons that these dates stand out, but quickly my brain moves through dates and wonders what was going on in regards my relationships to persons, places or things…To love… Love I had to stop and chuckle again, because just then 1967 popped into my head, yes the Summer of Love, 1967, wow the social phenomenon that occurred for me that summer of 1967, did not occur in a park in San Francisco, no, for me, it was in a hot, mid-town hotel conference room on Wilshire Blvd, in Los Angeles, California, and yes the event, that seemed unremarkable for me then, has eclipsed everything else that was going on in my life at that time, well up until of course the Summer of Love in Laguna Beach in 1969, but of course that is an event for a different story at a different time.
1967, an event took place at a nondescript hotel, by what appeared, to my young eyes, as just another nondescript middle age white man, his name was Perry Dickey, who was there to teach the Prosperos core class called Translation, a technique that was purported to give me the knowledge of the true nature of Reality. Perry had conducted open meetings before this Translation Class to interest people in taking the class. At one of his open meetings, he had said something to the effect that there would be no secrets in the future, shame, blame, and fear must be gotten rid of. Translation could release truth, allowing for potential Life with a freedom from fear, shame and or blame, because secrets would be revealed for what they were. I wanted to live that freedom. These words, he spoke had gone beyond the hype, to speak to me, to live in freedom itself, I sensed it to be so, and I wanted it for the world I lived in too.
That experience was something like an eclipse, there was all the talk that you hear before the eclipse, then you are at the event prepared with proper glasses or pinhole box, then the excitement can dwindle as you are waiting for the eclipse to happen, it can seem like a lot of nothing, as though nothing much is going on until bam, there it is the blackout! Then, things seem to go back to the way they were very quickly, or so it would seem to all but the astute observers of these phenomena’s. The implication of what learning and practicing the class materials of Translation and RHS implied did not fully awaken in me until the following summer when I attended the Prosperos Assembly and I was in community with people that in that moment, from around the world, who had prepared and practiced the Techniques came together to that place and time to experiencing living out loud, in community the freedom of our lives. You could say that it was NOT a once in a lifetime opportunity, but it was a Life-changing event.
The context of each Assembly holds something different in the way it will eclipse the lives of it participants. Your life, what will it be for you in 2018? The 2018 Assembly is being planned, for the Labor Day weekend Friday, August 31, 2018, to Monday, September 03, 2018. This time around what will pique your interest? What will you bring to this event? Could it be to live freedom in your community, your world your life?
I and others elsewhere are engaged working to manifest, as a community, this once in a lifetime event. And maybe, even creating freedom for yourself and others as we build memories along the path.
Thanks for reading!
Yours in service,
Calvin