Sharon McLaren (505) 991-2331; space4grace@hotmail沙龙迈凯轮（505）991-2331；space4grace @ Hotmail

Sharon McLaren (505) 991-2331; space4grace@hotmail沙龙迈凯轮（505）991-2331；space4grace @ Hotmail Infinite Circle Thoughtstorm Log, Albuquerque, NM Sharon McLaren (505) 991-2331; space4grace@hotmail.com 2000 What essentially can we take from our connection here at the festival? Corecept: Just ahhhhh. What do we agree upon? Corecept: We are all here. What is excellence? Corecept: THIS is excellence. How do we do relationships in an enlightened age? Corecept: With respect. Corecept: Let go and be here now. The group decided to have a name. Corecept: The Infinite Circle. What is sacred? Corecept: Jello Everything is sacred unless it is not honored or is desecrated and the act of reawakening to the sacred seems to make it even more sacred. What makes this (ESP) happen? Corecept: Oneness. What is Oneness? Corecept: Not ignoring. We and our parents were ignorant to many things 30-40 years ago. What are we doing today that we will one day view as absolutely absurd? We listed and listed and I asked the group; What might be the core of all of these? Corecept: (felt like) Not being source. What is regret? Corecept: Not being present. Corecept: An opportunity to either resist and become guilty or open up to greater compassion and become present. Hope is lost when a person believes he or she counts for nothing. How can anyone act to improve the world? Corecept: Give of yourself. Sharon writes: I’d like to share with you some of the great fun and success I've had doing Thoughtstorming this year. Having a Thoughtstorm group has served me in giving people an experience of Avatar while building a connection with them on a consistent basis… I contemplated, "What kind of space did Harry hold, or did they hold for one another, to become so excited they couldn't sleep after Thoughtsorming, or would be willing to do it the next day?" 3 Sided Hole Event A friend of mine invited me to come and do "some Avatar thing" at the music festival that is hosted on his land each year. I actually declined as I hadn't been to one of these festivals in some years and the last one I went to was a glorified party. He assured me that he had refined the event and now its focus was upon joy, spirituality, and the arts....and to capture my commitment further he featured me and Avatar in a local paper as part of the findings at the festival. So I arrived and set up my camper with an open invitation to enter and have an experience using the ReSurfacing, tools. I made a sign that read, "Resistance is Futile Prepare to be Integrated", dubbed by a student on the most recent course I'd delivered. The sign attracted attention. I had occasional visitors each day and plenty of people asked, "What is Avatar?" There was an events board and I also scheduled an introduction and a Thoughtstorm, in the dome for late Sunday morning. When I arrived at the dome there were a few people sitting around. I asked, "Are you here for the Avatar intro and Thoughtstorm?" I started with a couple runs of the COMPASSION EXERCISE,. More people trickled in. I then read from the Thoughtstorm Manual and shared what I planned to do. We came up with and decided upon an alignment question. "What essentially can we take from our connection here at the festival?" The storming went well. More people gathered around and I would occasionally stop to update people on what we were doing. Our corecept, was, "Just ahhhhh." By this time there were over 20 people. I asked them if they would like to have another experience. They were eager for more, so I read again from ReSurfacing and ran the THIS AND THAT EXERCISE,. They shared realizations. Together we decided upon another question, "What is excellence?" This time our storming lasted over an hour and a half. And people still kept filing in. The dome was filled with people (probably about 40-50 people) and the whole crowd was engaged and participating. Two distinct viewpoints formed. One viewpoint held that excellence was an honorable thing and a calling for mastery in one's life. The other viewpoint held that excellence was imposed through indoctrination and social mores. Finally the line in the Thoughtstorm, Manual that reads, "If people become excessively argumentative...." applied and I got the opportunity to ask, "What do we agree upon?" I asked two more times and someone replied, "We are all here." Then I asked again, "What is excellence?" A pause was followed by, "THIS is excellence." Our corecept landed. Faces beamed. The connection was brilliant. Someone outside turned on a fire hose and most of us filed out of the dome to be sprayed down in the heat of our New Mexico afternoon. Many people came up to me to share that this had been the height of their experience all weekend. Someone asked when I'd be doing this again. And another person invited me to come to their home in the East Mountains and do this with people there. THE INFINITE CIRCLE Some time after the festival a few friends and I decided to form a group to explore healing or consciousness on a weekly or bi-monthly basis. I offered to host it at my house and on occasion share some ReSurfacing, exercises and do Thoughtstorm,. We began and everyone agreed to have me run the first one. I shared the COMPASSION EXERCISE, first a couple rounds then read from the Thoughtstorm, Manual. The first question we stormed was, "How do we do relationships in an enlightened age?" Our corecepts were, "with respect" and, "let go and be here now." A few friends said that they were so thrilled that they couldn't sleep and spent most of the night working on ideas/projects. The next week came along and people were happy to have me lead it again. I ran an exercise from ReSurfacing again. Then we agreed upon a Thoughtstorm question, "How much is enough? (to be successful) We kicked this around for a while and a very interesting thing happened, a person I'd left a message for that afternoon just stopped by after work, I hadn't told him about the Thoughtstorm. He came in and excused himself for not knowing what was going on and asked if he could share the story of his day a close friend of his, who had died suddenly, early that morning. His story led us on a beautiful tale about his friend and it demonstrated how in his own unique way his friend’s life had been completely fulfilling, with creativity and many people that loved him. When he finished his story he looked around and asked, "What are all you people doing here?" Everyone agreed he'd come with our corecept. Tuesday night Thoughtstorms continued. People brought food to pass. The amount of people ranged from 17 people bursting out of my living room to intimate gatherings of 3-4. I realized that the amount of people did not matter. It was always an experience. Initially I left it open to the original agreement where different people might lead it and do different things and on one occasion we tried something else and everyone opted to keep doing Thoughtstorming. Also, over time I saw the value of not inviting some people that were not aligned with what we were doing. The group decided to have a name and we were nearly settled on the name THE INFINITY CIRCLE when my friend Zaida from Brazil repeated it with her accent, THE INFINITE CIRCLE. We all oooed. Our corecept and name became THE INFINITE CIRCLE. One question arose from a friend who runs a massage and wellness center and his concern was how to create sacred space and inspire sacred play. So our question was, "What is sacred?" Our corecept was "Jello" (needless to say, Jello was served at subsequent Thoughtstorms). In arriving at Jello as our corecept we decided that everything is sacred unless it is not honored or desecrated and the act of reawakening to the sacred seems to make it even more sacred. At another INFINITE CIRCLE we did the group variation of AWAKENING THE WILL,. In our second round we noticed that we were experiencing extrasensory perception. Our question formed from this, "What makes this (ESP) happen?" Our corecept was, "oneness". Our next question was, "What is Oneness?" What arrived as our corecept from that one was, "not ignoring". We got pretty loopy as coming to corecepts can do for people, and we began discussing what our parents had fed us: tuna noodle casserole and Spam and Cheez Whiz on Ritz and iceberg lettuce, twinkies, pineapple upside-down cake. We decided to do a retro dinner sometime serving only these tasty old favorites. We also noted that most of our parents had smoked, some drank alcohol and most died of heart attacks, cancer, and emphysema. The next Thoughtstorm stemmed from our discussion. "We and our parents were ignorant to many things 30-40 years ago. What are we doing today that we will one day view as absolutely absurd?" We listed and listed and I asked the group, "What might be the core of all of these?" I don't remember what the actual words of our corecept was but it felt like," not being source" and left us feeling very expanded. Another Thoughtstorm we asked, "What is regret?" One corecept was, "Not being present". We continued and arrived at, "an opportunity to either resist and become guilty or open up to greater compassion and become present." We Thoughtstormed for several months and I decided to leave Albuquerque to plug in at Sarvis Point for a while. The last Thoughtstorm I hosted, people from four different countries were represented; Iran, India, Norway, and the US. Our question was, "Hope is lost when a person believes he or she counts for nothing. How can anyone act to improve the world?" The perspectives brought together a great sense of compassion and understanding and our corecept was, "Give of yourself." THE INFINITE CIRCLE CONTINUES I let everyone know that I would be leaving and the INFINITE CIRCLE was cancelled till I came back. The core group let me know that they would continue THE INFINITE CIRCLE. About every other week I get phone calls and emails telling me all about what they've shared and what their corecepts were. Many of these people are scheduled on my up coming courses and some are reading ReSurfacing, and Living Deliberately,. Avatar? Resurfacing? and Thoughtstorm? are registered trademarks of Stars Edge? International. All rights reserved.