Saturday: 9:00 a. m. - 10:00 a. m.
Opening Address
An examination of "Practical Work on Self" to look for any bread crumb trails that we may find.  

Saturday: 10:00 a. m. - 11:00 a. m
Awakening the Machine
"Because the sleeping machine cannot function as a transformational apparatus, the soul--which is solely and entirely a product of transformation--cannot form, and even if it could, without the foundation and "food" for evolution, it could not evolve. If we had the will to awaken the machine, only then could life have any meaning." Robbert Trice  

Saturday: 11:00 a. m. - 12:00 a. m
Reflections on the Pond / Invocational Writing Circle
That is, Chapter Two of Practical Work on Self. We will compose  during this hour with a focus on the invocation of two states of the biological machine which are mutually exclusive: the state of reverberation of the machine "in reflex-response to disturbances in the mental centrum"; and the state of "opening the water" before the pebble, arriving where "the biological machine offers no resistance to the pebble and reverberations do not occur." (pp. 27, 25) Can we invoke together that state which is, if not generating real emotion, at least ready and open to it? Read the chapter, please, to prepare for this experiment. Results to be posted (we surmise) on canteen bulletin board. Nancy Burns & Iven Lourie  

Saturday: 12:00 a.m. - 1:00 p. m
Self Portrait
Bring your art tools to this workshop. Participants will create a self portrait.among other things. ".Each of these categorical manifestations has a definite and recognizable posture, gesture, tone of voice, and facial mask expression, all of which should be studied in detail exactly as one would study a machine or part of a machine." Della Heyward  

Saturday: 1: 00 p. m. - 2:00 p. m
The Bardo of Dreams
"Each night as we lie down with the machine, we should strive to see sleep as a kind of death." Meg Foard  

Saturday: 2:00 p. m - 3:00 p. m
Invocation and the Creative Process
". . . always remember to wish that your efforts be for the benefit of all beings everywhere. . . . The effectiveness of our wish depends on whether we are able to collect the force of necessity. . . . We can begin to unify ourselves by creating a special centrum of gravity called our Work Wish." Jimmi Accardi  

Saturday: 3:00 p. m - 4:00 p. m
The Medicine Wheel
Participate in the practical application of the Medicine Wheel.this round will deal with recurrance. "Life, as we will come to understand it, is not a progression from the past to the future; it is an Eternal Return, an endless series of passages through, and at right-angles to, the life of the machine, in an effort to perfect it as a transformational apparatus by repeating this passage, eventually repairing it as a whole, higher-dimensional transformational apparatus by awakening the machine from conception to death." Marta Jones & Dru Kristel  

Saturday: 4:00 p. m - 7:00 p. m
HEI Art Auction
The art of E. J. Gold and the Grass Valley Graphics Group. "iconographic works that delight the Being, hopefully propelling the machine into the waking state. This awakening quality is based on the fact that the Being loves the abstract while the machine loves the recognizable and figurative". Get inspired. To preview auction images go to http://www.hei-art.com The HEI Auction Team  

Saturday: 7:00 p. m. - 8:00 p. m
An Informal Discussion
The group will have had to listen to the audio streamed segment of, or all of, the archive tape, "Awakening the Machine" This talk covers the subjects of Alchemy, Repairing the Heart, Head Brain/Tail Brain. How to awaken the machine, letting the dead bury the dead, and the vision of higher dimensions are revealed in this informative presentation. See Canteen workshop page for address of audio stream posting. Cloister Recordings  

Saturday: 8:00 p. m. - 9:00 p. m
Morris' Comedy Club
"Laughter is the best medicine" The lighter side of practical work on self. Jokes, riddles and games. Rose Gander  

Saturday 9:00 p. m. -- Sunday 6:00 a. m.
On-Line Gaming
Quaking the night away -- Gaming with Gorebag & Friends  

Sunday: 6:00 a. m. - 7:00 a. m.
Mood of Gratitude
"Each day the machine happens to live on is due mostly to blind luck. So many things can happen.If we should happen to wake up tin the machine tomorrow morning, we should, at the first glimpse of a new day, fall on our knees with gratitude for another chance to accomplish what we failed to accomplish with the machine yesterday." ".then we ought, at the dawn of a new day, to feel the impulse of real gratitude, for the possibility for work presented by an additional day of life." Michele-Marie  

Sunday: 7:00 a. m. - 8:00a. m.
A Day in the Life in the Bardos or How to Work on the Self That Never Dies
This workshop will offer a short synopsis of bardo stages - with practical exercises designed to help the individual through transition. Each exercise will offer visualization, mantram, physical posture, and emotional mood which can heighten your awareness and prepare you for developing attention and presence in the bardos. Don't wait until the day you die - do it today! "To live the remainder of your life rehearsing for death, hour by hour is not a morbid fascination with death, but a method of living life more deeply." Pat Elizabeth  

Sunday: 8:00 a. m. - 10:00 a. m.
G.O.D.D. Shared Adventure
G.O.D.D is Good G.O.D.D is Great. On-Line Gaming Shared Adventure in G.O.D.D The Bloos and the Roos capture the flags. The Godd Team  

Sunday: 10:00 a. m.
Closing Address