HAI Meeting Friday Night 6/10/2016 in Toronto
Back in the 1980's I transformed from a needy nerd shy guy with women into the intimacy loving women seeking maniac I am today
Much of this comes from my experiences with Stan Dale's Human Awareness Institute "Love, Sex and Intimacy" weekend workshops I attended for a few years at Harbin Hot Springs in Northern California.
I hope this doesn't just sound like an ad, but I'll share about a group that has provided so many thousands of people life changing awareness of true love, intimacy and sexuality (being so much more than genitals and thrusting). I have no financial interest and just found that they have the Toronto group meetings and workshops.
I learned more love in this group, when I went to many workshops in the mid 1980's, than in all my many years in conservative Christians churches, as an elder, Billy Graham counselor etc. But I never really learned true love in a Church.
The rest of an article of my experiences is at my site:
http://www.libchrist.com/background/hai.html
I didn't realize until this trip that Toronto had a local HAI group. It had been a decade or so since I had any contact other than the memorial service for founder Stan Dale I reported on in 2007 at http://www.libchrist.com/background/StanDale.html
I met with the Toronto group via their meetup group which was mostly a intro meeting for new folks with about 20 in a nice home in Yonge and Sheppard area. Had great discussion with the leader Eric, who is an older guy like me but whose manner and techniques are similar to Stan Dale. They do workshops at Ecology Retreat Centre, Orangeville Ontario area. Eric had been on a China Trip with Stan Dale sharing our type of love and Stan had earlier made trips to Russia (which I recall from the 80s) and another trip to China.
We talked about some changes over the years. I mentioned I wasn't into some of the more eclectic/ New Age stuff like talking to trees at about level 3, and even worse the trees talking back. He joked that yep they still talk to trees but a lot has changed over the years. I never went beyond I believe level 3 of the 5-6 different levels as it got a bit more I perceived New Agey and I grew the most after levels 1 and 2. No, its not like some cults or Scientology that pressure you into more courses!
Today, gender balance is more complicated with birth vs perceived gender! In the 1980s one of the most colorful and outstanding assistants that I remember was a very gay guy Floyd Goff, who sadly died of HIV in the 80's.
While some of the stuff I wasn't interested in, I credit HAI with most of my growth in intimacy and intimate sexuality more than the usual raw sex stuff.
Toronto meetup group if anyone interested in exploring is at http://www.meetup.com/HAIOntario/
Back in the 1980's I transformed from a needy nerd shy guy with women into the intimacy loving women seeking maniac I am today
Much of this comes from my experiences with Stan Dale's Human Awareness Institute "Love, Sex and Intimacy" weekend workshops I attended for a few years at Harbin Hot Springs in Northern California.I hope this doesn't just sound like an ad, but I'll share about a group that has provided so many thousands of people life changing awareness of true love, intimacy and sexuality (being so much more than genitals and thrusting). I have no financial interest and just found that they have the Toronto group meetings and workshops.
I learned more love in this group, when I went to many workshops in the mid 1980's, than in all my many years in conservative Christians churches, as an elder, Billy Graham counselor etc. But I never really learned true love in a Church.
The rest of an article of my experiences is at my site:
http://www.libchrist.com/background/hai.html
I didn't realize until this trip that Toronto had a local HAI group. It had been a decade or so since I had any contact other than the memorial service for founder Stan Dale I reported on in 2007 at http://www.libchrist.com/background/StanDale.html
I met with the Toronto group via their meetup group which was mostly a intro meeting for new folks with about 20 in a nice home in Yonge and Sheppard area. Had great discussion with the leader Eric, who is an older guy like me but whose manner and techniques are similar to Stan Dale. They do workshops at Ecology Retreat Centre, Orangeville Ontario area. Eric had been on a China Trip with Stan Dale sharing our type of love and Stan had earlier made trips to Russia (which I recall from the 80s) and another trip to China.
We talked about some changes over the years. I mentioned I wasn't into some of the more eclectic/ New Age stuff like talking to trees at about level 3, and even worse the trees talking back. He joked that yep they still talk to trees but a lot has changed over the years. I never went beyond I believe level 3 of the 5-6 different levels as it got a bit more I perceived New Agey and I grew the most after levels 1 and 2. No, its not like some cults or Scientology that pressure you into more courses!
Today, gender balance is more complicated with birth vs perceived gender! In the 1980s one of the most colorful and outstanding assistants that I remember was a very gay guy Floyd Goff, who sadly died of HIV in the 80's.
While some of the stuff I wasn't interested in, I credit HAI with most of my growth in intimacy and intimate sexuality more than the usual raw sex stuff.
Toronto meetup group if anyone interested in exploring is at http://www.meetup.com/HAIOntario/
