yes, that's where the intensive workshops start, and then they get, well, intense.
i wouldn't call it a requirement. experiments are up to the individuals involved, inside a structure offered by the teachers. a lot of very different experiments can be going on around the room at the same time, some extremely sexual, some more subtly based around energy-exchange, some more BDSM-shaped. what kind of energy the specific humans want to exchange with each other shapes what a given experiment is. there was always this one woman i am pretty resistant to intimately exchanging energy with, and who herself is simultaneously invested in the process and resistant to it in challenging ways, and when i was in a group with her, i could offer a service that she asked for, but i could not ask for anything intimate from her bc i didn't want it. and we were in those groups together for years and years and now i find that she's a friend. :) there's only one person i've found myself really actively disliking at these things. i would sit next to her in circle on purpose, knowing we'd be counting off by threes or fives for the next experiment, and that you're guaranteed not to end up in an experiment group with the person you're sitting next to.
the work is very confrontational. it's right up there in your personal business. it's wild the connections i've made with people doing this - i know their most intimate self, and literally nothing about the shape of their life - where they live, if they're married, have kids or no, what they do for a living. we'll add each other on socials later and i'll discover so much about them. and yet i know the core of their soul because of where we've been together in Temple.
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i wouldn't call it a requirement. experiments are up to the individuals involved, inside a structure offered by the teachers. a lot of very different experiments can be going on around the room at the same time, some extremely sexual, some more subtly based around energy-exchange, some more BDSM-shaped. what kind of energy the specific humans want to exchange with each other shapes what a given experiment is. there was always this one woman i am pretty resistant to intimately exchanging energy with, and who herself is simultaneously invested in the process and resistant to it in challenging ways, and when i was in a group with her, i could offer a service that she asked for, but i could not ask for anything intimate from her bc i didn't want it. and we were in those groups together for years and years and now i find that she's a friend. :) there's only one person i've found myself really actively disliking at these things. i would sit next to her in circle on purpose, knowing we'd be counting off by threes or fives for the next experiment, and that you're guaranteed not to end up in an experiment group with the person you're sitting next to.
the work is very confrontational. it's right up there in your personal business. it's wild the connections i've made with people doing this - i know their most intimate self, and literally nothing about the shape of their life - where they live, if they're married, have kids or no, what they do for a living. we'll add each other on socials later and i'll discover so much about them. and yet i know the core of their soul because of where we've been together in Temple.