Reminder

Next Friday is our Fall Retreat and we still have room for people to register. Please E mail jerrybuie@mac.com to secure your space for an adventure of a lifetime!

September is Here!

WOW, Where did summer go? It was a beautiful summer for Queer Spirit. We had some great workshops, circles and opportunities to come together and grow in beautiful ways. The word of Queer Spirit is growing. I have been asked to help with some articles about our movement, people are signing up on Tribe.Net, Facebook and through the website for more information.

Recently I returned from Zuni Mountain Sanctuary where I held a three day circle. This group of men and women chose to do a modified vision quest and a series of sweat lodges. It was truly a powerful process that endorsed healing and understanding and personal empowerment for this circle of people.

SEPTEMBER presents with three powerful events.

Tuesday September 9, 2008 is Ray McGinnis from Canada who will be presenting Writing the Sacred workshop

Friday through Sunday (September 12-14, 2008) is our Fall Queer Spirit Retreat. Registration is at a steady pace but there is room for you, so act now.

September 25, 2008 is our HEART CIRLCE: Exploring our magic. 7:30 to 10:00 p.m.

PLEASE RSVP by e mailing Jerry Buie regarding these events. Its a beautiful time of the year, lets find our joy and share what we know!

Jerry

Thoughts to make you go HMMMMM

Spirituality is the search for the profound within us

and

Once a person embraces truth, he is in its ruthless, but gentle, grasp.


Sometimes paying attention to random thoughts/quotes and information is what is being communicated to us at a time when we most need to hear something!

Manhunt and Queer Spirit!

This was shared on our Yahoo Site for Queer Spirit. Its an interesting thought and wonder if there are any responses to this thread?

There is an interesting article in the September 2008 edition of "Out"
magazine by Michael Joseph Gross on how Manhunt took over our world.
It pertains directly to some of the topics covered in the talking
circle we had at Fairy Scout Camp this past weekend.

I quote from page 118:

<<"Looking for Mr. Right," countless Manhunt profiles claim, but until
he comes along, they're open to playing with Mr. Right Now. Online
cruising has its place in gay society: Access to a satisfying number
of Mr. Right Nows is part of the pleasure and the privilege of moving
to the big city to be gay.

Beyond a certain point, though, perpetually settling for Mr. Right Now
becomes a failure of hope. When you came out, you did it because you
wanted something. Part of what you wanted was sex, but part of what
you hoped for was the possibility of being loved as your true self.
And when, as often happens while curising online, we diminish the hopes
that drew us out of the closet, we reduce sexy to a purely physical act.

When we do these things we lie to ourselves - and worse, we tell the
same lies that our enemies tell about us. The fundamentalist canard
about loving the sinner but hating the sin draws a nonsensical
distinction between person and act. Cruising online, by encouraging us
to separate sex from the rest of our lives, does exactly the same
thing. These are falsehoods about human nature and about the place of
love in our lives, and they undermine the belief that sex can be
anything more than a pastime.

. . .

We celebrate the fact that we're out to the straight world, even though
the only thing that menas, in many cases is that they know we're gay.

When we longged on, I don't thik most of us realized we were creating
new secret lives. I don't think we knew what we were getting into.
But we got into it. For most of us, this is not working. And it it's
not working for you, then it's time to get off.>>

One of the many benefits of Queer Spirit retreats and activities for me
is getting to meet gay men in an intentional community and enjoy them
as whole people. Would I like to have sex with some of the men I meet
in these activities? Duh. But when I do (no disclosures here)
hopefully it will be as two conscious individuals and not two sets of
statistics. Maybe I'm (figuratively) smoking dope, but think about it,
maybe having sex with friends would be more rewarding than having sex
with strangers. I would love to see any comments.

How was Faerie Camp?

For those of you who attended Faerie Camp this weekend would love to publish your post about the weekend! What say you? Jerry

Quote for Today

Our self-perception determines our behavior. If we think we're small, limited, inadequate creatures, then we tend to behave that way, and the energy we radiate reflects those thoughts no matter what we do. If we think we're magnificent creatures with an infinite abundance of love and power to give, then we tend to behave that way. Once again, the energy around us reflects our state of awareness.
—Excerpted from A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles

Faerie Scout Camp is Around the corner!

Soon we will be gathering in our camp, singing, dancing and wildly embracing our lives as Queer Men.... What will you bring? Go to the Home page of the site and click on the camp...... on that page are three downloads marked in yellow with "new" and there you can see what we have planned, a map to windwalker ranch and a mini agenda. Jerry