THE FLESHMEET
ghost:
"Imbricative peersonalities: We, together (we including Leri ITSELF, in this sense) tile a phase space of memes and reality maps about the nature of US, Others, and reality. You can see imbricative functions most clearly at fleshmeets. We fit we overlap. We make quite a pretty picture pattern, and people feel comfortable."Gerold Firl:
"In many ways achim and I are very opposite; I am a total materialist, while achim looks at the world through a spiritual lens. Yet, from the first moment I met him he felt like a true friend. I feel like leri is a beautiful thing, to bring about a friendship like this -- thanks, leri!"Erica:
"the little ones, the ones that happen when one or two people visit or i travel someplace with some leriati, are the 'meets that have an impact, because they usually allow for more intimate contact than is really feasible at large 'meets."Nozzle:
"I enjoyed leri as soon as I got on, but I was aware of the fact that my writen voice and my physical presence often contradict each other… So, I think I only felt comfortable on leri after the first fleshmeets, where I felt that I had things in common with people, or just ‘clicked’ with them, in a way that relieved some of my earlier anxieties, and made reading posts later on the list a more personal exercise."Scruff:
"Our first big meet was LeRiTreat I. No explanation here -- my mind was blown; there was no turning back then."Crazy Fingers:
"I felt instant comfort at my first fleshmeet, the comfort one feels from happening upon a group of spirits one might very well have spent the past few centuries hanging out with, finally meeting again to share what they've learned as they change bodies like old clothes…. I'd felt I'd stumbled upon something for which I had been looking for years. The perception was, at several points, and has been at many successive fleshmeets, that of an initiation into a tradition far older than perhaps even humanity; a tradition which would endure and continue, underground, occult, hidden from the majority culture, that Mystery which informs every other spiritual heritage, that provided the Gnostic, esoteric secret in every religion."rez:
"recently, i have made friends with the meat. more than that, i have slowly been coming to the realization that this crude physical vessel, and the relations it engenders, have the potential to form an incredible crucible for transformation. and when a group is used to examining their lower circuits, they are much less likely to either shun or pretend not to see the effects of the [always active] lower circuits. i'll take visceral over the words which play through me any day of the week. there is tremendous energy stored in the meat. i realized this at the first Leri fingerfeast, in chicago over newyears. our boundaries are far more fluid than we usually like to admit. i rejoice in finding fellows with whom i can revel in the transformative potential of the meat! taste, texture, smell... the feel of bodies in motion. these things have become utterly sublime, sacred to me. far from 'base'. my meat is not the light and the heat, but it is the conduit through which I attend to their co-evolution."CyberDancer:
"The flesh meetings have opened up something in me that I have to stand back and do a double take on."Erica:
"the first 'meet that had real significance for me was halloween '94. what a wonderful, stupendous, glorious, delightful night! and now, over two years later, the bliss has only gotten more intense :)."for many years, #### would throw a party every six weeks or so, to celebrate the pagan holidays. as someone who had been attending those parties since 1989, i watched leri begin to merge into that scene and observed the reactions of many of the ####-party ‘regulars.’ i think for the most part everyone was pretty nice and welcomed new people with good feelings. as for myself, i was very hesitant at first and distant, since i knew so little about these leri people; i think i fell into a middle ground with that attitude. unfortunately, there were a few people who actively disliked the introduction of leriati to ####'s parties and were less than subtle about their feelings. i think some of the rancor that existed was due to the seemingly sudden influx of ‘all these young kids and their drugs.’ Not that youth & drugs were never encouraged at parties [hoohoo, the stories that could be told! :)], but these leri folks had such an attitude about it--they were free and loose and tripping hard! that attitude is something that i've come to appreciate more and more over the past few years."
Brian Cameron:
"Crazy, zany, droopy, hung-over, wired, comfortable, emotionally turbulant, and when's the next one?"