Seems like SN has died a little, maybe a Woo Weekend is a good idea?
I'm back in Kathmandu here the past 2-3 days, a place for some good, old style Woo :-)
From the room I can hear those deep, earthquake-like Tibetan trumpets, and several times each day I've been walking around Boudhanath, which is the really large stupa here.
It got off to a very good start, I met an old, experienced photographer who is now spending half his days sitting at a coffee shop right by the stupa, talking to anyone who wants to join. I spent around 4 hours in one go the first day, talking about anything and everything like old friends, and with Buddhism and meaningful things as the topic weaving into anything else.
This is a place that attracts so many different types of people, from the bewildered Westerners to all sorts of monks or practitioners of old traditions, today we saw a young, very composed Taoist priest walking by :-)
Here its also fine talking to anything about almost any topic, there are few limits compared to the mental box most live inside of in the West. So far I have not had the opportunity to getting into alien disclosure and deep Woo like that, but there is also no hurry.
Buddhism actually has no problem with that at all, actually the cosmology of most Buddhist variants includes life on lots of other planets, as far as I know at least!
Other topics come to mind when I'm here, I've already posted about non-dual experiences, maybe kundalini awakenings or memories of earlier lives would fit well this weekend?
Any other topics that deserves a good Woo Weekend? ;-)