Circles

[poliphilo]

 All meetings make magic. How you sit or stands determines the flow of it.

Sit in rows. And the energy goes  backwards and forwards- from the person/people facing the rows and from the rows to the person/people in front. 

Rows are favoured in churches, in political gatherings, in theatres. There's hierarchy implied. The person/people in front control the people in the rows. But sometimes there's blowback and revolution. 

Sit in circles by preference. Circles are democratic. The energy goes round- deosil or widdershins (love those terms!) or maybe jumps across the circle (Oo, anarchy!) All points in the circle are potentially equal, all feed the flow.

Think love, think peace, think imagination, then push the circle out into the world.....

Comments

[wantedonvoyage]

I love prayer in the round, we will do it for office services if the crowd is sized for it.

[poliphilo]

We have movable chairs which we arrange in a circle for our Meeting for Worship- with a table (which is so not an altar) in the middle.

[cmcmck]

It's one of the reasons that Quakers works so well for me.

[poliphilo]

No hierarchy!

[kaishin108]

I love sitting in circles. That's what we do at the Zen Center.
Zoom is where it gets interesting though. But we can still feel good energy flowing amoungst us.

[poliphilo]

We have people from other Meetings coming to us because we don't have Zoom and their original meetings do. There's a debate to be had about what Zoom does to the energy in a group.

[kaishin108]

I can imagine there is a debate. There are some things at my center that do not allow Zoom. I totally understand.

[paserbyp]

Alcoholics Anonymous?

[poliphilo]

They probably sit in circles....