{"id":22997,"date":"2010-02-21T23:46:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T04:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=22997"},"modified":"2010-02-22T12:57:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T17:57:59","slug":"loving-more-poly-living-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/loving-more-poly-living-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Quite an excellent conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am back in Kingston — I drove up at night to avoid the traffic, from the PA Pike the the Jersey Pike to the Garden State Parkway to the NYS Thruway in under three hours. Those big interstates are awesome at night.<\/p>\n

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Poly Living 2010 was one of the best Loving More conferences I’ve been to in a long time. There was lots of young energy — a whole contingent from Minneapolis, connected with the Modern Poly<\/strong><\/a> website, flew in, after creating a fund raising campaign to get themselves there. The difference in tone was palpable, at a conference where half the crowd is 50ish plus. These young adventurers have a lot of ideas and energy, they are super organized, they understand technology and they are ready to go. They have ideas like putting together a wiki of every poly thing in the world; they are doing precisely that, among other projects.<\/p>\n

We had a truly talented host of presenters, who put months of work into their presentations and whose ideas reflect not just advocacy but an evolving view of relationships and how to teach about relationships. The community as an entity seemed to understand that it was there to refine its ideas, strengthen its connections, and then return to our communities to continue the conversation.<\/p>\n

To those who have been following my coverage of the conference, I’ve withdrawn two of my stories.<\/p>\n

The out-and-open poly leadership story did not check out, on further investigation. Participants in the poly leadership summit are still allowed to use pseudonyms with one another, even though most are openly known to one another. While this is reflective of the fear level associated with being out about one’s lifestyle, my own feeling is that this kind of fear is part of what we confront on the way to leadership, but by the time we hold ourselves ready to set an example, we need to have addressed those matters. There is plenty of room for those who are afraid of being outed (for example, because they have kids, or work as teachers) to participate elsewhere.<\/p>\n

I’ve also withdrawn the story about Gaia and the New Politics of Love<\/em> controversy. After the conference was over I had time to speak with the leadership of Loving More with a little less rush, and I learned that there were several facts that basically obviate the controversy as it was explained to me originally. I am grateful that I was reminded about the alternative AIDS theory issue; I had just about forgotten that one, and it’s a really interesting scandal that goes to the heart of the medical-pharma-government incest that we live with all the time. To anyone looking for that article to reprint on your blog, please contact me directly and we can talk, and I’m retracting any prior permission to re-publish the piece. Thank you all for participating in such an exciting round of journalism.<\/p>\n

So too is what I’ll call the Tantra Theme, raised in the book Gaia-Lov<\/em>e by Serena. She is one of the few who is speaking about what is gained through skin-skin contact. This one gets a big blue bookmark.<\/p>\n

There were some excellent reader comments on that post and I will move them out to the front of the site when I figure out how to do that effectively. Thank you for some excellent conversation this weekend. I love that I can bring this conversation to the front and center of Planet Waves and have it be treated with sensitivity. I think we have the best commenters on any site I’ve seen — there are so many considered, reasoned, well-developed comments, it’s really pretty impressive.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned early Monday for the Oracle and Len Wallick’s Daily Astrology column.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am back in Kingston — I drove up at night to avoid the traffic, from the PA Pike the the Jersey Pike to the Garden State Parkway to the NYS Thruway in under three hours. Those big interstates are awesome at night. Poly Living 2010 was one of the best Loving More conferences I’ve … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}