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In 2018, I visited mihwangsa, a buddhist temple built in 749 AD in the southern tip of the Korean peninsula. I arrived during a typhoon & spent five days waking up at 4 am to the sound of a drum, linking arms with the other sleepy-eyed women to make our way down the muddy mountainside for morning prayer in the temple. As we chanted and prayed, the ringing bells resounded inside of me, the smoking incense floated me away, and the idea of home swelled to encompass this space, the remote mountainside and the new quiet of my body. On the fourth day, the skies began to clear and on the fifth, the ocean appeared, boasting a blue horizon filled with islands...the feeling, which still hasn't left me entirely, was so much bigger than happiness, somehow rounder than joy.  Everyone should get to live in a temple for a few days. . . . [images of the temple taken pretty much when I arrived and when I left because we were asked to keep electronics off during our stay. The first image shows a traditional korean hanok shot from above and surrounded by terraced greenery and grey clouds. the second image shows the incredible view of the ocean, a string of islands, and the overwhelming emerald of the Korean mountains, motherland, heart ♡] . . . #HermitKingdom #Buddhism #HigherConsciousness #MagicIsReal #SelfHealer #KWave #EmergentStrategy #PleasureActivism #MeditationSpace #Hanok (at Mihwangsa) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_x4CcelJhs/?igshid=19wub9e1539wf

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Loretta Ross

TODAY!!! 6pm EST/ 3pm PST!! We are absolutely elated to be having author, activist, scholar, and doula, @adriennemareebrown, joining us once again for #MECCAcon! #adriennemareebrown is the author of #PleasureActivism: The Politics of Feeling Good, #EmergentStrategy : Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of #OctaviasBrood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements. She is the co-host of the How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia’s Parables podcasts. FRIDAY, October 30th 6pm EST/ 3pm PST watch HERE:: bit.ly/meccaconyt https://www.instagram.com/p/CG-j-14M4FO/?igshid=e60zva0uvgut

TOMORROWWWWWW!!! We are absolutely elated to be having author, activist, scholar, and doula, @adriennemareebrown, joining us once again for #MECCAcon! #adriennemareebrown is the author of #PleasureActivism: The Politics of Feeling Good, #EmergentStrategy : Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of #OctaviasBrood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements. She is the co-host of the How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia’s Parables podcasts. FRIDAY, October 30th 6pm EST/ 3pm PST watch HERE:: bit.ly/meccaconyt https://www.instagram.com/p/CG7q5gWMXkC/?igshid=1abwrj5batwru