Sleeping Prophets

*** Happened December 12, 2019 ***

Minstrel Song: Spring
    Eugenics presentation
    Discussion

White Elephant of fortunes:
    Everyone write a fortune for the year 2020
    Everyone draw a number
    Play white elephant Christmas game where people pick a fortune and the next person can steal one already picked or pick a new fortune.

Ohm winner: Calen

Brief celebration of holidays

Minstrel Rise and Melody

*** Happened on December 5, 2019 ***

Shoes off
Minstrel Song: by Calen

Music!!
    Break into two teams, 4 and 4
    One person at a time plays an instrument (without any testing) for 30 seconds
    Compile music
    Jam session and finale
    Our Efforts (the final result)

Ohm winner: Sam

Generating Lives

*** Happened November  21, 2019 ***

Shoes off
Intros
Facts

Story writing:
   Generate random adjective
   Generate random noun
   Generate random character
   Write a story of two paragraphs (5 sentences each) using those three things
   Share

Ohm Winner:

Temescal Canyon

*** Thursday, November 14th, 2019***

Shoes off -- Lucy consented
Introductions

Facts:
1. Spring: Male bees are called drones. They are haploid, so every unfertilized egg will develop into a male. Their only purpose is to produce sperm. Female bees are worker bees. They are the ones going out to collect pollen. They are sterile. The Queen is the only one who can lay viable eggs. She becomes the queen because worker bees secrete 'royal jelly' from their head on the queen-to-be larvae. 
2. Britt: Perhaps ancient days could see the color blue. Perhaps everyone in Homer's time was schizophrenic. 
4. Calen: Bees will spontaneously make cocoons for new Queens, just in case.  


Guided meditation: no one wanted to wake up after.
       https://youtu.be/fHEv-Go1Bcc

Sharing of our favorite poems:
       Voorhees: translated from Farsi
       Calen: If
       Lucy: Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath ( a recording of her reading it is on Spotify )

Om winner: Spring

The Eagle and the Drone

*** Thursday, November 7th, 2019***

Shoes off -- Lucy refused
Introductions
Facts:
1. Sdix: Ginko trees were anciently planted by universities. They symbolize intelligence.
2. Brad Pitt: Temperature of electronics effects speed. Some encoders can perfectly encode their signals by generating random numbers based on the speed of sending bits.
3. Britt: gypsies originated in India
4. Lucy: gypies didn't originate in India. That is a myth. Their original name came from 'Egypt' because that's where they're fabled to come from but that may also be false.
5. Annie: Basketball players with more common names are more successful

Pictures and Poetry: led by Spring
       Write a poem after looking at these images.
       Share your poems.

Om winner: Rich

Tales of Drama

***Happened Thursday, October 24, 2019***

Shoes off

Introductions

Facts

Dramatic Readings:
    Everyone pick a book on the 5th floor of the HBLL
    "Draw straws" to see in what order to proceed
    Each person read a paragraph in their selected book (dramatization)

Ohm winner: Snow

Norse Longtable

***Happened Thursday, October 17, 2019***

Shoes off

Introductions

Facts

Presentation and Discussion: led by Britt
     Norse mythology
     Parallels with Christianity
     Odin as a Christ-type

Ohm winner: Snow

Genesis Twice Over

***Happened Thursday, October 10, 2019***

Shoes off

Introductions

Vocal cords video

Facts

Genesis of the club:

The Wise Man's Fear, by Patrick Rothfus, pages 126-128

Reformation of club government:

Ohm Leader: Ohm winner from most recent club meeting

Namer of Names: Calen Buford

Name Destroyer: Britton Buford

Chaos Factor: Ohm winner from most recent club meeting

Chaos Enforcer: Meagan Sullivan

Fact Picker: Harrison

Shoes Enforcer: Abigail Taylor

Formal Greeter: Britton Buford

Fact Scribe: Spring Buford

Informal Greeter: Susie Hofheins

Clap Leader: Britton Buford

Odyssey Stories

*** Happened Thursday, October 3, 2019 ***

Shoes off
Introductions
Facts

Odysseys:
   Outside, find a specimen
   Return to group with specimen
   Write an Odyssey about the given specimen (a hero's epic)
   Share

Ohm Winner: Britton

Socks Half Full

***Happened Thursday 26, 2019***

Introductions
Facts

Discussion on Britt's socks

Listen to John Cages 4:33
Discussion

Ohm winner: Primavera

Expressions & Impressions of Summer

*** September 19th, 2019 ***

Introductions

Facts:

• You can sneak pizza into the 5th-floor library
• Some 'women' have XY chromosomes but the SRY gene receptor on the 'X' is broken, so the male traits fail to be expressed.
• Another name for Odin: Runatyr - "God of Runes"

Expressions of summer: everyone shared a 30sec part of a song that describes their summer, accompanied by a modern/contemporary performance.

Portraits: While listening to Stay Alive by Jose Gonzalez, we each drew portraits of Skiderk.

 

 

Ohm Winner: Richy Fey (Megan)

I am an Idea

***Happened on Thursday, September 12***

Shoes off
Introductions

Introductions continued

Discussion:
     Are we ideas?

Ohm winner: Britt

Next time:
    Summer presentations with music and movement

Exodus of the Graduates, Raptor's Departure

*** This is the last meeting of the Winter 2019 semester ***
*** Official reconvening will begin in September 2019 ***

Shoes off
Introductions
Facts

Raptor's Departure:
   Britton, Co-President with Calen, is graduating
   He retires as President and thus becomes the Godfather of the Sleeping Mind club, receiving his ceremonial cigar.

   Spring takes Co-President title with Calen

   All soon to be graduates: viking ship burial at the end of the meeting

Prophetic Summer presentations:
   Everyone gives a presentation of what their summer will be
   Minimum of 2 slides, Max of 4 slides

Dance:
   Dance to one song: Chris Brown, Forever

Viking Burial:
   Burning of ships for each soon to be graduate

Ohm Winner: Adam Ironside

River Runs Mindfully

*** Wednesday, 3 April 2019 this happened ***

OUTSIDE:
Shoes off
Introductions
Facts

INSIDE:
5 minutes of writing a Stream of Conscience
Put all writings in the middle of the room
For each paper, one person reads while another draws their interpretation on the whiteboard

Ohm winner: Calen

Next time:
   Last meeting of the semester
   Prophetic presentations

 

Wild Lands

*** Happened on Wednesday, March 27, 2019 ***

No shoes
No sitting in chairs
Intros
CHAOS FACTOR: run and touch water fountain in hall
Facts

Animal Noises:
    Listen to the audio of a favorite animal
    Replicate the sound as a group

CHAOS FACTOR: lay on back, heads all pointed together in a circle
Ohm Winner: Snow

Brighter Moon

2 AM
Location announced

Star gaze
Bring blanket
Wear your roommates jacket

Meetings Recap

*** Covering the gatherings on 2/27, 3/6, 3/13 ***

February 27, 2019:

Draw for talents

You have one week to learn a new talent

Perform next club meeting

March 6, 2019:

Sing happy birthday to Calen

Blow out candles on a loaf of bread

Perform talents

March 13, 2019:

Intro to idea about hyper-focusing on one thing in daily life

Lead by Abigail

Discussion:

Marxism, Products and profits, Authenticity

Lead by Timacus.

The Beginning Again

*** Happened last night ***

Ohm of Arthur winner: Spring

BioEnergizer:
    9 exercises
    1 minute each

Origin Story:
    Read pages 126-128 of The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

Facts

Introductions

Next time:

   Bring an idea for a talent

SLEEPIVERSARY

Shoes off
Introductions
Facts

Poetry: lead by Britton

   Guiding points:

      Phanopoeia

      Image

      Love of words

      Good artists know what not to say just as much as they know what to say

   7 minutes to write on a single visceral image (focal point)

   Share

Discussion: 17 minutes

   Agency and free will and God

Ohm of Arthur winner: Britt

Authentic Machines

*** Happened last night ***

Shoes off
Introductions
Facts

Machine Learning: lead by Spring
     Recipes almost right, but... --> computer_making_recipes
     Learning how to draw... Pretty decent --> drawing_random_things

Discussion: Lead by Daniel
     Is it possible to live authentically? How much so, and what does this mean?

Ohm of Arthur winner: Britton

Snowons

Shoes off

Introductions

Facts: Britt (2), Miriam (1)

Presentation of Winter Break:

    Everyone gave a 4-6 slide presentation of their winter break

    The presenter could not speak

    The others commented on the photos

Palindrome and Snow Flake Competition:

    10 minutes

    Create a unique snowflake our of lined paper and no scissors

    Create a unique palindrome

  The individual with the best snowflake AND palindrome wins: Britt's two year old acorn

Ohm of Arthur winner: Aly

Cosmos Breathing

*** Occurred January 23, 2018 ***

Introductions
Shoes off
Facts

Writing exercise:
     Describe yourself only using living things other than humans
     10 minutes
     Share

Astronomy: Lead by Britt
     Watch video and discussion

Ohm of Arthur winner: Britton

Next time:
     Discussion on interesting topic

An Industrious Empire

FIRST CLUB OF WINTER SEMESTER 2019
*** Happened last night ***

Shoes off
Introduction
Facts: Calen, Britton, Miriam

Discussion:
    Poetry
    Brain in a vat

INDUSTRIAL OR NATURAL

Discussion on planting trees
Plants trees

Ohm of Arthur winner: Calen