Great time at sl chats.

[Sigmund]

I look forward to them every month.   Whether it's the information from Mystress, directly related to FST or not, or student's questions and experiences, the chats are a real wealth of practical and esoteric information. 

They're a safe and private way to share things and get honest, useful feedback and support.  I always feel expanded and much clearer for attending them. 

Plus, there's always the energy boost from the places that Mystress has created and from her company. 

... can't go wrong. 

[Gopi]

Agree with Sig. The chats have been immensely helpful in many ways for me. I feel a sense of community just being with others who walk a similar path. It is very humbling and refreshing to hear others experience. Many a times I have come into the monthly chat without words to explain what it is that I feel. And then find someone else explain it eloquently. Never fails to astonish me.

Mystress teaches lots of useful techniques. During Dec 2014 chat, Mystress taught us a technique (which she later published in the K-list - Subject line "Holiday gift for you all"). I, along with others in the chat, felt the power of this technique instantly. I started practicing it without putting much thought into the 'why'. Because of my childhood experiences, I have bad nightmares at times with PTSD like symptoms (night sweats, waking up screaming, etc). Later during the month, one night I had a nightmare. Usually during these nightmares, old repressed painful memories surface. When I am not grounding properly, I will feel stuck in those experiences and experience the same pain and feeling of helplessness. But when I am disciplined with my grounding, the nightmares become lucid - I witness the pain of the moment without judgments so that it can be surrendered to Goddess. During this particular instance, I was stuck in a painful place. And a part of me started chanting the prayer Mystress taught. This was happening in my dream state. It is very hard to explain what happened because I myself am not sure. All I remember was me becoming aware that I am witnessing which helped me surrender everything to Goddess. I don't know what this means. All I know is that it helped me to surrender one more thing to Goddess. And that in itself is a precious gift.

There are several techniques like these which Mystress teaches during these chat sessions and I have personally benefited from them immensely. I don't think I can do justice in explaining their significance since I believe that these techniques are experiential. The proof of the pudding is in the eating! And getting to experience this with fellow-travelers at the White temple with a stunning beach sunset backdrop is truly a gift, IMO. I always leave the monthly chat with a deep sense of peace.

And last but not least... I come to FST chats so that I can simply be in Mystress' presence. I do not know why or what. And I honestly do not care much about the why or what. It does not matter if we are watching funny YouTube videos giggling like a silly schoolgirl. Or bawling my eyes out and letting stuck energy flow through. Or riding on the back of an owl. Or practicing ancient shaman rituals. Just being in Mystress' presence in itself is a gift. Explaining what that feels like is beyond my current abilities. The kind of personal attention, care, and insight one gets from Mystress during the monthly chats is invaluable. I would highly recommend experiencing it atleast once. So if you have been curious about the monthly chats, please do consider dropping in next time. It's a lot of fun. People join in and leave at their convenience. It's very informal and there are no requirements to stay the entire duration.

Thank you Mystress for hosting these. And thank you to those who join in to make the party merrier!

[Duu]

Hi,
Yes, I agree with all of the previous.
There really exist something as a field of enlightenment when spiritual master is present. Or as well when spiritual people get together. I think sometimes Mystress does not mention it as that it might be too obvious or seen as new age talk. Sometimes field is gentle and sometimes is fierce that one would think to run away from it.

If we think about where we want to evolve, first is to be clear how such enlightenment looks like, yet its all so incomprehensible for the mind. But somehow when one is in presence of spiritual person one understand the point of it all intuitively and directly, at least at some level. And one will be encouraged to go on. For that no words are needed necessarily and if words are there then thats a good bonus. I think without that navigation and support the spiritual path would be nearly impossible as it is so easy in these days to loose the way.

I must say that Mystress presence made many thing possible for me that would be otherwise impossible to do. How it all works is a bit mysterious to me. But it works. And so the preciousness of the opportunity in gathering is really is hard to put to words. One may get or grasp things, that are personally relevant to one by just attending. Yet it is not without cost for Mystress on her time, energy or expenses. So it is not something automatic or guaranteed to have in this world. Then to have it offered for free is an unspeakable blessing. And it is of course a invitation and challenge for us to be ourselves as charitable when we can toward others. If with nothing else then by smile and good mood an bearing our own burdens with calm. Im immensely thankful to Mystress for the chats and her support of people and words barely suffice. So its my renewed promise to improve my ways towards others to at least slightly repay kindness I have received.
And to continue to to work on myself so that blessings will be well received and will also bear the fruits. And I admit that many times I forgot words of the chat too soon and I was many times a poor vessel for much of blessings and energy. As I let it to slip by my fingers too easily.
Yet some bits stayed and even these tiniest pearls I kept were sufficient to change my life profoundly.

love,
Duu