Special Interest Groups on Gaia

There are several special interest groups on Gaia.
Let's try to group them according to the interest.
If you have a group to describe or write about, please start a new thread in this room.
If you can suggest topics of special interest, please start a new thread for that too.
This thread is just a list. Thank  you!

Groups for Artists or that encourage posts on artwork

DREAMS of ARTISTS™ (Art, Creativity, Community) Hello Everyone -  Thanks for joining DREAMS OF ARTISTS™… Please introduce yourself or just start posting on any of the rooms we have created for you… More »
God Pod or Life, the Universe and Everything  
A creative, open and playful discussion group on God, spirituality,
art, politics… in other words, on life, the universe and everything.
Yes, the answer is 42 but what is th…   See »

Now I Can See the Moon 
Masahide wrote the following haiku: Barn’s burnt down – Now I can see
the moon. Can you see the moon? We want a life of clarity, freedom,
happiness, and deep …   See »
One Light Many Windows 
In this group we are compiling the verses / sayings from as many 
different sources and religions as possible about the SAME subjects.
Together we are seeki…   See »  Art linked to the topics of the group.

Poet's Workshop Short term goal -  to share our knowledge and hone our poetic skills. 

Long term goal -  to produce a high quality anthology of inspiring  poems together under the Gaia umbrella, to spread love peace and light in the world. 

Aim - A  safe place where poets can meet to receive feedback and constructive support from each other.  This means all are equal:  critique the poem, not the poet or their ideas! (It also means leave your ego at the Group door!)

Guidelines:
Post no more than two or three poems per week.
Allow 2 or 3 days between posts for feedback
For every poem posted please critique three poems.

Critique.
Say at least one thing you really like about the poem and explain what it is about the poem that made you think that.  
Say what did not work for you in the poem.

 “C+C” stands for “Comment + Critique”. 
If you want more in-depth critique, which could mean that you'll hear a lot more things you didn't want to about your poem but also that you could learn more about how to improve it, please type “(C+C Please)” in your subject line after your poem title. Remember respond to all comments with grace and without childishness. This may help you improve your poems and get to the next level, so listen to what people have to say about your poems and bite your tongue if you feel a kneejerk reaction coming on. 

Comment + Critique Guidelines.
Give positive feedback first, and try to encourage individual voice of each poet. 
Some things to think about: Was the poem really prose, telling, rather than showing in the poets own unique style?  Was it cliched, and would it benefit from more unique wording?  Does it need a spellcheck?  Poor grammar?
Poetic technique: (Metaphors, simile, imagery, rhythm, alliteration, rhyme, etc) Did they work, maybe the rhyme seemed forced, not as one would normally speak? Or mixed metaphors caused confusion?
Does the title the suit the poem, does it grab you? Does the form complement the poem? Critique with grace and try to balance negative  with more positive feedback.

I have requested extra facilities for this pod, but it was suggested we start with what we have. As we now have an edit facility that lasts, mark your poem original and post the revision below it so that fellow poets can compare when commenting please 
 
Welcome to Workshop and don't be shy! There will be mixed abilities. Just remember we are all continuously learning, and that it's an ongoing process.
      
Please retain a copy of your poem as far as I am aware they are not archived

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Groups for Spirituality

11:11 Progress Group (Spirituality)http://www.1111publishers.com/list/?p=subscribe&id=1&ulang=english
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Dancing With The Divine (Spirituality, Poetry)Your relationship with the Divine.

Dark Night of the Soul (Spirituality)
Many of us have been on a spiritual path for quite a while. We’ve experienced profound moments… More »

God Pod or Life, the Universe and Everything (Spirituality, Depth, Creativity, Community)A creative, open and playful discussion group on God, spirituality, art, politics… in other words, on life,… More »

Integral Post-metaphysical Spirituality (Depth, Integral, Spirituality)What paths lie ahead for religion and spirituality in the 21st Century?  How might the insights of… More »

Intuitives For Divine Justice (Spirituality)Feel free to join our spiritually based Intuitives For Divine Justice group.  Our focus is sending Divine… More »

Living Metaphysics (Depth, Metaphysics, Community)Welcome to an exploration of using metaphysics in everyday life.  In the pod, we explore how we… More »

Now I Can See the Moon (Depth, Poetry, Creativity, Community)Masahide wrote the following haiku: Barn’s burnt down – Now I can see the moon. Can you… More »

One Light Many Windows (Spirituality, Quotes)In this group we are compiling the verses / sayings from as many  different sources and religions… More »

Passing (Bereavement)for those who have experienced the passing of loved one's from this planet, looking death in the… More »

The Power of Light (Spirituality, Community)From Light* To Light* With Light* You are here, because the power of light calls to us… More »

Robert Augustus Masters (Depth) Robert
Augustus Masters is an award-winning author, cutting-edge therapist and
spiritual teacher based near Vancouver, British Columbia…. More »

Sacred Walk (Depth, Spirituality)There is a sacred wonder available in the seemingly insignificant moments of the mundane.  Our lives hold… More »

Starseed Sanctuary (Spirituality, Community)For all Starseed cosmic travelers, commited to service of the planet and its inhabitants. In this small place,… More »

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One Mind  At once, step up onto the platform. Above, communication can begin. Below, vain discrimination never ends. Argument… More »

Groups for Poetry

Empowered by Poetry… As living and breathing poetry, we admonish all beautiful people to join our..global mission to inspire. 


Poets Workshop

Short term goal -  to share our knowledge and hone our poetic skills,
Long
term goal -  to produce a high quality anthology of inspiring  poems
together under the Zaadz  umbrella to spread love peace and light in
the world. 

Aim - A  safe place where poets can meet to receive feedback and constructive support. from each other..

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Dancing With The Divine
Your relationship with the Divine.

DIVING DEEPER: A Writing Workshop 

…In this online “playshop,” you will find tips and support from Sandra
Jensen’s DIVING DEEPER process; you will find writing games and
suggestions which will help you break through Writer’s Block, find your
authentic voice, and tell your stories….

God Pod or Life, the Universe and Everything 
A creative, open and playful discussion group on God, spirituality, art,
politics… in other words, on life, the universe and everything.

HAIKU
…is a place for you to learn about, write and share your haiku and short short poems in any style. …

Now I Can See the Moon
Masahide wrote the following haiku:

Barn’s burnt down – Now I can see the moon. Can you see the moon?…[this group is]
..a
place of spontaneity, trust, joy, shared suffering and forgiveness, and
most importantly, the burning of those structures that seem important
but obscure our vision while causing confusion and self-delusion. But
we can change that at any moment! We are free! ….

Groups for Specific Religions/Spiritual Paths

A Stranger's Torah   …for Jews and Gentiles
who wish to explore Torah, Tanakh, Judaism and Life from a non-Xian and
Jewish perspective without risking being assaulted by Xians who wish to
convert them.

Ancient works of wisdom  So many works of wisdom are still
unknown to every one, we try to bring them and analyse them here that
everyone can take part in them

Attaining Buddhahood in This Lifetime …Nichiren Daishonin (1222-1282), the
founder of the Nichiren School of Mahayana Buddhism.  Evolving from the
T'ien T'ai (Chi-e the Great) school from China, Nichiren Buddhism holds
that the Lotus Sutra, Shakyamuni Buddha's final and only complete
(perfectly round) teaching, was the highest teaching to come out of
 India. 


Integral Post-metaphysical Spirituality What paths lie ahead for religion and
spirituality in the 21st Century?  How might the insights of modernity
and post-modernity impact and inform humanity's ancient wisdom
traditions?  How are we to enact, together, new spiritual visions –
independently, or within our respective traditions – that can respond
adequately to the challenges of our times?

Living Metaphysics …the
Science of Mind and the Tao Te Ching as well as other related
philosophies; such as, the Upanishads and the Law of Attraction
(Abraham-Hicks).  Spiritual writers such as Eckhart Tolle, Wayne Dyer,
Gregg Braden and Neale Donald Walsch are also studied in depth.

One Light Many Windows …compiling  verses / sayings from as many different religions, traditions, and paths as possible about the SAME subjects.

Persephone's Book of Shadows - WICCA and the CHARMED PATH…For
those who are eclectic, are searching for their own path and want other
people to talk to.  There is no judgment here as we are all on a
spiritual quest to find ourselves and our place in the world.

Three Turns Buddhism Forum  Centralised meeting hub for Gaia
Buddhists and those new to or interested in the Buddha Dharma as it is
expressed in various forms.  Three Turns provides
rooms for the discussion of theory and practice pertaining to each of
the three 'vehicles' of Buddhism - the Hinayana, Mahayana and
Vajrayana.

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Ancient works of wisdom - So many works like Vedas and upanishads together with several other writings are not publicly known . Only a few are learned about these.
Our aim: to bring samples from all over and make them public so that people will get interested.

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Special Interest Groups on Gaia-Play, Fun, Humor

Bear's House of Many Colors
CAMP HAPPINESS
Gaian Humor 
GREETING GALLERY
PLAY-POD!
Talespinner's Tavern (Role-playing, Writing, Art) 

Special Interest Groups on Gaia-Workshops, Goal-oriented

Attracting Abundance
Creative YOU
DIVING DEEPER: A Writing Workshop
11:11 Progress Group
Help Save The Economy!
Holosync 
Intuitives For Divine Justice
Poets Workshop
Power of Success through Divine Love Experiment
Walking the Labyrinth 

Re: Special Interest Groups on Gaia

Hi Meenakshi, have you seen my attempt at roughing out Dave's Galaxies of Pods idea? It might help with what you're doing here and I'd also appreciate your input, if I'm on the right track with those categories …  here 


Thanks!


Nicole

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Nicole, I looked at your galaxies too; and I'm wondering if the two can co-exist. You are working on something that is at the macro level; perhaps helping the team to re-design Gaia groups gateway. I'm wondering if one group can be in multiple categories in that scheme too?
And this is at the micro-level, perhaps? In which a group can be in more than one category? If possible we can merge the two groups; I admit I haven't gone into great detail in either right now.

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I think that by the nature of them, some groups have to belong in more than one category. Not sure about the logistics for a schema where it was more pictorial, I was thinking something like Venn diagrams…

I don't see my list replacing your initiative. Rather I was hoping for some input. Are the categories good? I noticed you have community separate from fun - I might do that. Anyway when you have time after the birthday bash lol I would be indebted for any input you think of.


Hugs

Nicole

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Nicole, I took a look  again; I loved the category of Action which I was wanting to tackle too; but wasn't sure what to call it. I'm impressed that you have separate categories for Depth and Spirituality; and am not sure if I fully understand that. Venn diagrams- overlapping, right? I'd love to know more about which ones you think are at the intersects; unless I'm completely not understanding.

I think you have definitely got one scheme going. I saw some groups that could go into more than one category; e.g. Sandy's Peace, Politics…could be in Spirituality as you've put it and also in Action. So perhaps we need one category that is an intersect of ACtion and Spirituality - spiritual activism, perhaps? 

So that in that scheme; one group could be in an exact category of itself. Gosh, getting a brain freeze, and hope others chime in too.

Re: Special Interest Groups on Gaia-Animals

Love of Animals  cultivated by Suni

“The purpose of this group is to just.. come together with fellow animal lovers and just talk about our animals, animals in general, relationships with animals, animal rights issues, news bits, post cute pictures..”


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Re: Special Interest Groups ~ The Gaia Minute

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