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Hello all advocates of voluntary simplicity in the Twin Cities,

Our Facebook Page has now been created:
Simple Living in the Twin Cities.
If you are already a Facebook user,
search Facebook for this Page by name:
"Simple Living in the Twin Cities".
Click to become a 'fan'.

(If you are not yet on Facebook, you can join for free:
Go to: Facebook.com.
Register your prefered e-mail address and a password you choose.
Then you are 'on Facebook'.
You can elaborate your profile as you please.
But you can immediately become a 'fan' of
Simple Living in the Twin Cities.)

Then you are invited to begin sharing your knowledge
about how to live simply on our part of the planet Earth.
Use the Discussion Board to list resources you know about personally.

Our EXCO class called
"Voluntary Poverty: How to Simplify Your Life"
will be offered as requested by you.
It will be an opportunity for people already involved in the voluntary simplicity movement
to meet others who believe in simplifying our lives
and who have some good ideas about precisely how to do it.

Click to join this EXCO e-mailing list
to be asked about possible places and times
and to be informed of the next time such a gathering will take place.

Yours,

James Park, EXCO facilitator

  You can join the Existential Freedom Group
by sending a blank e-mail to the following address:
ExistentialFreedom-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
The Yahoo computer write back to you
to confirm that you really want to join.
Then it will ask me to agree to your subscribing.
(This is to prevent spammers from misusing the Existential Freedom Group.)

Yours,
James Park
 

Hello EXCO people interested in Advancing the Right-to-Die,

As explained above, our electronic discussion has now begun.
The discussion theme for January 2010 is:
"The One-Month-Less Club:
Live Well Now, Omit the Last Month".

There are only 8 members of this EXCO group,
but the Facebook Group holding these discussions
already has more than 1,000 members.

You join that Facebook Group
to respond to the discussion-starter for January.
Just look for this theme on the Discussion Board.

The discussion-starter for January 2010
is also available on the Internet:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/CY-1MLC.html

Yours,
James Park, EXCO facilitator

New Ways of Loving held all five of its planned sessions.

The number of people attending was 15, 12, 10, 9, & 8 respectively.

Each session always included lively discussion.

A picture of most of the participants

now appears on the Facebook Page for EXCO.

Because we never had enough time to discuss each chapter,

these participants (and others anywhere in the world)

are invited to join an on-line discussion group,

which will explore one chapter each week

(instead of two chapters per week as in the face-to-face seminar).

A full explanation of this alternative appears here:

http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/ED-NWL.html.

Because only about 20% of the people interested

can actually attend the face-to-face class,

no matter where and when it meets,

this class will be offered again

when there are 200 people on the e-mailing list,

which will probably be about summer 2010.

Suggestions for a good time and place are welcome.

Perhaps you have a ready-made group

that would like to discuss New Ways of Loving.

The on-line experiment will probably begin in early 2010.

A Google Group has already been established

for discussing this book.

Write for more details.

If you have any suggestions or questions,

write to me directly: e-mail:

PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU

Yours,

James Park, EXCO facilitator

This class (and the textbook) were not created
specifically for GLBT people,
but persons of every sex-and-gender minority
are welcome to join our discussions.
This includes all gay, lesbian,
bisexual, and transsexual persons.
Persons who find themselves with
bondage and discipline sexual fantasies,
no matter what their sexual orientations,
are also welcome.
Persons who are uncertain about
which sex to call themselves,
and persons who have any other
variations of sex and/or gender
are welcome to consider
whether the sex-script hypothesis
might help them to understand themselves better.

No matter what your sexual orientation
or sexual identity,
if you find yourself with imprinted sexual fantasies
that you did not choose
and which sometimes puzzle you,
the thesis of this book might
cast some light on what you are experiencing.
For example, would you call yourself a "sex addict"?
Do you have unusual sexual dreams?
You are invited to read those parts of the book
that you find most relevant and interesting.
Over 50 pages from Imprinted Sexual Fantasies
are available free of charge on the Internet:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/SS.html.

This seminar might be adapted specifically
for some special sexual minority.
Have a look at the text to see
if this new theory might be useful to your group.

And for people who have the most common sexual fantasies:
This seminar is also for you.
When we study the origins and dynamics of unusual sexual imprinting,
we also illuminate all varieties of imprinted sexual fantasies.

Let us be open to whatever sexual inclinations
and experiences the participants bring to this class.

Send your ideas or questions to me directly by e-mail:
James Park, e-mail: PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU.

Yours,
James Park, existential philosopher and sexologist