10 living people I'd like to have as dinner guests


Mipham Chokyi Lodro
Jed McKenna
EJ Gold
Adyashanti
Peter Russell
Hakim Bey
Dolano
Trent Reznor
John de Ruiter
Bob Cergol

i had exactly the same idea just before coming in here this morning.

still pondering whether publishing it is sensible, since more personal.


sifting through many possibilities ....

So far there are 2 people I would liked to have met, and a dinner seems a good a place to meet as any.

Issac Asamov,
Carl Sagan,

Unfortunately, too late for either.

10 persons to have as Dinner Guests

Actually 'Living' was in your post, not in the subject of the thread. Perhaps it was not your intention but I stand by the subject as written. Yes there are certainly living people I would like to have a conversation with, I'll get arount to that.

Joseph Campbell, is another, I would have liked to ask him about Mythology in some recent movies, and some old movies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPpfAAPf0x0&feature=related


Wow, that must have been one really good menu.

"Peak experiences can also be triggered pharmacologically. A 2006 double-blind clinical study by Griffiths and colleagues showed that psilocybin (the principal psychoactive component of various psychedelic mushroom species) induced intense peak experiences in a majority of study volunteers.[2] In a 14-month follow-up study, a majority of volunteers reported that the psilocybin-induced experience had been overwhelmingly positive and was among the five most personally meaningful spiritual experiences of their lives.[3]"
-from Wikipedia.

I wonder if that includes LSD and pot as well?

Living, I would only think of Tenzin Gyatso and Sogyal Rinpoche

Maybe adding Ram Dass, and Clarissa Pinkola Estes!


Dead


1. Siddhartha Gotama
2. Padmasambhava
3. Jesus
4. Carl Jung
5. Chogyal Trungpa
6. Osho
7. Einstein
8. Plato
9. Kant
10. Herman Hesse

Aren't all experiences peak? I don't get why one would be more peak than other?
That said, I wouldn't mind Joseph Campbell along with Bill Moyers as dinner guests! Also maybe Rumi!!

The Guest House

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.


~ Rumi ~


(The Essential Rumi, versions by Coleman Barks)

While we are talking about Mythology, it would be interesting to hear Joseph Campbell's take on all the Bible based movies.

The picture is becoming much more clear now.

i think it was Eza who wrote in another context that "we don't have much time left".

glad to meet your dinner peaks! and have "us" equate time with money and not much else.

imp-pulse
eza
bardo
mayflow
MonoExplosion
brian1939
Jigar
atheistwar3
MagnetMan
Bamberpanda
The Valkyrier
sicormio

hey, just tell me what i should bring so it's not too much of a financial burden!

and what about henry and the ominous owner?

oh, you change the guests with the courses?

pastry for oevres?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEzvV441xb8&feature=related

\!!

there is something in this poem i just cannot dismiss...

The Guest House

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.


~ Rumi ~

We could all experience the dinner vicariously if we each post a favorite recipe and then each of us can try the others out. One of mine would be 'Chicken Risotto' from the book 'Cooking out of this World' compiled by Anne McCaffrey. Be advised it is not quick & simple, best to plan a day long process. I would also like to try some Dandelion Wine, I've not found any yet but it has always been a fascinating idea, I don't know if it is avaliable commercially. The dinner conversation could take place here if the chat room were rebooted for the event. My main difficulty is that I type slowly and my comments would tend to lag behind the rest of the conversation.

What a nice little thread =)

There is a TV show in sweden where celebrities gets to host an imaginary dinner for 5 people, alive or dead, real or imagined.

For me I'd prolly pick people along the following lines:

Anthony Hopkins - one of my favorite actors
Pete Seeger - one of my favorite musicians
Lesser Ury - one of my favorite painters
Hugo Chavez - one of my favorite politicians, as for entertainment value that is
Cicero - n0. 1 fav. philosopher of all time

Charlie Chaplin - in case we ran out of things to talk about
Coco Chanel - one of the most interesting women that ever lived
Gregory House - He'll never stop amazing me
Captain America - since I can pick anyone I want, why not. Plus, it will make a nice distinction to Hugo Chavez
Last but not least Queen Elisabeth of England - a revolutionary monarch, how awesome is that.

Many years ago there was a TV program called 'Meeting of the Minds' which alledged to bring persons from history together for a discussion of issues. It was very interesting till I realized that the writers of the show were putting words into the mouths of persons that were not accurate to the person but advancing a political agenda of the producers. It became clear that the portrail was not accurate of the individuals in question. It wasn't long after that that the show went off the air, but I had already stopped watching.

what's a meeting anyway? eating and / or being eaten? consumed, to use a more elegant word?

(don't forget to invite jigar, somehow. for stroking his ego.)

Dr. Joseph Bell would be an interesting addition, but we would need Carly Simon singing 'No Secrets' as dinner music.

I found this one while listening, Thankyou.

Sorry, aparently I can't post links.

'Die Moldau' by Smetana.

ah, an international guest house: open 24/7, all participation is voluntary. guest workers .....
the guests and workers are getting better with age: like wine.

where do they go after dinner?