Or ‘How glamour gasped its last breath’

The innumerable community meetings held in the Hall in the early ‘80s trained us in patience, listening, practising decision-making by consensus and promulgating what sometimes was suspiciously like a load of fantasy.

We all dreaded someone opening a delivery – whether in a meeting or private encounter – with the words “I got it in meditation”. In time the expression became a flag for irony.

The glorious moment the whole concept came down in ridicule was after lots of people had shared following a community meditation in the Hall. Many tall reports from the inner realms were presented, eventually cut short by François – at the time well ensconced as Community focaliser after Peter – who announced loud and clear in his beautiful French accent:
“Ah saw a purple duck wiv pink spots”.

Glamour over and out.

Amanda Haworth