It’s a word that Patricia Albere, the founder and leader of the Evolutionary Collective, has been using a lot recently.

Intuitively I get it … but I wondered what the dictionary had to say:

This word is now obsolete.  It is only recorded in the Middle English period (1150 – 1500).

Oh.

Let’s try “met”:

The past tense and past participle of meet

Not particularly helpful.

Okay … “meet”:

To arrange or happen to come into the presence of someone

When I think “in the presence of”, my mind goes deeper then merely being physically next to a person.  There’s a mystery there.

To come into contact with

Yes, true spiritual contact.

To come together for a common purpose

Such as bathing in the Divinity of the other

To face directly

As in a right angle – looking into the eyes, glimpsing what’s within

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I met eight people yesterday.  That makes me happy.  The first two were in conversations with my friends Prabigya and Yvet.  The last six were in a Zoom meeting with fifty members of the EC.  Sometimes during our practices I was paired with one other person, at other times with two.

How astounding to have that level of connection with so many folks, none of whom I’ve met physically.  Two of whom I’d never been in a practice with.

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I am blessed to be in this world

With the opportunity to “be with” so many