Live The Dream

How Has COVID Changed Our Social Options? Strategies for Building Friendships and Love Relationships in the New Normal
2022-11-19 11:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Live and on Zoom, 8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Saturday November 19, 2022
Live 11am to 4pm,
Zoom 11am to 1pm PST
How can we balance safety with JOY in our lives? Your input appreciated!
Why are business mixers going strong with participants swarming to them in locations indoor and out, then standing much closer than 6 feet apart while transacting business while the poly community has all but stopped live meetings and even the Cuddle groups are doing it on Zoom? Just talked to a friend involved in SCA—meetings in parks are going strong and attracting hundreds. They are not social distancing as they reenact the time before the Renaissance. BDSM and LGBTQ groups are meeting in restaurants. Nudist venues have indoor /outdoor events with plenty of hugging. I looked for a Poly gathering to promote our 35th anniversary celebration—NOTHING was going on live! In LA! Is this the way we want to live in the future? Has COVID brought a future of virtual contact replacing touch into reality much sooner than we expected…? Why more in the poly community than in related communities? There are, of course, plenty of people isolating among the mundanes for reasons ranging from health to phobias. It may be safer to stay away from people as far as not getting COVID is concerned, but lack of touch has its own negative physical and emotional results. COVID isolation is becoming a syndrome in itself. As a hypnotherapist, I am helping my clients deal with it in various forms from depression to hives.
Good thing I pioneered telephone hypnotherapy in 1995! I just did not realize how isolated our own poly community had become. What do YOU want this to look like in your future?
Meanwhile, we have you covered—Live and on Zoom.
Live only after 1 pm
1 pm Pot Luck Lunch Bring something healthy and delicious to share.
2-4 pm Socializing in clothing optional Jacuzzi
For all events: RSVP/more info call the LTD Hotline (818) 886-0069

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Suggested Donation for those attending Live only
Gentlemen (pot luck dish appreciated). Ladies free with pot luck dish to share, otherwise same donation as gentlemen otherwise.
Paid members of Live the Dream: $5. Non-Members: $10 events. If you join Live the Dream the day of the meeting ($25 for singles, $40 for couples or groups at the same address) attendance is included

How Has COVID Changed Our Social Options? Strategies for Building Friendships and Love Relationships in the New Normal

35th Anniversary Celebration of Live the Dream!
2022-10-15 10:00 - 2022-10-16 13:00 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Live* Starting Saturday at 10am and going through to Sunday at 1pm
(Zoom Saturday only, 10am to 5:15pm PDT)
Location: 8515 Penfield Ave. Winnetka, Ca. 91306
Crash space in the living room, Big tents with air mattresses in backyard + trailer which sleeps 4. Reserve early for sleeping over. Those coming from long distances may want to arrange to sleep over Friday, Oct 15. Please make such arrangements before October 5 if at all possible. There are also motels and hotels nearby if you prefer.

Keynote Speakers: Saturday, October 15, 2022
10 am – 10:15 am Terry Lee Brussel-Rogers Introduces Live the Dream: inspired by Family Synergy in 1987 and now the longest continuing nest of Church of All Worlds
10:15 am to 11 am Participant intros including experience with polyamory and future relationship desires.
11 am to 12 pm Oberon Zell: Founder of Church of All Worlds (CAW) gives a summary of Stranger in a Strange Land. He shares how the book relates to polyamory and the founding of CAW. Oberon and Morning Glory Zell were married 40 years until her passing on May 13, 2014—all of it Poly though they did not create the word for it until 1991. Oberon’s personal experiences with this lifestyle also include the triad of Morning Glory, Oberon and Diane and the 7-person Ravenhart group marriage, each of which lasted 10 years as live in and continue as an expanded family to this day.
12 pm to 1 pm Glen Olson and Terry Brussel-Rogers authors of Fifty Years of Polyamory in America: A Guided Tour to a Growing Movement being published November 11 2022 by Rowman and Littlefield (We may have books available at this meeting!). Between them, Terry and Glen have experience with open marriage, group marriage, group living and both are part of an intimate network which has evolved from 1969 to present time. They will also talk about personal experiences with the organizations covered in this book and the people interviewed for it.
Pot Luck Lunch buffet available from 1 pm to 2 pm for those who are with us Live. We will be as quiet as possible to show respect for the speakers. Bring something healthy and delicious to share– a dish big enough for 10 Meat, Chicken, Cheeses, veggies fresh fruit, juices, and desserts are all ok. The salad will be provided by Live the Dream
1 pm to 2 pm Pat LaFollette, Co-Founder of Family Synergy, presents How was Family Synergy founded? Personal experiences of establishing a triad which lasted 16 years, deciding together for Anne to have a child by each husband and raising 2 sons in that triad.
2 pm to 2:45 pm Mark Merlino and Rodney O’Reilly, founders of Furry Fandom and the core couple in a group house, many of whom were lovers as well, since 1983. They will tell us how they have kept the group house together over all those years while maintaining their own open committed relationship for 38 years. See The Fandom on YouTube for more info.
3 pm to 3:45 pm Q&A panel which will include all speakers
4 pm to 5 pm IDES of OZ Podcast with Oberon Zell, Terry Brussel-Rogers and Glen Olson. Hosted by Gray School of Wizardry – The real-life Hogwarts!
Zoom closing 5 pm -5:15 pm by Terry Brussel-Rogers

Saturday Evening Activities (times approximate) NOTE: LIVE ONLY AFTER 5:15 pm
~ 5:15 pm to 6:15 pm Sensitivity exercises verbal and non-verbal
~ Clothing Optional Hot Tub available all evening between 5:15 pm and midnight
~ 6:15 pm to 7:15 pm Dinner provided by Live the Dream – sitting down, all together. Live the Dream is providing Roast Duck as the Main Dish tonight!
~ 7:15 pm to 7:45 pm Linda Fitack sings Fever Poly Filk songs –a couple written and performed by Craig Brussel Rogers, others by anyone else who has something to share. You should hear what Craig has done with Tennessee Waltz!
~ 8 pm to 9 pm All Hallows Eve Ritual by Oberon Zell and Priestess Ealswythe
~ 9 pm to 10:45 pm Guided group Sensual massage and ways to Grow Closer

Sunday, October 15, 2022 Activities
10 am-11:30 am Sunday Brunch of French toast, eggs and fruit provided by Live The Dream
11:30 am – 1 pm Closing circle
Price – Send checks to 8515 Penfield Ave Winnetka, Ca. 91306 made out to Live the Dream or RSVP at 818-886-0069 to use a credit card.

Non-members: $75 per person includes sleeping over, and $50 if sleeping elsewhere. Either of these includes a $25 annual membership in Live the Dream.
Paid Members: $50 includes sleepover, $25 if sleeping elsewhere.

*Proof of Vaccination is required to attend all LIVE events. Bring your card!
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Poly Life or Poly Stories?
2022-09-17 11:00 - 16:00 | Live and on Zoom, 8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Live* 11am-4pm (Zoom 11am-1pm PDT)
Discussion of Robert Heinlein’s Biography by William Patterson, cofounder of the Heinlein Society and Robert A. Heinlein’s official biographer
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Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover novels, Science Fiction Intro to Polyamory
2022-08-20 11:00 - 16:00 | Live and on Zoom, 8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Saturday August, 20 2022 11 am to 4 pm LIVE 11 am to 1 pm on Zoom
Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover novels, Science Fiction Intro to Polyamory

Live* 11am-4pm (Zoom 11am-1pm PDT)
We’ll discuss fascinating novels based on the concept of a world on which a few hundred Terrans were marooned in crashed space ships hundreds of years ago and were forced to build a viable community from this limited gene pool. Many women found themselves unable to bear children on the new world. This resulted in a society where a fertile woman having more than one child by the same man was considered a kind of selfishness. Group marriage became the norm and ties of fosterage frequently stronger than ties of blood…Marion and many new writers as well as successful professional writers have chosen to create stories in the Dark Over universe dealing with the alternative lifestyle of multiply committed relationships. We’ll focus on “SPELL SWORD” and “FORBIDDEN TOWER”, two novels based on a real life two couple group marriage which lasted 16 years!
1 pm Pot Luck Lunch-Bring something healthy and delicious to share
2 – 4 pm Socializing in Clothing Optional Hot tub.
Filk follows the meeting. Science Fiction folk songs from the outrageously funny Banned from Argo Star Trek spoof to the Ballad of Apollo 13 and other more serious songs of the space age. Ask for a Harry Potter song or something on group marriage by Heinlein and you are likely to get it!
We may watch a poly movie like Paint Your Wagon or Substitute Wife between the LTD Meeting and the Filk or do something else like stay in the hot tub as the participants desire.
Pot luck dinner at 6 pm.
Singing at 7 pm –
*Proof of Vaccination is required to attend all LIVE events. Bring your card!
For all events: RSVP/more info call the LTD Hotline (818) 886-0069
ALL REGULAR LTD MEETINGS ARE NOW ALSO ON ZOOM!
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Embracing 69 “May You Always Be Juicy” (Quote from Morning Glory Zell)
2022-06-18 11:00 - 13:00 | Zoom Conference
Led by Terry Brussel-Rogers and Oberon Zell
Zoom only* 11am-1pm PDT
Terry turns 69 on June 15th. This meeting is about how both Terry and Oberon, have maintained their joyous sexuality throughout their lives. Oberon was married to Morning Glory Zell for 40 years until she passed on in 2014. She would bless people at rituals with “May you always be juicy.” meaning may you maintain desire and ability to make love all your life. That, along with “All acts of love and pleasure are my rituals” sayeth the Goddess, have served as guideposts in Terry’s life and relationships. Terry has been poly since she was 16 and Shared Water with her first water brother, still her best friend today. Oberon Zell, founder of Church of All Worlds based on Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land, has been poly all his adult life, too. They will share their own poly experiences as well as how you can carry out Morning Glory’s erotically delightful benediction in your own love life for JOY and healthy longevity.
Introducing Oberon Zell: Oberon Zell is a renowned Wizard and Elder in the global magickal community. In 1967 he was first to claim the identity of “Pagan,” incorporating the first Pagan Church of All Worlds in 1968. Publishing Green Egg magazine over more than 50 years, he was instrumental in the coalescence of the modern Pagan movement. In 1970, he published the earliest version of “The Gaea Thesis.” In the 1980s, Oberon and his wife Morning Glory resurrected authentic living Unicorns. For half of their 40 years together they were in group marriages. In 1990, they coined the term “polyamory,” thus launching another movement. Sadly, MG died of cancer in 2014. Oberon creates altar figurines and jewelry, and is the author of Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard and many other books. His latest book is GaeaGenesis: Conception & Birth of the Living Earth Oberon is also Founder and Headmaster of the online Grey School of Wizardry. He presently resides in the state of Washington.
*We look forward to resuming live meetings to which all will be welcome in July when Craig has recovered his health.

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Moon is a Harsh Mistress & Multi-Generational (Line) Marriage
2022-05-21 11:00 - 16:00 | Live and on Zoom, 8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Live* 11am-4pm (Zoom 11am-12:30pm PDT)
The setting is a Lunar prison colony with men way outnumbering the women. Triads (two men, one woman), gangs of young men lead by one woman and multi-generational (Line) group marriages are among the ways they deal with this shortage. Add a revolution for freedom from the unreasonable restrictions of the Warden and the Earth he represents. One of the leaders of this revolution is also a member of a Line Marriage. Another is a man with some unusual ideas on the meaning of Liberty and still another, a Lady who stirs the crowd to Action, joins this new fight for Freedom and marries into the Line Marriage. We’ll have a good look at how such a marriage works, and what is involved in marrying six adults and adopting children already in the group.
1 pm Pot Luck Lunch-Bring something healthy and delicious to share
2 – 3 pm Exercises for Growing Closer –Verbal and non-verbal
3 – 4 pm Socializing in Clothing Optional Hot tub.
Filk follows the meeting. Science Fiction folk songs from the outrageously funny Banned from Argo Star Trek spoof to the Ballad of Apollo 13 and other more serious songs of the space age. Ask for a Harry Potter song or something on group marriage by Heinlein and you are likely to get it!
We may watch a poly movie like Paint Your Wagon or Substitute Wife between the LTD Meeting and the Filk or do something else like stay in the hot tub as the participants desire.
Pot luck dinner at 6 pm.
Singing at 7 pm –
*Proof of Vaccination is required to attend all LIVE events. Bring your card!
For all events: RSVP/more info call the LTD Hotline (818) 886-0069
ALL REGULAR LTD MEETINGS ARE NOW ALSO ON ZOOM!
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Polyamory and the LGBTQ Community
2022-04-16 11:00 - 16:00 | Live and on Zoom, 8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Led by Elaine Anderson, Rodney O’Riley & Terry Brussel-Rogers
Live* 11am-4pm (Zoom 11am-12:30pm PST)
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Remembering Hy Levy, Cofounder of Family Synergy which inspired Live the Dream
2022-03-19 11:00 - 16:30 | Live and on Zoom, 8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Live* 11am-4pm (Zoom 11am-12:30pm PST)
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How to Make Loving Connections in the Poly Community - Happy (somewhat belated) Valentine's Day!
2022-02-19 11:00 - 16:30 | Live and on Zoom, 8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Led by 4th generation matchmaker Terry Brussel-Rogers
Live* 11am-4pm (Zoom 11am-12:30pm PST)
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Poly People in A Variety of Relationships - Lovers, Family (Chosen & Blood), Community and More
2022-01-15 11:00 - 16:30 | Live and on Zoom, 8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Led by Paul Gibbons
Live* 11am-4pm (Zoom 11am-12:30pm PST)
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World Naked Bike Ride
2021-09-18 10:00 - 15:00 | CA
Los Angeles
*(not a Live the Dream event, but supported by most of us)

PLAN B (the unofficial Burning Man event) and The Virtual 2021 Burning Man Event
2021-08-28 - 2021-09-07 | CA
Additional Details to come.

Harrad Experiment and Proposition 31 by Robert Rimmer:
2021-08-21 10:00 - 16:00 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Couple Meets Couple, They Fall in Love and Get Married.
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Zoom Hours: Zoom 11AM-1230PM
Live Hours listed below.

Finding Your Love(s) in a Pandemic: Post Valentine’s Day Assistance Led by Fourth Generation Matchmaker Terry Brussel-Rogers with Craig Brussel Rogers
2021-02-20 11:00 - 12:00 | CA
Did you spend Valentine’s Day with your primary partner? With some combination of spice and lovers? If you are single did you spend it on Zoom or in person with a potential love interest? Any of these are possible and positive (in some cases delicious!) in their own ways. If you spent it in social isolation, that may have been necessary in these dangerous times. Or not. Perhaps there are other safe options appropriate to your particular circumstances. We will discuss ways that can work to make your own present situation closer to the delights you actually want in your life…right now. Guided meditation for Attracting Your Special Someone(s) climaxes this event.
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Poly Possibilities: X Wife/X Husband or Lovers You Used to be Married To? Led by Paul and Athena Gibbons with Terry and Craig Brussel Rogers
2021-01-16 11:00 - 12:00 | CA
Paul and Terry were handfasted in 1993, married in 1994 and legally separated in 2008. They lived in LA. Terry and Paul remained platonic family by choice (water kin) for a couple of years before becoming lovers again. Paul married Athena in 2020 (with some on-the-spot help from Terry and Craig in putting the In Person & Zoom ceremony together) after a decade of living together—in Phoenix. Terry and Craig were married in 2018 and still live in LA. Paul and Athena visit Terry and Craig every month or two as Paul still has many ties in California. A couple times a year, Terry and Craig visit Paul and Athena in Phoenix. They take vacations together, spend holidays and birthdays together and All four are friends and water kin, but only Terry and Paul are lovers. It’s a hell of a lot better than permanently losing someone you loved enough to marry!
How does this work out for each of them? How might it work for YOU?
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Being Poly in a Covid 19 Environment (ZOOM Conference)
2020-04-18 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom Conference
Saturday April 18 11 am to 12:30
Being Poly in a Covid 19 Environment
A ZOOM conference led by Terry and Craig Brussel Rogers.
Zoom Website: https://zoom.us/
Zoom ID: 317-597-1626 Password: [REDACTED]
Are the isolation protocols of the current emergency a temporary or permanent life style
changer? How can we continue our multiple committed relationships in such an
environment? How can we make our connections with those we live with whether they be
housemates, lovers or spouses; not only tolerable, but joyous under these conditions? If we
are alone in our homes, does it have to stay that way or is there something we can do about
it—in this environment? This will be done with a discussion format with plenty of Q&A invited.

Live the Dream Passover Seder
2020-04-08 18:30 - 21:00 | Zoom Conference
Live the Dream Passover Seder
Wednesday April 8 6:30 Socializing 7-8:30 or 9 PM
Seder Lead By Craig Milo Brussel Gibbons and Terry Lee Brussel-Gibbons
Food provided by YOU at home as this Seder is VIRTUAL & FREE. Those of you who RSVP on Live the Dream hotline 818-886-0069 will be e-mailed a copy of the Hagada we are using for this event.
Zoom info: 4/8/20 6:30-9pm
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/978999299?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meting ID # 978-999-299
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"Staying Connected for Poly Lovers"
2020-04-04 16:00 - 19:00 | CA
Join us at 4pm Saturday for the Zoom call
“Staying Connected for Poly Lovers”
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You sleep with everyone your partner has slept with!
Think about what this means as a poly lover in the midst of Covid19 outbreak.
Moderator: Terry Brussel-Rogers
Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, life/business coach (since 1969) and poly relationship counselor for almost as long. Terry co-founded Live the Dream in 1987. It has had regular 3rd Saturday meetings and special occasion celebrations such as trips to Renaissance Pleasure Faire, Passover Seders, All Hallows Eve ritual/ parties and Winter Holiday parties, etc., for more than thirty years.
All of our in person activities are on hold for the duration of Shelter in Place. However, our Passover Seder will take place virtually this Wednesday April 8 at 6:30 pm! See last event listed below
Live the Dream is a Nest of Church of All Worlds– inspired by Heinlein’s book Stranger in a Strange Land it is the real life first Neo Pagan religion to be recognized in the USA.
For more info on Live the Dream , go to www.livethedream.org or call the
Live the Dream Hot Line 818-886-0069
Facilitator: David Beal
A life long non-monogamous lover, currently having two regularly seen lovers plus others. He has a recent background in Tantra, having studied with his late wife Shama Malin. And is currently Semi-retired doing property and financial management.
From David: With the threat from corona virus, staying connected with our friends and relatives is hard enough. For those of us in the poly community we have the unique challenge of staying connected with multiple people with whom we generally connect physically but do not physically live with. Join us for a frank discussion about how to navigate being poly in a social distancing environment, while staying connected to your lovers. Living with you or not there will be challenges to maintaining strong healthy relationships.
This will be an open discussion about ways in which we, are or would like to keep connected. Everyone being allowed to contribute their experiences and questions and ideas is my goal. I will be researching as much as I can to help keep this fact based, but I am not a professional so please keep that in mind.
Be sure to have the zoom app on your phone or computer and a free account created before the meeting.
Topic: Staying Connected for Poly Lovers
Time: Apr 4, 2020 04:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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ALSO OF INTEREST: COMMUNITY SUPPORT CALL ON POSITIVE STRESS MANAGEMENT AND A HEALTHY, EFFECTIVE IMMUNE SYSTEM Monday mornings at 8:15 AM PDT
This is a time when all of us can benefit from Positive Stress Management and a Healthy, Effective Immune System. Terry Brussel-Rogers and Glen Olson (paramedic for 30 years, Retired Fire Captain and long time member of the poly community) are offering a free Community Support Call for that purpose Monday mornings at 8:15 for the duration of California’s shelter in place ruling.
The phone number is 605-475-6720 access code [REDACTED]. Those who register at Terry’s website www.acesuccess.com by downloading her free Abundance meditation will also receive the free recorded guided meditation Positive Stress Management and a Healthy Immune System as well as other gifts to help them survive and even thrive despite this worldwide health emergency.
Please feel free to share this with your friends, lovers and those you care about. In this time of social distancing it is something you can do for them!
Live the Dream Passover Seder
Wednesday April 8 6:30 Socializing 7-8:30 or 9 PM
Seder Lead By Craig Milo Brussel Gibbons and Terry Lee Brussel-Gibbons
Food provided by YOU at home as this Seder is VIRTUAL & FREE. Those of you who RSVP on Live the Dream hotline 818-886-0069 will be e-mailed a copy of the Hagada we are using for this event.
Zoom info: 4/8/20 6:30-9pm
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/978999299?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meting ID # 978-999-299
Password: [REDACTED]

How to Make Loving Connections in the Poly Community
2020-02-15 11:00 - 16:00 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Led by 4th generation matchmaker Terry Brussel-Rogers, author of the book Choosing,
Finding and Attracting a Life Mate and guided meditation CD ‘Attract Your Special
Someone(s)’ Terry ran Marriage Minded Introductions for forty years. She still does poly
and monogamous relationship coaching.
Everyone attending will be given the poly supplement to the book.
Whether you are a single looking for the right partner for a primary relationship, a couple
seeking a third to make a triad, a couple looking to pair with another couple or any of these
looking for a group house or intimate network to join, this is the meeting to find out how…
We will conclude this part of our program with a Hypnotic Love Magnet Meditation to draw
to you the love(s) you desire…
1 pm – Pot Luck Lunch
What tempting dish would you feed to a much desired love interest
or to the delightful partner or partners you are already enjoying? Bring that to share! Fresh
fruit or something simple but delicious is fine, too.
2-3 pmBring your Laptops for a hands on lesson in how best to use the internet to find
your love(s).
3-4 pmSocializing in the Hot tub.

Hawthorne Business Expo
2020-01-29 14:30 - 18:30 | CA
Free to attend and offers a wealth of opportunity, advice, and information crucial for on-going business growth within a challenging economy. Stop by and visit us at our booth.

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Liberty & Lifestyles & Celebration of January Birthdays
2020-01-17 11:00 - 16:00 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Paul Gibbons has been involved in alternative lifestyles since he first came to California from Ohio for a Star Trek Convention in 1974 at age 20. He was introduced to Elysium (a clothing optional growth center) and Family Synergy later that year. He has been a libertarian and advocate of political change (to eliminate institutionalized violence) nearly as long. Paul has made a lot of changes and discoveries along the way. He will share with us how Liberty and Lifestyle go together and his own experiences with group living, group marriage, Love and Liberty over the years and into the present.

1 pm: Pot luck lunch and Paul’s 66th Birthday Celebration.
Let us know if YOU have a January birthday to celebrate with us.
2-4 pm: Jacuzzi, massage table set up in living room, and a relaxed afternoon together
Maybe a poly movie at 4 … Group decides.
6 pm: Filk Pot Luck dinner (different location)
7 pm: Filk Singing (different location)
Filk is songs of science fiction and the space age-from such outrageousness as Star Trek based Banned from Argo or Coed Naked Quidditch to the more solemn Ballad of Apollo 13

LTD WINTER HOLIDAY PARTY
2019-12-21 18:00 - 21:00 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Pot Luck Dinner Bring your favorite holiday dish from childhood (or now)—enough to share with 10 people.
A-F Your favorite Meat, cheese, nut, fish or other delicious protein dish
G-M Juices or fresh fruit
N-R Side dishes or Salads
S-Z Desserts and treats.
Latkes, Apple Sauce and Sour Cream provided by Live the Dream.
Bring stories/songs/poetry to share, wrapped science fiction, fantasy or magikal gift ($5-$10) for GIFT EXCHANGE.
Children welcome 6-9 pm ONLY. Children bring child gifts to exchange with each other. Bring your kids, grand kids and those who are family-by-choice! Sharing our holidays is part of what weaves the bonds of Family in a group like ours. Understanding what is important to each of us during this festive season and how we celebrate it is a way to grow closer and delight in our diversity.
We will sing songs about the Maccabees, dreidels, lighted up Christmas miniature houses, and a Winter
Solstice ritual. We’ll light the Hanukkah Menorah, though that holiday does not start until the 23rd this year.
Did we forget a ritual important to you? Tell us and we’ll add it…
Craig Brussel Rogers will provide live music of various holiday flavors.
Bring
Stories/songs/poetry to share.
Your favorite holiday dish for pot luck supper – (big enough for 10 to share.),
Wrapped science fiction, fantasy or magikal gift ($5-$10) for GIFT EXCHANGE.
Clothing optional Jacuzzi (with holiday music playing inside it!) available all evening–bring sandals and towels.
Cost $5 for paid members, $10.00 for non-members.

Chosen Family & How Science Fiction Has Affected Real Families
2019-12-21 11:00 - 16:00 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
We will discuss chosen families in real and fictional life. Tell us about yours!
Line Marriage: Multi-Generational Group Marriage, triads and other unusual alternatives are described in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. While some of the choices made in this example are influenced by the lack of females compared with males on Luna, some excellent examples “different kind of family” are offered here. Time Enough for Love’s Tersius colony Family features a large group marriage consisting of many of our favorite characters from Heinlein’s other stories. Their only absolute for being part of this marriage is that all adults pledge to support and to bring up with love all children produced by the Ladies in the marriage already born or in the womb— whoever put those babies in their wombs, co spice or not! This is happening on a planet where the government wouldn’t think of interfering in one’s marital choices and only your very advanced geneticist gets a vote on whom you make babies with. The water sharing ceremony in Stranger In a Strange Land is the best example of Family by choice and has effected families in reality probably more than any other of his books. Church of All Worlds and many other less formal groups including my own intimate friendship network have used this as a model for permanent committed relationships which may shift from lovers to friendship and back again multiple times during an ongoing relationship. Members of a Nest may live together or be “semi residential”. They may live nowhere near each other, but maintain their bonds through phone calls and visits (weekly, monthly, or perhaps a few times a year). The patterns are endless. The common denominator is long term loving commitment.
Which science fiction writings most affected the choices YOU have made regarding family and relationship structure?
Did you discover it’s possible to love more than one significant other by identifying with Michael and Jill and their NEST of water brothers from Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land? Did Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Forbidden Tower make you wonder if group marriage could work for you? Did Spider Robinson’s Star Dancers make you yearn to go beyond even that into the kind of group relationship possible for those connected in heart, mind and spirit? Many of us either built a lifestyle using a science fiction book as a model and/or got valuable ideas about working rules for human relationships by reading stories not limited by the present time line’s social prejudices and limitations. This event is for those already in multiply committed relationships and those who want to learn more about them. Some of us whose fantasies became realities will share how we did that…

LTD ANNUAL HOLIDAY PARTY follows at 6 pm

Poly Meet Point at Los Con LAX Marriott Hotel
2019-12-01 10:00 - 12:00 | Loscon at the LAX Hilton Hotel, 5711 W Century Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90045, United States
Join us in the Filk Room for Poly oriented Filk songs (including original ones and those based on such old standards as Tennessee Waltz and Why Not Take All of Me) Filk is songs of science fiction and
the space age. From silly Star Trek such as Banned From Argo to The Ballad of Apollo 13. You may
have read and been inspired by such books as Stranger in A Strang Land and Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. Not all of us living the lifestyles of group marriage, group living and multiple committed relationships are in SF books! Come meet some kindred spirits. If you are living such lifestyles, share what you know. We’ll do Q&A and have a discussion of how YOU can Live the Lifestyle which will bring you Joy! For more info: https://loscon.org/46/

Spider Robinson’s Poly Primers
2019-09-21 11:00 - 18:00 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon introduces a group of people who support each other in handling their problems and celebrating their joys. In this and later books they go beyond this to actual group telepathic communication. In Callahan’s Keys they show their commitment to each other by all moving out-of- state together when local laws and the abuse of them prevented them from meeting together where they were. According to Spider’s biographical material, many of the metaphysical as well as the group related experiences come from his real-life ones with his expanded family and close friends in ‘60s in Haight Ashbury.
The Lady Callahan books are definitely Poly as committed couples share their partners’ with customers of this high class brothel/ international diplomacy center. The “artists” who work there have relationships with the Lady herself other artists (some of which include legal marriage), etc. Lady Callahan’s place could itself be considered a group house since the artists and some of their partners actually do live there. Spider’s Star Dance series features very unusually configured group marriages— combining extra-terrestrials with humans, gays with straights who share mental “intercourse” etc. Eventually his proposed intentional Family includes the whole human race past, present and future. Spider has written many other stories with incidental poly themes in fictional (?) worlds where it is assumed any choice of whom and how many you love is OK. How can we use this information in our own group living and multiple committed relationship efforts?
Filk Sing follows at same location with pot luck dinner at 6 pm. Filk is folk songs of science fiction and the space age from Ballad of Apollo 13 to Naked Co-Ed Quidditch.
Please note: 10 to 12 Sunday morning at Los Con, a science fiction convention which takes place Thanksgiving weekend at the LAX Marriott will feature a Poly

Casa Valentina: ATTENTION ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLERS: If We Do Not All Hang Together, We May All Hang Separately…
2019-08-17 11:00 - 16:00 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
If We Do Not All Hang Together, We May All Hang Separately…in the Catskills of the early 1960s or on Main Street USA TODAY
There is a play being presented at the Santa Paula Theater Center through July 28, 2019. It is extremely well-written and well-acted. It has a surprise around each corner—Fascinating!
See it! http://www.santapaulatheatercenter.org/event/a8074e39e36386de49b3d6b08ed319ac
I knew it was about a resort where men came to enjoy crossdressing with others of similar interests away from wives and family—mostly. It is run by one of them whose wife is his partner in managing the resort. I expected light comedy but found Pathos instead—serious drama with nuggets of laughter. The “girls”, as they call themselves, express their inner women in ways which strike me more as transgender than simply crossdressing. The conflict spins around whether they should become more public with their “Sorority” and whether these mainly heterosexual men should publicly disavow any connection with homosexuality. This takes place in a time when crossdressing or (Heavens!) homosexuality could cost a man his career, or even a well-earned pension.
Should polyamorists make sure “everyone knows” we are not into BDSM or swinging? Should nudists disavow any interest in alternative sexuality? Is it appropriate for homosexuals and Lesbians to attend poly gatherings? Is bisexuality ok in Poly or Gay groups? All of these topics have been brought up at poly organization board meetings, informal hot tub discussions, etc. Where do YOU stand on who you are and with whom you identify?

A Day at the Beach: Topanga Beach in Malibu
2019-07-21 10:00 - 15:00 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Come join us for a Day at Topanga Beach in Malibu (where Topanga Canyon meets PCH). Bring a picnic meal for yourself…with something extra to share with the group. We will leave from the Penfield House (8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka) at 10am and caravan to the beach. Those that want to meet us there at 11am, the address is Topanga Beach 18700 Pacific Coast Hwy, Malibu, CA 90265. Call Live the Dream Hotline day of trip 818-886-0069 will be forward to Terry’s cell.

WILL YOU MULTI MARRY ME?
2019-07-20 11:00 - 16:00 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Fiction authors such as Robert A. Heinlein, Spider Robinson and Marion Zimmer Bradley have offered us marriage ceremonies for joining with more than one significant other. Terry did a very well attended workshop on this at the Heinlein Centennial Celebration in Kansas City in July 2007. We will discuss not only the ceremonies themselves, but the promises being made and the effect of the future of the relationships being committed to. In the real world, the Church of all Worlds, Loving More and others have created such vows & ceremonies for current use. We will have examples of those as well.
1 pm Pot Luck Lunch Bring something healthy and delicious to share
2-4 pm Sensitivity Exercises & Growing Closer—Verbal and non-Verbal. We may play a poly version of the UnGame… (Shaded hot tub also available)
For those that are going to Sunday’s Trip to the Beach and(or) want to spend the night, please RSVP by July 15. We have many Poly or SF themed movies available (or bring your favorite). Together we will pick out something wonderful to watch!
We will order out for dinner (pizza/Chinese/??? Group choice). Live the Dream will supply breakfast for those that spend the night.
Hot tub (clothing optional) available all evening.

SWINGING TO POLY—BLACK AND WHITE OR SHADES OF GRAY?
2019-06-15 11:00 - 16:00 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Marcus, currently in a triad with Terry and Craig Brussel Rogers, has been in two other long-term triads in his life including his first marriage. Sixty now, he has been poly all his adult life. He also attended his share of swing parties… He will be happy to answer any of your questions on the poly lifestyle.
Some poly people are former or “evolved” swingers. (YOU may even be at such a point in your life as a swinger.) Others may straddle both worlds as they attend poly gatherings and “permissive” parties. Hopefully these folks have read Bouquet of Lovers (please see full article on the CAW web site www.caw.org/content/?q=bouquet) and practice safe sex! At LifeStyles Conventions given by Wide World of Swingers from the 70s until 2011, hospitality was handled by a group of people who had known each other over many conventions. They had worked closely together on all the details of making a big convention successful for those giving it and those attending it. Some may have originally met at one of those parties which were frankly Swing parties, had sex and not asked their partner’s name. After working together for years, going to each other’s weddings and kids Bar Mitzvahs as well as social gatherings of all kinds for holidays, etc. any love making they do with each other is no longer casual and is certainly not anonymous. Even if they still call themselves swingers, they are probably poly by most definitions. Can going to swing parties be one way to introduce people to the poly life style while looking for potential love partners who may not yet know they are poly? Surprise! Some swingers think they are monogamous because they have sex but not LOVE with people at swing parties. That is why you might need the “I’m in a poly relationship” conversation as much with one of them as with someone who you (in an open committed relationship or even looking to be in one) are attracted to who has never stepped outside of monogamy.

RENAISSANCE PLEASURE FAIRE
2019-05-19 10:00 - 17:00 | Renaissance Pleasure Faire at the Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area, 15501 E, Arrow Highway, Irwindale, CA, 91706, United States
JOIN US AT 10 AM for the OPENING PARADE
Location: Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area, which is at the Irwindale exit off the 210 Freeway, just east of where the 210 and 605 Freeways cross. BARDIC PLAYS, BAWDY SONGS, PAGEANTRY, UNUSUAL FOOD, SAUCY WENCHES & OTHER DELIGHTS. Opening Parade is at 10 am –Best to meet us there and it is fun.
Other Planned activities: May Pole for the May Day ceremony 11am Queen’s Show 3 pm
More on scheduling at Faire or by phone if you RSVP (PLEASE) at LTD HOT LINE 818-886-0069.
At faire you can reach Terry’s cell phone at 818-388-5612 to connect with us on site.
