Live The Dream

Getting the Love & Friendship You Desire (and making what you already have even better!)
2017-11-18 11:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States

ALL HALLOWS EVE with pot luck dinner & party
2017-10-27 18:30 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Samhain Ritual

The night’s events will go from 6:30 pm until it ends (i.e. LATE)
7:30-8:30 PM ALL HALLOWS EVE Samhain ritual, led by our High Priestess, Ealswythe. (Outside under the stars) … Bring something you want to let go of-a symbol or written note. It will be cleansed in the cauldron’s flame.
This is the time in the year when the veil between our world and the spirit world is the thinnest, and we can concentrate on contacting our loved ones who have passed away, and make Magick happen in our lives! Ealswythe has studied the Tarot and Palmistry, and she has also led many people through visualizations of their past lives. A firm believer that by trying to understand the things out there, that cannot be seen by “normal” vision, we can enhance our lives, she has also sought an understanding of the Spirit World, and how to communicate and receive messages from them. Currently, she has been studying the Quantum Theory to understand Parallel Universes. She has written a play about a woman who accidentally falls into a parallel universe, and finds that she is married to a different husband!

Costume as ye will and/or be body painted in some beautiful and unusual way by a friend (body paint supplied by LTD).
9pm on: A dynamite performance by Ealswythe as Frank’n’Furter, performing “Sweet Transvestite”! You will think you’re watching “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”- LIVE!
You are welcome to do some sort of dramatic or funny presentation appropriate to your costume. Be creative! Must call LTD hotline to arrange for this.
We will close with the Rocky Horror movie on our big screen TV —IT’S TRADITION!
HOT TUB AVAILABLE ALL EVENING–CLOTHING OPTIONAL Bring towel and sandals.
For the Pot Luck: Live the Dream supplies homemade chicken soup, breads, spreads and hot apple cider.
Please bring a dish big enough for 10.
A-F Your favorite Meat, cheese, nut, fish or other delicious protein dish.
G-M Juices or fresh fruit.
N-R Salads.
S-Z Desserts and treats.

Halloween Party…

…follows. Costume as ye will and/or be body painted in some beautiful and unusual way by a friend (body paint supplied by LTD).

9:00 on: A dynamite performance by Ealswythe as Frank’n’Furter, performing “Sweet Transvestite”! You will think you’re watching “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” – LIVE!

You are welcome to do some sort of dramatic or funny presentation appropriate to your costume. Be creative! Must call LTD hotline to arrange for this.

We will close with the Rocky Horror movie on our Big screen TV — IT’S TRADITION!

HOT TUB AVAILABLE ALL EVENING — CLOTHING OPTIONAL Bring towel and sandals

Please RSVP to 818-886-0069 so we know how many will be attending!

Live the Dream’s 30th Anniversary Year
2017-09-15 10:00 - 2017-09-17 16:00 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
We will feature excerpts from Fifty Years of Polyamory by Glen Olson and Terry Brussel
(being offered to publishers at this writing) throughout the year!
Confirmed: Oberon Zell, founder of the Church of All Worlds, will be our Keynote speaker on Saturday September 16 10 am for Live the Dream’s 30 anniversary!

Glen Olson speaks to us about Fifty Years of Polyamory Through Our Eyes Saturday at 2 pm.
Sensitivity exercises for Growing Closer verbal and non-verbal Friday night and throughout weekend when other things are not happening.
Sensual couple and group massage Saturday Night led by Terry and Craig.
The event will take place at Penfield House in Winnetka. Some crash space is available in the house by prearrangement with tent camping available (even a limited number of tents including a couple big enough for 6 people) by calling ahead in the front and back yards.
Close by motels are another option if you wish greater comfort.
Access to showers and Hot Tub available all week end.
Friday night dinner LTD provides homemade chicken soup + Pot Luck
Breakfast Saturday LTD provides omelets + Pot Luck
Lunch Saturday LTD provides Salmon and Tuna salad + Pot Luck.
We will order Pizza Saturday night—provided by LTD.
Brunch of Fruit, Cream Cheese and Bagels Sunday is provided by Live the Dream.
You bring a dish big enough for 10 as well as snacks for yourself and to share.
A-F Your favorite Meat, cheese, nut, fish or other delicious protein dish
G-M Juices or fresh fruit
N-R Salads
S-Z Desserts and treats.
Price for this event is $75 for a single, couples $120 until 8-17-17. After that, singles $100 and couples $160. Call 818-886-0069 to put this on a credit card or send checks made out to Live The Dream to 8515 Penfield Ave. Winnetka, Calif 91306

Swinging to Poly - Black and White or Shades of Gray?
2017-08-19 11:00 - 16:00 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Led by Marcus Brussel Jenkins. Some poly people are former or “evolved” swingers. They discovered they wanted more from a relationship than the sex alone could give them. 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 website)and practice safe sex! At Life Styles Conventions given by Wide World of Swingers, 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. Might 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?
Pot Luck Lunch 1 pm
Socializing, shaded hot tub, etc. 2-4 pm

Will You Multi Marry Me?
2017-07-15 11:00 - 16:00 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Fiction authors such as Heinlein, Spider Robinson and Marion Zimmer Bradley have offered us marriage ceremonies for joining with more than one significant other. 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.
6 pm on Pot luck dinner followed by FILK— (science fiction folk songs) from such serious ones as Ballad of Apollo 13 to the outrageously funny Star Trek filk song ‘Banned from Argo’. We have some specifically poly ones, too, including those based on Heinlein’s writings. Ask for your favorite topic or science fiction book and flikers will find or create it!

WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME, Will You Still Need me, Will You Still Feed me WHEN I’M 64?
2017-06-17 11:00 - 16:00 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
THIS IS LIVE THE DREAM’S 30TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR! SPECIAL WEEKEND LONG EVENT IS PLANNED FOR SEPTEMBER 15, 16 AND 17TH (FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON). MORE ON THIS IN THE NEXT NEWSLETTER.
Registration for Califur is CLOSED. For more information go here.

Califur the 13th Terry presents: Live The Dream
2017-05-21 11:00 - 12:00 | Sheraton Fairplex Hotel, 601 W McKinley Avenue, Pomona, CA, 91768, United States
Vineyard Ballroom 3 & 4: Terry will be presenting:Live The Dream
Ever felt it was possible to love more than one special person? Had fantasies of multiple lovers in your bed, in your life? Have you read and been fascinated by such books as Time Enough for Love (Heinlein), Spell Sword/Forbidden Tower (Bradley) or the Dragon Riders of Pern books (Ann McCaffery). People like us do not just exist in Science Fiction books! We’ll help you find out how to choose your most joyous lifestyle and live your Dreams…
Registration for Califur is CLOSED. For more information go here.

Califur the 13th Terry presents: HYPNOFANTASY! Become Your Identifying Animal in your body, mind and spirit!
2017-05-21 10:00 - 11:00 | Sheraton Fairplex Hotel, 601 W McKinley Avenue, Pomona, CA, 91768, United States
Vineyard Ballroom 3 & 4; Terry will be presenting: HYPNOFANTASY!
Become Your Identifying Animal in your body, mind and spirit!

Shifting Realities, The Mandela Effect and Number Of The Beast
2017-05-20 11:00 - 16:00
Led by Linda Fitack and Terry Lee Brussel
Linda has written a book called the Mandela Effect. (click here: www.amazon.com/Mandela-Effect-Confabulation-Fact-ebook/dp/B01I7V60YS). It is not science fiction, but is about the result of experiments being done by real scientists which are creating micro black holes. This is causing individuals to shift from one possible reality which they were born into to other realities which may differ only insofar as where you put your keys or so different as to contain major bridges where there were none and differing size and location of continents.
Terry is a certified clinical hypnotherapist (since 1969) who has done psychic readings on parallel lives and taught workshops in how to be aware of one’s own parallel selves living concurrently with us in realities where you made a different decision about what your career would be or who you would marry. This is real, too, rather than fantasy, and has been proven fact as Terry’s knowledge from other realities can be used in this one situation where she had no other access to that knowledge than her window into another reality.
How does this relate to polyamory? Considering the shifting of realities and the different versions of your lifemate(s) you may have already encountered without realizing it, we may all be poly! Heinlein’s Number of the Beast and To Sail Beyond the Sunset offer alternate realities, group marriages which have members from several of them in the same group, and things we can use to
make our multiple relationships in the real(?) world work.
Pot Luck lunch 1 pm
Socializing in clothing optional hot tub 2-4

LTD Outing to Renaissance Pleasure Faire at Santa Fe Dam in Irwindale
2017-05-14 10:00 - 18:00
Gather round the Maypole! Lunch with the Green Man and admire the deliciously displayed serving wenches. Enjoy robust Shakespearian theater and heavenly dulcimer music. We will meet at Opening. Opening parade is at 10am.Mothers will be honored at opening and throughout Faire this weekend—bring yours or let your kids bring you. Let us know you will be joining us and we can make plans together—LTD hot line. To connect at the Faire, Terry can be reached at 818-388-5612.

Alternative Dating Etiquette & Group Living - ROOM AVAILABLE in PENFIELD HOUSE!
2017-04-15 11:00 - 16:00 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
What do you do when your wife brings her lover home for dinner? Who sleeps where if he offers (or is invited) to stay overnight? If your wife is sick on a night you’ve got a date, should you cancel and stay home with her? Should your girl friend keep you company if you do stay home? Is it proper poly behavior to bring a lady home for dinner with your wife before taking her to bed or only if considering a serious long term relationship with her? Should a residential triad (one woman & two men for example) sleep all together or alternate between joining the lady in her bed? Emily Post did not cover this stuff, but we will!
Note: the real answer to all these questions is that they involve agreements between those involved in a couple, triad or larger group marriage. All of this is negotiable–preferably before the situation arises…
1 pm Pot luck lunch
2 – 4 pm Socializing in clothing optional hot tub.
ROOM AVAILABLE in PENFIELD HOUSE – click here for details.

Passover Seder, Lead By Rob Milander And Ivan Frankel
2017-04-10 19:00 - 23:00 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Call Terry to RSVP before 4/3/17 at (818) 886-0069 to arrange what to bring for the Seder or to attend without a food contribution. We need time to plan things and shop for supplies.
This is a Celebration of Freedom!
This holiday commemorates the first time one People (the Jews) freed itself from bondage to another People (the Egyptians). We’ll do this this with plenty of group participation! You don’t have to read Hebrew for this or even be Jewish. Whether you want to learn more about your own heritage, just share this special holiday with those you care about, or discover a cultural experience new to you, you are welcome! This is a coordinated pot luck since it requires special foods. This event is FREE to one clean up coordinator, one serving coordinator, and the single or couple who volunteers to bring 5 pounds of lamb or 10 pounds of chicken.
Cost: $8.00 with arranged food contribution and one bottle of kosher wine for each adult in your party, one bottle of grape juice for each child. $18 each without food contribution + bring beverage. Children under thirteen free with food, $5 without.
You can arrive 6 – 7 pm to socialize and help with preparations. Seder itself starts at 7:00 pm.

Poly Next Generation and Happy St Patrick’s Day!
2017-03-17 - 2017-03-18 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Poly Next Generation and Happy St Patrick’s Day!
Richard and his wife Devon discuss their lifestyle which is alternative in more ways than one. Devon is several years older than her husband. Their marriage is an open one and both
of them are bi. Richard’s parents lived the poly lifestyle as he was growing up. His Mother, Mary, will share a bit about that…
1 pm Pot luck lunch
Bring fresh fruit, salads and your favorite Irish dishes to go with the corn beef and cabbage provided by LTD.
2 – 3:30 pm
Spring Equinox Ritual
led by our High Priestess Ealswythe!
3:30 – 5:00
Socializing in the hot tub with Irish Music playing
The spring equinox is one of the four great solar festivals of the year. Day and night are equal, poised and balanced, but about to tip over on the side of light. The spring equinox is sacred to dawn, youth, the morning star and the east. The Saxon goddess, Eostre (from whose name we get the direction East and the holiday Easter) is a dawn goddess, like Aurora and Eos. Just as the dawn is the time of new light, so the vernal equinox is the time of new life.

All Live the Dream events are 11am – 4pm on 3rd Saturdays
8515 Penfield Ave in Winnetka, Ca. 91306 (unless otherwise specified).
New: Donation suggested for parties (not including Passover) and regular day time meetings: Ladies Free with potluck dish. Gentlemen: non-members $10 Members $5 Bring something for the pot luck.
