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b"Here's the link to the blog post: https://atheopaganism.wordpress.com/2022/05/21/reintegration/\\n\\xa0\\nRemember, we welcome comments, questions and suggested topics at thewonderpodcastQs@gmail.com\\n\\xa0\\nS3E19 TRANSCRIPT:----more----\\nYucca: Welcome back to the wonder science-based paganism. I'm one of your hosts Yucca.\\xa0\\nMark: And I'm the other one, mark.\\nYucca: And this week we're talking about reintegrating. With normal life after you've had some kind of experience like a retreat, which we're going to be talking about.\\nThe one we were just on or a really impactful ritual or something like that.\\nMark: There's a lot that happens in our brains when we go through these transformational peak experiences. And there are things that we can do to kind of smooth our transition back into the ordinary routines of our life and to make that emotional transition easier. So we're going to talk about that stuff today.\\xa0\\nYucca: And to be bringing some of that with us too, right. To not just be closing the door and saying that was one experience. Now, now I'm back to my other one, but being able to bring, bring the things with us that we want from that while still not living in that space all the time. Because as, as much as we want to.\\nThat's not what every day life isn't. It probably wouldn't be very good for us if that was the case anyways, to be in that open and raw and kind of heightened of experience.\\nMark: Yes. And I mean, it can be dangerous. One of the things that happens when we're really kind of blown open that way is that we tend to be really focused on our internal experience.\\nand we can make clumsy mistakes.\\xa0\\nYucca: Merging into a lane that has somebody in\\xa0\\nMark: has somebody in it. Exactly. So operating heavy machinery is not advisable immediately after going through some kind of impactful experience like that.\\nSo we're going to talk about all that, but let's start with a little reporting about the century retreat that happened last weekend, that we were both at it.\\nwas. A very powerful experience for me. The people were so kind and so open and so growth-oriented, and so no nonsense in the sense of critical thinking and science orientation.\\nIt was really, I, I, I saw this group of people. Gathered. And it was exactly the same as the picture in my mind of the non theist paganism community that I have always hoped for.\\xa0\\nYucca: yeah. It was pretty amazing. It was it was just so interesting. All of the different types of people and yet the things that many of us had in common. I personally really appreciated being around other pagan parents. And talking about just the kind of, you know, the one that, just the connection, the human connection, but also having those same kinds of themes and talking about, you know, how these were the things that we were balancing or in our families and considerate and family considerations.\\nBecause that's something that I don't find as much discussion of that in the online spaces, because there's so many different kinds of people, right. But the family orientation, isn't usually the main focus that I find in pagan spaces.\\nMark: That's really true. And I think it's especially true in in physical in-person gathered spaces because pretends to be a lot of focus on adult activity And you know, just adults playing the way adults like to play.\\xa0\\nYucca: There's practical reasons for that, right? Yeah.\\nMark: For sure. That said If this is going to be a multi-generational movement, you have to incorporate the next generations.\\nRight. And so there has to be a place for children and there has to be things for them to do. And the, the rituals, the symbolic activities need to be comprehensible. To children, there needs to be some reason why they would participate. So I was super glad that we had a, a workshop. Building a wheel of the year with your family.\\nFor example, John Cleveland hosts workshop. And there were fun activities like body painting and things like that, that you know, face painting and all that good"