For me, it’s hard to narrow down as all the rituals/ceremonies were beautiful for different reasons. I think my fave was the Cosmic Walk - it’s quite mind blowing to sit and contemplate such an expansive time scale.
I was awed by John’s ability to recite poetry on a whim too! What a mind! 
@AndrewP I saw you just did DE at Narara, so I thought this might be a good question for you to answer! I did it last August, and it’s still quite hard to articulate the ongoing impacts it had on me. It definitely changed me, and I made some great friends (ping @Andy @Jacs 
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I can see why people return and do them multiple times. The truth mandala alone.. we have so few opportunities to truly express our grief, fear, anger, sadness about the predicament we are in.
One of the many nice things that has come from it – I am building a cosmic walk in my garden. My teens have been really engaged and hopefully my 18yo will write some music for it!
Hi Ally,
Thanks for asking. Still feeling like I’m processing (resting and digesting, only I’m not resting, way too much going on atm) the weekend.
I was likewise awed by John’s spontanous recall of poetry, some of it quite complex. I can see myself coming back to future DEs (esp. in Narara, which is where we’ll be living in the future, All Going Well). And I’m wondering where a Cosmic Spiral might fit into the Narara Ecovillage (NEV) landscape…
But to give some context, I’m a lapsed meditator who still practised a lot of mindfulness and professed a lot of love of the environment (leading to the awful paradox of flying around the world to beautiful places to hike there. Travel is compounded by our only grandchildren living in Scandinavia). Earlier this year we did two week-long retreats with the Plum Village monastics. One a hiking week based around Plum Village in Dordogne, and the second around the corner in Andorra, this time with snowshoes. The practices of engaged mindfulness, the practices and values of the DE rituals and conversations, and indeed many of those of NEV all seem to me to be the same practice, or at least support each other.
I’m inspired enough to come back up to Narara this weekend for the IDE week.