BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.2.1//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:16456@uucpa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241023T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241023T130000 DTSTAMP:20241023T185624Z URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/resonant-reading-2024-10-23/ SUMMARY:Resonant Reading (Wednesday) DESCRIPTION:Resonant Reading (Wednesday) An exploration of ideas\, feeling s\, and our life experiences\, using a different short reading as our spri ngboard each time. The sessions are on Saturdays\, 4-5\, and on Wednesdays \, 12-1. All are wide open and you are welcome to come twice a week or onc e in a while.\n\nThe participants over the years have found that the appro ach we take\, and the respectful\, affectionate community of inquirers in which we read and converse\, are as important as the reading itself. While many small groups begin with a check-in\, with a session only an hour lon g\, Resonant Reading jumps right in to the conversation. Those who are fre quently in the group get to know each other very well this way\, and those who are new will soon find they are among friends.\n\n\n\nFacilitators us e a light hand\, posting the reading in the chat and calling on whoever's Zoom hand is up. Suggestions for readings* come from group members\, who a lso take turns facilitating\, if they want to try that role.\n\nThe readin g for this session\, Wednesday\, October 23\, 2024:\n\n\nMany systems oper ate across both analog and digital regimes. A tree integrates a wide range of inputs as continuous functions\, but\, if you cut down that tree\, you find that it has been counting the years digitally all along.\n\nNature u ses digital coding for the storage\, replication\, and recombination of se quences of nucleotides but relies on analog computing running on nervous s ystems for intelligence and control. The genetic system in every living ce ll is a stored program computer. Brains aren't.\n\n—George Dyson\, histo rian of science and technology\, in Possible Minds by John Brockman\n  \;\n\nHow to join:\n\n\n\n Join this class from your Web browser: https:/ /zoom.us/j/96865808923\, passcode 227385\n Join this class using the Zoom app: Meeting ID: 968 6580 8923\n Join this class by phone: +1 669 900 68 33 US (San Jose) Meeting ID: 968 6580 8923\n Join this class by one-tap o n mobile phones: +16699006833\,\,96865808923#  (San Jose)\n Phoning in\, but not in the Bay Area?  Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abL8 clvIYT\n\nThis is the Zoom link for Wednesdays. For the Zoom link for Satu rday\, go to Calendar and click on a Saturday session.\n\n\nQuestions? Dro p an e-mail to resonant-reading+owner@uucpa.org.\n\n\n \;\n\n*This act ivity was formerly called "Sacred Text Reading." That proved misleading--f or one thing\, more often than not our sources are secular--but it's worth describing the qualities of a sacred text\, which we still look for in th e readings we choose. It is any reading that helps us to:\n\n connect to something of supreme importance to us\n feel more connected to other bein gs or to the universe\n feel more intensely alive\n align our lives with our values\,\n perceive or feel more deeply\n be more fully and authent ically ourselves.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.uucpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09 /Resonant-Reading.png CATEGORIES:Adult,Learning,Ongoing Events,Small Groups END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR