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:16861@uucpa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250618T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250618T130000 DTSTAMP:20250614T223205Z URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/resonant-reading-2025-06-18/ 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\, June 18th\n\nWe must say that society is n ot at all the illogical or a-logical\, incoherent and fantastic being whic h it has too often been considered. Quite on the contrary\, the collective consciousness is the highest form of the psychic life\, since it is the c onsciousness of the consciousnesses. Being placed outside of and above ind ividual and local contingencies\, it sees things only in their permanent a nd essential aspects\, which it crystallizes into communicable ideas. At t he same time that it sees from above\, it sees farther\; at every moment o f time\, it embraces all known reality\; that is why it alone can furnish the mind with the moulds which are applicable to the totality of things an d which make it possible to think of them. It does not create these moulds artificially\; it finds them within itself\; it does nothing but become c onscious of them.\n—Émile Durkheim\, The Elementary Forms of the Religi ous Life\n\n\n \;\n\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: 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) Meeting ID: 968 6580 8923\n J oin this class by one-tap on mobile phones: 6699006833\,\,96865808923#  ( San Jose)\n Phoning in\, but not in the Bay Area?  Find your local numbe r: https://zoom.us/u/abL8clvIYT\n\nThis is the Zoom link for Wednesdays. F or the Zoom link for Saturday\, go to Calendar and click on a Saturday ses sion.\n\n\nQuestions? Drop an e-mail to resonant-reading+owner@uucpa.org.\ n\n\n \;\n\n*This activity was formerly called "Sacred Text Reading." That proved misleading--for one thing\, more often than not our sources ar e secular--but it's worth describing the qualities of a sacred text\, whic h we still look for in the readings we choose. It is any reading that help s us to:\n\n connect to something of supreme importance to us\n feel mor e connected to other beings or to the universe\n feel more intensely aliv e\n align our lives with our values\,\n perceive or feel more deeply\n be more fully and authentically 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:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR