Resonant Reading (Saturday)-Pillars of Creation

An exploration of ideas, feelings, and our life experiences, using a different short reading as our springboard 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 once in a while.

The participants over the years have found that the approach 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 long, Resonant Reading jumps right in to the conversation. Those who are frequently in the group get to know each other very well this way, and those who are new will soon find they are among friends.

Facilitators use 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 also take turns facilitating, if they want to try that role.

The reading for this session: Saturday (12/20 at 4PM)

The test will be this famous photo from the Hubble Telescope of the Eagle Nebula and its “Pillars of Creation”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillars_of_Creation#/media/File:Pillars_of_creation_2014_HST_WFC3-UVIS_full-res_denoised.jpg.

Here’s a short description of what the photo shows: The Eagle Nebula is a cloud of gas and dust about 7000 light years away from Earth. At the edge of this cloud, denser of clumps of gas and dust are collapsing into stars. It takes about 1 million years for one of these stars to ignite its fusion process. Then the heat of the fusion disperses the neighboring gas and erodes the pillars. In about 3 million years, the pillars will be gone.

We may also discuss this translation by Robert Alter of Genesis: When God began to create heaven and earth, and the earth then was welter and waste and darkness over the deep and God’s breath hovering over the waters, God said, “Let there be light.” And there was light.

How to join:

• Join this class from your Web browser: https://zoom.us/j/91019857324, passcode 227385
• Join this class using the Zoom app: Meeting ID: 910 1985 7324
• Join this class by phone: 669 900 9128 US (San Jose), Meeting ID: 910 1985 7324
• Join this class by on-tap on mobile phones: +16699009128,,91019857324# US (San Jose)
• Phoning in, but not in the bay area?  Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abL8clvIYT

This is the Zoom link for Saturdays. For the Wednesday Zoom link, go to the Calendar and click on a Wednesday session.

Questions? Drop an e-mail to resonant-reading+owner@uucpa.org.