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:17155@uucpa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260117T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260117T170000 DTSTAMP:20260112T163255Z URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/resonant-reading-saturday-2026-01-17/ SUMMARY:Resonant Reading (Saturday)-Immortal Significance-William James DESCRIPTION:Resonant Reading (Saturday)-Immortal Significance-William James 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.\n\nThe participants over the years have found that the approach we take\, and the respectful\, affe ctionate community of inquirers in which we read and converse\, are as imp ortant as the reading itself. While many small groups begin with a check-i n\, 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 o ther very well this way\, and those who are new will soon find they are am ong friends.\n\n\n\nFacilitators use a light hand\, posting the reading in the chat and calling on whoever's Zoom hand is up. Suggestions for readin gs* come from group members\, who also take turns facilitating\, if they w ant to try that role.\n\nThe reading for this session: Saturday\, January 17\, 2025\n\n\nThe lustre of the present hour is always borrowed from the background of possibilities it goes with. Let our common experiences be en veloped in an eternal moral order\; let our suffering have an immortal sig nificance\; let Heaven smile upon the earth\, and deities pay their visits \; let faith and hope be the atmosphere which man breathes in\; —and his days pass by with zest\; they stir with prospects\, they thrill with remo ter values. Place round them on the contrary the curdling cold and gloom a nd absence of all permanent meaning which for pure naturalism and the popu lar science evolutionism of our time are all that is visible ultimately\, and the thrill stops short\, or turns rather to an anxious trembling.\n\nW illiam James\, Varieties of Religious Experience\, p. 141.\n\n \;\n\n\ nHow to join:\n\n Join this class from your Web browser: https://zoom.us/ j/91019857324\, passcode 227385\n Join this class using the Zoom app: Mee ting ID: 910 1985 7324\n Join this class by phone: 669 900 9128 US (San J ose)\, Meeting ID: 910 1985 7324\n Join this class by on-tap on mobile ph ones: +16699009128\,\,91019857324# US (San Jose)\n Phoning in\, but not i n the bay area?  Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abL8clvIYT\n\ nThis is the Zoom link for Saturdays. For the Wednesday Zoom link\, go to the Calendar and click on a Wednesday session.\n\nQuestions? Drop an e-mai l to resonant-reading+owner@uucpa.org.\n\n\n \;\n\n*This activity was formerly called "Sacred Text Reading." That proved misleading--for one thi ng\, more often than not our sources are secular--but it's worth describin g the qualities of a sacred text\, which we still look for in the 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 beings or to t he universe\n feel more intensely alive\n align our lives with our value s\,\n perceive or feel more deeply\n be more fully and authentically our selves.\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:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR