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:17160@uucpa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260221T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260221T170000 DTSTAMP:20260211T191513Z URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/resonant-reading-saturday-2026-02-21/ SUMMARY:Resonant Reading (Saturday)-Expressive Ritual-Langer DESCRIPTION:Resonant Reading (Saturday)-Expressive Ritual-Langer An explor ation of ideas\, feelings\, and our life experiences\, using a different s hort 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 h ave found that the approach we take\, and the respectful\, affectionate co mmunity of inquirers in which we read and converse\, are as important as t he 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 convers ation. Those who are frequently in the group get to know each other very w ell this way\, and those who are new will soon find they are among friends .\n\n\n\nFacilitators use a light hand\, posting the reading in the chat a nd calling on whoever's Zoom hand is up. Suggestions for readings* come fr om group members\, who also take turns facilitating\, if they want to try that role.\n\nThe reading for this session: Saturday\, February 21\, 2026\ n\n\nSpeech is the mark of humanity. … But in fact\, speech is the natur al outcome of only one kind of symbolic process. There are transformations of experience in the human mind that have quite different overt endings. They end in acts that are neither practical nor communicative … I mean t he actions we call ritual.\nHuman life is shot through and through with ri tual…. It is an intricate fabric of reason and rite\, of knowledge and r eligion\, prose and poetry\, fact and dream. [In addition to] verbal symbo lism\, … all other instinctive acts may serve the expressive function. E ating\, traveling\, asking or answering questions\, construction\, destruc tion\, prostitution—any or all such activities may enter into rites\; ye t rites in themselves are not practical\, but expressive. Ritual … is bo rn in the cortex\, not in the “old brain”\; but it is born of an eleme ntary need of that organ\, once the organ has grown to human estate.\nSuza nne K. Langer (1942)\, Philosophy in a New Key\, pp. 48-49.\n \;\n\n\n How 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: Meet ing ID: 910 1985 7324\n Join this class by phone: 669 900 9128 US (San Jo se)\, Meeting ID: 910 1985 7324\n Join this class by on-tap on mobile pho nes: +16699009128\,\,91019857324# US (San Jose)\n Phoning in\, but not in the bay area?  Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abL8clvIYT\n\n This is the Zoom link for Saturdays. For the Wednesday Zoom link\, go to t he Calendar and click on a Wednesday session.\n\nQuestions? Drop an e-mail to resonant-reading+owner@uucpa.org.\n\n\n \;\n\n*This activity was f ormerly called "Sacred Text Reading." That proved misleading--for one thin g\, 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 the readings we choose. It is any reading that helps us to:\n\n connect to something o f supreme importance to us\n feel more connected to other beings or to th e universe\n feel more intensely alive\n align our lives with our values \,\n perceive or feel more deeply\n be more fully and authentically ours elves.\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