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:17165@uucpa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260328T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260328T170000 DTSTAMP:20260321T135450Z URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/resonant-reading-saturday-2026-03-28/ SUMMARY:Resonant Reading (Saturday)-End of the clockwork universe— Ehrenr eich DESCRIPTION:Resonant Reading (Saturday)-End of the clockwork universe— Eh renreich 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 participan ts over the years have found that the approach we take\, and the respectfu l\, affectionate community of inquirers in which we read and converse\, ar e 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 righ t in to the conversation. Those who are frequently in the group get to kno w each other very well this way\, and those who are new will soon find the y are among friends.\n\n\n\nFacilitators use a light hand\, posting the re ading in the chat and calling on whoever's Zoom hand is up. Suggestions fo r readings* come from group members\, who also take turns facilitating\, i f they want to try that role.\n\nThe reading for this session: Saturday\, March 28\, 2026\n\n\n\n\nThe “new physics” was a mockery of the whole Cartesian\, Newtonian edifice of knowledge … in which one thing inexorab ly leads to another and nothing is going to leap out and poke you in the e ye. If the behavior of the smallest particles was indeterminable\, then\, in some way… everything else was up for grabs too. You could spend your whole life making precise measurements\, plugging them into equations\, re peating experiments\, and never for one moment letting your mind drift tow ard the unseeable and incommunicable. You could be the most sober\, straig ht-arrow scientist in the world\, utterly intent on your work and immune t o religion or fiction or whimsy—and still\, what you’d finally see at the bottom of it all\, in the highest-resolution photomicrograph or telesc opic image\, was a grinning monkey face staring back at you\, the face of your own incurable ignorance\, if you like\, or the face of something infi nitely alien.\nBarbara Ehrenreich (2014)\, Living With a Wild God\, p. 101 .\n \;\n\n\nHow to join:\n\n Join this class from your Web browser: h ttps://zoom.us/j/91019857324\, passcode 227385\n Join this class using th e Zoom app: Meeting ID: 910 1985 7324\n Join this class by phone: 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\, Meeting ID: 910 1985 7324\n Join this class by on-t ap on mobile phones: +16699009128\,\,91019857324# US (San Jose)\n Phoning in\, but not in the bay area?  Find your local number: https://zoom.us/ u/abL8clvIYT\n\nThis is the Zoom link for Saturdays. For the Wednesday Zoo m link\, go to the Calendar and click on a Wednesday session.\n\nQuestions ? Drop an e-mail to resonant-reading+owner@uucpa.org.\n\n\n \;\n\n*Thi s activity was formerly called "Sacred Text Reading." That proved misleadi ng--for 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 the readings we choose. It is any reading that helps us to:\n\n connec t to something of supreme importance to us\n feel more connected to other beings 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 au thentically 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:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR