BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.0.1//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:18414@uucpa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260805T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260805T130000 DTSTAMP:20260730T012514Z URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/resonant-reading-wednesday-2-2026-08-05/ SUMMARY:Resonant Reading (Wednesday)-Talk less\, Draw more-Huxley DESCRIPTION:Resonant Reading (Wednesday)-Talk less\, Draw more-Huxley An e xploration of ideas\, feelings\, and our life experiences\, using a differ ent short reading as our springboard each time. The sessions are on Saturd ays\, 4-5\, and on Wednesdays\, 12-1. All are wide open and you are welcom e to come twice a week or once in a while.\n\n\nThe reading for this sessi on: Wednesday\, August 5th\n\nIn Goethe’s phrase\, ‘the word is essent ially fruitful.’ He is the man who feels that ‘what we perceive by the eye is foreign to us as such and need not impress us deeply.’ And yet\, though himself an intellectual and one of the supreme masters of language \, Goethe did not always agree with his own evaluation of the word. ‘We talk\,’ he wrote in middle life\, ‘far too much. We should talk less a nd draw more. I personally should like to renounce speech altogether and\, like organic Nature\, communicate everything I have to say in sketches. T hat fig tree\, this little snake\, the cocoon on my window sill quietly aw aiting its future—all these are momentous signatures. A person able to d ecipher their meaning properly would soon be able to dispense with the wri tten or the spoken word altogether. The more I think of it\, there is some thing futile\, mediocre\, even (I am tempted to say) foppish about speech. By contrast\, how the gravity of Nature and her silence startle you\, whe n you stand face to face with her\, undistracted\, before a barren ridge o r in the desolation of the ancient hills.’ \n—as cited in The Doors of Perception\, Aldous Huxley\n\nThe 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 on ly an hour long\, Resonant Reading jumps right in to the conversation. Tho se who are frequently in the group get to know each other very well this w ay\, and those who are new will soon find they are among friends.\n\n\n\nF acilitators 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 m embers\, who also take turns facilitating\, if they want to try that role. \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 Join this class by one-tap on m obile phones: 6699006833\,\,96865808923#  (San Jose)\n Phoning in\, but not in the Bay Area?  Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abL8clvIY T\n\nThis is the Zoom link for Wednesdays. For the Zoom link for Saturday\ , go to Calendar and click on a Saturday session.\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 on e thing\, more often than not our sources are secular--but it's worth desc ribing the qualities of a sacred text\, which we still look for in the rea dings we choose. It is any reading that helps us to:\n\n connect to somet hing 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 authenticall y 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