BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:18423@uucpa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261007T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261007T130000 DTSTAMP:20261001T230841Z URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/resonant-reading-wednesday-2-2026-10-07/ SUMMARY:Resonant Reading (Wednesday)-Symbol of Empty Boxes-Kastrup DESCRIPTION:Resonant Reading (Wednesday)-Symbol of Empty Boxes-Kastrup An exploration of ideas\, feelings\, and our life experiences\, using a diffe rent short reading as our springboard each time. The sessions are on Satur days\, 4-5\, and on Wednesdays\, 12-1. All are wide open and you are welco me to come twice a week or once in a while.\n\n\nThe reading for this sess ion: Wednesday\, October 7th\n\nClearly\, we once knew with intuitive cl arity that which we can no longer remember. In today’s culture we take t he package for the content\, the vehicle for the precious cargo. We attrib ute reality to physical phenomena while taking their meanings to inconsequ ential fantasies. By extricating ‘reality’ from mind\, materialism has sent the significance of nature into exile. With the pathetic grin of hub ris stamped on our foolish faces\, we carefully unwrap the package and the n proceed to throw away its contents while proudly storing the empty box o n the altar of our ontology. What a huge stash of empty boxes have we accu mulated! Idols of stupidity they are\; public reminders of a state of affa irs that would be hilarious if it weren't tragic.\n―Bernardo Kastrup\, W hy Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There is no Death and Fa thom Answers to Life\, the Universe and Everything\n\n\nThe participants o ver 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 che ck-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 ea ch other very well this way\, and those who are new will soon find they ar e among friends.\n\n\n\nFacilitators use a light hand\, posting the readin g in the chat and calling on whoever's Zoom hand is up. Suggestions for re adings* come from group members\, who also take turns facilitating\, if th ey 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 clas s by phone: 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) Meeting ID: 968 6580 8923\n Join t his class by one-tap on mobile phones: 6699006833\,\,96865808923#  (San J ose)\n Phoning in\, but not in the Bay Area?  Find your local number: ht tps://zoom.us/u/abL8clvIYT\n\nThis is the Zoom link for Wednesdays. For th e 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 one thing\, more often than not our sources are sec ular--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 of supreme importance to us\n feel more con nected 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 mo re fully and authentically 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