Art, Science, Religion, Spirituality
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### Art, Science, Religion, Spirituality
6 Tuesday Evenings
Beginning February 17 and ending March 24 • 6:00 to 7:30pm
An exploration of David White's book Art, Science, Religion, Spirituality: Seeking Wisdom and Harmony for a Fulfilling Life. Each week we will delve into the readings from the book, share our insights and have deep discussions.
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> We humans tend to create categories around which to organize our thoughts, but we don't live from those categories. Living happens from a moving center that includes every imaginable aspect of life: the psychological, political, emotional, rational, cultural, sexual, spiritual, religious, scientific, artistic, sociological, economic, and more. It can be valuable to study the separate parts, but the only way to a fulfilled life is to act and move from the point of intersection that contains them all.
> Swirling around this center are many currents that arise from both the world outside and from within ourselves. Everyone has motivations and expectations involving food, shelter, sex, pleasure, adventure, power, wealth, fame, achievement, relationship, spiritual fulfillment, and on and on. It is not hard to think about these separately, but at the living edge, where life happens, these currents do not exist in individual boxes that can be examined one by one; rather, they constantly mix and mingle. Nor do these thought-boxes have actual boundaries, but only arbitrary and shifting shades of distinction.
> It is no wonder, then, that the major fields of human knowledge began with an interrelated search for the good, the true, and the beautiful. A core motivation we humans have always had, beyond taking care of our basic needs, has been to find a meaningful and fulfilled life. From our beginnings, this has involved finding wisdom concerning what is good, knowledge about what is true, and a relationship to that which is harmonious and beautiful. For thousands of years, the world's wisdom traditions have said that there is more to life than the everyday things on which we spend much of our time, and many of the best and brightest have taken up the challenge and pursued wisdom.