Seattle Atheist Church

Let's get together before church and discuss this week's passages from The Daily Stoic! Each day of the year has a corresponding "devotional reading" (so to speak). Each week we discuss the readings since our previous meeting, from the previous Monday through the Sunday of the meeting, and share what resonated with us, what we found profound, and what insights we can apply to what's going on in our lives.

Each reading is about 3 minutes long. They're all self-contained, so you don't need to worry about catching up - feel free to jump in on any week's session!

The Divided Brain and the Voice of God–the effects of different ways of ascribing meaning to the voices in our heads

(This talk will draw on or touch on the topics of ancient and modern religion, split-brain studies, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, indigenous and majority-culture schizophrenics, dissociative identity disorder, the god module, The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind)

This talk falls under the Virtue of WISDOM & KNOWLEDGE: Open-mindedness, Curiosity, Love of Learning, Perspective, Creativity

This week's speaker will be Eva-Lise Carlstrom.

After the talk, we'll have a group discussion to explore the ideas presented, and to share related thoughts, resources, and personal experiences.

Let's get together before church and discuss this week's passages from The Daily Stoic! Each day of the year has a corresponding "devotional reading" (so to speak). Each week we discuss the readings since our previous meeting, from the previous Monday through the Sunday of the meeting, and share what resonated with us, what we found profound, and what insights we can apply to what's going on in our lives.

Each reading is about 3 minutes long. They're all self-contained, so you don't need to worry about catching up - feel free to jump in on any week's session!

People talk a lot about having "healthy boundaries" -- but what does that actually mean? What makes a boundary "healthy"? For that matter... what makes it a boundary at all? And what stops someone from saying, "My boundary is that I get to yell at you" or "my boundary is that you have to give me half of your money so that it's fair"?

In this talk, we'll cover how to distinguish a boundary from a request and why it's so important that we do so. And we'll talk about how to tell when someone is abusing the concept of "healthy boundaries" in order to gain unhealthy power over you.

This week's speaker will be Mikki Phoenix.

After the talk, we'll have a group discussion to explore the ideas presented, and to share related thoughts, resources, and personal experiences.