Philosophical self-inquiry meeting

This Meeting Location: Foundation Room - 2nd floor.

Topic: Finding Our Way Home

Objective: Solve the existential riddle (and big problem) of life and death.
Direction: Inquire into the core of being.

"Home is where the heart is." ~ origin sometimes attributed to Pliny the Elder; the first known reference using the exact modern wording appeared in the American novel Scandal by J. T. Bickford (1857).

- Home: the place where one lives permanently; the place from which something originates. ~ Oxford Languages

"I stood in the middle of the world and I appeared to them in the flesh. I found them all drunk. I found none that were thirsty. And my soul was troubled for the children of men, for they are blind in their hearts, and they do not see that they came empty into the world." ~ The Gospel of Thomas; see Douglas Harding’s "A Jesus for Our Time."

- Prodigal: a person who leaves home and behaves recklessly but later makes a repentant return. ~ Oxford Languages

"I maintain that the nostalgic mood becomes the language of the soul. It is the inner man trying to get through the earth-man's paradigm, to communicate with him." ~ Richard Rose, The Direct-Mind Experience, "Lecture on Moods"

- Nostalgia: from Greek nostos ‘return home’ + algos ‘pain’. ~ Oxford Languages

The discussions are focused on self-inquiry and structured around a topic or whatever is on your mind.

We meet on alternate Saturdays (occasionally with an extra week between), and since 2013 all meetings were at the Main Alachua County Library ... until 2025. The library system allows us to reserve one meeting room each month in advance, then not until the day of any other meetings. So far this year we haven't been able to reserve rooms in advance at the main library.

We will include locations reserved in advance on these meeting blurbs. For other meetings, we will message members who accept messages as soon on the meeting day as we've been able to reserve a location.

At meetings at the main library, check with the information desk on the 2nd floor for the exact meeting room location.

> Philosophical Self-Inquiry is an unconventional adventure.
> Philosophy is the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence.
> Self-Inquiry is going within to find answers.
> The general self-inquiry question for each meeting: What are you at the core of your being?