This is a once a month non-fiction book club that covers all areas of science, natural history, and non-religious based philosophy and morality. This club is for those who have read or are interested in reading books by authors like Carl Sagan, John McPhee, Richard Dawkins, Bill Bryson, Sam Harris and more. The club will meet in downtown Los Gatos once a month (probably at a coffee shop), and meetings will be casual. If you have any interest in the natural sciences (astronomy, geology, biology), …
We look at art through the lenses of our backgrounds, feelings, memories, which are unique to us. Our understanding of the world depends on our interaction with our environment, which changes constantly both in nature and people we share our opinions with. Come and join us in discovering your world of art.
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Our group aims at facilitating inquiry into the higher nature of reality. Ordinarily, we understand reality to be that which can be experienced with the help of our senses, mind and intelligence. But time and again, in all recorded history, in various parts of the world, we have witnessed great thinkers and Philosophers endeavoring to understand that which is beyond our ordinary experience or ordinary conception of Reality. In Sanskrit, such endeavor is called Tattva Jijnasa or Search for Highe …
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… "Reason is un-natural." "Computers have made us stupid." "Science is a top-down process." "Science is a male point of view." "Hierarchical abstractions are, by nature, imperialist and sexist." "Nature is always peaceful and kind – only humans are violent and destructive." "Computers can never be smarter than humans because humans program them." "Computers might become smarter than humans, but they will never have emotions or be capable of creative thought or have free will." "Evolution is biolog …
We are the largest generation of single's ever in history. Together, re-creating the human community and reshaping its course. We are individuals with the power to create community, connectedness and love beyond what any other generation has discovered." Imagine what we can do together as a collective, rather than thinking we are alone, stuck in our perspective of what should be and may never be. Beyond “the white picket fence” and “the knight in shining armor” the possibilities are endless …
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