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SUMMARY:🌀 Inside Other People's Universes: God\, Religion & Spirituality
DESCRIPTION:Vancouver Curiosity Club 🗓️ Date: 12th September 🕒 Time
 : 1pm - 3pm 📍 Location: Vancouver Public Library (9th floor common area
 )\n\nWhat do we believe about the universe?\n\nNot what the religions say.
  Not what our families teach. Not the labels we prefer.\n\nWhat do we actu
 ally think is happening?\n\nFor this gathering\, we're going to explore on
 e of the most intimate and rarely discussed parts of being human: our pers
 onal relationship with the unseen\, the divine\, existence\, morality\, co
 nsciousness\, meaning\, and mystery.\n\nYou can be religious or spiritual 
 or neither. Maybe you pray\, or meditate\, or talk to your ancestors. Mayb
 e you believe in energy\, karma\, consciousness\, or nothing at all beyond
  the material world.\n\nAll perspectives are welcome.\n\n💭The idea\n\nT
 hink of this as a small experiment conducted on ourselves. We're going to 
 temporarily put aside the question of "Who is right?" and try to see the u
 niverse through another person's eyes. Each person will have an opportunit
 y to describe their own worldview and experiences. The rest of us will lis
 ten carefully and ask questions with the sole purpose of understanding.\n\
 n⚠️ Debating people's innermost beliefs is not permitted in this discu
 ssion. These concepts are mysterious by definition. Nobody is expected to 
 have the "right" answer. The goal is to understand different perspectives.
 \n\n📝We'll explore questions such as:\n\n1. Your spiritual history:\n\n
 Where did your worldview come from? How were you raised? What did you beli
 eve when you were younger? How have your beliefs changed over time? What e
 xperiences\, people\, traditions\, books\, doubts\, or discoveries shaped 
 the way you think today?\n\n2. What do you actually believe?\n\nHow would 
 you explain your understanding of reality (without labels)? What do you th
 ink exists beyond what we can directly observe? What do you think consciou
 sness is? What do you think God is? What\, if anything\, do you think is d
 ivine? What do you think happens when we die? How do you understand things
  like morality\, love\, meaning\, intention\, energy\, or other invisible 
 aspects of human life?\n\n3. How do your beliefs affect your life?\n\nWhat
  values follow from your worldview? What kind of person does it encourage 
 you to become? Does it influence how you make decisions\, handle suffering
 \, experience relationships\, understand death\, or pursue a meaningful li
 fe?\n\n4. What are your practices?\n\nDo you pray\, meditate\, perform rit
 uals\, attend religious services\, commune with nature\, journal\, study p
 hilosophy\, research\, discuss your beliefs with others\, or do something 
 else entirely? How do you feed and develop your understanding? Or have you
  mostly never explored these questions very deeply?\n\n5. Was this difficu
 lt to share?\n\nIs there anything about your beliefs\, experiences\, or pr
 actices that you find uncomfortable to tell other people? Why? Do you find
  it difficult to think about or articulate these things? If so\, what make
 s them difficult?\n\n6. What's the weird thing?\n\nWhat's something you be
 lieve\, experience\, or practice that you rarely tell people because you e
 xpect them to find it strange? You never have to share anything that feels
  too private.\n\n💡Come curious.\n\nIn your years in this existence\, yo
 u have gathered beliefs about the spiritual workings of the universe. Duri
 ng this discussion you will share those beliefs\, and you will learn what 
 beliefs others have built in their own time. You may discover that someone
  else's universe is much stranger than you expected. You may discover that
  your own is. And you may discover that beneath wildly different explanati
 ons\, human beings have been wrestling with many of the same questions for
  a very long time. Come prepared to think honestly\, speak honestly\, list
 en carefully\, and leave room for mystery.\n\nYou don't have to change you
 r mind.\n\nYou only have to understand another's.
URL:https://vancouvercuriosityclub.com/events/inside-other-people-s-univers
 es-god-religion-spiritu-5aa1d3e3d86c-f77574e9
LOCATION:Vancouver Central Library — 350 West Georgia Street — 9th floo
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
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