Rogue Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (RVUUF) Ashland, OR

We explore the persistent human quest for meaning and fulfillment in today’s changing society and world, and the various ways in which historical context, social conditioning, worldview perspective, psychological temperament, spiritual orientation and existential choice each influence the ways we negotiate the paradoxical relationship between such polarities as self and society, identity and community, being and time, consciousness and matter, mysticism and empiricism, religion and science, romance and reason, poetry and philosophy, aesthetics and ethics, art and politics.

Course instructor is Rev. Rich Lang, Executive Director of The Omega Center Spiritual Life Center and Creative Learning Community -- an ecumenical and interfaith educational ministry that assists university students and adult learners to integrate their beliefs, values, knowledge and experience into a meaningful worldview and creative way of living in today’s changing society and world.

This seminar is free and open to the general public. Donations to the educational ministry of Omega House are welcome. Course Flyer; for more information, contact Rich Lang at Omega House.

This course will draw upon my own background reading and reflection, but it will be very conversational and interactive. Here is a brief book list: Please Understand Me by David Keirsey; Type Talk by Otto Kroeger and Janet Thuesen; Four Spiritualities: A Psychology of Contemporary Spiritual Choice by Peter Tufts Richardson; Personality Types: Using the Enneagram for Self-Discovery by Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson; Maps of the Mind by Charles Hampden-Turner; Ten Theories of Human Nature: Confucianism, Hinduism, The Bible, Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Marx, Freud, Sartre, and Darwinian Theories by Leslie Stevenson and David Haberman; and Ken Wilber’s Integral Spirituality among others.