Book Group Meeting

When

09/25/2016    
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Where

Petoskey District Library
500 East Mitchell, Petoskey, Michigan

Discussion of The Brain, edited by Kayt Sukel and How God Changes Your Brain by Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman

Hi, Book Groupies – Hopefully your calendars already are marked for our next meeting, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1:30 PM in the THIRD FLOOR MEETING ROOM at the PETOSKEY LIBRARY.

Also hopefully, by now you’re well into the two books selected for that meeting: THE BRAIN, edited by Kayt Sukel (99 pp) and HOW GOD CHANGES YOUR BRAIN by Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman (333 pp). Of course that is twice the number of books we usually read, but together the page total falls short of some individual titles selected – most recently, Karen Armstrong’s Fields of Blood.

It should be noted that How God Changes Your Brain is NOT a religious tract or attempt to convert anyone. To quote Amazon.com, “. . .the authors make a case for the interface between spirituality and neuroscience.” Although very readable, the book I found to be very stimulating and challenging. The Brain presents multiple views about the make-up of the brain and its functioning. Since there is no “author”, it can be difficult to find.

To me it makes sense that the discussion be facilitated by the persons who recommended these books: e.g. GG Jacobsen (How God Changes Your Brain) and Gus Uhlich (The Brain).

From previous encounters it is clear that each is very familiar with these books. Any “discussion stimulators” (questions, reflections, etc. to be considered at the meeting) should be sent to me as early as possible, to tforb@core.com or (for GG & Gus, neither of whom is on the internet) to 510 W Jefferson, Petoskey, 49770.

Also, please send in your suggestions for our December meeting. Per our prior decision, this meeting would take place on Sunday, December 11 – not the usual fourth Sunday due to the holiday season. For that meeting I nominate: Don’t Even Think about It: Why our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change, by George Marshall – which among other features considers factors of evolutionary psychology.

Finally, I am discontinuing my coordinator’s role in this group. The role consists primarily of receiving and passing on any information (logistics, books suggestions, discussion stimulators, etc.) to the 25 or so persons on the list. Hopefully someone will step forward to assume this role no later than at the next meeting. Thank you!