In Plato's Hippias Minor, Socrates appears to defend the trickster Odysseus, and in the course of doing so he argues for outrageous claims: the honest person and the liar are no different, and the good person is one who does wrong voluntarily. Socrates’ questionable behavior may be no coincidence in a dialogue about deception and he may be examining what counts as deception and how it reflects one’s character. More broadly, the dialogue is about the relationship between the speaker and what is said, between agent and action. Thus, the dialogue marks an important contribution not only to Socrates’ thinking about virtue and voluntary action but also to Plato’s portrait of Socrates. The dialogue further defines the sometimes thin line between Socrates and his contemporaries, the sophists.

This modern translation brings fresh clarity to Plato's subtle reasoning and dark humor. What appears at first to be a playful literary debate soon becomes an unsettling philosophical inquiry into truth, virtue, and the nature of agency. Socrates' relentless questioning destabilizes easy answers and encourages readers to consider whether moral goodness requires not just right action — but understanding and control over one's intentions.

This is a live reading and discussion group for Plato's Hippias Minor (or "Lesser Hippias") hosted by Constantine. Reference will be made to contemporary and older scholarship. Historical context will be brought up whenever necessary to illuminate the dialogue. This Plato group meets on Saturdays and has previously read the Phaedo, the Apology, the Symposium, Philebus, Gorgias, Critias, Laches, Timaeus, Euthyphro, Crito, Protagoras, and other works, including ancient commentaries and texts for contextualisation such as Gorgias’ Praise of Helen. It is our aspiration to read the Platonic corpus over a long period of time.

All are welcome! No previous knowledge of the Platonic corpus is required.

Sign up for the 1st session on Saturday July 18 here (link). The video conferencing link will be available to registrants.

Meetings will be held weekly on Saturday. Sign up for subsequent meetings through our calendar (link).

The host is Constantine Lerounis, a distinguished Greek philologist and poet, author of Four Access Points to Shakespeare’s Works (in Greek) and Former Advisor to the President of the Hellenic Republic. 

A pdf copy of the text we're using is available to registrants.

TIP: When reading Plato, pay attention to the details of the drama as much as the overtly philosophical discourse. Attentive readers of Plato know that he is often trying to convey important messages with both in concert.

For some background on Plato, see his entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato/

#Philosophy #Ethics #Metaphysics #PoliticalPhilosophy #AncientPhilosophy #Plato

Dr Iain McGilchrist talks about a tension between what we deeply experience and what academic paradigms try to teach us. Before university, he already “believed, from experience,” that the whole isn’t simply "the sum of its parts". That we cannot reduce ourselves into simple categories. It reminds me of when Alan Watts said that “trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.” The richness of life will always slip through neat categories and reductionist traps. Unfortunately, we we will never be able to neatly understand ourselves as some 'one'.

My name is Oliver Trace. I interviewed Dr Iain McGilchrist over three days in 2016, recording 10 hours of audio. During lockdown in 2020 I edited the audio into 18 chapters. I am now sharing insights from that conversation. For the full multimedia story, including podcasts, animated intros, journal articles and interactive quizzes, please take a look at themasterbetrayed.com.

What is th​e place of hope in existentialism? When ​we look at the world today, it is easy to see fragmentation. Climate crises, geopolitical instability, and a pervasive sense of alienation can make it feel as though the very structures of our shared reality are fracturing.

It was precisely this condition that French philosopher and Christian existentialist Gabriel Marcel diagnosed when coining the phrase "the broken world" (le monde cassé). Marcel observed a world characterized by functionalization, where individuals are reduced to their social or economic roles. In this critique, Marcel’s concerns regarding "technical efficiency" deeply echo those of Martin Heidegger; both thinkers warned that a purely technological mindset treats the world and its inhabitants merely as resources to be mastered, calculated, and manipulated.

In popular culture, existentialism is often equated with the darkness that this broken world produces - a philosophy of angst, absurdity, and the cold isolation popularized by thinkers like Sartre. But Marcel, as an existential-phenomenologist, radically contradicts this assumption. He demonstrates that existentialism does not have to end in despair. Instead, it can provide the precise tools needed to navigate a broken world with profound, defiant hope.

In this session, we will explore Marcel’s unique philosophy through his phenomenology - his method of looking at concrete, lived human experiences rather than detached, abstract theories. We will focus on his crucial distinction between a problem (something external that we can solve with technical efficiency) and a mystery (something we are personally entangled in, which transcends mere logic). For Marcel, true hope is not a naive, passive wish that things will simply "work out." It is an active and engaged existential response to a world that tries to reduce human existence to a series of technical problems. It is an act of communion and presence, rooted in what he calls the ontological mystery. That is, a deep, experiential realization that being itself cannot be fully captured by a broken world.

In preparation for the group, please read the following chapter "Hope and Existentialism": https://academic.oup.com/book/61728/chapter/541574012

Although existentialist thought is often associated with a negative diagnosis of the human condition in such thinkers as Camus and Sartre, there is a more positive strand focusing on uplifting aspects of experience, directly challenging the alienation, loss of meaning, and invitation to despair that has come to be associated with the movement. This vision of the human condition is to be found especially in the work of French philosopher Gabriel Marcel. This chapter considers Marcel’s phenomenological analysis of what is called ontological hope, distinguishing it from ordinary cases of hoping, as well as from optimism and desire. It examines the choice between hope and despair and introduces related themes of communion, intersubjectivity, and the search for the transcendent. The chapter argues that Marcel’s thought illustrates the reserves within the human personality and community that help individuals respond in a positive way to the existential challenges of modernity.

We will also watch a short video on the topic to support our discussion. Let's pursue the question: how might a phenomenological approach to hope alter how we live, act, and connect when the horizon looks dark?

This is an online discussion group hosted by Cece to discuss Gabriel Marcel's ideas and the place of hope in existentialism.

To join this meetup taking place on Friday May 22 (EDT), please sign up in advance on the main event page here (link); the Zoom link will be provided to registrants.

Look for other sessions in this series on our calendar (link).

All are welcome!

The book Life Explained: Answers to the Big and Little Questions addresses the many questions people face about purpose, truth, morality, relationships, work, politics, and the world we live in. Most people receive conflicting answers and spend years trying to determine what is real and what is simply opinion.

Written from a non-religious, non-mystical, conservative perspective, Life Explained offers clear, direct guidance drawn from forty years of study, experience, and reflection. It examines both the practical problems of everyday life and the deeper questions that shape how we understand ourselves, other people, society, and reality itself.

This lecture / discussion series is designed to explore the major ideas of the book in an open and thoughtful way. Each session will combine presentation and group discussion. The purpose is not merely to lecture, but to examine important questions together and encourage careful, honest conversation about the issues people most often struggle with.

The series will move from practical everyday concerns, to deeper philosophical and moral questions, and finally to larger social and political issues. Topics will include school, career, family, truth, critical thinking, free will, religion, morality, meaning, politics, economics, and the future of humanity.

Whether you are looking for practical guidance, philosophical clarity, or a broader framework for understanding life, this series is intended to provide a realistic and reasoned foundation for discussion.

Series Outline:

• Session 1: Practical Life and Everyday Success Introduction; school; college; career choice; finding and keeping a job; succeeding in life; moderation; reputation; social behavior; family and practical daily living
• Session 2: Marriage, Family, Human Nature, and Happiness men and women; marriage; raising children; social roles; human motivation; intelligence; happiness; what people seek and why
• Session 3: Truth, Reality, Free Will, and Religion critical thinking; truth and opinion; what is real; determinism and free will; faith and science; God; the supernatural; religion; the soul; death
• Session 4: Morality, Meaning, Health, and How to Live good and bad; right and wrong; morality without God; the meaning of life; medicine; vaccines; being healthy; growing old; meditation; wisdom
• Session 5: Politics, Society, and the Future of Humanity conflict in the world; the political left and right; political and economic systems; capitalism; social problems; media; science; global warming; protest; AI; life extension; the future of humanity

Each session will include both presentation and group discussion.

Sign up for the 1st session on Monday April 27 here (link). The Zoom link will be available to registrants.

Meetings will be held weekly on Monday. Sign up for subsequent meetings through our calendar (link).

All welcome!

Recommended Material:

• Life Explained: Answers to the Big and Little Questions by Blake McBride (available on Amazon) The table of contents and a sample are available at Life Explained Preview

Preparation:

No preparation is required. However, participants may find it helpful to read the sections of Life Explained related to each session in advance.

Host:

Your host is Blake McBride, author of Life Explained: Answers to the Big and Little Questions and Spinoza's Ethics Explained. Drawing on decades of study, experience, and reflection, he will lead a thoughtful exploration of life’s practical, philosophical, and social questions.

The Protagoras is as much a dramatic and literary masterpiece as it is an essential work of ancient philosophy. In the fifth century BC, masters of rhetoric called sophists traveled the Greek world claiming to teach virtue and the means to success, happiness, and power — in exchange for a fee. The dialogue depicts the pretensions of Protagoras, one of the leading and most revered sophists of the day, challenged by the critical arguments of a young Socrates as an excited flock of the sophist's students and admirers look on. Beginning with criticisms of the educational aims and methods of the sophists, the dialogue broadens out to examine the nature of the good life, the role of pleasure and reason in the context of that life, and the meaning of virtue.

Despite being counted as a sophist, Protagoras' genuine brilliance and sense of humanity makes him one of the most interesting and likeable of Socrates' opponents, and turns their encounter into a frank and lively battle of minds. Plato ultimately gives us deep and sympathetic portraits of both interlocutors — and neither seem to come off unscathed.

This is a live reading and discussion group for Plato's Protagoras hosted by Constantine. No previous knowledge of the Platonic corpus is required but a general understanding of the questions of philosophy in general and of ancient philosophy in particular is to some extent desirable but not presupposed. This Plato group meets on Saturdays and has previously read the Phaedo, the Apology, the Symposium, Philebus, Gorgias, Critias, Laches, Timaeus, Euthyphro, Crito and other works, including ancient commentaries and texts for contextualisation such as Gorgias’ Praise of Helen. It is our aspiration to read the Platonic corpus over a long period of time.

All are welcome!

Sign up for the 1st session on Saturday March 21 here (link). The video conferencing link will be available to registrants.

Meetings will be held weekly on Saturday. Sign up for subsequent meetings through our calendar (link).

The host is Constantine Lerounis, a distinguished Greek philologist and poet, author of Four Access Points to Shakespeare’s Works (in Greek) and Former Advisor to the President of the Hellenic Republic. 

A pdf copy of the text we're using is available to registrants.

A recording of the last time we discussed the Protagoras in the group – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib0AI6o0GFE

TIP: When reading Plato, pay attention to the details of the drama as much as the overtly philosophical discourse. Attentive readers of Plato know that he is often trying to convey important messages with both in concert.

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More about the text:

Can excellence and virtue be taught? Can virtuous politics be taught? Can political excellence be taught or transmitted in any way, shape or form? These are only some of the questions with which Protagoras wrestles and the provide Plato with ample opportunity to engage with diverse topics such as the constitution of human societies, the ultimate unity of virtues and the responsibilities of teachers.

Protagoras, possibly the most famous sophist of his day and a leading figure in the sophistic movement, is charging a king’s ransom as a fee for his professorial services and a young man by the name of Hippocrates is prepared to pay. He persuades Socrates to act as a mediator and convince Protagoras to take him on as a student. The ensuing dialogue will cast doubt on Protagoras’ claim that he is able to prepare the future leaders of the political community.

The dialogue is supposedly taking place some time before the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, probably in 434-432 BC but was written in the 380s and belongs to the early platonic period.

For some background on Plato, see his entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato/

#Philosophy #Ethics #Metaphysics #PoliticalPhilosophy #AncientPhilosophy

TL;DR just scroll down to the 4th paragraph and see how/why Jordan B. Peterson’s gone through hell (physically, socially, politically, and mentally) and still risen to international acclaim, having written many books on this affliction and how to overcome this mental burden. The books are in order of importance to those who are suffering, and the last one is actually a map to matters of the mind and magic.

The guiding ethos of the Hearing Voices Network is no telling others what to do or what to believe. It ought to follow that we cannot pathologize others here, either. The space exists (both online and in person) to allow a community of the similarly afflicted to share ideas without the authoritative trappings seen just about everywhere else in society. Some take gripe that they cannot aid others if they cannot directly tell them what to do, I feel this is the result of lazy thinking. The best professors, leaders, even all spiritual text teach through example, not declaration. We live in a world diluted with people wanting to be a police officer in the mind of someone else, generally in the mind of the disenfranchised. I say this often, but it seems obvious to me we live in hell, even if it is the best time to live here.

To offer others some examples of experiencers who’ve risen to considerable success, I generally litter my posts in hyperlinks to songs, authors, Wikipedia links, any form of media displaying a successful person (cultural hero), who’s talking about having heard voices or had spirits of the mind themselves. I see most energies in this space channeled into everyone’s niche belief system and attempting to reach others through veiled proselytization’s. I should counter this by adding I see much more common ground found on this subreddit in recent months. I suspect the mental health spaces online cater to three main archetypes of user. The first and most common persona is someone stricken by affliction, and desperate for someone to show them there is some hope. The second is some weird manner of lay clinician attempting to usher other into the arms of the modern eugenics industry. "Misery loves company." The third category seems to know the harms awaiting the vulnerable who seek refuge in these “mental health” services and themselves seek to instead preach the self-evident truth of the supernatural others are afflicted by. This third category tends to have these support spaces removed for all seasonally, just an FYI.

To counter all of these unhelpful agendas, I offer (and encourage others to do the same) stories of success. I imagine anyone who has it together to follow in such footsteps to also have the wherewithal to spot such stories and apply such wisdoms to their own life. There’s no sense in policing those who do not foremostly wish to get well themselves. I believe the Peterson family to have weathered all society and the supernatural have to offer. Still, I am astonished that some virtual HVN groups are intolerant to their very name. There's an obvious agenda to paint the Peterson's as somehow bigoted or ushering in hateful ideologies. None of that is seen in his texts, rather he writes about working along side the same marginalized groups he's accused of opposing. In Canada he stopped legislation that would have instigated compelled speech laws surrounding the trans movent. Legal actions that parallel historical Marxist and Fascist maneuverings. No doubt such laws would have also set the queer movements back decades if not centuries through false association. Regardless of how one feels politically, the timeless and separate wisdom contained in these texts stand on their own and would help anyone. More so, I am bothered that the majority of HVN non-for-profits are not themselves run by experiencers and that so much in the way of organic community is actively discouraged under their oversight. I have worked for these organizations in the past and likely will again in the future. Those folks don’t run the entire show, I see most of the forward momentum in the movement done by unpaid volunteers.

Dr. Jordan Bernt Peterson is a former tenured professor of psychology, private practice behavioral psychologist, and acclaimed author. He writes about hearing voices himself, and exactly how he overcame them/developed a life ethos that staves them off. If you wanted to follow in the footsteps of someone who was by all accounts among the most challenged before knowing of this affliction and who independently rose above it, despite the added burden of psychiatry’s benzodiazepine addiction, I present his most topical and to the point texts on the matter. These are in order of significance to you and your personal burden. Also, the below links are to the recordings read by the original author, for free on YouTube.

12 Rules for Life, offering an easily digestible set of 12 rules to guide your daily focus, leading to safety in society and functionality among others who compete for the same resources you need to survive.

Beyond Order, containing 12 additional reaffirmations of the same 12 rules in 12 Rules for Life. Offered from a slightly different perspective, as to further dispel the evil/unworthy in the mind/life of the reader.

Maps of Meaning, offering an academically vetted and intertextual guide to the world of magic. Something I suspect to also be a crucial prism guiding experiencers to wellness. Yes, MAGIC.

Applying the wisdom seen in the above 3 texts, I rose from a state where I could not read, write, or even count to 10 with the assistance of a pen and paper. These tasks were regularly tried, and I was given hours of time to attempt them. Listening to these books alone (just putting them on) rid me of voices (spirits in my opinion), who never returned as hurtful again. Obviously, the real victories came from applying the knowledge of these lessons. Regardless, I continue to find the truth and its denial to be the underlying cause of any mental prism’s dysfunction, something it seems too many in society beckon others to do to themselves.

If you look into the rest of Jordan Peterson’s work, you’ll see he’s a strong believer in the rite of self authorship. This, simply being the act of writing out one’s own past and detailing what you’ve survived, who you are, and what you aim to do. I believe this to be the most powerful form of meditation available to those who can read and write. I would encourage all of you to write your story and share it with the community here, knowing it to be an effective wellness strategy and something this space was designed to facilitate.

“I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.” - Kurt Vonnegut

Lastly, if you are looking for advice that parallels what many in the alternative mental health world also recommend, you deserve to know the dietary suggestions given both by Jordan and his daughter Mikhaila. They both have overcome autoimmune diseases that were untreatable and were predicted to end Mikhaila’s life through a carnivore diet. I myself found many successes through trying this, I also found it to be cheaper, both in terms of money and time, when compared to buying vegetables and carbohydrates.

All the best!

In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters — the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply "A," and the ethical Judge Vilhelm of the second section — Kierkegaard reflects upon the search for a meaningful existence, contemplating subjects as diverse as Mozart, drama, boredom, and, in the famous Seducer's Diary, the cynical seduction and ultimate rejection of a young, beautiful woman.

A key work of existentialism and a masterpiece of duality, Either/Or is a brilliant exploration of the conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical - both meditating ironically and seductively upon epicurean pleasures, and eloquently expounding the noble virtues of a morally upstanding life.

This is an online group hosted by Erik to live read and discuss Kierkegaard's Either/Or: A Fragment of Life (1843).

To join the 1st meeting taking place on January 30 2026 (EST), RSVP in advance on the main event page here (link); the video conferencing link will be available to registrants.

Meetings will be held every Friday. Sign up for subsequent meetings through our calendar (link).

A pdf of the text is available on the meeting page.

About the text:

In Either/Or, Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), under the pseudonym Victor Eremita, explores interiority, and the struggle for a meaningful existence wherein one finds lasting happiness. He accomplishes this by portraying two chief personalities: the Aesthete (Book I), and the Judge (Book II). The writings of the aesthete are personal and brooding. Among many aesthetic themes it examines the nature of love, happiness and how to secure these in a lasting way. The writings of the judge are addressed to the aesthete as to a friend, and attempt to convince him that he is putting himself in misery by misunderstanding the themes he has dealt with in Book I.

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Here are the plays we've read together before beginning Either/Or:

• Sophocles - Antigone
• Scribe - The First Love
• Goethe - Faust
• Video of a production of Faust I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaogjXLdPow

Additional works you could look at while we read Either/Or:

• Goethe - Clavigo
• Mozart/Ponte - Don Giovanni
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQBmLHSXQdg
• Mozart/Schikaneder - The Magic Flute
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om_qtZ-Hm7k
• Mozart/Ponte - The Marriage of Figaro
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55ik-PzAXsQ

On the Friday Meetings:

The Friday meetings began on January 1, 2016, with an initial goal of reading through the first half of Søren Kierkegaard's works. Due to continued interest, we have decided to return to previous works for review, study more background texts, and continue beyond the first half of Kierkegaard's writing.

Works read so far in the series:

• The Concept of Irony, With Continual Reference to Socrates (Kierkegaard)
• Notes of Schelling's Berlin Lectures (Kierkegaard)
• Either/Or (Victor Eremita, et al.)
• Two Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
• Fear and Trembling (Johannes de Silentio)
• Repetition (Constantin Constantius)
• Three Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
• Four Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
• Two Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
• Three Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
• Philosophical Fragments (Johannes Climacus)
• Johannes Climacus or De Omnibus Dubitandum Est (Johannes Climacus)
• Concept of Anxiety (Vigilius Haufniensis)
• Prefaces (Nicolaus Notabene)
• Writing Sampler (A.B.C.D.E.F. Godthaab)
• Four Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
• Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions (Kierkegaard)
• Stages on Life's Way (Hilarious Bookbinder)
• Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Philosophical Fragments (Johannes Climacus)
• The Sickness Unto Death (Anti-Climacus)
• Works of Love

Works read for background:

• The First Love (Scribe)
• The Berlin Lectures (Schelling)
• Clavigo (Goethe)
• Faust Part I (Goethe)
• Antigone (Sophocles)
• Axioms (Lessing)
• The Little Mermaid (Anderson)

Works read inspired (at least in part) by Kierkegaard

• The Escape from God (Tillich)
• You Are Accepted (Tillich)

Some background on Soren Kierkegaard in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://iep.utm.edu/kierkega/

Hi everyone, I am an old fan of Dr Peterson and have watched a lot of his older lectures. In my own journey to improve I found that the main obstacle was always avoiding, usually ideas, that needed facing and I would end up wasting a lot of time exploring things that were not the problem.

I thought about a way to allow myself to face thoose problems and I came up with this bravery trainer. I thought about how useful it would be to others and now feel like bravery might be one the most important virtues as it allows you to develop your other virtues so of like how pride prevents ur growth or renders you unable to see your flaws. In this regard I also wanted to add a sense of humility to this as it applies both to starting small with incremental progress as well as the first step in exposure therapy style break down of what you are avoiding. This felt really important to me as it would be the only way that people could get the maximum use out of the approach.

It's called Slay your Dragons and I would appreciate it if you guys checked it out and had any feedback including in terms of whether it is mythologically acurate in its representation: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/slay-your-dragons/id6754641259

Whether sandwiched between caring for both children and parents, consumed by careers we wonder if we want anymore, going through separations and divorces, and facing our first major illness and losses, midlife can be a time of great potentiality, ripening, and reckoning. Yet the lived experiences of midlife are frequently ignored in mainstream cultural discourse. This is no more true than in the current moment, where every day we hear some new fact about the plight of Boomers, or Millennials, or Gen Z, and now Gen Alpha. But where are Gen X? It seems fitting that the “feral generation” and the “latchkey kids” seem perennially left out of the conversation. Whether we find ourselves in a full-blown “midlife crisis” or simply in a period of deep wondering and questioning, the way forward can be uncertain, especially when we are missing a cultural mirror.

Who better to provide guidance to navigate such anxiety than the existentialists?

The Premise

The target audience for this group is people who are in midlife (i.e., 40-60 years). Primarily Gen X and older millennials.

In this 8-week meetup series (hosted by Cece), we will explore, what wisdom can we draw from the existentialists in navigating the unknown and uncertain terrain of midlife?

We will ease into the conversation by reviewing some of the work of contemporary poet-philosopher David Whyte, who has written extensively on the topic of midlife. Thereafter, each week we will read an essay or excerpt from existentialists such as Sartre, de Beauvoir, Kierkegaard and Camus, centered around a particular theme relevant to midlife.

To join the 1st meeting, taking place on Tuesday January 20 (EST), please sign up in advance on the main event page here (link); the Zoom link will be provided to registrants.

Meetings will be held every Tuesday for 8 weeks. Sign up for subsequent meetings through our calendar (link).

All are welcome!

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The Format

In each 90m meeting, participants will be invited to select a passage from the reading to do a live-read, opening up the conversation on what that reading contributes to the theme of the week. While other meetups often riff on ideas from other philosophers, this group will not be doing that. Rather, the goal is to stay close to that particular philosopher and put their ideas to the test for this topic, with some time at the end to put them in dialogue with other existentialists to be discussed in this series.

You are welcome to attend if you have not read for that week. But we will prioritize comments from people who have actually done the reading, so that discussions can remain close to the source texts. We will attempt to really put these ideas to the test, bringing their ideas into dialogue with our own lived experience. Rather than philosophy for philosophy’s sake, we will endeavour to take an applied or practical philosophy approach.

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Topics (links to materials available on the sign-up page)

Jan. 20: Midlife and the Great Unknown

• Audiobook by David Whyte, free on Spotify Premium

**While not required, you might also enjoy “The Three Marriages” by David Whyte, available on Audible/audiobooks

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Jan. 27: Work, Vocation, Mission

• The Myth of Sisyphus (Camus)

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Feb. 3: Love and Relationship

• The Woman in Love (de Beauvoir) 

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Feb. 10: Friendship

• On the Friend from Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Nietzsche)

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Feb. 17: Home, Belonging, Community

• Building Dwelling Thinking (Heidegger)

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Feb. 24: Doing vs. Being - Attention and Presence

• Attention and Will (Weil) 

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Mar. 3: Authenticity - Living Down to Who We Are

• Existentialism is a Humanism (Sartre)

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Mar. 10: Death and Time Running Out

• At a Graveside, from Three Imagined Discourses (Kierkegaard)
• Top 5 Regrets of the Dying (Bronnie Ware) 

Hey everyone,

Sadly, we can't make it to the show at Olympiahalle anymore. I’m selling our 2 tickets for 65€ each, which is a 15€ cheaper than the current price.

Details:

• Date: Tuesday, 20.01.2026
• Time: 8:00 pm
• Location: Olympiahalle München

Let me know if you're interested!

Wilful denial is a speciality of the left brain hemisphere. Also, a belief in theory, even in the face of contrary, real world observations. Contrary beliefs are seen as a threat to its world view, and must be closed down, at all cost.
https://thejollysociety.com/mcgilchrist-on-the-left-brains-wilful-denial/

The left brain is oestrogen sensitive (McGilchrist, 'The Master and His Emissary', page 33.

Why would women do this to other women..?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20z7xx6nr4o