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December, 2011

December 15 --
Anne Frank Hadassah, Houston: "Stories the Jewish Mystics Tell"

February, 2012

New course beginning February 7 --
12 Tuesdays from 1-3 pm at the Women's Institute of Houston (www.wih.org): (early registration now open) Course Description:

“A Womb with a View”:
Treasured Myths Shared by Christians and Jews

Joseph Campbell observed that myths serve us as kangaroo pouches serve baby kangaroos—they provide a “womb with a view,” guiding our lives and investing our existence with meaning. What the scholars call “myth” is what we mortals call “belief” or “ideology.” And our beliefs have roots deep in the world of the ancient Near East, in Eastern religious thought; and in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim sources. Sometimes surprisingly, Christians and Jews share more than they differ. In this class, we will discuss why this is so by tracing the background of some big myths like

• “Heaven is Above (and why we keep searching the universe for our future)”

• “Darkness is Within (and why we want desperately to believe that all psychosis is genetic)”

• “Feeding the Hungry”

• “Our Place in the World”

• “What Happens After (and why we want humans to be more than human)”

• “Dualism (or, are body and soul really divisible?)”

• “War and Peace”

• “What Christmas and Hanukkah, and Passover and Easter, Teach Us about Celebration and Salvation.”

• “How We Create Meaning through Personal Mythmaking”