After summer in paradox, Helping Friendly Book Club returns!

Join us September 25th at The Wild Detectives to discuss the 31st book on our Quest to discover the lost Secrets to Eternal Joy and Never Ending Splendor - the original “Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus” by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.

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Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to the humans, is there a parallel here with our Quest for SEJNES? A parable, if you will? As we get closer and closer to discovering All the Inherent Knowledge in the Universe, we need to take every possible precaution to make sure we don’t inadvertently set off some sort of nuclear knowledge meltdown. Is it possible to illuminate too much curiosity, or do we just need to properly prepare our heart and soul first so we don’t grow out of proportion in one direction only? With great Knowledge comes great responsibility. Let’s discuss!

Come make brain honey will all your old friends and enjoy the convivial sociability of our favorite bookstore bar, The Wild Detectives in Bishop Arts on Wednesday, September 25th at 8pm.

We will be voting on our next three books to read at this meeting as well. If you know where we should search for the SEJNES next, be sure to send in your nominations ASAP so we can get them on the ballot.

Follow your pinecone, and bring a curious friend. Follow your pinecone and bring someone curious. We'll have a Cosmic Door Prize and a few tricks up our sleeves too, as usual. Can’t wait to get the band back together!

If you need a copy of the book, here’s the FULL TEXT.

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

It is with great pleasure I inform you that the ‘Ship of SEJNES’ will pulling back into port on October 10th at 8:30PM for a mind-altering discussion on “The Hidden Life of Trees” by Peter Wohlleben, at our favorite safe harbor, The Wild Detectives.

Trees, wouldn’t you know it, have a mind of their own. They make friends, they suckle their young, they defend themselves, they build social networks, they remember, they are connected to everything. Their wonderment knows no bounds.

The Secret to Eternal Joy and Never Ending Splendor is to never lose your sense of wonder, and trees, hidden in plain sight, are a mirror image of Divine Intelligence in action. And mirrors - are portals - which is why 10/10 feels like the perfect day to come together and behold the majestic mystery of trees together.

We are very much looking forward to catching up with everyone after summer vacations and hope you can join us. This will be our first gathering post-eclipse, which means the sap in your pinecone is especially ripe for oozing. No matter what you thought you knew about trees, we’re going farther.

Please stay tuned and share this Event Page as we will be starting the conversation in here. We’ll also have updates on the Time Wharf at this meeting too. Friends and first timers are welcomed warmly. As always, there will be a badass Cosmic Door Prize.

Our defense is to wonder. See you 10/10.

From the foam,
Cole

PS. The Tree of Knowledge in your Soul will grow, and the Helping Friendly Book will plant the seed, but I warn you that All Knowledge seeming innocent and pure becomes a deadly weapon in the hands of avarice and greed…

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“Under the appellations of the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is concealed the great arcanum of antiquity— the mystery of equilibrium. The Tree of Life represents the spiritual point of balance—the secret of immortality. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, as its name implies, represents polarity, or unbalance— the secret of mortality. The Qabbalists reveal this by assigning the central column of their Sephirothic diagram to the Tree of Life and the two side branches to the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. "Unbalanced forces perish in the void," declares the secret work, and all is made known. The apple represents the knowledge of the procreative processes, by the awakening of which the material universe was established. The allegory of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is a cosmic myth, revealing the methods of universal and individual establishment.” - The Secret Teachings of All Ages, Manly P. Hall