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Online Self Inquiry Book Club


This book club began in December of 2019 by members of the Washington, DC Area Self-Inquiry Group and is welcome to seekers around the world. The open format involves a one-time meeting for the whole book, a Slack Room for discussion, and a weekly call on Google Hangouts. Everyone is welcome to participate as they feel called to.


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Weekly meeting

July 2021 - : January 2008 to December 2014 TAT Foundation Forumns for Beyond Mind Beyond Death 2 Project.

  • July TBD: May 2008
  • July TBD: June 2008
  • July TBD: July 2008
  • July TBD: August 2008
  • July TBD: September 2008

Cover of Beyond Mind, Beyond Death. Selections from the TAT Forum.

Monthly meeting

July 2021 - December 2022: Richard Rose's Psychology of the Observer: The Path to Reality Through the Self, by John Kent. (Also online as a chapter-by-chapter HTML version.) Further online discussion at https://spiritualteachers.proboards.com/

  • July TBD: chapter 1
  • August: chapter 2
  • September: chapter 3
  • October: chapter 4
  • November: chapter 5
  • December: chapter 6
  • 1/x/22: chapter 7
  • 2/x/22: chapter 8
  • 3/x/22: chapter 9
  • 4/x/22: chapter 10
  • 5/x/22: chapter 11
  • 6/x/22: chapter 12
  • 7/x/22: chapter 13
  • 8/x/22: chapter 14
  • 9/x/22: chapter 15
  • 10/x/22: chapter 16
  • 11/x/22: chapter 17
  • 12/x/22: chapter 18 and 19


January 2021 - April 2021: The Zen Experience, by Thomas Hoover


November 2020 - December 2020: Sense of Self: The Source of All Existential Suffering?, by Art Ticknor


September 2020 - October 2020: Jean's Journals – Being with Nisargadatta Maharaj, by Jean Dunn


June 2020 - September 2020: The Way of Selflessness: A Practical Guide to Enlightenment Based on the Teachings of the World's Great Mystics, by Joel Morwood

  • 6/21/20: chapters 1 - 3
  • 6/28/20: chapters 4 - 6
  • 7/5/20: chapters 7 - 9
  • 7/12/20: chapters 10 - 12
  • 7/19/20: chapters 13 - 15
  • 7/26/20: chapters 16 - 18
  • 8/2/20: chapters 19 - 21
  • 8/9/20: chapters 22 - 24
  • 8/16/20: chapters 25 - 27
  • 8/23/20: chapters 28 - 30
  • 8/30/20: chapters 31 - 33
  • 9/6/20: Whole book


May 2020 - June 2020: Living Nonduality, by Robert Wolfe


February 2020 - April 2020: The Triune Self, by Mike Snider, a hilarious, down-to-earth, and inspiring book of one seer's search to be his own authority of spiritual answers.

  • 2/29/20: pages 1 - 24
  • 3/7/20: pages 24 - 55
  • 3/21/20: Q/A 1-20 (pages 57 - 81)
  • 3/29/20: Q/A 21-40 (pages 81 - 106)
  • 4/5/20: Q/A 41-60 (pages 106 - 133)
  • 4/12/20: Q/A 61-80 (pages 133 - 162)
  • 4/19/20: Q/A 81-100 (pages 162 - 190)
  • 4/26/20: Q/A 101-end (pages 191 - 209)


December 2019 - February 2020: Think and Grow Rich, by Napolean Hill, a classic self-help book with a success formula that reportedly also applies to seeking "spiritual riches" as well.


Meeting guidelines

  • meetings are online at google Meet 3:15pm - 4:15pm ET alternate Sundays
  • there will be a book section discussed
  • reading the book section is not required to attend and discuss
  • reading prior sections of the book is not required
  • attendance is not required
  • there is a Slack room where online discussion can occur before and after
  • each book has its own channel, and discussion there relates to the book
  • there is also a general channel for any non-book-specific discussion

 

 

 

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