Wednesdays at Noon ($10)
Grand Lake Gardens, 401 Santa Clara Ave., Oakland

April 19, 2017: Robert Walter

President & Executive Director of the Joseph Campbell Foundation

Spaceship Earth Ascending: Mythologies for the 21st Century & Beyond

Joseph Campbell frequently noted that every mythology is “another person’s religion.” In this talk, we will consider his thoughts about today’s mythologies and those of the future.

The “future”? Since time immemorial prophets have authoritatively declaimed it, artists have conjured utopias and dystopias, and beguiling shysters have tantalized the gullible with promises. But when tomorrow arrives it is often not what we had envisioned. Why is that?

How do our mythologies, the stories and belief systems that inform our lives, all-too-often defeat us by pitting each-against-the-other? Why must our embedded mythologies be reimagined for the 21st century and beyond? How do we do that?

In our time together, we will seek to answer these questions.

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TO: PCBA Board Members and those signed up for the May 11 BLT

We find Grand Lake Gardens cannot accommodate us for our BLT program or Board meeting this Wednesday, the 11th. (With Joan Thatcher’s illness, we miss her faithful coordination of events over many years with Grand Lake).

In light of this, we must postpone this Wednesday’s program of Jesse Lucas’ presentation on the Evergreen mission trip to Haiti.
We will, however, still hold our important May Board meeting It will be at 1:00 at Lakeshore. We do not plan to provide any lunch, but hope to have some snacks at hand.

– Alice Edmondson and Louann Roberts,
PCBA Co-Presidents

P.S. Keep in mind the PCBA Spring Gathering on June 12 (2:00-6:00) at Grace Baptist, San Jose. You may register at www.pcba.org or by mail at 2016 PCBA Spring Gathering, 200 La Casa Via, Walnut Creek, CA 94598