Class

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

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Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey is a 2014 American science documentary television series.[2] The show is a follow-up to the 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. The show is presented by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who, as a young high school student, was inspired by Sagan.

Come join us for this 7 session DVD film course!

WHEN AND WHERE

Thursdays 7 PM – 9 PM starting March 30, 2017 at

Library of Gore Hall
First Unitarian Church of Orlando
1901 E. Robinson St
Orlando FL 32803

REGISTRATION AND COST

This class is FREE and is considered “Drop-in” friendly – come for all or just your favorites in this 7 week series! Donations welcome to help support our work.

Full description at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos:_A_Spacetime_Odyssey

You can email mysticgrove@orlandouu.org to be put in the email reminder list and to help us plan for classroom space needs.

SYLLABUS

Mar 30, 2017

Hybrid class

Cosmos: Sagan 7 and Tyson 1
  • “Who Speaks for Earth?”
  • “Standing Up in the Milky Way”
April 6, 2017

Cosmos: Tyson 2
  • “Some of the Things That Molecules Do”
  • “When Knowledge Conquered Fear”
April 13, 2017

Cosmos: Tyson 3
  • “A Sky Full of Ghosts”
  • “Hiding in the Light”
April 20, 2017

Cosmos: Tyson 4
  • “Deeper, Deeper, Deeper Still”
  • “The Clean Room”
April 27, 2017

Cosmos: Tyson 5
  • “Sisters of the Sun”
  • “The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth”
May 4, 2017

Cosmos: Tyson 6
  • “The Electric Boy”
  • “The Immortals”
May 11, 2017

Cosmos: Tyson 7

 
  • “The World Set Free”
  • “Unafraid of the Dark”

CONTACT
Email mysticgrove@orlandouu.org for more info or to be put on  the reminder list for this class.

Cosmos: A Personal Voyage

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Cosmos: A Personal Voyage is a thirteen-part television series written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter, with Sagan as presenter. It covers a wide range of scientific subjects, including the origin of life and a perspective of our place in the universe. Cosmos: A Personal Voyage has been considered highly significant since its broadcast; David Itzkoff of The New York Times described it as “a watershed moment for science-themed television programming”.[4]

Come join us for this 7 session DVD film course!

WHEN AND WHERE

Thursdays 7 PM – 9 PM starting Sept 1 at

Library of Gore Hall
First Unitarian Church of Orlando
1901 E. Robinson St
Orlando FL 32803

REGISTRATION AND COST

This class is FREE and is considered “Drop-in” friendly – come for all or just your favorites in this 7 week series! Donations welcome to help support our work.

Full description at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage

You can email mysticgrove@orlandouu.org to be put in the email reminder list and to help us plan for classroom space needs.

SYLLABUS

Feb 16, 2017

Cosmos: Sagan 1
  • “The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean”
  • “One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue”
Feb 23, 2017

Cosmos: Sagan 2
  • “Harmony of the Worlds”
  • “Heaven and Hell”
Mar 2, 2017

Cosmos: Sagan 3
  • “Blues for a Red Planet”
  • “Travellers’ Tales”
Mar 9, 2017

Cosmos: Sagan 4
  • “The Backbone of Night”
  • “Journeys in Space and Time”
Mar 16, 2017

Cosmos: Sagan 5
  • “The Lives of the Stars”
  • “The Edge of Forever”
Mar 23, 2017

Cosmos: Sagan 6
  • “The Persistence of Memory”
  • “Encyclopaedia Galactica”
Mar 30, 2017

Hybrid class

Cosmos: Sagan 7 and Tyson 1
  • “Who Speaks for Earth?”
  • “Standing Up in the Milky Way”

CONTACT
Email mysticgrove@orlandouu.org for more info or to be put on  the reminder list for this class.

Learning Tarot 1

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learntarotThis 10 session Thursday series will include content on the Major Arcana and Court Cards presented by class leaders, discussion, exercises, tarot spreads, and homework. The class will be creating their personal flashcard decks for tarot study.

PLEASE NOTE:

We are off for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

The “Learning Tarot 2” series will be offered in Spring Term with a focus on Minor Arcana. A separate registration will be held at that time.

WHO IS THIS CLASS FOR

Beginning students interested in learning how to work with a Rider deck.

Experienced students wanting to get back in touch with their deck after a break or starting to work with a new deck.

WHEN AND WHERE

Thursdays 7 PM – 9 PM starting Oct 27

Room 9
First Unitarian Church of Orlando
1901 E. Robinson St
Orlando FL 32803

We are off for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

ONLINE STUDY GROUP (FREE)

Class students use Facebook as a study group to talk in between sessions.

Distance learners who cannot attend in person, but want the “lite” experience via Facebook are welcome to do some of the lessons and join others in the online study group.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1655329628118127/

TEXTS USED

SYLLABUS

Oct 27 Lesson 1: Introduction to the Tarot
Nov 03 Lesson 2: The Major Arcana and Fool’s Journey
Nov 10 Lesson 3: The Minor Arcana
Nov 17 Lesson 4: The Spread
Dec 01 Lesson 5: The Daily Reading
Dec 08 Lesson 6: The Environment
Dec 15 Lesson 7: Writing a Question
Dec 29 Lesson 8: The Question Reading
Jan 05 Lesson 9: The Other Reading
Jan 12 Lesson 10: The Open Reading

REGISTRATION AND COST

Early bird registration is in person on Aug 28 at the Opportunity Fiesta.

Regular registration begins Aug 29  until all spots are filled. Email mysticgrove@orlandouu.org to sign up.

Class begins Oct 27. “Ultimate” Book and flashcards will be provided on first class. Please have your tuition in exact change on the first day of class.

  • $30 for singles
  • $15 if you already own the “Ultimate” book
  • $45 for a couple sharing the book
  • $15 – on ½ scholarship (2 available)
  • $0 on full scholarship (2 available)
  • optional $5-$10 extra to contribute to ongoing scholarship fund

There are 2 half scholarships and 2 full scholarships available for this class. If you need tuition help, please include that in the email.

CONTACT

To register or for more info, email mysticgrove@orlandouu.org

King Arthur DVD Series

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kingarthurdvdThe saga of King Arthur and his knights and ladies is perhaps the most enduringly popular mythic tradition of Western civilization.

What does this tell us about our culture, our civilization, and ourselves? What is it about this particular story that has so deeply gripped the human imagination for so many centuries, in so many places?

Come join us for this 8 session DVD film course!

WHEN AND WHERE

Thursdays 7 PM – 9 PM starting Sept 1 at

Room 9
First Unitarian Church of Orlando
1901 E. Robinson St
Orlando FL 32803

REGISTRATION AND COST

This class is FREE and is considered “Drop-in” friendly – come for all or just your favorites in this 8 week series! Donations welcome to help support our work.

Full description at
http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/king-arthur-history-and-legend.html

You can register to be put in the email reminder list and to help us plan for classroom space needs.

SYLLABUS

 

Sept 1

King Arthur: Class 1
  • The Origins of Arthur
  • An Arthur-Like Figure in Cornwall
  • King Arthur in the Latin Chronicles
Sept 8

King Arthur: Class 2
  • King Arthur in Wales — The Mabinogion
  • Monmouth, Merlin, and Courtly Love
  • The Round Table — Arthur in Wace and Layamon
Sept 15

King Arthur: Class 3
  • Chretien de Troyes and Sir Lancelot
  • Arthurian Tales and Brittany and Burgundy
  • The Lancelot-Grail Cycle
Sept 22

King Arthur: Class 4
  • The Early German Arthurian Tradition
  • King Arthur’s Other German Adaptations
  • The Arthurian Saga of Scandinavia
Sept 29

King Arthur: Class 5
  • Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight
  • The Alliterative Morte Arthure
  • Sir Thomas Mallory’s Le Morte Darthur
Oct 6

King Arthur: Class 6
  • Enriching the Legend: Tristan and Isolde
  • The Holy Grail from Chretien to Dan Brown
  • Arthuriana in Medieval Art
Oct 13

King Arthur: Class 7
  • Spenser, Milton and the Rennaisance Arthur
  • Idylls of the King – The Victorian Arthur
  • Wager and Twain – King Arthur in the Late 1800’s
Oct 20

King Arthur: Class 8
  • Once and Future — The 20th Century Arthur
  • Camelot Comes to Hollywood
  • King Arthur in the 21st Century and Beyond

CONTACT
Email mysticgrove@orlandouu.org for more info or to register to be put on  the reminder list for this class.

Class: The Transcendentalists

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Thursday Class Series

7 PM – 9 PM in Room 9

from Jan 7 – Feb 25

Where did the America we know today—so different in its fundamental views about almost every aspect of life as to be unrecognizable to our countrymen of two centuries ago—really come from?

Join us for this “drop-in” friendly class. Come for all or just your favorites! You can download the 2016 Spring_Class_Emerson PDF of dates and topics or read more below.

For more info, email mysticgrove@orlandouu.org

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Neopagan Rites: Learn to Improve Your Ritual Writing

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neopaganritesbook.jpgThis class is intended for people of all experience levels to enhance their understanding of the elements of creating and leading public Pagan ritual. Sessions will include content presented by class leaders, discussion, exercises, homework.

This 12 week series takes place from July 16-October 1 every Thursday evening from 7 PM – 9 PM.

The class will put their learning into practice by writing, organizing, and leading the Mystic Grove Mabon ritual on Saturday, September 26.

Book will be provided. (Neopagan Rites: A Guide to Creating Public Rituals That Work by Isaac Bonewits.

Cost: $25 for singles, $30 for couples, $10 if you already own the book.

TO RSVP or for further information, contact mysticgrove@orlandouu.org or visit out Facebook event page.