{"id":502,"date":"2016-02-26T19:33:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T19:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-tufts-chaplaincy.pantheonsite.io\/humanist\/?p=502"},"modified":"2016-02-26T19:34:57","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T19:34:57","slug":"small-group-reflection-moby-dick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chaplaincy.tufts.edu\/humanist\/news\/2016\/02\/26\/small-group-reflection-moby-dick\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Group Reflection: Moby Dick"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the Tufts Humanist Chaplaincy, we hope\u00a0to foster a comfortable environment for people to engage in honest discussions around the challenges in their lives, and to explore how people outside traditional religion approach questions that many faith traditions engage regularly. Our day to day lives, on campus and off, can be challenging just as they are exciting, but we don’t always have a structured hour in the week to sit down and reflect on the way we’ve grown, and the lessons we can learn from the experiences of others.<\/p>\n

At small group reflections, the Humanist in Residence facilitates an open, respectful, and confidential conversation around a chosen\u00a0theme that concerns and informs many of our choices and experiences in our life journey. The conversation is rooted in a text (or other piece of culture) written from a Humanist perspective that engages the theme, and from there will be open to the perspectives and experiences of everyone present in the group. Those present are encouraged to bring pieces of culture that inspire their own values on the theme, including and especially those from other faith traditions.<\/p>\n

The upcoming\u00a0small group reflection will be led\u00a0through a passage from\u00a0Moby Dick<\/em>.\u00a0It will be on\u00a0Monday<\/strong>, February 29th<\/strong>, at 9pm in the Interfaith Center<\/strong>\u00a0downstairs meeting room. Small group reflections are open to all members of the Tufts community, irrespective of anyone’s belief background. Light refreshments will be served!<\/p>\n

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\"67ff66a285a128e4f13bd431d160c00d\"<\/a>Herman Melville, a Unitarian 19th century American author, was inspired to write\u00a0his best known work\u00a0Moby Dick<\/em> allegedly by his own experience on a whaling ship in the 1840s. It’s thematic battles of perception, truth, and conscience have characterized conversations both around the power of English-language literature to engage existential questions and around the ascension of secular literature into a spiritual, scriptural realm of understanding and inspiration.<\/p>\n

For our upcoming discussion, we’ll read a short passage from Moby Dick\u00a0<\/em>that\u00a0in part locates the sea and the land within ourselves to inspire reflection on our dual roles:<\/p>\n

Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.<\/em><\/p>\n

Consider all this; and then turn to the green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half-known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Melville, Herman. Moby-dick<\/i>. Simon and Schuster, 1999. (240).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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