As humans, we question, reason, love, and, inevitably, seek meaning. Given the singularity of our existence in the vast Cosmos, it makes a lot of sense to ask ourselves: do our lives have a purpose? In order to answer this question, humanity came up with the idea of God. 

The Poetic Reason: Or Enquiry into the Divine (Azara, 2021) is an investigation into divinity as seen through the lenses of history, philosophy and science - but also the heart. Our chairman, Adrian Azara, will take us on a journey to uncover “The Divine” throughout human history through a series of lectures entitled “The Poetic Reason Series”, based on the eponymous book.

In this first lecture, titled “The Sacred and the Profane”, we will try to understand the birth of “The Divine” by investigating how our ancestors tried to answer fundamental questions such as: why does the sun rise? How did the world start? These questions will serve as the basis for the inception of mythology.

Join us at Folkuniversitetet on August 17th at 6:30 pm, Room 521.

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