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Carl Angotti<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

11 a.m., November 30, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

Join us this Sunday, either in person or online, as we welcome Humanist Community member Carl Angotti to tell us about “My Life Journey to Discover Meditation”.<\/p>\n

Carl writes: I am giving this talk to introduce fellow humanists to meditation, not as some super solution to life\u2019s problems and concerns, and not because I discovered something that suddenly changed my life forever, but something that has been part of a lifelong process.<\/p>\n

As I see it, most Humanists are thinkers, and many of us are \u201cdoers\u201d, but learning to \u201cun think\u201d and \u201cun do\u201d is foreign to many of us. Only a few of us have discovered Meditation as another way to enhance their understanding of their world. My talk will literally start from childhood, through adulthood, to my first real experience of Meditation, and later experiences. I have been meditating, off and on, for 24 years. Perhaps you might want not take so long as I did to experiment with this different state of being, and learn to use it in your life.<\/p>\n

Come join us to hear my thoughts, and answer questions about what meditation is, and what it is not, in my experience.<\/p>\n

Bio<\/p>\n

Carl Angotti was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA, and after graduating from college in 1962 he came to Southern CA, and then to the SF Bay Area of CA in 1965. He is a long time humanist and member of the Humanist Community. He started his journey from agnostic to unbeliever over 62 years, starting as a Unitarian, then shifting later to becoming a Humanist over this same period. He has long been interested in learning about philosophy, psychology and of course engineering. He as been a technical engineering consultant in the Bay Area for more then 35 years.<\/p>\n

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