DSU Meeting, August 19, 2026

Divine Science University held a meeting August 19, 2026, gathering at 4:50 and opening at 5:04 PM with the invitation song Teach Your Children by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young.  Opening activities then followed with reviewing our mission statement, opening intention and a relaxing breathing exercise.

At 5:10 PM Carol from ONE-TLC presented The Gut Brain Connection.  She reviewed how the gut can effect brain function citing examples.

At 5:28 PM David presented Defragging Your Brain, Part 2 and included an exercise for us to contemplate our four “bodies” – physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.  Under each of the “bodies” we contemplated  how to answer the questions “I AM”  and I seek.  We meditated upon Diana Ross’ song Do You Know

DSU Meeting, August 12, 2026

Divine Science University held a meeting August 12, 2026, gathering at 4:50 and opening at 5:00 PM with the invitation song Teach Your Children by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young.  Opening activities then followed with reviewing our mission statement, opening intention and a relaxing breathing exercise.

At 5:07 PM Chris from SOW Presented A Millennium of Wisdom – Gatha 1

His “take away” was Doing the right thing, at the right time, in the right place, with the right manner and means, leads to positive growth and to generally better outcomes in life.  

Choosing chaos, self-preservation, greed and the like, generally leads to a "poor outcome."  

Much as a gardener, provide as much light as you can to your crops and your crops will grow, water them with Spirit and they will be nurtured. It is ALL for learning, so above ALL – LEARN AND IMPROVE!    One of our chief objectives at DSU. 

A Millennium of Wisdom – Gatha 1

What I want to achieve in this presentation is to read all of Zarathushtra's Gatha 1, review some of the fine points derived from it and just go wherever discussion leads us.

But first I want to give you a bit of insight into the history of this time period and see how Akhenaten, Moses, and Zarathushtra fit together on a time line and provide a VERY high level overview of their theology, that you will find in the table above.

The clearest historically attested figure with strong “wisdom/religious teaching” associations active near 1300 BCE is Akhenaten. A near contemporary of his is the author Amenemope, who represents the written Egyptian wisdom tradition of the period. 

Moses appears in traditional and some scholarly reconstructions of the same broad era c. 1300 B.C. 

Zarathushtra is possible by early scholarly estimates.  All dates, except for Akhenaten, are debatable. 

DSU Meeting, August 5, 2026

Divine Science University held a meeting August 5, 2026, gathering at 4:50 and opening at 5:00 PM with the invitation song Teach Your Children by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young.  Opening activities then followed with reviewing our mission statement, opening intention and a relaxing breathing exercise.

At 5:04 PM Chris from SOW reviewed a Five Minutes of Wisdom segment by reading Zarathushtra’s verse 1.5.  The group then discussed our insights regarding this reading.

At 5:21 PM John opened a discussion on The Theory of Evolution. He noted that Darwin’s book was titled The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.  He reviewed portions of the theory for us and we discussed the topic.  His “take away” was “All life is one family.”   

DSU Meeting, July 29, 2026

Divine Science University held a meeting July 29, 2026 gathering at 4:50 and opening at 5:00 PM with the invitation song Teach Your Children by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young.  Opening activities then followed with reviewing our mission statement, opening intention and a relaxing breathing exercise.

At 5:07 PM Chris from SOW reviewed a Five Minutes of Wisdom segment by reading Zarathushtra’s verse 1.4.  The group then discussed our insights regarding this reading.

At 5:24 PM Jackie opened a discussion on Awareness.  Shared were concepts such as “Awareness is a state of being aware.”  “Aware is from ancient words meaning perceive, watch out for.”  “ Awareness is a state or condition of being perceptive, watchful, vigilant.”  

We discussed the following questions: