DSU Meeting, August 26, 2026

Divine Science University held a meeting August 27, 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 John presented a presentation on Negative Instincts. Discussion included the concepts that negative instincts are one of the 10 cognitive instincts that systematically distort how people perceive the world.  Human tendency is to give greater weight to negative events, news or information than to neutral or positive ones.  Evolutionarily, those who paid more attention to dangers survived better.  It  is what makes us over focus on the bad or undesired instincts.  The take away it to attempt to return to basic evolution to make negative instincts become, rather, a healthy fear.

At 5:29 PM Jackie presented “Rising Above Negativity” which can be found at this link.

At 6:08 PM we reviewed our closing intention and determined that next week Chris would bring the 15 minutes program and Carol a 30 minute program.  We then concluded at 6:12 PM with Cat Steven’s Song Moonshadow.