Tuesday Study Circles: April 7th, April 14th, April 21st & April 28th, 2026

Antidotes to Anxiety

April 7, 2026 “Youth at the Millennium”, Nandini Iyer

An essay from the book, Tribute to a Teacher. Nandini Iyer presented this talk as part of an intergenerational dialogue sponsored by Group 21 in which she poses a provocative question: “We may well ask, have we not had education for millennia – education of every possible kind, colour, hue, tone, inclination, persuasion? And what have we to show for it?”

April 14, 2026 Action is the Antidote to Doomscrolling Anxiety, Edward Norton.  Also, “Crossing the Brooklyn Ferry”, Walt Whitman.

The Study Circle will screen an interview with the actor Edward Norton concerning contemporary anxiety and then discuss anxiety and the Whitman poem he recites.

April 21, 2026 “Speech Matters/Vedic Maxim”, Donald Lambie

What principles are to guide us in the use of speech?  For example, to quote from the Vedic tradition: “Speak truth pleasantly. Do not speak pleasant untruth.”

April 28, 2026   Philosophy as a Way of Life, Christine Lambie

Christine discusses a passage from Pierre Hadot’s book, Philosophy as a Way of Life: “Philosophy was a mode of existing-in-the-world, which had to be practiced at each instant, and the goal of which was to transform the whole of the individual’s life.”

For zoom link email donna@worldculture.org.