This is a good old fashioned book club, but with a specific focus - personal development through understanding ourselves within the natural world. All religions and spiritualities, once your remove the metaphysics, center on understanding and optimizing the human condition. We seek to do that through understanding the natural world, ourselves, and our place in the natural world. We will be covering cosmology, evolution, neuroscience, psychology, and a host of other paradigms on our quest. We wil …

This meetup group was created to add additional features to our already functioning group on facebook. You can get there by going to https://www.facebook.com/groups/sandiegoskeptics/  That is where we post articles and have online discussion and where we currently have 276 members. We meet on the 1st and 3ird Thursday of every month at a pub or for movie nights at a home with a large projector screen. We also do hiking, parties and other events. Our group tends to skew younger than other group …

The OC Quantified Self Meetup is inspired by the Bay Area Quantified Self Meetup and the Quantified Self blog. It is a regular show and tell for people who are tracking data about their body and conducting their own personal investigations and research into their bodies, minds, and selves. Anything is game -- from personal genetics to ways to digitize and track information, from how to self-diagnose to how to self-experiment with data and statistics. More specific topics include: * self-experime …

Do you like science and the natural world?  Do you enjoy quiet, pleasant, small-group conversation? Please join us if you truly enjoy discussing all types of science:  biology, chemistry, astronomy, geology, ecology, meteorology, horticulture, physics, epidemiology, marine science, nanotechnology, mathematics (the queen of the sciences!) , neuroscience, computer science, scientific technology, medicine and related arts, engineering, etc. To accommodate both early risers and folks who prefer even …

Looking to find out more about Hypnosis and NLP? (Neuro Linguistic Programming) The best way is to join a local meetup that's FREE. There is so much to learn on the subject, and each and every month we teach a new lesson on the subject. We teach Hypnosis, NLP, and other modalities all over the world, and absolutely love the success one can achieve with the power of Hypnosis and NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming.) I figured we need a more active community of people looking for powerful results in …

The San Diego Quantified Self Meetup is inspired by the Bay Area Quantified Self Meetup and the Quantified Self blog. It is a regular show and tell for people who are tracking data about their body and conducting their own personal investigations and research into their bodies, minds, and selves. Anything is game -- from personal genetics to ways to digitize and track information, from how to self-diagnose to how to self-experiment with data and statistics. More specific topics include: * self-e …