Gleb Tsipursky: Is God Needed For Finding Meaning and Purpose? Science Says No!

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Is God Needed For Finding Meaning and Purpose? Science Says No!

Gleb Tsipursky
April 18, 2016
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/secularspectrum/2016/04/is-god-needed-for-finding-meaning-and-purpose-science-says-no


Free Book: Find Your Purpose Using Science
Gleb Tsipursky, President and Co-Founder, Intentional Insights
http://intentionalinsights.org/book-find-your-purpose-using-science

Book Trailer

https://youtu.be/zGTmXw9GwAU

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Using Science, Not Religion, to Find Your Purpose

Gleb Tsipursky, PhD, Co-Founder and President of Intentional Insights, a nonprofit that helps people refine and reach their goals by providing research-based content about improving thinking, feeling, and behavior patterns
Apr 21, 2015
Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science
http://richarddawkins.net/2015/04/using-science-not-religion-to-find-your-purpose



"Wait, what? Science can’t answer life’s big questions – that’s the job of religious dogma, right? Well, a wave of recent research in psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and other disciplines has explored how we find meaning and purpose in life, with or without belief in a deity. So we as secular people can use science to fill that emptiness deep in the pit of our stomach that comes from a lack of a personal sense of meaning and purpose. We can use science to answer the question 'what is the meaning of life for you?'...Apparently, the important thing is simply to gain a sense of life purpose and meaning: the source of the purpose itself is not so important. Religion can be one among many channels to help someone gain a sense of life meaning."

Find Your Purpose Using Science: Free Online Class
http://intentionalinsights.org/find-your-purpose-using-science-online-class

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A Humanist Take on Meaning and Purpose

Gleb Tsipursky
March 27, 2015
UU Humanist Association
http://huumanists.org/blog/201503/humanist-take-meaning-and-purpose

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Group offers way to find meaning and purpose in life
May 24, 2015
The Columbus Dispatch
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2015/05/21/group-aims-at-finding-meaning-in-life.html


Humanist Gleb Tsipursky mediates at Inniswood Metro Park

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Is Serving Others the Key to Meaning and Purpose?
Recent findings show the role of serving others in finding meaning and purpose

Gleb Tsipursky
14 July 2016
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/intentional-insights/201607/is-serving-others-the-key-meaning-and-purpose

I remember how in November 2013 my wife (and fellow Intentional Insights co-founder) and I, together with a great bunch of people, organized a spaghetti dinner fundraiser at our Unitarian Universalist church in Columbus, OH. The event was a big success, with more than 120 attendees, a music program, a raffle and silent auction. We raised over $2000 for the Mid-Ohio Food Bank. It might surprise you that the dinner organizers and volunteers came from Columbus secular humanist, atheist, and skeptic groups, including the UU secular group, as this religious denomination embraces believers and non-believers alike. The dinner honored the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a light satire meant to promote reason-based scientific education in biology classes.  ...

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A Reason-Oriented Perspective on Meanings and Values
Dr. Gleb Tsipursky
Co-Founder and President
Intentional Insights
25 July 2016

...Reflecting on purpose, meaning, values, and morals together with others in your community and social circle builds upon and combines all the previous strategies mentioned in earlier Intentional Insights blog posts as contributing to finding meaning and purpose in life. It provides:

• A venue for reflecting on deep life questions
• A means of building and cultivating social and community connections
• A way to help others, through assisting them in finding clearer answers to life’s big questions

Thus, participating in such discussion groups offers the trifecta of all elements that research shows combine to help people gain a sense of meaning and purpose in life – reflecting on meaning and purpose, acquiring stronger community and social bonds, and helping others. ...

Well, what if you don’t happen to have such a group in your locale? Why not take the initiative to organize one? To help you out, Intentional Insights offers a “Values and Meanings” group starter package. This package includes two blog posts describing a typical “Values and Meanings” session, a facilitator’s guide, a feedback sheet, and participant handouts for eight events. Drop us a line at [e-mail] and we can connect you to current participants in “Values and Meanings” who can give you tips on setting up such a group in your own locale.

P.S. For additional resources on a science-based approach to finding meaning and purpose, check out this free workbook endorsed by Dr. Richard Carrier, Dr. Bob Bhaerman, and other scholars and secular activists; use this free science-based web app to evaluate your current sense of meaning and purpose; and also consider the wide variety of others resources on meaning and purpose available at Intentional Insights.