"Brian Day" - Thursday
Thursday we welcomed a pair of Brian's to our group. The first, Brian Carwana, was from the Encounter World Religions Centre . He took us through a session called "To See, To Be, To Do" that gave a very concise explanation of many of the world's religions. He grouped them into three categories Middle Eastern: Muslim, Judaism, Christianity Indian: Jainism, Hinduism, Buddhism Balance: Aboriginal, Shinto Each family have many similarities and are quite different from the others. It was a very broad stroke kind of presentation but was quite fascinating. After a break this Brian then lead us through some of the symbols of 5 religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Muslim, Sikh. In many of them he actually dressed a volunteer in the clothing that is part of the tradition at hand. What I found fascinating was the symbols that drew me toward my own tradition or may have even come to my tradition. After lunch we were joined by the second Brian, Brian Lisson fro