When considering the history of ideas on planet Earth, there is a temptation to characterize that saga as a series of intense preoccupations with and disputations  concerning questions that are either irrelevant or irresolvable. Is there really any point, for example, in trying to prove the existence of a supreme being? And is anyone losing sleep lately over the question as to whether the pineal gland is, as Rene Descartes claimed, the connecting link between the body and the soul?

And yet... is it really true that what we think doesn't matter? Or do our beliefs -- usually unexamined and frequently unconscious -- impact on the ways we rejoice, the ways we grieve, the ways we strive, the ways we hate, and the ways we love? And is there significance in the fact that we sometimes describe a person as being out of her or his mind when we intend to question that individual's sanity?

Through conversation and experiential exercises, we will explore these and related questions as we irreverently and undisputationally mind our minds.