Meet kindred book lovers in a local Meetup Book Club! If you have a addiction for books you are more than welcome to feed it here. Fiction or non-fiction, paperback or hardcover, it doesn't matter as long as you love to read. Come to laugh, share stories and make new friends! Very relaxed casual atmosphere.

Mission Statement — To create a positive impact on our shared world, our mission is to provide a community that values and promotes a freethinking life unencumbered by the biases of tradition, dogma, and authority and that encourages people to live a reason and evidence-based life characterized by close fellowship, ethical contemplation, critical thinking, community service, and the appreciation of scientific knowledge and understanding of the universe and our place in it. http://fofdallas.org

You don't have to be a CISSP! Meet with local IT security professionals who have interest in IT security. Meet, discuss happenings in the industry, socialize, and network.

The Fraternity of the Hidden Light is an Aquarian Age Mystery School founded in 1982, based on the Western Tradition. The Dallas Chapter of the F.L.O., sponsors public classes in Qabalah, Esoteric Tarot, Astrology, Alchemy, Theurgy and related Arcane Sciences.http://www.lvx.org/index.html Initiates of the Fraternity of the Hidden Light practice a system of spiritual disciplines best described as Hermetic Qabalah. The Qabalah is a dynamic system of Judeo-Christian theosophy, mysticism and theurgy …

If you want to live a more fulfilled life, first you will want to know your potential, who you really are. Meditation is the route to that knowing. It is the methodology of the science of awareness. Many meditative techniques require one to sit still and silent. But for most of us accumulated stress in our bodymind makes that difficult. Before we can hope to access our inner powerhouse of consciousness, we need to let go of our tensions. Osho Active Meditations have been scientifically designe …

The Dallas Atheist Book Club is a place for freethinkers (atheists, agnostics, skeptics, secularists, etc.) to read and to engage in lively discussion about books relating to atheism, freethought, science, history, governance, biography, psychology, philosophy, and some fiction. We try to meet on the second Wednesday of each month at 7:00 PM for the book review. This is usually followed up with a social gathering at a local restaurant or bar for dinner and drinks at 9:00 PM. We also occasional …

Meet metaphysical singles in the Dallas area interested in discussing ideas about metaphysics. What’s your interest? Whether it be ancient knowledge, shamanism, astrology, tarot, esoteric sciences, sacred geometry or quantum physics. Come discuss the possibilities of this multi-faceted realm our holographic beings have currently manifested in and our quest for enlightentment. Share your knowledge, your thoughts, learn from others and meet like-minded souls.

This book club is for people who like to read science fiction. We meet once a month (every fourth Wednesday at 7:00 pm) at the Half Price Books on the southeast corner of 75 and Northwest Highway. We meet at the tables at the back of Black Forest Coffee in Half Price Books. Look for the red and white Meetup sign. The succeeding science fiction book selection is chosen by popular vote by the attending members of each meetup. Please keep your RSVP up-to-date. If this is your first visit to a meeti …

Come join us for a fun field night of SciFi Movies and Games. We chat and talk in the forums at http://www.scififx.com and we get together and talk once a month about everything SciFi, and apparently we also have a few more weird members that like the Muppets!

A reading discussion group meetup for the Dallas Area Neuroscience Group, a Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN). Membership in the SfN is not required to participate in the reading discussion groups. Please also see our website at www.SfNDANG.org.

We live in a very promising time. It is also a very challenging time. At least that’s how it looks like to us humans. It’s a time when the human spirit is triumphing and books are being rewritten. Love, sharing & the healing of our fellow man is becoming what is normal. The other side of this coin is a reality full of people who are hurting - who are hurting other people who are hurting. It is causing a great disturbance that is rooted in the spiritual and that manifests physically as war, …

Dallas Makerspace is an organized group of local artists, engineers, DIYers, makers, and thinkers who work together to collect tools and resources for our membership, who could not otherwise afford, store, or use them individually. We lease an industrial building and use it as a shared workspace to collaborate on a variety of individual and community projects that promote science and technology. If you are a "maker", then Dallas Makerspace is the best place in Dallas to find like minded people w …

The North Texas Skeptics is a group for skeptics, critical thinkers, and science fans in the Dallas metroplex area. Our main web site is at ntskeptics.org

Welcome non-fiction readers! If you are reluctant to drive into Dallas but are eager for lively discussions with great friends about the parade of non-fiction that crosses your nightstand, then you've found the perfect group! So many books to read and so little time... The goal for our group will be to cover a broad range of non-fiction bestsellers with balance as our keyword, so you can count on many genre's (biography, memoir, popular science, politics...), and a mix of worldviews (left/right/ …

Dallas and Ft. Worth metroplex region of R Users. Learn, present, teach, and apply statistics, optimization, and mathematics with the R Project for Statistical Computing. Welcome to the Dallas R Users Group website. We aim to provide learning, knowledge, support and professional networking with regards to the statistical computing environment of R. We encourage newcomers as well as advanced users to become a member of the Dallas RUG. Please join us for our monthly meetups. Membership is totall …

The purpose of this group is provide a forum, events, and friendship between the various geeks in Dallas who happen to be young gay geeks (GLBT). The group welcome techies, engineers, science and math lovers. Basically if you're an intellectual you are welcome.  The group is intended to create friendships and create intellectual conversation. Smart is sexy.

This group is one of the many Institute of Noetic Sciences community groups. Here in the Dallas-Fort Worth Area, we bring together a dynamic collection of people dedicated to exploring a personal and collective shift in consciousness through conversations that matter. The Institute’s primary program areas are consciousness and healing, extended human capacities, and emerging worldviews, or paradigm shifts. The DFW IONS explore these topics at the local level through diverse speaker presentations …

If you are a family in the greater Dallas area dealing with Autism, Asperger's, PDD or Sensory Integration Disorder, this group was created especially for you!!  This group offers preschool through elementary age children and their siblings opportunities to enjoy recreation and social activities in an understanding environment while the parents receive support, encouragement and knowledge from each other. My hope is the group will grow to support children and families through middle school, high …

Good books, good food, good conversations! We're a small group of readers that likes to explore new things. Each month we choose a book and a restaurant to try, and we like to keep it diverse. Recent reads include The Etched City, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, and Anna Dressed in Blood. Our topics range wildly, sometimes related to the book, sometimes not. Think we're a good fit? Give us a try.

Ever wonder if math can be fun? Let's meet and play and explore the fun and mystery of basic math and find games, materials and resources for your kids whether at home or in the classroom. There are many things we can build around learning math in a fun way and inspire your kids to keep going and build a cognitive bridge to the formal math of middle, high school and college math.

This is a new group for all Christian single moms and dads in the Dallas area. We meet at kid-friendly places like Cosmic Jump, Jump Street, Going Bonkers, Fort Worth Zoo, art/science events, fund-raisers, water parks, church events, bowling alleys, skating rinks, Celebrate Freedom, and any other fun, kid-friendly places you know of. Groupon.com offers deals on several of these places so be sure to create an account, if you haven't already, so you’ll get the discounts. I’m a member of Prestonwoo …

This group is for women currently employed in the fields of science, technology, engineering or mathematics. We warmly welcome our amazing female teachers of these fields as well. If you would like to meet women with similar interests as yourself outside of work, come join us for fun activities such as whirlyball, paint your own pottery, theater shows, dance lessons, broomball and much more. We’ll even try out a couple’s night.

This group was created to provide TSFA members, ConDFW fans, and attendees more times to meet outside of the convention, to sustain the community that has been built up during the convention over the years. What would you like to see, attend, do? Please let me know!

Meetup together on tv/movie events and conventions. Organize special events. Play Sci-fi games together: regarding Star Trek and Sci-fi..

Positive psychology is the science of happiness and well-being. Unlike traditional psychology which focuses on relieving human misery, positive psychology focuses on what makes life worth living and teaches us how to create lives full of meaning, purpose, fulfillment, satisfaction, achievement, and longevity. Positive Psychology seeks to create positive emotions, happiness, and well-being through the development of character strengths and virtues. It is a merger of philosophy, psychology, positi …

Bringing together a dynamic group of educators, business leaders, entrepreneurs and community advocates in the DFW metroplex with a common goal of improving Science, Technology, Engineering and Math education (STEM). We will strive to highlight various individuals, organizations and schools working towards promising STEM programs and technology solutions so we can benefit from the collective experience and knowledge of this group. At the DFW meetups, we will encourage our members to think throug …

This group is to explore what it would take to start a new spiritual community without some of the hang-ups that come with traditional churches. Think more in terms of practical spirituality with a focus on life skills and community and less religious.  Emphasis will be on what we agree about and not what we don't with a foundation of personal responsibility & growth, family, community and humanity.  Balance will be a primary guide, whether between spiritual & practical, science and faith, sprin …

For people interested in getting useful information out of the data. We bring together data analysts (tech people) and data users (non-tech/biz people) to share their stories. Data analysts and data scientists can share and learn how to work with data. People from organisations can learn how they can use data. We prefer open-source solutions.