I'll pass on your ideas, Jess, but I know he has tried going to church with some of his girl friends and found that to be as disgusting as I find our current state of political and economic affairs. I cannot say that I blame him, for like most of the south and midwest, we are ruled by the megachurches. Organizations designed to hold individual lives in check through religious and political fear. If you have ever seen the film Jesus Camp, you will have some idea what type of experiences might be occurring in youths in their attempts to grasp their own spiritual identities. Indoctrination, Bible Camp, forced prayer, even forced speaking in tongues in some places.
My brother can recount for you one of the most terrifying experiences he ever had while attending a megachurch (actually I think it may have been a smaller church with a megachurch mentality), in which he was quite literally forced to "pray in tongues". The pastor forcibly held him down until he did. And scarily, this is a common occurence. There is nothing I can do about it though, and that saddens me... The world will remain like this (or become progressively worse) until we as a culture, as a society can rise up and say that we are fed up with it and come up with something new, something that works in man's progressive search for his inner self... and not merely come up with food, clothing, and machines that make us look and feel good about ourselves. We must advance the inner mind, the soul, in search of a greater depth of meaning...
I know that a spiritual organization is different from a religious organization, but if you look around here in the DFW metroplex, you will not find many spiritual organizations. I tried to find a Parabola reading group down here not too long ago, and found that it had been dissolved some time before I even moved. As far as I know, there are no organizations in pursuit of spiritual meaning here in DFW and I've looked high and low for them. Everything that's even remotely spiritual is wrapped up in pretense and psychological mumbo-jumbo that has no place in the search for self.
For a while, new age bookstores provided some relief from this catoleptic experience of life, but the megachurches have pounded them out of commission. In an area that once was the Aquarian Capital, there are now 2 new age businesses that have not been put out of business. There are other bookstores, yes, but strangely enough, they are mostly empty of customers. You can sometimes find someone in the cooking section, or the romantic fiction arena but that's just about it.
Night classes? He's taking some graduate courses, but I don't think they're the deep and provocative ones that one should really be taking to challenge the mind and void our lives of the repetitive, incessant babble of the beginnings of the posthumanist era.