The Mythic Imagination - talks, trails and mysteries
 
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  Special programme    
         
                 
                 
  Special additional weekend course ~ The Otherworld and the Unconscious  
                 
  Friday              
  6.00pm Welcome.  Drinks and short introduction to the weekend by Patrick  
  7.00 – 8.00pm Supper            
  8.00 – 9.00pm  The Tradition of the Daimon: from the bird-headed shaman of Lascaux, through Egyptian bird-souls and ibis-headed Thoth to winged Hermes, Angels and the Dove. (Jules)  
                 
  Saturday              
  9.30 – 10.30am The Unconscious and the Otherworld: an introduction to the crucial role of daimons(Patrick)  
  11.00– 12.00pm Imagination in William Blake: Poetic Genius vs Reason. Powerpoint presentation of Blake's paintings (Jules)  
  12.30 – 1.30pm Lunch            
  1.40 – 4.00pm        Trail: Soul paths  
  5.00 - 6.00pm       Initiation and loss of soul: rites of passage and their transformative importance
(Patrick)		  
  6.00 – 7.00pm  Questions and discussion over drinks   
  7.00 – 8.00pm Supper  
  8.00 – 9.00pm     Encounters with modern daimons - powerpoint presentation. (Merrily)  
       
  Sunday    
  9.30 – 10.30am Simmering in the secret fire: self-initiation in the recipes of alchemy (Patrick)  
  11.00 – 12.00am The Mystery of the Death and Rebirth of Osiris: An Exploration of the Mysteries in the Temple of Seti I at Abydos (Jules)  
  12.30 – 1.30pm Lunch   
  1.40 – 4.00pm Trail: Portals  
  4.00 – 5.30pm Tea, questions and discussion. Summing up the weekend  
                 
  Talks are illustrated with Power Point projections as appropriate.  
  N. B. The programme is flexible - timings and individual talks within it may change from time to time.  
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  Programme 2, Vision          
  Programme 3, Transformation          
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'...Call the world if you Please "The vale of Soul-making". Then you will find out the use of the world (I am speaking now in the highest terms for human nature admitting it to be immortal which I will here take for granted for the purpose of showing a thought which has struck me concerning it). I say 'Soul making', Soul as distinguished from an Intelligence. There may be intelligences or sparks of the divinity in millions - but they are not Souls till they acquire identities, till each one is personally itself. Intelligences are atoms of perception - they know and they see and they are pure, in short they are God. How then are Souls to be made? How then are these sparks which are God to have identity given them - so as ever to possess a bliss peculiar to each one's individual existence? How, but by the medium of a world like this?' ~ John Keats, letter 14th February 1819