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| Friday | ||||||||
| 6.00pm | Welcome. Drinks and introduction to the weekend: The Golden Chain – the history of a secret tradition. (Patrick) | |||||||
| 7.00 – 8.00pm | Supper | |||||||
| 8.00 – 9.00pm | Hermes, Greek god of Imagination: his story and images. (Jules) | |||||||
| Saturday | ||||||||
| 9.30 – 10.45am | Gods, daimons, fairylore and the Soul of the World. (Patrick) | |||||||
| 11.15 – 12.30pm | Gods, archetypes and the collective unconscious. (Jules) | |||||||
| 12.30 – 1.30pm | Lunch | |||||||
| 1.30 – 4.00pm | Tour: Genius loci, the haunted landscape. | |||||||
| 5.00 – 6.00pm | Guardian angels and personal daimons. (Patrick) | |||||||
| 6.00 – 7.00pm | Questions and discussion over drinks. | |||||||
| 7.00 – 8.00pm | Supper | |||||||
| 8.00 – 9.00pm | Modern daimons - their history and mystery (Merrily) | |||||||
| Sunday | ||||||||
| 9.30 – 10.45pm | The ambiguity of Nature: Rousseau and the Romantics to philosophical materialism and the quantum otherworld. (Patrick) | |||||||
| 11.15 – 12.30pm | Imagination in Blake and Coleridge: Poetic vision and metaphor versus literalism. (Jules) | |||||||
| 12.30 – 1.30pm | Lunch | |||||||
| 1.45 – 4.00pm | Tour: The sacred landscape - monuments to hidden deities | |||||||
| 4.00 – 5.00pm | The Goddess: unified vision and the loss of soul. (Jules) | |||||||
| 5.00 – 6.00pm | Questions and discussion - summing up the weekend. | |||||||
| Talks are illustrated with Power Point projections as appropriate. | ||||||||
| Four myths for prelim perusal | ||||||||
| N. B. The programme is flexible - timings and individual talks within it may change from time to time. | ||||||||
| How to book | ||||||||
| Programme 2, Vision | ||||||||
| Programme 3, Transformation | ||||||||
| Special weekend, The Otherworld and the Unconscious | ||||||||
| Courses overview | ||||||||
| The Golden Chain | ||||||||
| Home | ||||||||
| '...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 | ||||||||
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