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The third weekend course - Transformation - is open to all, not
just those who have attended one or more of the first two courses -
everyone welcome. N.B. you don't have to be familiar with the texts mentioned in the talks' titles - the talks will be self-explanatory. |
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| Friday | ||||||||
| 6.00pm | Welcome. Drinks and introduction to the weekend: The life changing effect of contact with the Otherworld. (Patrick) | |||||||
| 7.00 – 8.00pm | Supper | |||||||
| 8.00 – 9.00pm | 'What ails thee?' Parzival's Quest for the Grail in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival. (Jules) | |||||||
| Saturday | ||||||||
| 9.30 – 10.30am | The Raw, the Cooked and the Under-Cooked: rites of passage and the loss of soul consequent upon their neglect. (Patrick) | |||||||
| 11.00– 12.00pm | 'And where you are is where you are not.' T. S. Eliot., 'East Coker,' Four Quartets. Darkness in the quest for transformation (Jules) | |||||||
| 12.30 – 1.30pm | Lunch | |||||||
| 1.40 – 4.00pm | Trail: Soul paths and markers | |||||||
| 5.00 - 6.00pm |
Crystal Heart, Iron Bones: the shaman's dismemberment and reconstruction,
from Orpheus to Coleridge via Siberia, as a model of soul regeneration. (Patrick) |
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| 6.00 – 7.00pm | Questions and discussion over drinks | |||||||
| 7.00 – 8.00pm | Supper | |||||||
| 8.00 – 9.00pm | 'At the orchestral brink of the known world': a modern myth of Actaeon (Merrily) | |||||||
| Sunday | ||||||||
| 9.30 – 10.30am | The Black, the White and the Red: the Great Work of alchemy as an archetypal recipe for self-transformation. (Patrick) | |||||||
| 11.00 – 12.00am | 'I see it feelingly.' Tragic Vision in Shakespeare's King Lear. (Jules) | |||||||
| 12.30 – 1.30pm | Lunch | |||||||
| 1.40 – 4.00pm | Trail: Blasted heaths and lost worlds | |||||||
| 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. | ||||||||
| How to book | ||||||||
| Programme 1, Perception | ||||||||
| Programme 2, Vision | ||||||||
| Special weekend, The Otherworld and the Unconscious | ||||||||
| Courses overview | ||||||||
| The Golden Chain | ||||||||
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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 |
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