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| Friday | ||||||||
| 6.00pm | Welcome. Drinks and introduction to the weekend: The Otherworld – soul, imagination and the unconscious. (Patrick) | |||||||
| 7.00 – 8.00pm | Supper | |||||||
| 8.00 – 9.00pm | The Moon: the story of death and rebirth. (Jules) | |||||||
| Saturday | ||||||||
| 9.30 – 10.30am | The vision of Nature and the vision of God: soul versus spirit, the many gods and the one God. (Patrick) | |||||||
| 11.00– 12.00pm | The tradition of the Mysteries: death and rebirth as the rhythm of Nature and the Soul: Demeter and Kore (Persephone), Dionysos, Orpheus. (Jules) | |||||||
| 12.30 – 1.30pm | Lunch | |||||||
| 1.40 – 4.00pm | Trail: secret springs and fonts. | |||||||
| 5.00 - 6.00pm | Loss of soul: the rise of scientism and the myths of the modern ego – Heracles, Sigurd and C. G. Jung. (Patrick) | |||||||
| 6.00 – 7.00pm | Questions and discussion over drinks | |||||||
| 7.00 – 8.00pm | Supper | |||||||
| 8.00 – 9.00pm | Film by Jules Cashford: The symbolism of Jan van Eyck. Discussion | |||||||
| Sunday | ||||||||
| 9.30 – 10.30am | The Egyptian Mysteries of Isis and Osiris. (Jules) | |||||||
| 11.00 – 12.00am | The afterlife and the otherworld: perspectives on life after death. (Patrick) | |||||||
| 12.30 – 1.30pm | Lunch | |||||||
| 1.40 – 4.00pm | Trail: Portals to the Otherworld | |||||||
| 4.00 – 5.30pm | Tea, questions and discussion. Summing up the weekend | |||||||
| Talks are illustrated with Power Point projections as appropriate. | ||||||||
| Four myths for preliminary perusal | ||||||||
| 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 3, Transformation | ||||||||
| 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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