THE MYTHIC IMAGINATION          
               
      SPEAKERS, FACILITATORS and GUIDES          
               
                       
                       
       

Jules Cashford read philosophy at St. Andrews and did post-graduate research in literature at Cambridge, on a Carnegie Fellowship, studying for a Ph D on Tragedy in the novels of Joseph Conrad. She was for some years  a Supervisor in Tragedy at Trinity College, Cambridge. She studied Psychology of Consciousness with Max Cade and lectured on Mythology at Birkbeck College of Extra-Mural Studies, University of London. She has also trained as a Jungian Analyst and is a member of the International Association of Analytical Psychology. She is author of The Moon: Myth and Image (Cassell Illustrated, 2003), and has translated The Homeric Hymns for Penguin Classics (2003). She is the co-author, with Anne Baring, of The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image (Penguin 1993). She writes and lectures on Myth and Literature.
www.julescashford.com

 
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
                       
                       
                       
       

Patrick Harpur read English at Cambridge and is a writer, novelist and Hermetic philosopher. His non-fiction works include Daimonic Reality: a Field Guide to the Otherworld and The Philosophers' Secret Fire: a history of the  Imagination. He has also published an alchemical tract, Mercurius: or, the Marriage of Heaven and Earth.
He writes and lectures on Hermetic philosophy and The Golden Chain, in Britain and the USA. He has given talks at the Temenos Foundation and taught at Schumacher College. Forthcoming books include Soul: A Complete Guide to be published by Rider, an imprint of Ebury Publishing, in June 2010.
www.harpur.org

 
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
                       
                       
                       
       

Louise Hodgson is a painter and explorer. She has spent 35 years studying the sacred places of Britain and in particular those of the South West of England, the south Midlands and Wales. She has contributed much geographic and geomantic knowledge to the research of such writers as John Michell. She now lives in West Dorset from where she runs her company Secret Landscape Tours.
www.secretlandscapetours.com

 

 
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
                       
                       
                       
        Merrily Harpur is a writer, cartoonist and painter, and is currently Director of the Strokestown International Poetry Festival. She has published five books including  Mystery Big Cats (Heart of Albion 2006) an examination of the many thousands of sightings of modern daimons, the panther-like and puma-like animals seen throughout Britain (and the world) in the past four decades, and gives occasional talks in England and the USA on the subject.
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