ESOTERICISM CALENDAR FOR ENGLAND

Lee Irwin of Charleston College South Carolina kindly sent us this calender of events in England.

ESOTERIC CONFERENCE & OCCULT BOOK FAIR
Sat. 28th. June 2008 10.30am - 6.00pm
Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, Shropshire, UK.

Speakers:
Tracy Thursfield: Eliphas Levi and the French Occult Revival
Robin Cousins: The Travels of John Dee (illustrated)
Julia Phillips: Madeline Montalban
Ken Rees: The Regency
Alan Richardson: W.G. Gray

Plus esoteric bookfair with specialist booksellers. Midian will be
there with an extensive selection from stock including new titles and
rare books.

Tickets £15.00 payable to Verdelet @ P.O. Box 82, Craven Arms,
Shropshire, SY7 8JW

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COLOURS OF CHAOS
Saturday 6th September 2008
Day session 1100 - 1800
Evening session 1900 - 2200

A day of seminars featuring cutting-edge thinking from pioneers in the
field of magickal practice, followed by an evening of rituals
demonstrating Chaos Magick in action:

Duncan Barford
White Hair and Brown Pants: When Magic Turns Paranormal
Alan Chapman
Magic with a K: How to Spell Correctly
Mary Hoptroff
Codes to the Heart of Power: a Shamanic Perspective
The Kite
The Colours of Wealth Magic
Dave Lee
YourSelves: The Grimoire of Selfhood, part 2
Susan Leybourne
Sex, Magick, and Getting What You Want
Peter Mastin
Life Sculpting
Soror Res
The Noosphere, the Biosphere and the Chaosphere: When Worlds Collide
Julian Vayne
Two Worlds and In-Between: the Changing Concepts & Use of Space in
Modern Magick
Plus Special Guests…

Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
(nearest tube: Holborn)

Tickets £23 daytime, £10 evening, £30 day + eve

Online ticket sales (subject to booking fee) at www.accessallareas.org
Direct ticket link:
http://www.onlinestall.com/cgi-bin/stall2.pl?act=ep&id=3491
Tickets by phone (subject to booking fee) 020 7267 6148
Snail-mail tickets available - just send a cheque in favour of P.
Mastin to
BM8482, London WC1N 3XX, UK

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THELEMIC SYMPOSIUM
Saturday 4th October 2008
12:00pm till 1:00am
The Canal Club, Ulfgar Road, Wolvercote, Oxford, England, OX2 8AZ
Tickets £20

There is to be a reunion/revival of the old annual O.G.D.O.S.
International Thelemic Symposium this autumn. Tickets are £20 each, in
cash over the counter at The Inner Bookshop if you are nearby otherwise
email thelemic-symposium@dowhatthouwilt.com to reserve them, where we
will contact you with regards payment and postage.
There will be no guest list or concessions. The event will consist of
speakers to start with from 12noon till 7pm.
The speakers in no particular order are:

Lon Milo DuQuette - Topic TBA
Constance DuQuette - Topic TBA
Mike Magee - The 5 senses in A.M.O.O.K.O.S. and Tantrik Traditions
Charlotte Rodgers - Taboo & Blood Rites (A Talk with Slideshow Pictures)
Jake Stratton-Kent - Goetic Magick
Melissa Harrington - Thelema & The Feminine Part II
David Beth - Topic TBA

After a break there will then be a fully staged Gnostic Mass to all who
want to take part. It will be performed by the E.G.C. ordained Priest
and Priestess of York. The Eucharist will be administered to all who
take part. During the Mass it will be musically accompanied by Sharon
Krauss and Guests. This will continue after the Mass too with a Live
Musickal performance. After that there will be DJs till 1:00am when a
short bout of thank you speeches will round of the evening.

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A CELEBRATION OF THE GODDESS WITH OLIVIA ROBERTSON
Includes illustrated talks, performance, interactive presentations and
ceremony, plus Attunement - Enchanting the Sacred Space, followed by
Magical Journey impromptu ritual drama.
Saturday price £20.

Saturday includes:
Gaia’s Revenge led by Cressida Pryor and the Mad Moll Mummers and
Mayers. Olivia’s niece offers a short play that grapples with those
issues that affect us all - global warming and the shopping mall…
Which Goddess Lives Near You? Interactive session led by author,
singer, songwriter and Priestess Caitlin Matthews. Includes song and
oracle work.
Is She Local? with Caroline Wise. Following Caitlin’s theme, we discuss
identifying and communicating with your local Goddess, God, guardian
and genius loci. Includes magical exercises and divination.
The Goddess and the Stars. Andrew Collins unveils dramatic new
discoveries showing a link between the oldest known artistic
representations of the Goddess, the evolution of human spirituality,
and the constellation that spans the Great Rift in the Milky Way.
Honouring the Goddess of the Groves. Priestess and Artist Sheila Broun
invites you to join in making a shrine to Nemetona, connecting us to
the ancient forests.
Who’s That Girl? Lynn Picknett, author of ‘Mary Magdalene,
Christianity’s Hidden Goddess’ shines a light on Mary Magdalene and
looks at her Isian and London connections.
Isis is You Sis (Variation). Performance from Xanthe Gresham. Be
amazed! “Xanthe Gresham speaks like a woman spitting jewels.”

Other presenters to be confirmed.

Updates: http://lotuspharia.freeyellow.com/thecircleofisis/id411.htm
Tickets: credit card sales or to collect in person: Treadwells
Bookshop, 34 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7PB.
Telephone: 020 7240 8906
By cheque: payable to Starfire Publishing, BCM Starfire, London WC1N
3XX, please enclose your address.
A donation will be made to The Friend’s of Bride’s Mound.

Sunday 6th July - Meeting the Goddess
Optional walk in the City to discover the site of the Roman Temple of
Isis and her sisters, with guided meditations and a chance to make your
own links and discoveries.
This will only be open to those attending on the Saturday.
Sunday price £5

THE CAMBRIDGE CENTRE for the study of WESTERN ESOTERICISM

CCWE is independent of any academic or esoteric communities, the co-ordinators share an interest in the need for a wider dialogue between scholars and practitioners in the field of Western Esotericism and in the establishment of a secular space in which an interdisciplinary network can thrive.

See pages: Aim, Conference, Contact, Events, People

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS

KABBALAH and MODERNITY
International Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

4–6 July 2007

University of Amsterdam
Centre for the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents

Here is the program for the conference, abstracts and other info at: http://home.planet.nl/~stuck008/kmmain.html
and http://www.amsterdamhermetica.nl/ for the university

The conference will be held in the central building of the University of Amsterdam, Oudemanhuispoort, in the center of the old city of Amsterdam.

PROGRAM

Wednesday, 4 July

9.00–9.15 Introduction (Kocku von Stuckrad)

Panel 1: Kabbalah, Modernity, and Scholarship

9.15–10.00 Paul B. Fenton: ‘Who was Jean De Pauly, Translator of the Zohar into French?’

10.00–10.45 Andreas B. Kilcher: ‘Philology as Kabbalah’

10.45–11.00 Coffee Break

11.00–11.45 Jonatan Meir: ‘The Imagined Decline of Kabbalah: Gershom Scholem, the Kabbalistic
Yeshivah Sha’ar ha-Shamayim, and Kabbalah in Jerusalem in the Beginning of the Twentieth Century’

11.45–12.30 Avriel Bar-Levav: ‘Lachover, Tishby, and the Wisdom of the Zohar’

12.30–14.30 Lunch

Panel 2: Modern Kabbalah and the New Age

14.30–15.15 Shaul Magid: ‘The American Roots of Jewish Renewal’s New Age Kabbalism’

15.15–16.00 Zeev Gries: ‘Printing and Kabbalah in the Twentieth Century’

16.00–16.30 Coffee Break

Panel 3: Contemporary Kabbalistic Schools

16.30–17.15 Yuval Harari: ‘Between Magic and Practical Kabbalah: Types of Current Charm Writers in Israel’

17.15–18.00 Jody Myers: ‘Marriage and Sexual Behavior in the Teachings of the Kabbalah Centre’

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Thursday, 5 July

Panel 4: Kabbalah and Politics

9.00–9.45 Steven M. Wasserstrom: ‘Mysterium Judaicum: Carl Schmitt, Ernst Jünger, and the Cabala of Enmity’

9.45–10.30 Gideon Aran: ‘The Cult of Dismembered Limbs’

10.30–10.45 Coffee Break

Panel 5: Romantic and Esoteric Readings of Kabbalah

10.45–11.30 Wouter J. Hanegraaff: ‘The Beginnings of Occultist Kabbalah: Adolphe Franck and Eliphas Lévi’

11.30–12.15 Konstantin Burmistrov: ‘Kabbalah and Secret Societies in Russia (18th–20th centuries)’

12.15–13.00 Jean-Pierre Brach: ‘Paul Vulliaud (1875–1950) and the Kabbalah’

13.00–14.00 Lunch

Panel 6: Romantic and Esoteric Readings of Kabbalah (continued)

14.00–14.45 Boaz Huss: ‘The Sufis from America: Kabbalah and Theosophy in Puna in the Late 19th Century’

14.45–15.30 Marco Pasi: ‘The Uses of Kabbalah in English Occultism: Interpretations and Transformations’

15.30–15.45 Coffee Break

Panel 7: New Approaches in the Study of Kabbalah

15.45–16.30 Giulio Busi: ‘Beyond the Burden of Idealism: For a New Appreciation of the Visual Lore in the Kabbalah’

16.30–17.15 Eric Jacobson: ‘The Kabbalah of the Future: On the Dislocation of Past Primacy and the Future of Illusions’

17.30 Guided Tour through the Jewish Historical Museum Amsterdam, followed by a reception

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Friday, 6 July

Panel 8: Kabbalah, Literature, and the Arts

9.00–9.45 Moshe Idel: ‘Abraham Abulafia and Modern Literature’

9.45–10.30 Doreet LeVitte Harten: ‘Kabbalah and Contemporary Art’

10.30–10.45 Coffee Break

10.45–11.30 Kocku von Stuckrad: ‘Madonna the Shekhinah: The Playful Transgression of Gender Roles in Popular Culture’

11.30–12.00 Concluding discussion

ALTERNATIVE EXPRESSIONS OF THE NUMINOUS

Above: Brisbane River and City

Here are details about this forthcoming conference

The Queensland Society for the Study of Religion (QSSR)

in conjunction with the
School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics,
University of Queensland

presents the QSSR conference

Alternative Expressions of the Numinous

Date: Friday 17 – Sunday 19 August 2007

Venue: School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics,

University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus, Brisbane,

Australia

Keynote Speakers:

Sallie-Ann Glassman
An Haitian Vodou priestess, Sallie-Ann Glassman has lectured extensively on Vodou and visionary art, and has performed rituals at Tulane University, UNO, and Loyola University. Books include: Vodou Visions

Dr Sylvie Shaw
Has written extensively about the environment as numinous. Her work includes Deep Blue: Critical Reflections on Nature, Religion and Water and Wild Spirit, Active Love in Pagan Visions for a Sustainable Future.

Conference Chairs:

Helen Farley
Julie Washington
Håkan Sandgren

Call for Papers:

Abstracts (250 words) are invited for, but not limited to, the following strands:

Esotericism

Mysticism

Alternative expressions of major religions

Religions of re-enchantment

Popular culture religions

Indigenous religions

Paganism and Neo-Paganism

New Religious Movements

Personalised religion

Alternative methodologies
The conference committee is open to proposals for workshops and panels.

Deadlines

Abstracts: Friday 15 June

For more information contact:

Helen Farley
Conference Co-Chair
School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics
St Lucia Q 4072
Australia
Ph: + 617 3365 6324 (Outside Australia)

07 3365 6324

Fax: +617 3365 1968 (Outside Australia)

07 3365 1968

Email: h.farley@uq.edu.au

The Queensland Society for the Study of Religion (QSSR) is an incorporated not-for-profit association dedicated to fostering the interdisciplinary academic study of religion. It publishes a twice-yearly, peer-reviewed journal, Khthónios. A special issue of Khthónios will be published containing selected conference proceedings. Participants will also be invited to submit their papers to the Journal of Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studies.

The School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics (HPRC) at the University of Queensland, houses the largest Studies in Religion department in Australia. The University of Queensland is one of Australia’s prestigious Go8 universities and is also a member of Universitas 21. For more information about the University of Queensland, go to: www.uq.edu.au. For more information about the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics go to: www.uq.edu.au/hprc/ The University is readily accessible from the city by bus or Citycat.

Brisbane is Australia’s third largest city. With an idyllic sub-tropical climate, it boasts beautiful, lush parks and gardens located on the Brisbane River. The city is just over an hour’s drive from either the Gold Coast or the Sunshine Coast. The mountainous hinterlands provide spectacular scenery and tropical rainforests. For more information about holidaying in South East Queensland, visit www.queenslandholidays.com.au. For more information about Brisbane, visit: www.ourbrisbane.com. Brisbane is serviced by the Brisbane International Airport with trains, buses and taxies to take you into the City.

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The CAMBRIDGE CENTRE for the study of WESTERN ESOTERICISM is independent of any academic or esoteric communities, the co-ordinators share an interest in the need for a wider dialogue between scholars and practitioners in the field of Western Esotericism and in the establishment of a secular space in which an interdisciplinary network can thrive (see people).

EVENTS