Temenos Academy Newsletter August 2024
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 NEWSLETTER August
2024
Wednesday 4 September In the chair Dr Joseph Milne There
are many similarities among the Abrahamic and Indian spiritual teachings,
such as the idea that the whole manifested universe is brought about
by the highest level of consciousness with a call for each being to
undertake its appropriate practices to enhance its quality in order
to ultimately connect with the Source. The most significant difference
is that unlike the Abrahamic traditions, where there is a myth of creation
and each level in the created universe is unique, in the Indian traditions
there is a myth of emanation and every level in the manifested universe
has a particle of the Highest Reality,
Brahman, within it. This
one difference results in many consequences such as the emphasis on
the oneness of everything or on the uniqueness of each being; freedom
from individuality or everlasting individuality even after death; cremation
or burial.
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Imagining
Kells: A poetic exploration of the
Book of Kells Monday 16 September In the chair Professor John Carey In
this illustrated talk, which features beautiful illuminations from the
Book of Kells, James Harpur unfolds how he came to write a meditative
poem about the book, a poem that was 19 years in the making and included
inspiration from a number of different sources, such as Plotinus, Rilke,
Abbot Suger and Bernard of Clairvaux. He expressed his poem through
various voices, including those of an anonymous illuminator, a scribe,
and the churchman Gerald of Wales. As he wrote the poem a number of
themes evolved – twisting and circling throughout the poem like
the decorative scrollwork of the Kells illuminations. These included
the nature of pilgrimage, the idea of ‘home’, and the aesthetics
of sacred art. James Joyce described the
Book of Kells as ‘the
most Irish thing we have’. This talk will make the case that in
the Western world it is the most precious material thing we have.
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9 October – 11 December (Wednesdays, 10 sessions) How can the hidden crime of fratricide set in motion the decline of the Kingdom of Denmark? And why should the noble Prince Hamlet be brought down with Denmark’s tragic fate? Such are the questions the tragedy of Hamlet poses. As always with Shakespeare, the destinies of his protagonists are bound up in the fate of kingdoms, and kingdoms themselves bound by cosmic laws. Larger forces are at play in Shakespeare’s dramas than personal destinies. As with the classical Greek tragedies, miscalculated deeds and errors of judgement call forth unseen powers governing the order of nature. Nothing can flourish in a falling kingdom. How far, then, is Hamlet responsible for his own decisions? Must he deny love to find his way? And what remedy is there for Claudius’ monstrous primal crime? This play offers no simple answers to Hamlet’s dilemmas. It sets before us both the nobility and the fallibility of human nature. Venue
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Friends of Temenos may be interested in the following event featuring Temenos Academy Fellow Satish Kumar. A recent lecture by Satish Kumar for the Temenos Academy on the theme of Making Peace with Nature can be viewed HERE
THE ARCHIVE Our website Archive hosts many audio and video recordings of lectures, digital versions of all thirteen issues of the journal TEMENOS, and the texts of seventy articles from Temenos Academy Review. New material is added regularly. https://temenosacademy.org/main-lecture-archive Many of our audio recordings are available as PODCASTS.
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