Symposia on the Western esoteric tradition
in science & philosophy


  PART TWO
A Symposium on

the Metaphysical History of "Time"

  "Have you guessed the riddle yet?" the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. "…Why is a raven like a writing desk?"
   "No, I give it up," Alice replied. "What’s the answer?"
   "I haven’t the slightest idea," said the Hatter. "Nor I," said the March Hare.
   Alice sighed wearily. "I think you might do something better with the time," she said, "than wasting it in asking riddles that have no answers."
   "If you knew Time as well as I do," said the Hatter, "you wouldn’t talk about wasting it. It’s him!.... I dare say you never even spoke to Time !"
   "Perhaps not," Alice cautiously replied: "but I have to beat time when I learn music."
   "Ah! That accounts for it!" said the Hatter. "He won’t stand beating !"

(Lewis Carol, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1865.)
A two day Symposium was held Saturday & Sunday,
November 3-4, 2001,  12:30 to 10:00 PM at NY Designer
Wendy Gell’s lakeside studio,
Lake Quonnipaug,  608 Lake Drive, Guilford, CT 06473.  
 Gourmet catering provided by
CAFE' GINA of North Branford., (203) 483-7965.

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SATURDAY, NOV. 3, 2001
11:15 AM Coffee Hour and Introductions

12:15 PM Johnes Ruta, independent art curator; The York Square Gallery, New Haven; historical essayist; web designer and relational database engineer.
"THE PHYSICS OF METAPHYSICS" -- from the Age of Minerals of the Indo-Europeans to the Age of Quantum Mechanics -- a survey of the understanding and perceived limits of time and matter.

2:00 PM Carl Pfluger, contributing writer to The Southwest Review, GQ, Harper's Magazine; Historian, Herodotus scholar. Quebec, Canada & Alexandria, VA.
"THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE OF TIME," views of the Classical philosophers from Pythagoras, Herodotus, Heraclitus, to the Atomists and Rationalists.

4:00 PM Steve Bass, A.I.A, Architect; Institute for Classical Architecture, NYC.
"THE CORPUS HERMETICUM of Hermes Trismegistus" : the Theory of Proportions, Pythagorean Qualitative Numbers and Plato's Quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy."

6:00 PM Peter Champoux, author of "Gaia Matrix, " Greenfield, MA.
"THE GEOGRAPHY OF TIME," discusses how subtle magnetic, geological, and psychic characteristics of the land are manifested by local human culture in language, accent, music, and behavior.

SUNDAY, NOV. 4
11:30 AM Coffee Hour and Introductions

12:15 PM Greg Garvey, Professor of Design & Graphic Arts, Quinnipiac University.
"AEONS AND THE RISE OF THE VIRTUAL," the quantum emergence of personality from the earliest historical psychological stages to the cybernetic orientation.

2:15 PM Performance: THE KATHRYN KOLLAR DANCE COMPANY.

3:15 PM Henry McLean, A.I.A., Architect, student of Symbolic and Sacred Geometry, Adjunct Professor in Sustainable Design or Green Architecture. Boston, MA.
"GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE AND THE TIMELESS CATHEDRAL"

5:15 PM: Kathleen Damiani, Ph.D., writer & professor of Philosophy, Ithaca College.
"THE DRAGON OF TIME" -- Near Eastern & Western esoteric traditions at the core of Gnosis, and their realization in the synchronicity of modern life.

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$ 30 per day, ($50 for two days), in advance, includes COFFEE, LUNCH, DINNER, & DESSERT -- Gourmet catering provided by CAFE' GINA of North Branford.

For information, please contact : Johnes Ruta, (203) 387-4933
azothgallery@comcast.net http://azothgallery.com/gnosis_symposia.html
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A Geographical Chronology:

 

Ancient World

 

INDO-EUROPA/ The Smelt and the Forge : the rhythm of sequence

CHINA/ Chi of Matter

MESOPOTAMIA/ Ti’amat : the Panic of the Gods :
Newborn Universe and the name of Time

BABYLON/ Hypostasis of the Aeons:
Timetable of the Constellations

EGYPT/ Valley of Kings :
Afterworld Eternal Time : the Heart and Voice of Ptah

ANATOLIA/Confluences of Wisdom: Eros & the Divine Sophia

GREECE/ Pythagoras : the Triangle and the reflective Eye

ROME/ The Metallurgy of Iron & Steel :
The Paved Road : Route to Empire
Leisure Time : reward of conquest

ARABIA/ Medicine & the persistence of Soul

 

Medieval

 

Cathedrals : The Flying Butress, suspension in aer

Dante : The Absolute Center of Eternity
Alchemy : Time and the Stages of the Transmutation:
Calcinatio, Precipitatio, Sublimatio, et al

Kabbalah & the prophecy of future time

 

Methodology

 

Copernicus : orbital sidereal time

 

Kepler : harmonic intervals of the ellipse

Visual Arc of Time : the Coniunctio of Leonardo

Compass & Clock : Merchantile Seafaring Time

Olaus Roemer : Observations of the Speed of Light

Edmund Halley : The True Theory of the Tides

Leibniz : Calculus infinitesimals of Relative Time

Newton : Time and Space in the Definitive

 

Modern

 

Metaphysical & Literary Symbolist Time

Dialectical Time
: Existential Compendium vs.
Fundamentalist Continuum

 

The Meta-Physics and Science Fiction of Travel & Communications

 

Albert Einstein : Relativity & Curvature

 

Musical Time : Signature, Beat, & Syncopation

 

Anti-Time & the Oceanic in the Subconscious

 

Synchronicity & Channeling : the Archetypes in Real-Time

 

The Alphabet, Language, and Metaphor

 

Particle Physics : the Cesium Atomic Clock; Symmetry & Singularity

 

The Transformative Vision

 

For information, please contact :
Project Curator: Johnes Ruta, (203) 387-4933

azothgallery@comcast.net

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