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ESOTERIC QUEST 2013
Ancient, Arabic, & Medieval Sicily 13-18 Giugno 2013 |
Ralph
White, Executive Director
New York Open Center 6:00 PM 13 June Consorzio Plemmirio Via Gaetano, 2 Ortigia, Sicily |
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Pythagoras
Through the Ages
JOSCELYN GODWIN, PhD. Department of Music Studies, Colgate University, NY Plenary 14 June, 2013 ESOTERIC QUEST 2013 Ancient, Arabic, & Medieval Sicily Pythagoras stands like a prophetic oak at the dawn of the Western Esoteric Tradition, dropping acorns from which saplings have sprouted ever since. The theme is the reconciliation of spirituality and science. |
Into
the Volcano:
The Teachings of EMPEDOCLES Leonard George, PhD. University of British Columbia, Canada Plenary 14 June, 2013 ESOTERIC QUEST 2013 Ancient, Arabic, & Medieval Sicily Empedocles of Akragas (Agrigento) was a shamanic figure renowned for his prophesies and healings. He promised his students the power to rescue departed souls. Empedocles taught that we are spirits, endlessly reborn, caught in a vortex of Earth, Water, Air, and Fire. |
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Archimedes
and the 13 Semi-Regular Solids
Scott Olsen, PhD. Professor of Philosopy and Comparitive Religion University of Florida, Ocala Plenary 15 June, 2013 ESOTERIC QUEST 2013 Ancient, Arabic, & Medieval Sicily The great Arkimedes of Siracusa is recorded by Pappus in his Collectio of mathematical works as having discovered the 13 semi-regular solids. The mathematical ratios present in these and the 5 Platonic Solids are the scaffolding upon which Nathure and the Cosmos itself are built. |
Muslim
Sicily
LEONARD CHIARELLI, PhD. Librarian of the Aziz S. Atiya Library for Middle East Studies Plenary 16 June, 2013 ESOTERIC QUEST 2013 Ancient, Arabic, & Medieval Sicily The years of Arab rule had a far-reaching impact upon Sicily's ethnic and social character. The peoples who came to Sicily in the 10th and 11th centuries reflected the inhabitants that comprised the Muslim world from Spain to Persia. |
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Norman
Sicily
and the Arthurian Dream PAUL BEMBRIDGE, M.Phil, RSA Center for Esoteric Studies University of Exeter, UK Plenary 16 June, 2013 ESOTERIC QUEST 2013 Ancient, Arabic, & Medieval Sicily The Norman conquest of Italy and Sicily in the late 11th century, and the continuing quest for the GRAIL in Sicilian art & literature. Part 1 Part 2 |
The
Land Speaks its Stories
Douglas Kenning, PhD. Professor of History University of California, San Francisco Plenary 16 June, 2013 ESOTERIC QUEST 2013 Ancient, Arabic, & Medieval Sicily Classical allegory and myth describe our lives: its archetypes inhabit our dreams and our art museums. Sicels, Elymians, Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans all felt the land and sea to be alive with story, and through myth they maintained a sacred relationship to them. |
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The
Wonder of the World: |
Sufism
in Italy during the
Medieval Period Alessandra Marchi, PhD. Studied Sufism at the Ecole des Hautes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She is working on the history of the Italian community in Egypt at the Center for Alexandrian Studies in Alexandria. Plenary 16 June, 2013 ESOTERIC QUEST 2013 Ancient, Arabic, & Medieval Sicily The Arab/Muslim conquest of Sicily and the south of Italy began in the 7th century, and the Islamic presence continued for centuries, giving Sicily the appearance of a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural state. This talk will discuss the mystical traditions, literature and poetry of Sufism in Sicily. |
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Pythagorean
Music Theory
in Practice Joscelyn Godwin, PhD. Workshop 15 June, 2013 ESOTERIC QUEST 2013 Ancient, Arabic, & Medieval Sicily This workshop will work with a MONOCHORD to understand the basic insight that Pythagoras brought brought to the West: that musical harmony is simple numbers made audible. This workshop will illustrate how Plato applied this doctrine to cosmology, and how it generates the scales of all music. |
The
Enigma of Frederick II
Malcolm Kennard, PhD. Kennard has a diverse career as an academic with many peer reviewed publications in both science and the arts. Workshop 17 June, 2013 ESOTERIC QUEST 2013 Ancient, Arabic, & Medieval Sicily Although a Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick II was born into a unique cultural mix provided by his mother Constance of Sicily and his German father Henry VI. Sent to Palermo to be educated in the Sicilian way, he was considered brilliant but unusual. Strongly influenced by Islamic, Hebrew, and Christian scholars, included in his court, he was also a student of mathematics, philosophy, natural history, medicinem and architecture. |
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The
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The
Rosicrucian Enlightenment Conference
Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic September 1995 Adam McLean -- Imagery of Alchemy |
Alchemical Prague Prague, Czech Republic September 1997 Adam McLean -- Alchemy in the Age of Rudolph II |
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ANDALUSIA
Granada, Spain Marrakech, Morrocco Sufi Riyad visit part 1 Sufi Riyad visit part 2 September 2007 Ralph White's lecture on ANDALUSIA March 1, 2010 The New York Open Center, NYC |
Ficino's
Florence
September 2000 Ralph White's lecture on FICINO'S FLORENCE March 15, 2010 The New York Open Center, NYC |
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Esoteric
Gathering August
28 Richard Geldard |
For Upcoming
ALEXANDRIA Conference June 2012 Alan
Cardew's lecture "Alexandria, Cults, and Mysteries |
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