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Conference: The Imaginal Cosmos': Astrology, Divination and the Sacred
2nd-3rd October 2004
University of Kent at Canterbury
This conference aims to explore the nature of divination in relation to sacred knowledge and ritual practice. Thus it seeks to locate such practices within a framework of Religious Studies. Astrology and divination challenge our modern worldviews, and they tend to be relegated to the 'new-ageism' or ‘pseudo-science’. What is the truth of astrology and divination -- and of the cosmologies they depend on? We can begin by looking at symbolic imagination whose roots go back to ancient metaphysical philosophy.
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Speakers include: Charles Burnett(Magic and Divination in the Middle Ages), Dr Patrick Curry (Astrology, Science and Culture), Dr Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (The Occult Roots of Nazism), Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum (Late Classical Astrology: Paulus Alexandrinus and Olympiodorus with the Scholia from Later Commentators), Jeremy Naydler (Temple of the Cosmos: the Ancient Egyptian experience of the Sacred), Dr. Joseph Milne (The Ground of Being: Foundations of Christian Mysticism), Gregory Shaw (Containing Ecstasy: The Strategies of Iamblichean Theurgy), Dr Liz Greene (Bath, Centre for Psychological Astrology), Professor Clive Ruggles (Leicester University), Dr Leon Schlamm (Kent). |
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