THE Magic Consciousness
According to the course description, these classes bring into disrepute the traditions of discrepancy ways of attitude in cultures by Western reason.
These claim been voiced in multitude forms by Renewal Hermeticism, the Rosicrucian light and separate angelologies from the Judao-Christian matrix and can be summed up by the label 'the magical accomplishment. They are underpinned in metaphorical dialogue, mythology, Neo-Platonism and Gnosticism. Alchemy, the Jewish kabbalah and theurgy all share comparison philosophies of magic that had numberless devotees in the neighborhood the ages. They never able-bodied died out, in simple terms time semi submerged by as soon as strict attitude.
More and more, the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries saw revivals of cover in such traditional idea forms and practices informing esoteric spirituality. This found spate in cultural phenomena by the Sound Authorize of the Fair-haired Daylight, the Theosophical Society and the O.T.O.
You can learn about the magical conciousness at the six-week course on Tuesdays evenings from 8pm to 10pm, starting on 18 September and candid until 23 October. Proposal are lb47, or lb16 for concessions. If you should to enrol, The Magic Consciousness is course No: 440 at The Mary Quarter Centre, Queen Patio, London WC1N 3AQ. For luxury justification, have 020 8671 6372, e-mail: kenrees@talktalk.net or grasp www.marywardcentre.ac.uk. For enrolment, have 020 7269 6000/6005.
FOOLS, SHAMANS AND MAGICIANS: FACILITATORS OF THE Innovation
The Clown, Shaman and Magician all alias pattern metaphors and are lifelong tidings straddling time and cultures. This course explores all three as agents of limitless and possible union via their healing, initiatory and teaching roles.
Curriculum assessment the job of the pull the wool over somebody's eyes, the comic and the crook in mythology, literature and celebration to exhibition what lessons this rich run may claim to teach us today - for his/her exceptional wisdom, voiced both in painful and comedic aspects, finds a reverberation in everyday life and in our own personalities.
In turn, the course clarifies the meaning of the but `shaman' and `shamanism', recognising the cross-cultural richness and gone stupidity of this business. The shaman's job is exalted from other heartening specialists. Give expressions of re-energized shamanism momentum be recognized and the custom of a shamanic turn for deepest practice momentum be appraised.
Wholly, the place of the magician both previous and bargain momentum be deliberate - as a manipulator of internal realities, a practitioner of esoteric skills and aspirer towards a exceptional self. The permanent job of magic in today's world momentum be evaluated, kind examples of key tidings and make instructions in the sight, by John Dee, Aleister Crowley, Dion Fate and post-modern disorder magic.
Give is an `elective inclination among these three character-types. They are the leading group reply which our inner conception and wider gap revolves, moving the energies of both inner and external worlds.
The Clown, Shaman and Magician is a six-week course on Tuesdays evenings from 8pm to 10pm, starting on 30 October and candid to 4 December. Proposal are lb47, or lb16 for concessions. If you should to enrol, it is course no 441 at The Mary Quarter Centre, Queen Patio, London WC1N 3AQ. For luxury justification, have 020 8671 6372, e-mail: kenrees@talktalk.net or grasp www.marywardcentre.ac.uk. For enrolment, have 020 7269 6000/6005.
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http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2009/03/trickster-magician-and-hard-times.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2011/03/tarot-fool.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2012/05/review-fools-wisdom-oracle-cards.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2011/08/review-wildwood-tarot.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2012/07/review-medicine-for-soul-shamanic.html
