Temenos Academy Recordings

All recordings are ‘live’. * indicates lecture with slides.

From the First Temenos Conference (1986):
____ The Living Word - Christopher Bamford
____ Nature, House of the Soul - Dr Kathleen Raine
____ Presuppositions of the Sacred - Dr Philip Sherrard
Dr Peter Abbs:
____ Post-Modernism & the Poetics of the Spiritual
____ Art to Recover Soul
____ The Birth of the Psyche in the Teaching of Socrates
____ A Poetry Reading by Peter Abbs & Grevel Lindop
Tim Addey:
____ Plato in Perspective
____ An Introduction to the Metaphysics of Plato
____ An Introduction to the Psychology of Plato
____ An Introduction to the Yoga of Plato
____ Phaedo: Remembering Immortality
Canon A M Alchin:
____ ‘Bright Shoots of Everlastingness’ - The Sacramental Vision
             of Henry Vaughan
John Allitt:
____ Dante’s Love for Beatrice
____ The Wonder & Glory of Felicity
____ Thoughts on Returning from Mt Athos
____ The Cambridge Platonists: An Introduction to their Thought
             & Criticism of Empiricism & Religious Prejudice
____ The Cambridge Platonists & Thomas Traherne
____ Botticelli’s Illustrations to Dante’s Divine Comedy *
____ Nobility & Monarchy in Dante
____ An Introduction to the Thought of Martin Buber
____ Goethe & the Bavarian Illuminati
____ Italia und Germania
____ Dante & the Esoteric: the Veil of the Strange Verses
____ Thomas Traherne’s Centuries of Meditations (1)
____ Thomas Traherne’s Centuries of Meditations (2)
____ Thomas Traherne’s Centuries of Meditations (3)
____ Thomas Traherne’s Centuries of Meditations (4)
____ Thomas Traherne’s Centuries of Meditations (5)
____ Thomas Traherne’s Centuries of Meditations (6)
____ Thomas Traherne’s Centuries of Meditations (7)
____ Thomas Traherne’s Centuries of Meditations (8)
____ Thomas Traherne’s Centuries of Meditations (9)
____ Thomas Traherne’s Centuries of Meditations (10)
John Allitt: The Pilgrim Way According to Dante
____ 1. Introduction to the series
____ 2. The New Life
____ 3. The Inferno: Cantos 1 & 2
____ 4. The Inferno: Cantos 3 – 9
____ 5. The Inferno: Cantos 10 – 16
____ 6. The Inferno: Cantos 17 – 34
____ 7. The Purgatorio: Canto 1 & 2
____ 8. The Purgatorio: Cantos 3 – 9
____ 9. The Purgatorio: Cantos 10 – 17
____ 10. The Purgatorio: Cantos 18 – 27
____ 11. The Purgatorio: Cantos 28 – 33 (Part I)
____ 12. The Purgatorio: Cantos 28 – 33 (Part II)
____ 13. The Paradiso: an introduction
____ 14. The Paradiso: Cantos 1
____ 15. The Paradiso: Cantos 2 – 9
____ 16. The Paradiso: Cantos 10 – 14v.84
____ 17. The Paradiso: Cantos 14v.85 – 18v.69
____ 18. The Paradiso: Cantos 18v.70 – 22
____ 19. The Paradiso: Cantos 23 – 36
____ 20. The Paradiso: Cantos 27 – 29
____ 21. The Paradiso: Cantos 30 – 33
Martin Andic:
____ Love & Beauty in Plato & Simone Weil
Professor Arabinda Basu:
____ Atman & Soul (1): The Old Testament Background
____     & the New Testament Concept of Man
____ Atman & Soul (2): The New Testament Concept of Man
____ Atman & Soul (3): The Hindu Doctrine of Man (Part I)
____ Atman & Soul (4): The Hindu Doctrine of Man (Part II)
____ Atman & Soul (5): Comparison of the New Testament
             & Hindu Doctrines of Man
____ The Vedic & Biblical Concepts of God (lectures 1 & 2)
____ The Vedic & Biblical Concepts of God (lectures 3 & 4)
____ The Vedic & Biblical Concepts of God (lecture 5)
Janine Benyus, Satish Kumar & Rupert Sheldrake:
____ Designed by Nature *
Wendell Berry:
____ Poetry Reading September 29^th 1992
____ A Reading September 30^th 1998
____ A Reading October 9^th 2000
____ Going to Work
Dr Carmen Blacker:
____ An Introduction to Buddhism
____ The Pure Land Schools of Buddhism *
Dr. Thetis Blacker:
____ Kathleen Raine Lecture: A Web of Friendship
L. L. Blake:
____ In Praise of The Queen’s Majesty
Francis J. Brown & Mary Gifford-Brown:
____ Music of the Visionaries (a performance)
Professor Suheil Bushrui:
____ On Retrieving Our Spiritual Heritage
____ The Spiritual Vision in Classical Arabic Poetry
____ Kahlil Gibran: Prophet from Lebanon
____ A Defence of Poetry
____ An Arab Voice for the Next Millennium – the Permanence
             of Kahlil Gibran
____ Environmental Ethics: a Bahá’í Perspective
____ Lebanon’s Dialogue with the West:
             Ameen Rihani & Arab Civilization
____ The Perennial Philosophy: The Wisdom of the Arabs
____ Where the Twain Meet: The English Romantic Poets
             & Twentieth Century Arab Writers
Professor David Cadman:
____ Lost for Words
____ Stillness & Dancing – Some Thoughts on Sustainability
____ Ecology – A Sacred Trust: Speaking for the Prince’s Foundation
Dr John Carey:
____ The Irish Experience of the Otherworld (1):
             The Otherworld & Space
____ The Irish Experience of the Otherworld (2):
             The Otherworld & Time
____ The Irish Experience of the Otherworld (3):
             The Otherworld Pilgrimage
____ The Mythical History of Ireland
____ Miracle as Message: Wonder & the Spirit
____ Wonder in Early Ireland
____ The Baptism of the Gods
____ The Ecology of Miracles
____ The Resurrection of the World
____ The Messengers of Memory
____ The Well of Vision
____ Christ, Sun of Justice: Perennial Symbolism in a
             Modern American Church *
____ Etymology & Time
____ Ideal Kingship in Early Ireland
____ Ideal Types in Irish Tradition: The Ideal of the Warrior
____ Ideal Types in Irish Tradition: The Ideal of the Poet
____ The Voyage of St. Brendan (1)
____ The Voyage of St. Brendan (2)
____ The Voyage of St. Brendan (3)
____ The Voyage of St. Brendan (4)
____ The Voyage of St. Brendan (5)
____ The Voyage of St. Brendan (6)
Jules Cashford:
____ The Eleusinian Mysteries – the Transformation of Vision 1 *
____ The Eleusinian Mysteries – the Transformation of Vision 2 *
____ An Exploration of the Ancient Myth of Isis & Osiris *
Tom Cheetham:
____ The Prophetic Tradition & the Battle for
             the Soul of the World: an Introduction
             to the work of Henry Corbin
____ The Unrefused Feast: the Harmonia
             Abrahamica & the Quest for the Lost Language
____ Mystical Poverty & the Theory of the World
____ The Flame of Things
Tom Chetwynd:
____ Christianity: Guardian of the Universal Myth
Professor William Chittick:
____ Imagination as Theophany in Islam
Professor Indra Nath Choudhuri:
____ Rasa: the Indian Aesthetic Response to Theatre
____ Bhakti: A Mystic Union with the Truth
____ An Indian Response to the Book of Tao
____ The Mahabharata: The Lord Krishna, Epic Hero &
             Spiritual Teacher (1)
____ The Mahabharata: The Lord Krishna, Epic Hero &
             Spiritual Teacher (2)
____ The Mahabharata: The Lord Krishna, Epic Hero &
             Spiritual Teacher (3)
____ The Mahabharata: The Lord Krishna, Epic Hero &
             Spiritual Teacher (4)
____ The Gita Govinda (with Professor Usha Choudhuri)
Noel Cobb:
____ The College of Witcrackers - Knots of Eloquence in
             Much Ado About Nothing
William Cookson:
____ Ezra Pound & the Sacred – A Lecture with Readings
James Cowan:
____ Francis: A Saint’s Way *
Dr Murray Cox:
____ Shakespeare - the Guardian of Depth
Prof. Keith Critchlow:
____ The Geometry of Plato’s Timaeus *
Stephen Cross:
____ The Arts - a superstition of our time?
____ Ex Oriente Lux: How the Upanishads Came to Europe
____ The German Romantics & the Vision of India
____ The Neglected Bridge – Arthur Schopenhauer &
             the Thought of India
Professor Peter Dronke:
____ The Dances of the Stars: From the Early Neoplatonists
             to Eriugena
Tom Durham:
____ Transfigured World: A Recital from the Poetic Work of
             David Jones
Dr Hans-Wolfgang Frick:
____ Money
____ The Near-Realization of the Ideal State of Plato –
             the Old Republic of Berne
Prof. David Fuller & Dr. Corinne Saunders:
____ Launch of a new edition of Pearl
Dr Ramchandra Gandhi:
____ Teachers of Modern India: Ramakrishna
____ Teachers of Modern India: Vivekananda
____ Teachers of Modern India: Ramana Maharshi
____ Teachers of Modern India: Mahatma Gandhi
____ The Meaning of AUM: Mantra of Indian Spirituality
Dr H. M. Ghomshei:
____ Poetics & Aesthetics in the Persian Literary Tradition
____ The Mystic Outlook on Nature in Thoreau & Persian Sufism
____ The Art & Wisdom of Storytelling in Rumi’s Mathnawi (1)
____ The Art & Wisdom of Storytelling in Rumi’s Mathnawi (2)
____ The Art & Wisdom of Storytelling in Rumi’s Mathnawi (3)
____ The Art & Wisdom of Storytelling in Rumi’s Mathnawi (4)
____ The Art & Wisdom of Storytelling in Rumi’s Mathnawi (5)
____ Philosophical Doctrines & Spiritual Teachings of Rumi (1)
____ Philosophical Doctrines & Spiritual Teachings of Rumi (2)
____ Philosophical Doctrines & Spiritual Teachings of Rumi (3)
____ Philosophical Doctrines & Spiritual Teachings of Rumi (4)
____ Philosophical Doctrines & Spiritual Teachings of Rumi (5)
____ The Divine Nature & Mystical Message of Music in the
             Poetry of Nizami
____ The Seven Valleys of Love – the Evolution of Man in the
             Poetry of Attar
____ Seven Tales Under Seven Domes: the Poetry of Nizami (1)
____ Seven Tales Under Seven Domes: the Poetry of Nizami (2)
____ Seven Tales Under Seven Domes: the Poetry of Nizami (3)
____ Seven Tales Under Seven Domes: the Poetry of Nizami (4)
____ The Koran in Persian Literature
____ Poetry & Prophecy
____ A Comparison Between Sa’adi & Shakespeare
R.A. Gilbert:
____ Freemasonry: Fraternal Society or Esoteric Order? *
____ A. E. Waite & the Evolution of the Golden Dawn *
Professor Joscelyn Godwin:
____ From the Keyboard to the Stars: The Musical & Spiritual
             Journey of Friedrich Hugo von Dalberg
Edward Goldsmith:
____ The Way: An Ecological World View
____ Architecture & Art as a Means of Maintaining
             the Order of the Cosmos
Dr. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke:
____ Emanuel Swedenborg: Visionary Savant in the Age of Reason *
Côme Carpentier de Gourdon:
____ Mythya, Mythos & Mithal: Myth & Symbol in the
             Semitic & Indo-European Traditions
John Haines & James Harpur:
____ A Poetry Reading
Z’ev ben Shimon Halevi:
____ Kabbalah: An Introduction *
____ Kabbalah: Microcosm *
Dr Wilson Harris:
____ Quetzalcoatl & the Smoking Mirror - Reflections
             on Originality & Tradition
____ Merlin & Parsifal (Adversarial Twins)
Brother Aidan Hart:
____ Monastic Life & Architecture on Mt Athos *
Jack Herbert:
____ The German Tradition: Inner Renaissance & the
             Holistic Approach
____ The German Tradition: From Goethe to Jung - Dialectics
             of the Psyche
____ The German Tradition: Rilke’s Phenomenology
____ Caspar David Friedrich & German Romanticism *
____ Goethe’s Faust as Opus Alchymicum
____ Jung & the German Tradition
____ Alchemy’s Royal Art & the Creative Imagination *
____ William Blake: Poet, Painter, Visionary *
____ Blake’s Song of Liberty & America *
____ Howard Hull:
____ Echoes of a Child’s Voice: the Conversations of
             John Ruskin with the Earth
____ Of Rocks, Flowers, Feathers & Falls:
             Professor Ruskin’s Four Elements
Dr Farhang Jahanpour:
____ Persian Literature & the West
____ The Influence of Persian Literature on Emerson
Muhammad Reza Juzi:
____ Martin Heidegger & Traditional Islamic Philosophy Today
____ Islamic Theories of Cosmology: the Thought of Haydar Amuli
____ Human & Divine Love in the Philosophy of Mulla Sadra
Dr. Stephen Karcher:
____ Jung, the Tao, & the Classic of Change
Lama Khyim-Sar Rinpoche:
____ The Bon Tradition – The Sacred Path to Happiness:
             Transforming the Five Poisons
Gareth Knight:
____ Dion Fortune & the Lost Secrets of the West
____ The Western Esoteric Tradition & Popular Culture
Satish Kumar:
____ Ecology
____ Spirit & the World
____ Spiritual Ecology
____ Reverence for Life: a Jain Perspective
____ Declaration of Dependence: We Depend on the Earth
____ You Are, Therefore I Am – A Declaration of Dependence
____ India’s Oral Cultures: The Tribal Traditions
____ India’s Oral Cultures: The Vedic Tradition
____ India’s Oral Cultures: The Buddhist Tradition
____ India’s Oral Cultures: The Jain Tradition
John Lane:
____ The Home as temenos *
Dr Leonard Lewisohn:
____ Contemplative Disciplines in Persian Sufism
____ Sufi Ecumenism: the Vision of Religious Diversity
             in Shabistari’s Garden of Mystery
Professor Grevel Lindop:
____ The Path of Poetry
____ The Four-Storeyed Palace
____ Coleridge at Greta Hall: Poetry & Prose of the
             Lakeland Years
____ The Wheel-Turning Monarch:
             The Ideal of Kingship in Early Buddhism
____ Buddhism & the Place of Refuge: the Social, Psychological &
             Spiritual in the Quest for Liberation
____ Blake’s Vision of the Last Judgement *
Jill Line:
____ Drowsiness in Heaven - Shakespeare’s Use of
             Harmony
____ ‘Too saucy with the gods’ - Shakespeare & the
             Goddess of Nature
____ Shakespeare & Ficino
____ Platonic Beauty & the Jacobean Masque
____ Shakespeare, Coleridge & the Imagination
Dr Martin Lings:
____ An Introduction to Islam
____ The Quranic Doctrine of the After-Life
____ The Quranic Origins of Sufism
____ René Guénon
____ The Winter’s Tale
____ Measure for Measure
____ Hamlet
____ King Lear
____ Macbeth
____ The Tempest
____ Othello
____ Metaphysics & the Perennial Philosophy
____ Cymbeline
____ Othello (6/10/98)
____ Keats & Shakespeare
____ Frithjof Schuon & René Guénon
____ Human Origins & Destinies According to
             The Great Religions of the World
____ The Universality of the Quran
____ King Lear (27/9/04) – note: last few minutes missing
Dr Michael Loewe:
____ Religious Beliefs in China Before the Arrival
             of Buddhism *
Dr Tali Loewenthal:
____ Sacred Garden, Sacred World: the Sanctuary in Jewish Teaching
The Bishop of London:
____ Christ & the Creative Imagination
____ Sanctuary in the Christian Tradition
David Lorimer:
____ Near-Death Experience of the Sacred
____ Towards a Science of the Soul
Rabbi Jonathan Magonet:
____ ‘Eyes Have They But They See Not’: Addressing the
             Biblical Critique of Idolatry
Peter Malekin:
____ Plotinus & Rethinking the West (1)
____ Plotinus & Rethinking the West (2)
____ Plotinus & Rethinking the West (3)
____ Plotinus & Rethinking the West (4)
____ Plotinus & Rethinking the West (5)
John Matthews:
____ David Jones & the Matter of Britain
____ The Quest for Wonder in Arthurian Romance
Jeremy Maule:
____ Traherne & the Restlessness of God: the new
             Lambeth Discoveries
Todd Mei:
____ Hermeneutics & the Unity of Truth
____ The Banning of the Poets: the Way of
             Interpretation in Plato’s Republic
John Michell:
____ The Creation Myth in Traditional Geometry *
____ The Critias: Atlantis, & Why it Fell *
Dr Joseph Milne:
____ From Apprehension to Comprehension: Reflections
             on the Process of Insight into Shakespeare
____ The Convergence of Christian & Platonic Love in
             The Two Gentlemen of Verona
____ The Dereliction of Divine Kingship in Shakespeare’s
             Richard II
____ The Conflict Between Fate & Grace in Hamlet
____ John Scottus Eriugena
____ Meister Eckhart’s Symbolic Use of Scripture
____ Dionysius the Areopagite
____ The Evolutionary Paradigm of Teilhard de Chardin - Cosmos
             & Consciousness
____ Being & Cosmos
____ The Eternal Drama: a Study of Shakespeare’s
             Cosmic Vision
____ Coriolanus: a Warrior Absolute
____ The Philosophical Spirit in the Renaissance
____ Mind & Reality: an Exploration of the Philosophy of Nagarjuna
____ Shakespeare & Divine Kingship
____ Martin Buber & the Question of Human Nature
____ Ultimate Truth: the Nature of Mystical Knowledge
____ Dionysius the Areopagite: the via positiva & via negativa
____ John Scottus Eriugena: the Multiple & the One are the Same
____ Meister Eckhart: the Ground of Self in God
____ Shakespeare & Cosmic Law
     The Foundations of Western Philosophy series:

____ 2. The Greek Contribution: Knowledge & Being
____ 3. The Latin Contribution: Revelation & Contemplation
____ 4. The Modern Contribution: Mind & Truth
____ Shakespeare & Poetic Vision
____ Reality & Appearance
The Rt Hon Lord Morris:
____ Macbeth: The Kingdom, The Power & The Glory
____ Genius Loci: A Sense of Place
Professor S. H. Nasr:
____ Nature & the Sacred
____ Spiritual & Religious Roots of the Environmental Crisis
____ Sufism & its Power of Integration of Man’s Inner & Outer Life
John O’Donohue:
____ Life in the Earth: Towards a Poetics of Folk Consciousness
Peter Pelz:
____ Andrei Tarkovsky - With the Eyes of a Child
Sir Laurens van der Post:
____ Odysseus
____ Africa’s Literature of the Living Word (1)
____ Africa’s Literature of the Living Word (2)
____ Africa’s Literature of the Living Word (3)
____ Introductions to the films All Africa Within Us &
             A Region of Shadow
Dr Kathleen Raine:
____ Poetry Reading June 8th 1992
____ William Blake’s Fourfold Vision of London
____ Yeats’s Holy City of Byzantium
____ William Blake - Prophetic Voice of England
____ Poetry Reading May 13th 1994
____ Yeats the Initiate
____ Thomas Taylor the Platonist
____ The Imagination According to William Blake
____ Shelley as a Mythological Poet
             (with readings by Tom Durham)
____ W.B. Yeats & the Book of the People
____ Launch of her “Collected Poems”
____ Monarchy & the Imagination
____ A Note Struck by the Stars (BBC Radio 3 broadcast)
Peter Redgrove:
____ Poetry & Magic
Jeremy Reed:
____ Imagination & the Poet
____ Wonder in Poetry
____ A Poetry Reading (with music by Cathy Giles)
____ Wilde & the Night
____ The Angel in Poetry
____ A Poetry Reading December 12th 1996
____ Poe, Opium & the Pathology of the House of Usher
____ The Poet’s Divine Madness
____ All or Nothing – Living as a Poet
____ Resurgence – Temenos Poetry Evening
             19th September 2002
Anne Ridler:
____ George Herbert Revisited
Sogyal Rinpoche:
____ Teaching given on 14th November 1997
William Rivière:
____ Castiglione’s Courtier, W B Yeats & Urbino
Dr. Alison Roberts:
____ The Egyptian Book of Life *
James Roose-Evans:
____ The Rediscovery of Ritual
____ David Gascoyne’s Night Thoughts - A Reading
Peter Russell:
____ Poetry as the Language of the Spirit
____ Myth, Symbol & Apocalypse
____ The Devaluation of all Values
____ Mark Rylance:
____ Scylla & Charybdis, The Pillars of Hercules
             & Much Ado About Nothing
Clement Salaman:
____ Hermes Trismegistus & the Creation of the Cosmos *
____ Hermes on God, Gods & Spirits *
____ Hermes & the Transformation of Man *
____ The Relevance of Marsilio Ficino
____ The Teaching of Hermes Trismegistus & its Place in the
             Western Spiritual Tradition *
Professor Annemarie Schimmel:
____ Symbols of Love in Rumi’s Work
Professor Michael Sells:
____ Finding God in Every Form: Ibn ’Arabi’s Mystical Inclusiveness
____ Professor Ramesh Chandra Shah:
____ The Founding of Truth: Some Reflections on
             Vedic Poetry
____ Ancestral Voices in the Post-Vedic & Classical
             Ages of Sanskrit Poetry
____ Towards a Philosophy of Imagination: Hints
             from Indian Aesthetics
Sima Sharma:
____ The Presence of the Divine
Fiona Shaw:
____ Shakespeare & Friends, Ibsen & Enemies
Dr Rupert Sheldrake:
____ Is Nature Alive or Inanimate? *
Dr Philip Sherrard:
____ ‘For Every Thing That Lives Is Holy’
____ Philip Sherrard 1922-1995: A Tribute (various speakers)
Dr Vandana Shiva:
____ Annadana – the Gift of Food
Dr Karan Singh:
____ Interfaith Harmony in a Pluralistic World
Dr L. M. Singhvi:
____ The Prasna Upanishad
____ Sri Vallabhacharya & the Vaishnava Hindu Tradition
____ Going All the Way Together: An Interfaith Lecture
Dr Kapila Vatsyayan:
____ Kailash: Mountain, Monument & Myth
Professor Arthur Versluis:
____ American Transcendentalism & Asian Religions
____ American Transcendentalism & Spiritual Ecology
____ The Esoteric Origins of the American Renaissance
Dr Angela Voss:
____ Invoking the Gods: Speculations on Ficino’s Orphic Singing
The Right Reverend Kallistos Ware:
____ The Transfiguration of Christ & the Transfiguration
             of the World
____ Philip Sherrard: Greece, Orthodoxy & Sacred
             Tradition
____ ‘For Every Thing That Lives is Holy’: The Sacred in the
             Life & Art of Philip Sherrard
Francis Warner:
____ The Imagination of AE (George Russell)
Professor Karel Werner:
____ Buddhism as the Path to Salvation – the Theravada Perspective
____ Wisdom & Compassion – the Mahayana Vision of the World
Peter Westbrook:
____ Universal Elements in Musical Cosmology *
____ Introduction to Musica Speculativa: The Divine Monochord *
____ Introduction to Musica Speculativa: The Divine Vina *
____ Musica Speculativa (with musical examples)
____ Divine Harmony – the Life & Teaching of Pythagoras
____ Yoga & Harmonia: Musical Cosmology, Pythagoras & the Veda
Andrew Wolpert:
____ The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci *
Professor Jonathan Wordsworth:
____ Wordsworth & the Sacred
____ ‘A Grandeur in the Beatings of the Heart’:
             The Prelude, October 1798
____ ‘Our Birth is but a Sleep and a Forgetting’:
             the Immortality Ode
____ William Blake & the Romantic Imagination
____ Understanding Urizen

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