THE TEMENOS ACADEMY LECTURE ARCHIVE contains lectures by eminent speakers on a wide range of topics in philosophy, the arts, ecology and social concerns – these are available for immediate viewing or listening through the links below (most recent first):
4th October 2021
A TRIBUTE TO WARREN KENTON (Z’EV BEN SHIMON HALEVI)
Reverend Marie Elsa Bragg
12th July 2021
Botticelli’s La Primavera and Ficino’s Venus Humanitas
Julia Cleave
7th July 2021
Sir Richard Temple
28th June 2021
The Transmigrations of TALIESIN: The Mystery of the Ancient Child
Professor John Carey
16th February 2021
Bringing Light to the World: Our Deepest Human Vocation (Audio)
PDF: Here
Dr Jeremy Naydler
19th October 2020
Tom Bree
7th October 2020
Dante’s Journey in Gothic Cathedral Design
Tom Bree
28th September 2020
From ‘Smart Planet’ to Sacred Earth
Dr Jeremy Naydler
16th October 2019
The Learning of the Imagination in a Perennial Psychology
Sir Nicholas Pearson, Bt
9th October 2019
The Singing Masters of my Soul YEATS: Poet and Prophet
John F Deane
1st October 2019
The Inkling Owen Barfield, Jesus, and the Evolution of Consciousness
Dr Mark Vernon
10th September 2019
Journey of Inner transformation
Professor Ravi Ravindra
11th February 2019
The Divinity of Man – Marsilio Ficino’s Vision for a Happier Life
Valery Rees
20th November 2018
Andrew Frisardi
19th November 2018
The Dream of Leah and Rachel: Art and Purification in PURGATORIO
Andrew Frisardi
8th October 2018
THE ANNUAL YEATS LECTURE
Professor Warwick Gould, FRSL
10th July 2018
Poetry Reading: Pilgrims of the Soul
John F Deane, James Harpur
9th July 2018
Jules Cashford
8th May 2018
Small Gods: An Earth That Thinks in Myth
Dr Martin Shaw
24th January 2018
Science and Spiritual Practices
Dr Rupert Sheldrake
5th December 2017
Jacob Boehme and the Mysteries of the Will
Dr Stephen Cross
21st November 2017
Sassetta, a Poor Knight and a Wedding
Christopher P Wood
10th October 2017
An Exploration of the Poetic Imagination
James Harpur
27th September 2017
C S Lewis: the ‘imaginative man’, the self and the Other
Colin Duriez
10th April 2017
Professor Ravi Ravindra
14th March 2017
The Transformation of Reality in Shakespeare’s THE TEMPEST
Valentin Gerlier
8th December 2016
THE INKLINGS: Tolkien, the Green Man and the Mythology of England
John Matthews
7th November 2016
THE INKLINGS: Owen Barfield: Knowledge, Poetry & Consciousness
Revd Dr Malcolm Guite
4th October 2016
Meister Eckhart and the Purpose of Creation
Dr Joseph Milne
16th June 2016
The Brightest Heaven of Invention
Patterns of Love and Mercy in Shakespeare’s History Plays
Valentin Gerlier
10th March 2016
11th February 2016
Grahame Davies & Kevin Crossley-Holland
10th December 2015
Annick de Souzenelle
26th November 2015
Professor Kim Samuel
27th October 2015
The Hoopoe Shows the Way: An Ancient yet Contemporary Symbol of the Soul’s Guide
Belinda Hunt
19th October 2015
Mariner: A Voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Dr Malcolm Guite
1st December 2014
Looking Forward to Tradition: Timeless Truths and Modern Delusions
Dr Harry Oldmeadow
17th June 2014
T S Eliot and Kathleen Raine: Two Contemplative Poets
Professor Grevel Lindop
19th September 2013
Symbolism of the Plains Indian Sun Dance
Chief James Trosper
18th March 2013
Divine Love in Early Persian Prose
Professor William Chittick
13th November 2012
IN SEARCH OF THE GOOD SOCIETY
Camila Batmanghelidjh
1st November 2012
IN SEARCH OF THE GOOD SOCIETY
Professor John Milbank
10th October 2012
IN SEARCH OF THE GOOD SOCIETY
The Law of Help: John Ruskin & the Battle for a Good Society
Howard Hull
3rd September 2012
The Heart of the Spiritual Quest in India
Dr Ravi Ravindra
5th July 2012
IN SEARCH OF THE GOOD SOCIETY
Dr Joseph Milne
6th February 2012
Dr Rupert Sheldrake
13th September 2011
The E F SCHUMACHER CENTENARY LECTURE
Satish Kumar
4th November 2010
The Arthurian Poems of Charles Williams
Professor Grevel Lindop
14th September 2010
Spiritual Search – East and West: Part 2
Dr Ravi Ravindra
13th September 2010
Spiritual Search – East and West: Part 1
Dr Ravi Ravindra
2nd September 2010
The Role of the Grail in Henri Corbin’s Thought
Dr John Carey
1st April 2010
Archetypal Patterns in Von Eschenbach’s Parzival
Jules Cashford
13th July 2009
A Dialogue: Rupert Sheldrake and Joseph Milne
5th July 2007
The Learning of the Imagination: What the Romantics can teach us
Professor Grevel Lindop
January 2004
Philip Sherrard: His Life and Work
Bishop Kallistos Ware
