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):
22nd May 2025
Yeats, Kathleen Raine and the Learning of the Imagination
Professor Grevel Lindop
8th May 2025
‘Sagging End and Chapter’s Close’: David Jones in the Zone
John Matthews
19th March 2025
Imagination: The Ligature of Being
Dr Valentin Gerlier
17th March 2025
Humanity and Nature in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Paul Kingsnorth
13th March 2025
Imagination: The Hospitality of Being
Dr Valentin Gerlier
3rd February 2025
Professor John Carey
27th January 2025
William Shakespeare, Francesco Giorgi and the Harmony of the Spheres
Andrew Baker
16th September 2024
Imagining Kells: A Poetic Exploration of the Book of Kells
James Harpur
4th September 2024
Abrahamic and Indian Spiritual Teachings: Similarities and Differences
Professor Ravi Ravindra
20th July 2024
The Search for a Universal Language: From Babel to ChatGPT
Esmé Partridge
1st July 2024
Petrarch, His Fragments and the Mirror of Nature
Andrew Frisardi
24th June 2024
Andrew Frisardi
11th June 2024
Spirituality – The Inner and Outer Landscape
Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr
6th June 2024
Seeking the Presence of God in Nature
Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg
6th May 2024
Aidan Hart
20th March 2024
From Dream to Vision: Joseph & the Underworld
Dr Martin Shaw
20th March 2024
Entering William Blake’s Fourfold Vision
Dr Susanne Sklar
20th March 2024
Dr Peter Wakelin
13th March 2024
The Concept of Yajna (sacrifice), Dana (charity), and Tapas (austerity) in the Bhagavad Gita
Dr Mattur Nandakumara
6th March 2024
Soil, Sky and Soul: Making Connections Between Heaven and Earth
Bishop James Jones
26th February 2024
Satish Kumar
5th February 2024
Toby Treves
23rd Novemeber 2023
Neoplatonism and Poetry at the Confluence of Africa, Asia and Europe
Professor Stefan Sperl
13th November 2023
Dr Patrick Curry
16th October 2023
The Journey After Death (illustrated through the Mawangdui Funeral Banner)
Sandra Hill
2nd October 2023
‘Every Thing That Lives is Holy’: William Blake, Imagination and the Love of the World
Dr Valentin Gerlier
18th September 2023
Orality and Symbolism as Repositories of African Knowledge of the Self
Dr Elvis Imafidon
5th September 2023
Professor Ravi Ravindra
6th July 2023
A Quest for Love, Wisdom and Truth
David Lorimer
5th July 2023
The Lion & the Nightingale: A Defence of Romantic Love
Dr Martin Shaw
21st June 2023
How Spiritual Philosophy and Esoteric Thought Illuminate Shakespeare’s Plays
Priscilla Costello
6th June 2023
A Surprised Whole, Loving the Dust of the Universe
Dr Tom Cheetham
25th May 2023
The Transforming Power of Love in Islamic Mystical Thought
Jane Clark
17th May 2023
Kathleen Raine, Architect of Paradise
Professor Claire Garnier-Tardieu
13 March 2023
Craft Practice as an Expression of the Perennial Philosophy
Dr David Cranswick
27 February 2023
Art of Mandala (audio only)
Daniel Docherty
2 November 2022
Universal Symbolism: The Metaphysical Centre
Nicholas Cope
17 October 2022
Gold in the Crucible: Futuwwa, Dante, and the Alchemy of Soul-Making
Dr Alison Roberts
10 October 2022
The Rainbow Body in Tibetan Dzogchen
Dr Dylan Esler
5 September 2022
Exploring Eternal Wisdom East and West
Professor Ravi Ravindra
14 July 2022
Sarvodaya: Our Life as a Journey of Love
Satish Kumar
7 July 2022
Philip Sherrard and the Experience of God
Professor Andrew Louth
30 June 2022
Rene Guenon’s CRISIS OF THE MODERN WORLD Revisited
Professor Patrick Laude
20 June 2022
Metaphysician, Heal Thyself! Koranic Perspectives on the Ecological Crisis
(audio only)
Dr Reza Shah-Kazemi
18 May 2022
Endless Voyaging: Spiritual Journeying in ‘Attar and Ibn ‘Arabi
(audio only)
JANE CLARK
27 April 2022
DR MARTIN SHAW
Wednesday 16 March 2022
The Symbolism of the Pentagram Star
(audio only)
TOM BREE
Monday 7 March 2022
What it Means to be Human: Exploring African Philosophy of Ubuntu
DR ELVIS IMAFIDON
Monday 21 February 2022
Professor Grevel Lindop
Wednesday 8 December 2021
In these hills at last I am come to dwell
Lord Gawain Douglas
Monday 22nd November 2021
‘A Place of Vision’: George Mackay Brown and Orkney
Maggie Ferguson
Wednesday 3rd November 2021
Leonardo’s Adoration of the Magi
Andrew Wolpert
Tuesday 19th October 2021
Dante and Spiritual Intelligence
Dr Mark Vernon
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
19th June 2019
Recollection and Self-possession:
Finding the Still Centre Amidst Time and Change
Dr Stephen Blackwood
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
Nature and Modern Science
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
14th December 1993
Kabbalah: Esoteric System of the West
Warren Kenton
