Title Living Mystery

"You are nailed to the ground somewhere off at the edge of the firelight wrestling with a mystery so profound, so bizarre that even as we sit here with Husserl and Heidegger and Heisenberg ......... it is still absolutely mysterious,appalling, challenging, boundary dissolving and unavoidably ecstatic. It is the living mystery."

Pythia by John Collier

 

 

 

 

Residential Courses

Mystery Teachings and the Living Mystery
15th - 22 June 2014
Lake District, England

During this week long residential course we will explore the themes of death, initiation and rebirth; the Ancient Mystery Traditions and modern interpretations; divination, mystical light and enlightenment.

 

Thauma Idesthai:
Dragons, Serpents, Seers and Clear Sight
6th - 13th July 2014
Lake District, England

A wonder to behold. Derkesthai. Winged and feathered serpents Isis to the Seraphim. Quetzlcoatl. Kundalini.

 

Mystery, Magic, Imagination and the Muse
27th July - 2nd August 2014
Cornwall, England

The Arthurian Legends, the Holy Grail, the Fay and the Shining Ones, Witches and Wizards, Celtic Religion, Gods and Goddesses. Megaliths. Lughnassadh Ceremony. Conjunction of Mercury and Jupiter.

 

Nine Lines of Alignment-Time to be in Time
9th - 19th August 2014
A retreat, Dartmoor, England

Aligning the physical, emotional, spiritual, intellectual.
Perigee Full Moon on 9th August. Venus Jupiter Conjunction August 18th.

 

Celtic Britain: Gods, Goddesses and Sacred Animals
6th - 13th September 2014
South West England

The gods and goddesses of Britain. Power Animals. Vision questing. Working at a deep level with personal power and allies. We will explore the archetypes associated with Britain such as Ceridwen, Arianrhod, Rhiannon, Branwen, Morgan le Fay and Cernunnos, Lugh, Taliesin, and our own personal allies. Expect magic and synchronicity. Supermoon on 10th September

The Omphalos and the Oracle:
Potnia and Pythia
October 11th - October 18th 2014
Crete

The Minoan Religion, the Delphic Oracle and the Eleusinian Mysteries.
Snake and Bird Goddesses. Potnia, Cybele and Circe

 

Horse Women of the Veil
31st October - 6th November 2014
Nr. Golegã, Portugal

Horse as totem animal; the power of horse in history, story, myth and religion; lifting the veil ; understanding the true meaning of apocálypsis.

 

Calling the Ancestors
14th - 21st December
Winter Solstice 2014
Southern France

Shamanic Winter Solstice retreat focusing on working with ancestral tutelary spirits.

 

Nature at the Centre of the Mandala
18th - 28th January 2015
Paraty, Brazil

10 days exploring key concepts of the mystery traditions; emotional clearing and remembering; metamorphosis; time and eternity; entheogenic plants.

 

Mystery Teachings and the Living Mystery
Magna Graecia, Italy
15th - 22nd March 2015

Mystery Traditions in Italy, Orphic and Dionysic Mysteries

 

The Hummingbird and the Condor:
The Serpent and the Jaguar
19th - 29th September 2015

Machu Picchu and the Sacred Valley, Peru
Entheogenic exploration. Learning how to navigate and maintain altered states.

 

To book courses click here.

 

Persephone Demeter

 

Tours:

Magic, Myth and Megaliths: Ancient Sites In Sight

Tours of South West England

2015

May 7th – 17th

June 18th – 28th

August 12th - 22nd

All courses and retreats will combine elements of theory, experiment and experience drawing on shamanic techniques and neuropsychological research.
The overall ambience will be meditative, inspirational, relaxing and fun.
Designed to promote individual creativity, intuition and freedom of thought.

 

 

""The shaman's path is unending. I am an old, old man and still a nunutsi (baby) standing before the mystery of the world"
Don Jose Matsuwa