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SUNDAY 26 APRIL
SPECIAL DAY EVENT
Pathways to Contemplation:
A Journey into Silence
in the Company of Julian of Norwich,
St John of the Cross, Rumi,
and other Mystics
9.30am - 4pm
NOA Community Centre (Ferry Centre)
Summertown, Oxford
(click for map etc.)
This will be a day of spiritual exploration in which Professor Ursula King will talk about love's meaning in the work of Julian of Norwich, and show us how we can deepen our own experience of the transforming power of love. The poet, Jay Ramsay, will delight us with a selection of poetry from St John of the Cross, Rumi and others, as well as his own work. Framing the day, Clare Goodrick-Clarke will guide us gently on the path into silence, a journey into the heart of the contemplative tradition. Meditative techniques can attune us to the divine love that guides reflection and renewal. This is an experiential day which offers the participant spiritual insights into love's meaning, an opportunity to engage with life more deeply, allowing ourselves to open to the ever-present transforming and transcendent power of love.
PROGRAMME
| 9.30am | Registration and coffee |
| 10am | Clare Goodrick-Clarke:
Pathways to Contemplation: Talk and Meditation |
| | Clare teaches Western Esotericism at the University of Exeter. She also teaches meditation techniques, writes a regular column on Mindfulness for Picture of Health, and has led spiritual meditations for New York Open Center "Quest" conferences. Her books include G.R.S. Mead & the Gnostic Quest (Mead's
translations of Gnostic texts influenced C. G. Jung, Ezra Pound and others), and The Alchemical Physician, due in 2009. |
| 11am | Coffee Break |
| 11.30am | Dr. Ursula King:
Love's Meaning: the significance of Julian of Norwich and
other women mystics for contemporary spirituality |
| | Ursula King, FRSA, is Professor Emerita of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Bristol. Her publications include Christian Mystics. Their Lives and Legacies Throughout the Ages; Women and Spirituality; the illustrated biography Spirit of Fire: The Life and Vision of Teilhard de Chardin, and most recently The Search for Spirituality: Our Global Quest for Meaning and Fulfilment |
| 12.30pm | Lunch (not provided) |
| 2.00pm | Jay Ramsay:
Poetry and Meditation |
| | Poetry, in its essence, and meditation are inextricably related in concept and intention. Poetry arises from meditation and in turn leads to it, prompting our deeper reflection from the truth it witnesses. Poetry which has a specifically spiritual dimension heightens and deepens this connection so that the poem can even become a transmission of what it is evoking, within and beyond words.
Jay Ramsay was poet-in-residence at St. James' Church, Piccadilly (2005-6), and is a UKCP accredited psychosynthesis psychotherapist in private practice. Author, co-author/translator and editor of over 30 books, including Alchemy (1997), and a best-selling Tao Te Ching (1993), Jay is project director of Chrysalis: the poet in you (a two part correspondence course in poetry and personal development). His most recent books are Out of Time: Poems 1998-2008 (PSAvalon), Anamnesis: the remembering of soul (The Lotus Foundation), The Poet in You (O Books) and Places of Truth: journeys into sacred wilderness (Awen Publications). |
| 3.00pm | Clare Goodrick-Clarke:
Journey into Silence: Talk and Meditation |
| 4pm | Finish |
"Sin must needs be, but all shall be well.
All shall be well; and all manner of thing shall be well."
Julian of Norwich
£40.00 (£30.00 Friends)
ADVANCE BOOKING: Marigold Hutton: 01865 407490
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