The Moot with No Name meets…
Sid | Friday, 30 May, 2008
Jun 4 – Dr Rupert Sheldrake – The Extended Mind: Recent Experimental Evidence [Illustrated]
We have been brought up to believe that the mind is located inside the head. But there are good reasons for thinking that this view is much too limited. Recent experimental results show that people can influence others at a distance just by looking at them. And people’s intentions can be detected by animals from miles away –and by people. The commonest kind of telepathy in the modern world, telephone telepathy, has now been investigated experimentally, with significant positive results. New online tests make research accessible to anyone interested. Dr Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than 75 scientific papers and six books, the most recent being The Sense of Being Stared At. His website is www.sheldrake. org.
Jun 18 – Steve Wilson – UFOs – The Occult Connection
Nowadays the world of UFOlogy seems a world away, or several, from the realms that the modern witch, pagan or ceremonial magician inhabit. But when UFOs first crashed into the headlines there was intense interest, with the founders of modern Druidry, Witchcraft and even the Typhonian OTO commenting. Tonight Steve Wilson explores the occult side of the saucers even if he does insist that the truth probably isn’t out there!
**NOTE: Change from previously advertised talk. **
Jul 2 – Boz Temple-Morris – The Assassins and the End of Time
On a sunny afternoon in 1164 Hasan II, grandson of the “Old man of the Mountain”, gathered his followers at the fortress of Alamut in Iran. There was food and wine although it was the middle of the month of Ramadan. It was here that Hasan declared the end of time. All laws and all rules were dispensed with and a new phase of understanding began, lasting for thirty years. Boz Temple-Morris explores these extraordinary events and attempts to unlock the secrets of the Assassins that have so beguiled poets, writers and painters through the ages.
Jul 16 – Dr John Callow – Infidelity, Impotence, & Innocence Lost:
Robert Devereux’s Encounter with Jacobean Witchcraft
Above the entrance to the Devereux is the bust of Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, Parliament’s first great general in the Civil War. In1613, his acrimonious divorce case with Frances Howard was the talk of the town, as allegations of poisoning, meetings with sorcerers and darkly woven spells convulsed the courtroom. Tonight’s talk looks at Devereux’s position as the alleged victim of witchcraft, how his life and reputation were blighted by the evidence presented in court; and how he struggled to shake off his”bewitchment” at the hands of his former wife.
The Moot with No Name meets Alternate Wednesdays, 7.30 for 8pm. Upstairs, Devereux pub (Templars Restaurant upstairs) near Temple tube station.
Opposite the Royal Courts of Justice on the Strand (near Aldwych) is
a Tudor-style pub, the George. The Devereux is down the alley next to this. See map at http://tinyurl.com/cp7u2
Organisers: David V. Barrett &
Steve Wilson – who is an author, broadcaster, journalist, Magician, Druid, Pagan, Thelemite, previous MC of Talking Stick, Taror & Rune reader and a lecturer. His published books are: Robin Hood, Spirit of the Forest (1992), Chaos Rituals (1993). One of the 32 Arch priest Hierophants who run the Fellowship of Isis, founder of both IOU Chaos Magic groups & Lovecraftin WIO. He has appeared on most major UK TV & radio channels, written for The Guardian and The Independent.
