Jocelyn Chaplin - The Wisdom of Diotima
Jocelyn, a psychotherapist, artist, teacher of goddess spirituality and author of 'Love in an Age of Uncertainty' and 'Feminist Counselling in Action' relates the teachings on life and love of Diotima, a 5th century bc Greek priestess, hetaira, philosopher and tutor of Socrates (as featured in Plato's 'Symposium')
24th September
Gary Lachman - A Secret History of Consciousness
Gary Lachman, ex-Blondie and author of 'Turn Off Your Mind' and 'New York Rocker', has a new book called 'A Secret History of Consciousness'. Here he argues the proposition that consciousness is not just a mechanical arrangement of atoms and molecules and physical laws but a living, evolving spiritual presence. Tonight he will argue the proposition, reviewing some of the works of Blavatsky, Steiner and Colin Wilson and other investigators of the hidden history of consciousness
10th September 2003
Rig Svenson - Viking Gods, Runes and 21st Century Teutonic Magic
Rig Svenson's book 'Viking Gods...' is now published and his talk will cover some of the book's subject matter, including detail on rune divination authenticity and recapping on how the power runs influence the reading. And, prompted by a question at his last SC talk, he will also talk about Uighur, a Turkic language spoken in China which uses an alphabet of 38 Rune characters.
13th August 2003
Gail Hart - The Magic Of Flowers
Gail is a Psychic, Tarot (and other) reader, costume designer, former musician and Psychic Development teacher. Tonight, she will describe and explore Australian Bush Flower Remedies, effective for divination, healing, medication and magic.
2nd July 2003
Beth Shaw - The Magic Of Suffragette Militancy
Beth, somewhat a 'magicker of happenings' herself, looks at suffragette political activities to win votes for women from an esoteric perspective, using drama, music and rhyming to mark ane centenary of Mrs. Pankhurst's founding of the Women's Social and Political Union in 1903.
18th June 2003
Sarah Dean - The Deadly Mayan Ball Game.
Sarah, a researcher into the history of ideas and religions, will discuss the dangerous and mystical Ball Game of the ancient Mayans, a game which embodied life, death, conflict, the Gods, the Underworld, and much more.
4th June 2003
Mani Navasothy - Magickal Empowerment In A God-Less Universe.
Mani is a dancer of many masks - artist, astrologer, scientist and High Priest. Tonight he will explore the simple reality behind magickal empowerment, highlighting human intelligence and the mind. Please leave your Gods and your Dragons at the door!
21st May 2003
Katie Howard - Seidr - An Introduction.
Katie has been both studying and practising Seidr for five years and tonight will introduce and explain this Northern Tradition system which incorporates shamanism, women's mysteries, divination and the journey to Helheim, the Norse Underworld.
7th May 2003
Noel Rooney - Masai Metaphysics.
Noel Rooney is a poet, an essayist(and pseudonymous book reviewer for 'Fortean Times'), with a long-standing interest in religions, ancient and modern. This talk is about the Masai and how they came to be, and why twelves are almost always thirteens...
23rd April 2003
Diana McKenzie - The River Knoweth Where She Floweth...
...our job is to keep paddling. Diana McKenzie is a teacher, youth worker, counsellor and trainer; an eclectic pagan, strongly influenced by shamanism, Buddhism and Ayruveda (Hindu science of life). She will share her personal exploration into faith, synchronicity, the Divine and goal-setting.
9th April 2003
Stephanie Minns - Blood Rites of the Aztecs and Mayans.
Steff is an artist and designer. Following her travels around Central America, she will talk (with slides) about the indiginous cultures she encountered, in which Paganism is still a surviving religion. Her talk will cover culture, religious practices, and legends, from the steamy jungles of Guatemala to the forests of Chichen-Itza in Mexico.
26th March 2003
Michael Bingas - Dante's Inferno.
Michael Bingas, a lover of mythology (especially Greek), legends, and history, will be your guide on the epic descent of the great Italian poet Dante Alighieri, led by the spirit of Virgil, through the nine circles of Hell, meeting ghosts, gods, and monsters, in a classic Underworld initiatory journey. All human afterlife is there...
12th March 2003
Reggie Kwan - Clarification Of Terms.
Are you a Pagan? Are you a Traditionalist? Interested in Witchcraft? Do you practice Magic and Divination? The answers to all these questions depend on definitions. Reggie, an astrologer and a founder member of the Dragon Eco-Magick Organizational Network, will not be attempting to persuade people to follow any particular path, but will be trying to clarify the terms in people's minds. There will be a surprise experiment.
26th February 2003
Steve Nicholls - Enochian Chess.
Steve is a strategic games designer, hypnotherapist, tournament chess player, and former magazine editor, who has been interested for many years in all matters occult. Tonight he will discuss and display Enochian Chess, a fascinating game he has developed, which incorporates much Golden Dawn magickal and mystical lore.
12th February 2003
Levente Borbely - Transylvania: The Fairy Garden
Levy is an open-minded scientist and traveller from the mysterious Szeklerland in Transylvania. Interested in anything unexplained, tonight he explores the the traditions, history, myths, and reality of his glorious country.
29th January 2003
Shaun Aston - Isis In The Roman Empire
Isis has been one of the most popular Goddesses in history, both in the ancient world and in modern paganism. Shaun Aston, founder member of the Societas Isidis (http://www.iseum.org.uk), talks about the cult of Isis and Osiris as a mystery religion in the Roman world, and how its beliefs and practices contrast with those of Dynastic Egypt.
15th January 2003
Steve Wilson - Living Gnosticism
Gnosticism was the first big threat to Christianity and was long assumed to have been wiped out. Steve Wilson, Chaos magician, FOI priest, Druid, and organizer of Club Tropagana, will show that, not only is Gnosticism alive and well, it never died out, and is now worldwide.
Friday 3rd January 2003
Pagan Writers' Group - A Sinister Soiree
To ease you into the New Year (Hail Janus!), several remarkably learned and creative regular members of the Pagan Writers' Group (organized by Mark McCann) will entertain and educate you with readings from their fine works, both fictional and factual.
18th December 2002
Saturnalia!!!!
It's that time again, when laughter, songs, jokes and oddball routines are the order of the evening in honour of the ancient Roman festival when the world turns upside-down. So dust off your jokebooks and instruments, dress up silly and move us to laughter and/or tears. Your preformance will win you entry to the lottery to select the Secret Chiefs of Air, Fire, Water, and Earth for the next year, and sacred totem animals go with the titles. So don't be shy, have a try!
4th December 2002
Mary Hedger - Arousal And Enlightenment
Published by Mandrake of Oxford is Mary Hedger's first novel "History of Fun", which is a work based loosely on the goings-on of Aleister Crowley, set in a world of hard drugs, sex, sex with strangers, group sex, bisexuality, domination, bondage and flagellation... Mary Hedger has embedded a dynamic intention within her erotic novel to arouse her reader, and through this sexmagical opening to generate the 93 current. She will talk about this intention using extracts from her novel.
20th November 2002
Rig Svenson - The Origins Of Rune Magic
Rig Svenson is the author of "Pierced By The Light - Viking Runes In The 21st Century", which will be published later this year, and he is currently working on his second book on Rune Magic and herbalism. His research tries always to go back to source documents rather than rehashing New Age concepts on Rune Magic. His talk tonight will look at, among other things, Power Runes and the Nine Herb Charms of Woden.
6th November 2002
Simon Michel - The Shamanic Use of Hi-Fi.
Simon is a founder member of Dragon and has been a Secret Chiefs regular for over a decade. He will be exploring the use of sound and music in ritual. This is not going to be an academic talk, but rather an improvised demonstration to show how a combination of gongs, chimes, drums, recorded music, and ritual invocations can be used to produce 'Shamanic' states of consciousness.
23rd October 2002
Ghost Stories.
Samhain comes round again and an eerie darkness spreads across the land. While mists swirl the London streets, upstairs in an elegant Holborn room, a group of witches, magicians, priestesses and shamen recount tales of ghosts and unspeakable terror. Do you dare to join them? Do you dare to tell a story yourself? AHAHAHAHAHAHA...!
9th October 2002
Damian Nola - Amporum - Vessel of the Divine.
Damian is a holographic, fully-conscious voice channel for the Egyptian neters and has been actively involved in the fields of metaphysics and alternative health for several years. Through channelled guidance and his own research into the Qabala and the mystery school teachings of ancient Egypt and Tibet, he developed Amporum, a divinely-inspired means of birthing our truth here, within duality, and elevating consciousness into union with the One.
25th September 2002
Darren Francis - Magick and the Demonology of Language.
Aka Language and the Demonology of Magick, Demonology and the Language of Magick, Magick and the Language of... You get the idea? It is. It isn't. Is it?
11th September 2002
Jocelyn Chaplin - Equa-Rhythmic Attunement - a goddess theory of magick.
Jocelyn Chaplin is a low priestess of Rhea and a member of the Dionysian Underground. She is also an artist and the author of 'Feminist Counselling In Action' and 'Love In An Age Of Uncertainty', among others. Tonight she presents her ideas of tuning into the many rhythms of the universe...
28th August 2002
Ian Crowther - Discordia (God is a Girl called Eris).
Ian, alias Euphoria DeGryn, Knight of the Living Dead and Rotating Megapope of Discordia, guides you through the wonderful world of the Goddess Eris, the number 23, the non-prophets, Mancalypse the Younger and Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst, the five elements, Gourdfest, and much, much more!
14th August 2002
Sue Hutchings - Death Mysteries and Customs throughout the World.
Sue is a member of the company of heaven, and a chaos magician. Tonight she will consider the differing beliefs and customs relating to death practices from a selection of cultures and mythologies. The evening will terminate with a meditation on death.
31st July 2002
Clai Philpott - Reconstructing Reality: Surrealism and Magick.
17th July 2002
Liz Gale - Wicca and Reiki.
3rd July 2002
Dr. Robert Wallis - Seidr, Shamanism, and Ergi: Ditching the Stereotypes of Northern Religion.
19th June 2002
Tom Goldsworthy-Gillespie - The Cthulhu Mythos as a Practical Magical System.
5th June 2002
Steve Wilson - Space Craft.
22nd May 2002
Requiem for Chris Gosselin (1929-2002).
8th May 2002
Gary Lachman - My Life in the Blank Generation.
24th April 2002
Philip Heselton - Gerald Gardner and the Cauldron of Inspiration.
10th April 2002
David Rankine - Sacred Technology: The Mechanics of Magick.
27th March 2002
Sorita - Astral Projection and Remote Viewing.
13th March 2002
Mark McCann - Strange and Wonderfull Newes.
27th February 2002
Katrina Leigh - New Paths for Past Lives.
13th February 2002
Laura Spicer - Voice Power.
30th January 2002
Rick Gibson - The Ancient Sites of the Nabateans.
16 January 2002
Timothy Secret - Creating a New Faith.
2nd January 2002
Terry Dobney - Keeper of the Stones.
19th December 2001
Sturnalia!!!!
5th December 2001
David Pethrick - Cospiracy Theories.
21 November 2001
Lee Moon - Callanish, Kali, and the Mysteries of Time.
7th November 2001
Tony Ball - Jesus: His Life and Times.
24th October 2001
Ghost Stories...
10th October 2001
Darren Francis - Walking at the End of Nature.
26th September 2001
Chris Gosselin - The Secret Secret Chief.
12th September 2001
Juanita West & Gavan Kearney - The Enneagram.
29th August 2001
Big Mother Balloon Debate - John Dee, Helena Blavatsky, Aleister Crowley, & Gerald Gardner.
15th August 2001
Sue Hutchings - The Vampire in Folklore, Fiction, and Film.
1st August 2001
Gareth J. Medway - Lure of the Sinister.
18th July 2001
Bill Redwood - Wilhelm Reich: Magician, Martyr, or Maniac?
4th July 2001
Gary Valentine-Lachman - Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and The Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius.
20th June 2001
Simon Michel - Mind, Body and Spirit.
6th June 2001
Claire Bellenis - The Runes in Everyday Life.
23rd May 2001
Nigel Pennick - The Anima Loci.
9th May 2001
David Rankine - Heka: Practising Egyptian Magic.
25th April 2001
David Farrant - The Mysterious Case of the Highgate Vampire (And Other Related Phenomena).
11th April 2001
Ross Heaven - Healing Through Vision: The Shaman's Experience.
28th March 2001
Various Short Talks - Ian Crowther, Andrew Clifton, Gareth J. Medway & Mark McCann.
14th March 2001
Julian Vayne - The Garden of Earthly Delights: Magick, Politics, and Permaculture.
28th February 2001
Requiem for Gerald Suster (1951-2001).
14th February 2001
Caroline Wise - Bast is Not a Pussycat.
31st January 2001
Matthew McCabe - The Goddess in Druidry.
17th January 2001
Gordon Rymes - Living with Herne in the 21st Century.
3rd January 2001
Magickal Quiz...
Monday 18th December 2000
Saturnalia!!!!
6th December 2000
Jack Gale - Past Life Paradigms: A Magickal View.
22nd November 2000
Paul Newman - Early Christian Magic.
8th November 2000
David V. Barrett - Journeys to the Mysterious East and Other Foundation Myths.
25th October 2000
Mogg Morgan - Isis in India: The Ancient Cult of Isis, Its Survival and Influence.
11th October 2000
Gareth Medway & Su Jolly - The Lure of the Bitch Goddess.
27th September 2000
Chris Gosselin - Shadow Boxing.
13th September 2000
Gerald Suster - Aleister Crowley and Frank Harris.
30th August 2000
Andrew Clifton - The Kalevala.
16th August 2000
Rufus Harrington - The Gnostic Mass.
2nd August 2000
Dr. Ian C. Baillie - Intelligent Universe.
19th July 2000
Professor Ronald Hutton - Glastonbury: History and Archaeology.
5th July 2000
Mark Poynter - The Fly in Ancient Middle-Eastern Mythology.
21st June 2000
Alan Mitchell - Pharaonic Magic.
7th June 2000
Michael York - Civilization and Its Discontents.
24th May 2000
Alan Mitchell & Robin Walker - The Roots of Ancient Egypt.
10th May 2000
Tina Cassandra - Fantasy Religion.
26th April 2000
Justin Woodman - Lovecrafting the Art of Magick: From Cthulhu to Chaos.
12th April 2000
Mark McCann - The Mount of Vision.
29th March 2000
Formal Debate - This House Resolves that Dion Fortune is Still Relevant to the 21st Century.
Previous talks (from 15/3/2000 back through the past decade to 14/2/1990) can be found by the bold of spirit in the swirling mists of Talking Stick history...