Arcane School Conference 2019, New York - May 18 & 19
When
Saturday, May 18, 2019
Students only: 10.00 am - 12:00 pm
All Welcome: 1:30 - 5:30 p.m.
and
Sunday, May 19, 2019
All Welcome: 1:30 - 5:15 p.m.
Where
3 West Club,
3 W. 51st Street
(between 5th and 6th Ave.)
New York, NY
Keynote Let the Group Life be inspired by the Rules for Initiation: Know, Express, Reveal, Destroy and Resurrect.
Event Details
Saturday, May 18
Morning session Arcane School students only
10.00am
Meditation for “Weavers in the Light”
students – past and present
10.30am
Arcane School students of all degrees
12.00pm
Close of morning session
Afternoon Session – Everyone welcome
All talks presented by Arcane School Students
1:30pm
Musings on the Keynote Headquarters Group
1:55pm
The Fires of Initiation: Crisis and Opportunity
Headquarters Group
Never before in human history has humanity faced a group approach to the initiatory fires. And while we don’t know what this experience might mean it surely will result in fundamental shifts in all aspects of our lives.
2:10pm
Visualisation
2.10pm
Creative Destruction – A liberating force
J.P. Heudier
Destruction can be a creative force in esoteric work as outmoded thoughtforms are replaced by larger ideas and more advanced truths bringing greater and greater freedom to the imprisoned Life.
3.00pm
Refreshment break
3.30pm
Visualisation & Panel Discussion
4:15pm
Musical Performance Wendy Luck
Wendy Luck is a flutist, vocalist, composer and multimedia artist who has performed throughout the United States, Europe and Latin America.
4:30pm
The Wesak Festival – The Eye of Revelation
The Wesak Festival is held in Taurus, and the “eye of the Bull” is the eye of revelation. It reveals “steadily and without cessation the stupendous and sublime plan of Deity. This is the subject which light reveals.”
5.30pm
Close
Sunday, May 19
Afternoon Session – Everyone welcome
All talks presented by Arcane School Students
1.30pm
The World Esoteric Group Has Many Faces Headquarters Group
What is the role of esoteric groups during these challenging years? Reflections on group initiation and the World Group.
1.55pm
The Temple Not Made By Hands
Headquarters Group Spanish Section
The lotuses of the group members emerge one by one into the air, towards the blue sky and the sunlight.
2.10pm
Visualisation
2.20pm
A Story of Group Work From the World of Ballet
Maria Calegari
Maria Calegari and her husband Bart Cook are former principal dancers with the New York City Ballet who now work with ballet companies around the world performing works by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. Maria will talk of their recent experience with the Hamburg Ballett, drawing on the insights of the Conference keynote.
2.35pm
The Revelatory Power of Symbols
Catherine Crews
Symbols conceal meaning beyond their observable forms; religion and psychology commonly seek to unveil their inner meaning and truth. Esoteric science knows all form as symbol, expressing and revealing the One Life within. We will discuss this revelation.
2.50pm
Plenary discussion
3:00
Refreshment break
3:35pm
The Heart, the Organ of Vision Headquarters Group
The flaming Heart is a burning path which unifies the seen with the see-er, the individual with the group, and form with life. It is the path to perfect discernment and identification with the whole.
3:50pm
The Plan as Human History Dr. Thomas Burr
This talk will explore aspects of worldly expression of the Plan (as presented by the Ageless Wisdom) throughout human history, and the opportunity and challenges of the immediate future. Dr Burr is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Illinois State University.
4:40pm
Panel
5:10pm
Group Meditation