Conferences

 

Mark Ryden, Allegory of the Four Elements.

Recent Talks


‘Rendering Darkness and Light Present: Jean Gebser and the Principle of Diaphany’.

Forty-fifth Annual International Jean Gebser Society Conference, in conjunction with the Philosophy, Consciousness & Cosmology Program, Philosophy & Religion Department.
California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, 18 October 2015.

 

Conference Organisation

Architects of the Integral World: International Jean Gebser Society Conference
In conjunction with the Philosophy, Consciousness & Cosmology Program, Philosophy & Religion Department, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco. 16–18 October, 2015.

Crisis and Mutation: International Jean Gebser Society Conference.
Conference coordinator, with Jeremy Johnson.
New York City, New York. 17-18 October, 2014.

Embodying Integral Consciousness: International Jean Gebser Society Conference
Conference coordinator, with Sabrina Dalla Valle, MFA.
University of Philosophical Research, Los Angeles, California. 4-6 October, 2013.


Past Talks

‘The Dissolution Solution’.
Crisis and Mutation: International Jean Gebser Society Conference
Judson Memorial, New York City, New York, October 17-18, 2014


‘The Call of Fire: The Esotericism of René Schwaller de Lubicz’.
Fifth Annual Esoteric Book Conference.
Seattle, Washington, 2013.

‘From Poetry to Kulturphilosophie: Jean Gebser in Bio-Bibliographic Context’.
Embodying Integral Consciousness: International Jean Gebser Society Conference.
University of Philosophical Research, Los Angeles, California, 2013.

‘Jean Gebser’s Afernoon Poems’.
International Jean Gebser Society Conference.
Brigham Young University, Utah, 2010. Presented on my behalf by Sabrina Dalla Valle and John Dotson.

'The Will that Cannot be Willed: Primordial Trust, Alchemical Salt and the Dynamics of Integral Volition’. 
International Jean Gebser Society Conference.
Hofstra University, New York, 2009.

'Waters Animating and Annihilating: Apotheosis by Drowning in the Greek Magical Papyri’.
Amphora Classics and Ancient History Conference.
University of Queensland, St. Lucia, 2008.

‘In Shakti’s Leftward Flow: The Lef Hand Path, East to West’.
Alternative Expressions of the Numinous Conference.
University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia, 2008.

‘Trust in Mad Strife: Primordial Trust in the Power-Sources of Existence in the Life and Work of Jean Gebser’.
International Jean Gebser Society Conference.
LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 2008.

'The Breaking that Gives Birth and the Breaking that Gives Death: Seth-Typhon in the Greek Magical Papyri’. Alternative Expressions of the Numinous Conference.
University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia, 2007.

'The Thigh and Palingenesis: René Schwaller de Lubicz and the Hermetic Problem of Salt’.
Alternative Expressions of the Numinous Conference.
University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia, 2006.