Wednesday 10th April |
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| 2:30 PM | Informal Session: Getting to know one another |
| 3:30 PM | Poster introductions (5 min talk by each of the two poster presenters) Hugh Hubbard – Just How Preposterous is Gurdjieff’s View of History? – A Chronology of Beelzebub’s Descents to Planet Earth Farzin Deravi – Autostereograms and the ‘creation of images without words’ |
| 3:45 PM | Coffee Break (with manned posters) |
| 4:15 PM | Reading from Beelzebub’s Tales |
| 7:00 PM | Dinner |
| Evening | Open for renewing and building new relationships |
Thursday 11th April |
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| 7:30 AM | Voluntary Sitting / Meditation – morning preparation room will be available. |
| 8:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 9:15 AM | Opening Remarks |
| 9:30 AM | Paper: Sy Ginsburg – Inturned Meditation – the Atlantean Temples Allegory |
| 10:45 AM | Coffee Break/Posters |
| 11:15 AM | Paper: Anthony Blake – Esoteric Writing |
| 12:30 PM | Lunch |
| 2:30 PM | Paper: Will Mesa – The Importance of Finding One’s Inner Master and Becoming Man Number Five |
| 3:45 PM | Coffee Break |
| 4:15 PM | Seminar 1: Beelzebub’s Tales, Ch. 36, “Just a Wee Bit More About the Germans” |
| 7:00 PM | Dinner |
| 8:30 PM | Piano recital – Linda Kangas and Jan Ellan Bows |
Friday 12th April |
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| 7:30 AM | Voluntary Sitting / Meditation – morning preparation room will be available. |
| 8:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 9:15 AM | Opening Remarks |
| 9:30 AM | Paper – Paul Beekman Taylor – French Muddling of All and Everything |
| 10:45 AM | Coffee Break/Posters |
| 11:15 AM | Paper: Stephen Grant – Confessions of an American Muddler – Ending the Beelzebub Wars |
| 12:30 PM | Lunch |
| 2:30 PM | Kristina Turner – The Initiation of Motherhood |
| 3:45 PM | Coffee Break |
| 4:15 PM | Seminar: Meetings with Remarkable Men, Chapter 9, “Piotr Karpenko”
Download the recording by Tony Blake, for registrants. |
| 7:00 PM | Dinner |
| 8:30 PM | Conscience – dialogue and seminar (led by Ocke de Boer) |
Saturday 12th April |
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| 7:30 AM | Voluntary Sitting / Meditation – morning preparation room will be available. |
| 8:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 9:15 AM | Opening Remarks |
| 9:30 AM | Paper: Michael Pittman – Sufism and Beelzebub’s Tales: Elements in Gurdjieff’s Matrical Discourse on the Soul |
| 10:45 AM | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 AM | Paper: John Amaral and Derek Sinko – What Colour Was That Canary? – “Serious Thoughts” are hidden within the “easily grasped outer form” of Meetings With Remarkable Men |
| 12:30 PM | Lunch |
| 2:30 PM | Seminar 2: – Beelzebub’s Tales, Ch. 37 France |
| 3:45 PM | Coffee Break |
| 4:15 PM | Seminar 2, cont’d: Beelzebub’s Tales, Ch. 37 France |
| 7:30 PM | Conference Banquet |
Sunday 14th April |
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| 7:30 AM | Voluntary Sitting / Meditation – morning preparation room will be available. |
| 8:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 9:30 AM | Seminar 4: Where Do We Go From Here? Impressions from all about the conference and what could be done better as we continue into another year. |
| 11:30 AM | Conference Closes |
