The 24th International Humanities Conference: Wednesday 3rd April to Sunday 7th April, 2019 at the Castle Green Hotel, Kendal, United Kingdom
| Wednesday, 3 April 2019 | ||
| 2:30 pm | Informal Session: Getting to know one another | |
| 3:45 pm | Coffee break | |
| 4:15 pm | Seminar | Ch. 40 of Beelzebub’s Tales To His Grandson — “Beelzebub Tells How People Learned and Again Forgot About the Fundamental Cosmic Law of Heptaparaparshinokh”, page 813, in the 1950 edition |
| 5:30 pm | Free time for renewing and building relationships | |
| 7:00 pm | Dinner | |
| 8:30 pm | Evening program | Elan Sicroff – piano: Music by Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann |
| Thursday, 4 April 2019 | ||
| 7:00 am | Voluntary Sitting / Meditation (until 7:30 am) | |
| 8:00 am | Breakfast | |
| 9:15 am | Opening Remarks | |
| 9:30 am | Paper | Greg Connor: Gurdjieff’s Universal Law of the Vacuum |
| 10:30am | Poster introduction | |
| 10:45 am | Coffee break | |
| 11:15 am | Seminar | Ch. 40 of Beelzebub’s Tales To His Grandson — Beelzebub Tells How People Learned and Again Forgot About the Fundamental Cosmic Law of Heptaparaparshinokh |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |
| 2:30 pm | Paper | Ben Bennett: A Gurdjieff: Making a New World Companion |
| 3:45 pm | Coffee break | |
| 4:15 pm | Seminar | Prologue to Life is Real Only Then, When ‘I Am’, resuming at p. 45 |
| 7:00 pm | Dinner | |
| 8:30 pm | Evening program | Multiple events to choose from, including Anthony Blake: “STRUCTURED CONVERSATION AROUND OUR UNDERSTANDING OF HIGHER INTELLIGENCE.” |
| Friday, 5 April 2019 | ||
| 7:00 am | Voluntary Sitting / Meditation (until 7:30 am) | |
| 8:00 am | Breakfast | |
| 9:30 am | Paper | Peter Apps: The Strange Case of the German Professors |
| 10:45 am | Coffee break | |
| 11:15 am | Paper | Rose Crompton Does Theomertmalogos Speak to Me? |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |
| 2:30 pm | Paper | James Turner: Gold of A Thousand Mornings: All and Everything in the Light of Muhyiddin Ibn ’Arabi’s “Unity of Being” |
| 3:45 pm | Coffee break | |
| 4:15 pm | Seminar | Title And Opening Pages of Herald of Coming Good |
| Dinner not booked at hotel so delegates can eat out, for ease of getting to concert | ||
| 8:30 pm | Evening program | Peter Apps – Oboe. Elan Sicroff – Piano. John Amaral – Guitar. Concert of Gurdjieff – de Hartmann music Kendal Parish Church |
| Saturday, 6 April 2019 | ||
| 7:00 am | Voluntary Sitting / Meditation (until 7:30 am) | |
| 8:00 am | Breakfast | |
| 9:30 am | Paper | Clare Mingins: Gurdjieff And Mesmer and the Idea of Reciprocal Maintenance |
| 10:45 am | Coffee break | |
| 11:15 am | Seminar | Ch. 10 of Meetings with Remarkable Men — “Mr. X or Captain Pogossian” (from page 85) |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |
| 2:30 pm | Paper | Richard Miller: The Exile and Return of The Herald Of Coming Good |
| 3:45 pm | Coffee break | |
| 4:15 pm | Seminar | Prologue to Life is Real Only Then, When ‘I Am’ |
| 7:30 pm | Banquet evening | |
| Sunday, 7 April 2019 | ||
| 7:00 am | Voluntary Sitting / Meditation (until 7:30 am) | |
| 8:00 am | Breakfast | |
| 9:30 am | Seminar | Where Do We Go From Here? |
| 11:30 am | Conference closes | |
| Poster presentation: | ||
| Debbie Elliott: Mr. Gurdjieff’s father’s grave | ||
Do consider staying in the area for a few days or more after the conference. There are many beautiful places to see in the Lake District or Yorkshire Dales nearby, which you can easily do by train, bus or hired car. If you like walking, there are many long and short distance paths and trails, and there are plentiful other opportunities for outdoor sports. Please contact us if you would like further specific information.
In addition, there are 14 places for delegates who would be interested in a “megalithic tour” to see some fascinating ancient sites in the locality, given by a knowledgeable and experienced guide. One tour is on the Sunday afternoon after the conference (7th April) and one on the Monday (8th April), for the whole day, as detailed below. Each tour is limited to seven people, so we are asking that if you wish to go, please either book for the Sunday or the Monday, not both.
These tours are organised separately from the conference itself, by Neil McDonald of www.megalithictours.com. The booking page is available if you wish to book now (https://megalithictours.com/booking/). Go down the page to “Payment for the ‘All and Everything Conference,’ post conference tours.”
Sunday 7th April – 1pm to 6pm – £ 31 per person
Swinside Stone Circle
Giants Grave
Ulverston
Druids Circle
Monday 8th April – 9am to 5pm – £ 51.50 per person
Shap Abbey
Clifton Hall Peel Tower
Mayburgh Henge
King Arthur’s Round Table Henge
Water Mill Café
Long Meg & Her Daughters Stone Circle
Little Meg Stone Circle
Penrith (lunch break), Viking Crosses & Saxon Wheel Cross
The Dacre Bears
Castlerigg Stone Circle
Keswick town
Alternatively, on the Sunday (April 7) afternoon at 2.30pm in Holy Trinity & St George’s Catholic Church,
New Road, Kendal, there is a concert of Music for Passiontide by the Pro Nobis Singers