Presented by Ideas Roadshow & Conway Hall Ethical Society
Celebrated theoretical physicist Sir Prof Roger Penrose (Honorary member SMN) speaks with Ideas Roadshow host Howard Burton on the current and future state of theoretical physics in keeping with his latest book, ‘Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe’.
Tickets: £10 standard, £7 concessions, £5 Conway Hall Ethical Society members.
The phenomenon of synchronicity, upon which the ancient techniques of divination, oracles and the art of astrology are based, challenges our faith in linear time and the law of material causality.
Wicca emerged in the mid 20th century as an esoteric anomaly that was thought to be a surviving remnant of an ancient religion. In fifty years it grew to become Britain’s largest new religious movement, with a significant following across the globe. This paper charts the development of Wicca. It discusses how its mythos changed as it grew, how it spread, and how its adherents changed, and continue to change, their religious traditions within the overall parameters of Modern Pagan Witchcraft. It discusses how contemporary Pagan Witches no longer hark to an imagined past for inspiration, but see themselves as embracing the choice of a religion that is congruent with concerns of late modernity, and offers an inviting vision for the future. The paper concludes by examining factors which caused the rapid growth of Wicca, and discussing whether these will continue to help the religion grow, or may naturally curb further expansion.
Tuesday 23 October 7:00pm – 8:30pm The new story coming into being is that the whole universe is a unified field. We […]
Nietzsche famously announced the ‘death of God’ and prophesied the inevitable onset of an age of nihilism in which ‘everything lacks meaning’ […]
