“Manifestation” A 3 part lecture series with Dr James Matharu

Seminar 1: “Inside and Outside” The manifestation called ‘self-awareness’ emerges when an ‘inside’ and its ‘outside’ present themselves as aspects of the same activity. Being a person with a mind means that activities achieve a distinctive inside with own distinctive outside. Mind is not separate from, but rather an aspect of, matter – and vice versa!

Seminar 2: “How can the Dead have Bodies?” Why would we assume that different ways of speaking about the dead are manifestations of a single thing? Different practices may indicate that different kinds of being, characterised by different kinds of activity, are manifested in various ways. Following on from the first seminar, I suggest that such concepts are indeed abilities to manifest the activities of other beings and phenomena.

Seminar 3: “Doll-Souls and Stone-Gods”In this final seminar of the series, Manifestation, I discuss artefacts such as dolls, drawn faces, masks, and effigies. I ask whether they are merely representations of faces or ‘crafted’ kinds of living beings in themselves. We look at whether such beings might not include, in a crucial sense, certain spirits, gods, or demons.

Simon James and Brian Robertson will be joining me as they weave their knowledge into the art and practice of the journey from Magician to Mystic.