THEOSOPHY

CARDIFF

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Cardiff, Wales, UK, CF24 – 1DL.

 

Guide to what’s on

Current Programme

September 2009 June 2010 Events

 

 

Cardiff Theosophical Society meetings are informal

and there’s always a cup of tea afterwards

 

 

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Sunday September 6th

 

              3.30PM Film outlining the

 

History of Prophecy

 

Covering the history and effectiveness of prophecy thro’ the ages

With reference to the big names of prophecy including

Nostradamus, Mother Shipton and Edgar Cayce

 

We have a follow up to this with a film about 2012 on September 20th

 

 

Sunday September 13th

 

                     3.30PM Dominic Hodson will be delivering a lecture entitled;

 

The Healing Temple of MU

 

Temple MU is a spiritual healing system consisting of over a dozen treatment methods  from ear acupressure to crystal healing..

Information about MU healing has been channelled from the mystic or mythological motherland of MU, said to have been once situated off what is now the North coast of Japan.

The motherland of MU may be thought of mystical terms as existing in another dimension. The inhabitants of MU may be said to have inspired the spiritual healing system that is MU.

MU means ‘sacred land’, ‘Goddess (Cosmic Mother)’, ‘life force’, ‘spiritual healing’. These are the sources of wholeness MU creates.

 

 

Sunday September 20th

 

                       3.30PM A film about the

 

2012 Prophecies

Anything to worry about?

 

Sunday  September 27th

 

 

                4.00 PM A Quick Blast of Theosophy

                       This is an Introductory Theosophy Tutorial,

                       which will present basic Theosophical concepts and no

                       previous knowledge of Theosophy will be assumed.

                       A regular monthly slot.

 

 

              5PM Film about Angels

 

              6.00 PM Meditation  - Beginners Welcome

 

 

Sunday October 4th

 

3.30PM

Blockbuster Healing Film

 

The Healing Matrix

 

The latest developments in alternative Therapies

Approx 83 minutes

 

Sunday October 11th

 

Sanskrit Mantra Afternoon

Dee Geraghty will lead an afternoon of Sanskrit Mantra Chanting

Starts 3.30PM – lasts about 90 mins

 

 

Sunday October 18th

 

Tarot Afternoon

Sue Hendricksen & Jo Winter will be conducting Tarot Readings

There will be a 2 hour rolling programme of films running from 3PM

 

We will be welcoming donations to aid the victims of the

Philippines Tsunami as part of our contribution

to the Theosophical Order of Service

 

Sunday  October 25th 

 

 

                3.30PM Vijay Chandran will be presenting a lecture entitled

 

The Self

 

This talk is based on the Classical Hindu Poem “Ode to Hari”,

which Vijay has translated into English

 

 

 

 

Sunday November 1st

 

              3.30PM Irene Jordan will be presenting a lecture on

 

The Law of Attraction

 

 

Sunday November 8th

 

Remembrance Sunday

3.30PM

White Poppy Meditation

For World Peace

A collection will be taken for Cheshire Homes

 

Sunday November 15th

 

Film 3.30PM

The Life & Work of

Nicholas Roerich

The prolific Russian artist who studied Theosophy

and expressed Theosophical ideas through his paintings

 

 

 

Sunday November 22nd

 

 

              5PM Film to be arranged

 

              6.00 PM Meditation  - Beginners Welcome

 

 

Sunday November 29th

 

3.30PM

Ray’s Questions & Answers

Hard core Theosophist Ray Innocent will be answering

pre-arranged Questions on Theosophy.

 

The session will be in two parts with a break for refreshments

 

Sue Hendricksen is preparing a delicious buffet

There will be a charge of £2 for this

to cover the half ton of cheese, we always eat.

 

 

Sunday December 6th

 

 

              5PM Film Introduction to the Kabbalah

 

              6.00 PM Meditation  - Beginners Welcome

 

 

Sunday December 13th

 

6PM

Christmas Party

Vegetarian Bring & Share

 

Have you anything to offer for the entertainments?

Tell a story, joke, recite a poem,

play air guitar / ukulele to a Metallica / George Formby track,

do a Sir Stafford Kripps impersonation etc

 

We will be announcing the late arrivals at

the Used Car Dealers Ball.

 

Sunday December 20th

 

3.30PM

Do You Want to Live Forever ?

& If not, Why not ?

 

A film investigating the latest in life extension breakthroughs and the possibility of physical immortality

 

 

Thursday December 24th

 

5PM

Christmas Eve

 

Informal Christmas Tea Party

 

 

 

Sunday December 27th

 

Film

3.30PM

The Prophecies of Nostradamus

Includes info on a new document discovered in 2005 which

appears to have been written by Nostradamus and which

may provide clues to the meaning of some of his prophecies

 

 

 

Sunday January 3rd 2010

 

Film

3.30PM

Celtic History & Mythology

 

 

Sunday  January 10th

 

                       4.00 PM A Quick Blast of Theosophy

                       This is an Introductory Theosophy Tutorial,

                       which will present basic Theosophical concepts and no

                       previous knowledge of Theosophy will be assumed.

                       A regular monthly slot.

 

 

5PM Film Ed Bernstein interviews Neale Donald Walsch about his new book

 

“Happier Than God”

 

                      6.00 PM Meditation  - Beginners Welcome

 

 

 

Sunday January 17th

 

 

3.30PM

a Series of Films about

The Chakras

 

 

Sunday January 24th

 

3.30PM

Guided Visualisation Afternoon

Guided Visualisations presented by Sue Hendricksen

 

 

Sunday January 29th

 

3.30PM

Eurythmy Workshop

 

Presented by  Jacqueline Evans

 

Eurythmy is a new art of movement which seeks to make speech and music visible in spatial forms, gesture and colour. The movements and choreography of Eurythmy however are not based on self expression, but follow definite laws inherent in the sounds themselves. In stage performances, this is further enhanced by the use of colour, in costumes and lighting. relevant to the themes of instruments being played.

 

Through Eurythmy the effect of music and speech on the listener is greatly enriched by adding a visual experience to the purely aural one. Eurythmy is also of value in education, in the workplace and as a therapy.

 

 

Sunday February 7th

 

                     5PM Film. The Secret History of the Law of Attraction

 

                     6PM Meditation – Beginners Welcome

 

 

Sunday February 14th

 

3.30PM

St Valentine’s Day

Matinee

A selection of Films about Relationships.

Including a film exploring Edgar Cayce’s Concept of Soul Mates in which he postulates interpersonal relationships developed through many incarnations

 

 

Sunday February 21st

 

3.30PM

Remembering Past Lives with Your Angels

Presented by Ms Terry Davies

 

 

Sunday February 28th

 

Sanskrit Mantra Afternoon

Dee Geraghty will lead an afternoon of Sanskrit Mantra Chanting

Starts 3.30PM – lasts about 90 mins

 

 

Sunday March 7th

 

3.30PM

Immanuel Velikovsky Afternoon

2 Films about the work of the unorthodox scientist Immanuel Velikovsky who postulated that major cosmological changes took place in our Solar System as recently as 1400BCE with Venus leaving Jupiter after a major eruption

and entering the Sun’s orbit, pushing Mars into a new orbit outside the

Earth’s and causing extensive disasters on Earth.

 

 

 

Sunday March 14th

 

3.30PM

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)

Talk by Theosophy Cardiff Member

Marcus West

 

 

Sunday March 21st

 

3.30PM

Eurythmy Workshop

 

Presented by  Jacqueline Evans

 

Don’t worry if you couldn’t make it to the last one

 

Eurythmy is a new art of movement which seeks to make speech and music visible in spatial forms, gesture and colour. The movements and choreography of Eurythmy however are not based on self expression, but follow definite laws inherent in the sounds themselves. In stage performances, this is further enhanced by the use of colour, in costumes and lighting. relevant to the themes of instruments being played.

 

Through Eurythmy the effect of music and speech on the listener is greatly enriched by adding a visual experience to the purely aural one. Eurythmy is also of value in education, in the workplace and as a therapy.

 

 

 

                     5PM Film. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

 

 

 

Sunday March 28th

 

3.30PM

The Peopling of the Earth

Sue Hendricksen will speak on the

Theosophical Theory of Rounds & Races

 

 

Sunday April 4th

 

3.30PM

Easter Sunday

Egg Hunt

Organised by Jo Winter

Vegetarian Bring & Share

Collection for Macmillan Nurses as part

of our contribution to the Theosophical Order of Service

 

 

Sunday April 11th

 

3.30PM

Dominic Hodson will be conducting a lecture & workshop on

YOGA

(ONLY ONE YOGA)

VANTA SCAREVELLI METHOD

 

Reference ‘Breath’

By Sandra Sabatini

 

 

                         

Sunday April 18th

3.30PM

2 Films

The Meaning of

Tibetan Buddhist Chanting

by Thubten Pende

An insightful talk by Thubten Pende

 

Ven Thubten Pende is one of the most foremost scholars

of Tibetan Buddhism. He is an American monk ordained

 for almost two decades. He is the head teacher

at Nalanda Monastery in France.

&

A documentary about the

Kalachakra Initiation Ceremony

a huge gathering at Bodgya, presided

over by theDalai Lama.

This is intercut with a Tibetan pilgrimage to Mount

Kailash and the making of a Sand Mandala. 

 

Total run time for both films approx 2 hours

 

 

 

Sunday April 25th

 

3.30PM

Film

The Life & Work of

Albert Einstein

Docudrama with original footage of the man himself

 

Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) was a German-born American theoretical physicist who is widely regarded as the greatest scientist of the 20th century. He proposed the theory of relativity and also made major contributions to the development of quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and cosmology. He was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect and "for his services to Theoretical Physics".

 

After his general theory of relativity was formulated in November 1915, Einstein became world famous, an unusual achievement for a scientist. In his later years, his fame exceeded that of any other scientist in history, and in popular culture, Einstein has become a byword for great intelligence or even genius.

Einstein himself was deeply concerned with the social impact of scientific discovery. An individual of monumental intellectual achievement, he remains the most influential theoretical physicist of the modern era. Einstein's reverence for all creation, his belief in the grandeur, beauty, and sublimity of the universe (the primary source of inspiration in science), his awe for the scheme that is manifested in the material universe—all of these show through in his work and philosophy. To this day Einstein receives popular recognition unprecedented for a scientist.

 

Total run time approx 100 minutes

 

 

 

Sunday May 2nd

 

3.30PM

Lecture

Irenka Herbert will be conducting a lecture on

Spiritual Response Therapy

 

 

 

Sunday May 9th

 

 

White Lotus Day

White Lotus Celebration 3.30PM

Members Only

 

 

This Sunday (May 9th) is White Lotus Day on which Theosophists worldwide celebrate the life of H P Blavatsky on the nearest Sunday to the anniversary of her death on May 8th 1891.

 

The White Lotus Ceremony is members only and will take place at 3.30PM

 

The meaning of White Lotus Day is summed up in the White Lotus Address

 

White Lotus Address

 

Madame Blavatsky requested that there be a day in each year set aside to recall the Society itself to think that out of the grossness, out of the chaos of things dark, in due season grew a very precious flower, something which gave birth to a new movement. May 8th is called White Lotus Day after the East Indian lotus symbol of the flower of perfection, which grows from the waters and the grossness of life.

 

Let us once in the year, see what this Society is about, what it has done and can do. It has been the builder of a far greater pattern than any one person in it knows anything about. It may  not be making a great noise,it may not be doing the things that we look at as so important in life, but it is actually by its very preoccupation with ideas, by the people whom it sends out, it is forming a nucleus for the universal brotherhood of mankind. It does actually set something alight on inner planes, and these contacts are the most priceless things in life. Curious initiations go on all the time among such people.

 

Simply to talk about these things, — the talk spreads from one to another, and it goes out, and disciples who had forgotten their teachers, and teachers who had almost forgotten their disciples remember, and old links are re-established, and we make the world anew.

 

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A collection will be taken for Practical Action as part of

our contribution to the Theosophical Order of Service

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The film at 5PM is open to everyone

 

                         

 

At 5PM we are showing a documentary about the life and work of H P Blavatsky and the influence that her ideas have had.

 

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Sunday May 16th

 

3.30PM

Eurythmy Workshop

 

Presented by  Jacqueline Evans

 

Don’t worry if you couldn’t make it to the last one

 

Eurythmy is a new art of movement which seeks to make speech and music visible in spatial forms, gesture and colour. The movements and choreography of Eurythmy however are not based on self expression, but follow definite laws inherent in the sounds themselves. In stage performances, this is further enhanced by the use of colour, in costumes and lighting. relevant to the themes of instruments being played.

 

Through Eurythmy the effect of music and speech on the listener is greatly enriched by adding a visual experience to the purely aural one. Eurythmy is also of value in education, in the workplace and as a therapy.

 

 

4.30PM

Lecture

 

The Evolution of Religionless Christianity

By

Russell Evans

 

 

Sunday May 23rd

 

3.30PM

Mudra Breathing

and

Mantra Yoga

with Vijay

 

Hi

 

This Sunday May 23rd at 3.30PM, Vijay Chandran will be presenting a demo cum participation session on Mudras and Mantras.

 

Vijay describes the programme;

 

4 Mudras and the breathing that goes with it. Then there can be one simple Pranayama. Next I will show the jnanamudra, ideal for meditation.The whole thing with participation may take half an hour.

 

In the second part I can show suryanamaskar (the sun salute) with the 13 mantras involved for each posture. That will be just a demo by me as it cant be done without learning it properly.I will be using my recorded mantra recitation and show a good chart. It may take about 10 minutes. The sun salute has necessarily to be followed by yoganidra in savasana (the corpse pose). It will carry meaning only if people lie down on the floor and listen to my recording of the instructions for relaxing. All who have listened to it have appreciated it. The recording is for 20 minutes. So that part may take max 30 minutes.

 

Vijay

 

Please note:- we will clear space for those who wish to lie on the floor to take full advantage of the yoganidra but this is optional. If you wish to lie on the floor it is a good idea to bring a blanket

 

The entire programme will last about 70 minutes of which the yoganidra will be about 20 minutes at the end.

 

 

 

 

Sunday  May 30th 

 

                4.00 PM A Quick Blast of Theosophy

                       This is an Introductory Theosophy Tutorial,

                       which will present basic Theosophical concepts and no

                       previous knowledge of Theosophy will be assumed.

                       A regular monthly slot.

 

 

              5PM Selection of films about

 

Glastonbury

 

              6.00 PM Meditation  - Beginners Welcome

 

 

Sunday  June 6thth

 

3.30PM

A Selection of Films about

 

Ley Lines &

Sacred Sites

 

Ley lines are hypothetical alignments of a number of places of geographical interest, such as ancient monuments and megaliths. Their existence was suggested in 1921 by the amateur archaeologist Alfred Watkins, in his book The Old Straight Track. Some believe that the lines and their intersection points resonate a special psychic or mystical energy

 

Ley lines can be the product of ancient surveying, property markings, or commonly traveled pathways. Many cultures use straight lines across the landscape. In South America, such lines often are directed towards mountain peaks; the Nazca lines are a famous example of lengthy lines made by ancient cultures. Straight lines connect ancient pyramids in Mexico; today, modern roads built on the ancient roads deviate around the huge pyramids. The Chaco culture of Northwestern New Mexico cut stairs into sandstone cliffs to facilitate keeping roads straight. Additionally, chance alignments and coincidence are often cited as explanations that cannot be ruled out.

 

Stone Circles and Leylines


 

Britain contains some of the finest examples of stone circles and standing stones in existence. Although referred to as circles and rings, most sites are not circular at all, but are flattened circles, ellipsical, and sometimes-even egg shaped. The problem with the study of the megalithic period is not the physical evidence, stone circles, burial mounds and remains of round houses abound. Instead, the problem faced by historians and archaeologists is the lack of written evidence about the culture of the time. Megalithic man may have been extremely cleaver at construction methods; and indeed mathematics, but he appears not to have been literate and therefore never recorded anything of his cultural heritage. Many have studied the circles and there are many arguments about their purpose. What has become clear however is that these circles and rings are works of great mathematical genius, most can be used to calculate the time of year, phase of the moon and some can even be used to calculate solar eclipses. The vast majority of megalithic sites and artefacts can be found on the western side of England and throughout the whole of Wales and eastern Scotland. This is not to say that people of other parts of the country did not build circles. The areas where megaliths survive today have good sources of rock so this was used in construction, whereas people in the other areas used wood, Sea Henge being good evidence of this practice.

 

 

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