This Sunday, November 10, Academia Ordo Templi Orientis will be hosting a one-day conference, “American Thelema: Antecedents, History, Interpretations.” This theme explores the influence of the Americas on Crowley, Thelema and OTO.
The conference will take place at the Hyatt Centric French Quarter Hotel in New Orleans. Registration closed September 30.
Conference Program
8:30–9:00 a.m. Registration
9:00–9:15 a.m. Opening Remarks
9:15–9:45 a.m. Fr. ΦANHΣ, “From Χάρις to Θέλημα: The Gift of Man”
9:45–10:15 a.m. Colin D. Campbell, “No More Vanity Fair ! Crowley’s Re-Dedication in Bristol, New Hampshire”
10:15–10:45 a.m. Keith Edward Cantú, “‘Flakes of Astral Light’: Aleister Crowley, Yoga and Magick in Mexico”
10:45–11:00 a.m. Break 11:00–11:30 a.m. Cynthia Crosse, “Fiddler in the Land of the Free: Leila Waddell 1915–1924”
11:30–12:00 p.m. Patrick Everitt, “Perdurabo and Peyote: An Examination of Aleister Crowley’s Relationship with the Psychedelic Cactus of North America”
12:00–12:30 p.m. Stephen J. King, “New World, New Thought, New Aeon: America’s ‘Religion of Healthy-Mindedness,’ Thelema, and the Way of the Tao in Soror Hilarion’s ‘Living in the Sunlight’”
12:30–2:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00–2:30 p.m. Gordan Djurdjevic, “Star Sponges and Indra’s Nets: Interrogating the Thelemic and Mahayana Buddhist Visions of the Interconnectedness of Phenomena”
2:30–3:00 p.m. Richard Kaczynski, “Erotogenesis: Sexual Religion in the Writings and Correspondence of Aleister Crowley and Theodore Schroeder”
3:00–3:15 p.m. Break
3:15–3:45 p.m. M. Dionysius Rogers, “Israel Regardie, American Thelemite”
3:45–4:15 p.m. Matthew Andrews, “Knights of the East and West Coasts: The Karl Germer and Wilfred T. Smith Correspondence, 1950–1956”
4:15–4:30 p.m. Break
4:30–5:30 p.m. Special Panel
5:30–5:45 p.m. Break
5:45–6:30 p.m. Keynote Lecture: John Patrick Deveney, “The Twilight Mages, Continence + and the O.T.O.”
6:30–6:40 p.m. Closing Remarks
