The second Trans-State Conference will be held September 13 and 14 England’s University of NorthamptonWaterside Campus University Drive Northampton Northamptonshire NN1 5PH . The programme currently stands thusly:
Day One: Friday 13th, September
9.00-9.30 Registration & coffee Exhibition & Town Hall
9.30-10.00 Opening remarks Oratory
10.00-11.00 Initiatory Performances Oratory
Visitation
Alkistis Dimech
Voces Mysticae
Randall Hall
11.00-11.30 Musical Interlude Oratory
11.30-12.30 First Keynote: Wouter Hanegraaff Oratory
Chair: Jeffrey Kripal
Transitioning to the Cosmos: Music Esotericism and Consciousness
Change
12.30-14.00 Lunch Town Hall
14.00-15.30 Parallel Panels 1A/1B/1C
1A Sound and Music Forum
Chair: TBC
14.00 Contemporary Theurgic Music: Possibilities and Practices
Randall Hall
14.30 The Howl of the Wolf Tone: Void Harmonics and Occultizing Entropy
Jasmine Shadrack
1B Psychedelics Oratory
Chair: TBC
14.00 Manifesting Metaphorical Minds: Towards a Psychological Theory of
Psychedelic Therapy
Julian Vayne
14.30 Hearing the Voices of God: The Importance of Mystical Experience in
Personal Transformation
Nikki Wyrd
15.00 Kata-chaos, Aya-Animism and Straight Up, Straight Edge Demonology
Danny Nemu
1C Reintegrating the Self Observatory
Chair: TBC
14.00 When Things Fall Apart and the Centre Cannot Hold
Anna Walker
14.30 From Tragic to Magic: Trauma as an Encounter With the Real
Anne Crossey
15.00 Embracing the Dark Twin: Using Shadow-Work in Self-Transformative
Creative Practice
Carlos Ruiz Brussain
15.30-16.00 Break
16.00-17.30 Parallel Panels 2A/2B/2C
2A Examining Occulture Forum
Chair: TBC
16.00 Re-visionary Mythmaking: The antidote to codified structural oppression
Cavan McLaughlin
16.30 Extra-terrestrials, Revelation and Planetary Consciousness: From
Zecharia Sitchin to Raëlism
Jenny Butler
17.00 Leonardo the Magus, Mona Lisa’s Mysterious Smile, and the Artist
Initiate
Per Faxneld
2B Storytelling and Poetry (presentation & performance) Oratory
Chair: TBC
16.00 The Unravelling Tale (45mins)
Joanna Gilar
16.45 Acid Mediumship: Goose and Crow (45mins)
John Constable
2C Esoteric Artists Observatory
Chair: TBC
16.00 Automatic Drawing and Transgendered Abstraction
Jadranka Ryle
16.30 Hilma af Klint and the 4th Dimension/Astral Plane
Hedvig Martin
17.00 Frieda Harris and the Divine Giraffe: Frieda Harris’s Esoteric Journey and
its Influence on Her Artwork
Deja Whitehouse
17.30-18.30 Second Keynote: Daisy Campbell TBC
Chair: Cavan McLaughlin
A Full Confession
20.30-Late Evening Entertainment & Social Event
The Bar With No Name (Full details to be announced)
Day Two: Saturday 14th, September
9.30-10.00 Registration & coffee Exhibition & Town Hall
10.00-11.30 Parallel Panels 3A/3B/3C
3A Dark Fulgurations: Contexts of Self-Transcendence Forum
(Prearranged Panel)
Chair: TBC
10.00 Image and Logos: Symbolic Vocabularies and Inspired Revelations
Through the Eyes of Joséphin Péladan
Sasha Chaitow
10.30 The Eye of the Heart: Mysticism, Sacred and Profane, in Literary and
Clinical Intersections
Simon Magus
11.00 Dreaming of a White America: Atomwaffen Division, Satanism and the
Alt Right
Christian Giudice
3B Performative Practice Oratory
Chair: TBC
10.00 Finding Rebis: Using Collaborative Practice to Gestate a ‘Third Mind’
Gemma Rabionet Boadella & Carlos Ruiz Brussain
10.30 Ritual as Resistance: On the Performative Hierophanies of Revelation
Geraldine Hudson
11.00 Living in a Space that Lives Within Us
Petra Szilagy & Umico Niwa
3C Magico-Political Observatory
Chair: TBC
10.00 News from the Sun: On the Search for a Politics of Revelation
Kasper Opstrup
10.30 A “Memeplex” or “Just an Inch”?: Competing Visions of Anarchism,
Magick and the Self in the Comics of Alan Moore and Grant Morrison
Scott Jeffery
11.00 Glastonbury Tor and Wewelsburg: A lightning-struck tower between
lives
Paul Weston
11.30-12.00 Break
12.00-13.30 Parallel Panels 4A/4B/4C
4A Revelation and Radical Reflexivity Forum
Chair: TBC
12.00 Mantic Visions and the Subtle Eye of Matter
Alkistis Dimech
12.30 The Blood of the Saints
Peter Grey
13.00 Ritual and Revelation
Georgia van Raalte
4B Transformative Practice Oratory
Chair: TBC
12.00 The Dream Cabinet of the Alchemist
Maria Lusitano Santos
12.30 The Castle of Birds
a6rax1s (Peter Duchemin)
13.00 The Tower Crashes: Esezuzus
Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule
4C Technologies of Revelation Observatory
Chair: TBC
12.00 The Great in the Small: Comparative Ecologies of Revelation
Timothy Grieve-Carlson
12.30 Reading the Akashic Records, Intermodal Exchange, and Practices of
Energetic and Emotional Transformation
Anne O. Parker-Perkola
13.00 Wet Rest: Speculative Ontologies of Floatation
Lucy A. Sames
13.30-15.00 Lunch Town Hall
15.00-16.30 Discussion Panel Forum
Chair: Cavan McLaughlin
The Lightning-Struck Ivory Tower
Panel members to be announced.
16.30-17.30 Third Keynote: Jeffrey Kripal Forum
Chair: Wouter Hanegraaff
The Flip: Recalibrating the Humanities and the Sciences around
Extraordinary Experience
17.30-17.45 Closing remarks Forum
Register now!
http://trans-states.org/trans-states-2-provisional-programme/.
