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Events

Megalithic Swirls

May 1st from 11:00 - 12:30
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Melinda Powell
speaking on
Spiritual Presence in Dreams and Lucid Surrender


Melinda holds a Master’s in Psychology of Religion, is a UKCP psychotherapist, and ran the charity HELP Counselling in London for ten years. She is also co-founder of the Dream Research Institute at the Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education, which promotes research into the relationship between dreams and wellbeing. In her recent book, The Hidden Lives of Dreams: What They Can Tell Us and How They Can Change Our World, she notes that, on average, we spend around six years of our lifetime dreaming. Yet, astonishingly, few of us understand the purpose of dreams.

Drawing on both the art and science of dreaming, Melinda illustrates the vital importance of the Imaginal Mind as a bridge between our human and spiritual natures. She shows us how to recognise and engage more lucidly with the healing spiritual presence available to us in dreams. Melinda invites us to look to our dreams, including nightmares, as a source of guidance, inspiration and psycho-spiritual development.

It is important to RSVP and also copy in Mike Rush (email: mikerush@virginmedia.com) who will forward a Zoom invitation nearer to the time.

We very much look forward to seeing you at the event.

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Saturday 10th July
Online via Zoom


The Seventh Conference of the
Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre


The University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Saturday 10th July 2021 as an online event (via Zoom).
11:30am to 3:30pm


Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of Religious and Spiritual Experiences

The keynote speaker this year is Prof Jane Shaw, University of Oxford and Principal of the Harris Manchester College, where Sir Alister Hardy founded the research centre more than 50 years ago. Prof Shaw will give the annual Alister Hardy Lampeter Lecture with the title Religious Experience and the early twentieth-century Revival of Mysticism. Prof Shaw is Professor of the History of Religion and a Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Oxford. She is the author of several books, including Miracles in Enlightenment England (Yale 2006) and Octavia, Daughter of God: the story of a female messiah and her followers (Jonathan Cape 2011).

Other speakers are Dr Jack Hunter on “Listening to the Land: Other-than-Human Voices in the Anthropocene” and Prof Marta de Freitas on her research on “Religious Experiences and Mental Health: Psychological implications.”

The conference is free of charge and will be hosted by the Alister Hardy Trust on Zoom. If you are interested in attending, email Mike Rush (mikerush@virginmedia.com) who will circulate the link a day prior to the conference.

Trustees
Revd. Canon Professor Leslie Francis (Chair), Dr. David Greenwood (Hon. Treasurer), Andrew Burns (Honorary Secretary), Revd. Prof. Andrew Village (Vice-Chair), Dr. Mark Fox, John Franklin, Dr Tom Farley, Dr David Rousseau, Prof. John Harper, Revd. Dr. Tania ap Sion, Mike Rush & Tanya Garland.

Patrons
His Holiness the Dalai Lama; His Eminence the Supreme Primate, Koken Monnyo Otani; The Right Revd Wyn Evans;
The Right Revd & the Right Honorable the Lord Williams of Oystermouth; Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr; Joanathan Porritt CBE; H. H. Swami Chidanand Saraswati.

Copyright, AHT, 2020. Registered Charitable Trust No. 1164168.