Conference

Wendy Berg first heard this phrase spoken by Gareth Knight some 30 years ago and has been
working out what he meant by it ever since. Her talk will explore how much of his own magical
work was directed towards this purpose.

Wendy led the Gareth Knight group between 1999 - 2013. She has since focussed on research and
writing, with Skylight Press publications on Faery in Arthurian and Grail legend, The Cosmic
Doctrine and the Egyptian Hieroglyphs.

Creating and performing your own rituals is one of the most rewarding of skills on the esoteric path, but how do you know where to start? What makes it work, and how do you structure it? How do you develop the inner plane contacts to make it effective? And what are the practicalities of performing it in a group? Rebsie aims to provide friendly practical guidance drawn from her 30 years' experience writing and performing magical rituals and to give you the confidence to create your own.

Rebsie Fairholm joined the Gareth Knight Group in 1995 and has been running it since 2013. She is a graphic designer and publisher and founded Skylight Press, in the spirit of Helios Book Service. She has a wide range of esoteric interests including Anglo-Saxon magic, Grail mythology, Greek and Minoan magic, megalithic sites and plant oversouls. ​

Paul's lifelong passion, sparked by a series of childhood experiences and questions, has been to understand "how things link together in the life of Earth", especially, inquire into what the incarnate Role - or 'Niche' - of the human might be in the Creation, in the Ecosystem. Drawing on his own story and esoteric traditions, he will share how and why he considers such discernment to be at the heart of esoteric work. 

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In his professional life, Paul has worked in practical conservation ecology, research and teaching in ecological anthropology and systemic dynamics. He is a psychodynamic and transpersonal psychotherapist, and spiritual accompanier informed by the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius and Teilhard de Chardin. He also runs an online course entitled Ecology, Meaning and Survival: Transpersonal Ecopsychology (Alef Trust). Alongside the Western Mysteries, he has been involved in Advaita Vedanta, the Fourth Way and Sufism. He came to the Gareth Knight Group via a 30-day Ignatian Retreat at a centre frequented by Anthony Duncan, creative friend and sparring partner of Gareth Knight.

All members of the audience are invited to take part in a meditational working, based on a ritual used in the Gareth Knight Group.

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'The Twelve Weavers' is taken from a story by Fiona Macleod, adapted for use as a magical inner journey.