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The Guild has an archive of 350 papers dating back to the 1930s and 600 recordings dating from the 1970s. You can browse these using the search facilities below; they are free to download for Guild members.

Disclaimer: The Guild’s written and audio resources are for members’ personal and non-commercial use only. The views expressed in them are those of the authors; they may not necessarily be shared by Guild members, nor represent the collective opinion of the Guild.

  • David Bohm and The Search for Wholeness

    David Bohm and The Search for Wholeness

    Date: Saturday 31st August 2013

    Speaker(s): Dr David Peat

  • Nothingness and the End of Meaning

    Nothingness and the End of Meaning

    Date: Sunday 1st September 2013

    Speaker(s): Bernard Sartorius

  • The Secret Function of Beauty

    The Secret Function of Beauty

    Date: Thursday 3rd October 2013

    Speaker(s): Gottfried Maria Heuer

    The German film maker Edgar Reitz observes that “we have grown up in an age that mistrusts beauty” (2004). Dr Heuer poses the question as to what extent might it be possible to “resurrect beauty”, as it were, and in the process contribute to healing the wounds of the past?…

  • ‘Hard’ and ‘Trampled’: Religion’s Cruel Twins

    ‘Hard’ and ‘Trampled’: Religion’s Cruel Twins

    Date: Saturday 11th January 2014

    Speaker(s): Richard Holloway

    The lecture explores the way religion’s claims to revealed authority can lead on the one hand to cruelty and on the other to a kind of locked-in syndrome that makes it almost impossible to respond creatively to changes in humanity’s experience of moral evolution.

  • Modern Paganism and Witchcraft

    Modern Paganism and Witchcraft

    Date: Thursday 6th February 2014

    Speaker(s): Prof Ronald Hutton

    Over the past sixty years Paganism has emerged as one of the most important and sensational clusters of newly appeared religions in the modern world, and witchcraft as the most important single component within it. This talk is intended to introduce people who have only slight acquaintance with such religions…

  • Writing from Darkness

    Writing from Darkness

    Date: Thursday 6th March 2014

    Author(s): Susan Tiberghien

    Imagine writing from darkness, from the night. We will take a few steps along the path of those who have written from darkness, reading excerpts from Hildegard of Bingen, St. John of the Cross, and Ettie Hillesum. We will look at how C.G. Jung wrote from darkness in The Red…

  • The Satanic State

    The Satanic State

    Date: Thursday 1st May 2014

    Speaker(s): Carol Leader

    In his final completed work, Illustrations of the Book of Job, the artist and visionary William Blake gives an elegant summary of his philosophy concerning ‘the state of Satan’ and its connections with destructiveness, imagination and the inner world. The ‘state of Satan’ continues to be of central importance to…

  • Jesus and the Goddess: The secret teachings of the original Christians

    Jesus and the Goddess: The secret teachings of the original Christians

    Date: Thursday 5th June 2014

    Speaker(s): Tim Freke

    Philosopher Tim Freke explores the Gnostic myths of Jesus and the Christian Goddess Sophia, suggesting they are initiation allegories that symbolise the path to the mystical state of gnosis. He suggests a revolutionary new understanding of the true message of ancient Christianity, which can still bring profound transformation to us…

  • Through The Spaces Of The Dark

    Through The Spaces Of The Dark

    Date: Friday 29th August 2014

    Author(s): Luigi Zoja

  • Violence in History

    Violence in History

    Date: Friday 29th August 2014

    Speaker(s): Luigi Zoja