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NEYOC1-45XXX Esoteric Quest Iceland.Indd The New York Open Center Presents An Esoteric Quest for the Mysteries North Iceland Hellnar, Iceland August 24 to 29, 2016 Post Conference Journeys Six Days in the Westfjords: The Magic of the Sagas: An Immersion in Silence, An Exploration of Culture In Spirit and Beauty and Around Reykjavik August 29th to September 4th August 29th to September 1st www.EsotericQuest.org Iceland is one of the most beautiful and mystical countries on earth. Long forgotten, it has emerged recently as a brilliant destination that offers an endless spectrum of natural wonders in the form of glaciers, mountains, waterfalls, volcanoes, thermal pools, and ocean side villages, all within a vast setting of silence and grandeur. It is truly the “Land of Fire and Ice.” This August, the twelfth in the Open Center’s series of conferences on the Esoteric Quest will take place on the Snaefellsnes Peninsula in the West of Iceland, a place long held sacred in Norse Mythology. Its sparkling ocean and long ridge of protective mountains terminate in the Great Snow Mountain Glacier itself, Snæfellsjökull, long seen as a holy place. While Norse mythology itself is filled with fascination and spiritual depth, there also was much more to the Vikings than the familiar stereotype of plunder and mayhem. They were not only warriors and raiders, but also adventurers, artists and shamans who deeply valued the Völvas, seeresses capable of peering into the future. The Icelandic sagas, a major source of inspiration for Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, are filled, in the words of Seamus Heaney, with “the poetry of the North Atlantic … testimony to the spirit’s ability not only to endure what fate may send it but to be renewed by the experience.” Once again, we invite you to join leading scholars, writers, artists and adventurers as together we enter the great Mysteries of the North in one of the most magical realms on earth. The Esoteric Quest starts with an optional pre-conference day in which we will bathe in the Blue Lagoon, the most famous thermal waters in Iceland, visit a Viking museum, and enjoy dinner in Reykjavik. We will also offer two post-conference journeys: one to the beautiful and mystical Westfjords, the least visited part of Iceland; and the other in and around Reykjavik with its many cultural and natural wonders. The New York Open Center has been, for over thirty years, one of America’s leading institutions For more information, please contact Andrea Lomanto at 212.219.2527 x101, or of holistic learning. www.opencenter.org write [email protected]. Please see our website at www.esotericquest.org for additional conference details and program updates. Co - Sponsor: The Lumen Foundation An Esoteric Quest for the Mysteries of the North in Iceland Plenaries Journey to the Center The Legacy of Nordic of the North: and Teutonic Mythology Iceland in the Esoteric Christopher McIntosh, D.Phil. Cosmos Wherever the influence of the Nor- Leonard George, Ph.D. dic and Teutonic peoples has been Iceland might seem like a marginal felt, their mythology, their traditions place, tucked away in the corners of and their religious view of the world global maps. But in the heyday of have left a profound mark on culture, Viking society, it was the focal point of language, and customs. Easter has its a Norse-speaking culture spanning the hares and eggs—the hare being the Scandinavian homeland in the east, symbol of the winter goddess, Skadi, Greenland and Vinland in the west, and who hands over at the equinox to the areas of the British Isles in the south. spring goddess Ostara, whose symbol Icelandic texts are the source of most of is an egg. We can also think of the three our knowledge of old northern mythol- witches in Macbeth, who are the three ogies. They tell of the world’s creation Odin the Wanderer by Georg von Rosen (1886) Norns of fate; of Wagner’s Ring cycle out of fire and ice, its ultimate fate, and and Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings—all draw- the tales of gods and heroes, giants and quest to discover ourselves. Through ing on old Norse literary sources. Nordic elves that have populated the West- self-sacrifice and keen intuition, Odin and Teutonic mythologies have cross- ern imagination ever since outlanders uncovered the universal magic of the fertilized each other over the centuries. learned of them. We will meet at the runes and the mead of poetic inspira- This talk presents a revealing compari- foot of Snæfellsjökull, where volcanic tion. His old man magic and wisdom son of them and explores the possibility fire meets hyperborean ice, to ponder are mirrored in figures such as Tolkien’s that they are part of an ancient Nordic the esoteric significance of this land‘s Gandalf, and his archetype is alive and tradition of wisdom, whose traces can treasures. active in our own times. be found across a large part of the northern hemisphere. Vanad s, V lva and Valkyrie: Three Aspects of the Goddess Freyja Valgerður Bjarnadóttir, M.A. The Norse Goddess Freyja has many guises. She is both human and divine. Snorri Sturluson‘s Edda tells us that she Looking down at the mountains has many names because she traveled surrounding the Snæfellsjökull volcano. the world searching for her husband Óður. This lecture examines three as- pects of Freyja starting with the Völva, Odin, King of the Gods the sibyl of the North, greatly valued Gabriel Hilmar for her ability to see into the future. Her voice rings forth in the poem Völuspá, Odin, the one-eyed god of wisdom, in which she responds to the quest of grants magic and inspiration to those Odin by recounting the story of this who are sensitive and gifted enough to world from genesis to apocalypse. We hear the song of the universe. He can will also explore Freyja‘s other aspects be considered a key to understand- as the Valkyrie, a female being of death ing Norse mythology as his own hero’s and rebirth, and Vanadís, great goddess For more information, please contact Andrea Lomanto at 212.219.2527 x101, or journey through the nine worlds of wis- of the tribe of Vanir. write [email protected]. Please see our website at www.esotericquest.org dom is a metaphor for our own inward Freja by John Bauer (1882–1918) for additional conference details and program updates. 3 An Esoteric Quest for the Mysteries of the North in Iceland certain areas of the country, a tradition Fire & Ice, Sea & Sky: of singing verses called “dream-chants” Icelandic Music as a Plenaries was discovered. These described the adventures of a figure known as Olav Mirror of Nature Åsteson on his visionary travels in the Marjorie Roth, Ph.D., DMA “otherworld.“ Several attempts were Whether traditional, popular or classi- made to reconstruct what is believed cal, the music of Iceland springs organi- to be a great work of Medieval vision- cally from the stuff of the island itself. ary poetry. This presentation examines Rhythm, melody, texture and harmony the esoteric interpretation of this poem combine to reflect the wildness of by author, cleric, mystic, anarchist and Iceland’s natural landscape, the time- theosophist Ivar Mortensson-Egnund. lessness of its vast unbroken spaces, and the drama of its volcanic birth. This Poetry and Esotericism: vivid musical imitation of nature probes From Odin to the Present deeper into the heart and soul of the Icelandic people, rendering their his- Christopher Bamford torical experience, their sagas and their The prophetesses Gróa and Heiðr from the Völuspá myths in sound. We will explore Icelan- by Carl Larsson (1853-1919). Odin, who brought “the precious mead” from the other world, was called the dic compositions and seek in them the God of Poetry. Before he seized it, it esoteric essence of the island through The Sibyls’ Vision: was in the hands of the dwarfs, whose the particular gnosis that is music. The Saga of the Völuspás drink it was. Elsewhere, however, it is suggested that Odin learned of poetry and Names of the Dwarfs when he hung upon the tree of Yg- The Odinic Mysteries Haraldur Erlendsson, MD gdrasil. In fact, poetry is ever-present and the Well of The poetic Saga of the Völuspás is the in Norse mythology. And the texts Remembrance from which we learn such things are heart of Nordic spiritual culture. In it Scott Olsen, Ph.D. the völvas, the Viking seeresses, speak written in poetry. This talk examines in the voice of the mother of the world. why—from ancient Greece, through Odin is the archetype of the perennial They describe the formation of the Gnosticism and hermeticism, Sufism quest for initiation: the relentless vi- cosmos and the creation of mankind. and alchemy, all the way to Goethe and sionary seeker of wisdom. Representing A great war arises between the wise Blake—poetry is so often the language the shamanic-ascetic-warrior, he pur- powers of the gods and the monstrous of choice in which to transmit esoteric sues initiatory transformation and loses forces embodied in the dragon, the cosmology, metaphysics, and prophetic an eye in order to imbibe from Mimir’s Midgard Serpent, and the Fenris Wolf. eschatology. Well of Remembrance. Enduring a nine Eventually the gods of the Aesir and the day ordeal by hanging on the Yggdrasil Vanir are overwhelmed, and the world World Tree, he discovers the secrets is destroyed in Ragnarok, the Twilight of of the Runes, the mathematical pat- the Gods. A new world is born with the terns of nature, and the mastery of golden tablets of wisdom, through the the magical power of language.
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