REMINDER: Gnostic America Conference Starts March 28

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We hope you can join us for all or part of the Gnostic America conference, March 28-31. 

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Wednesday, March 28

3:30-5 pm     PANEL 1: FROM ANCIENT TO MODERN GNOSTICISM

  April D. DeConick, The Sociology of Gnostic Spirituality

  Gregory Shaw, Can We Recover Gnosis Today?

7-8:30 pm    KEYNOTE LECTURE

  Catherine L. Albanese, The Gnostic in Us All: Thinking from the Macrobiotics of Michio Kushi

Thursday, March 29

9-10:30 am    PANEL 2: THE THEOSOPHICAL CONNECTION

  Erin Prophet, Hermetism, Kabbalah and “Double Evolution” in Blavatsky’s Root Race Theory

  Simon Cox, Theosophical Gnosis and Astral Hermeneutics 

10:45-12:15    PANEL 3: GNOSTIC NEW RELIGIONS

  Victor Nardo, Illuminating the Illuminatus: The Gnosticism of Richard, Duc de Palatine

  Cathy Gutierrez, Know Place:  Heaven's Gate and American Gnosticism

2-3:30 pm    PANEL 4: NEW AGE GNOSTICISM

  Simon Joseph, American Gnosis: Jesus Mysticism in a Course in Miracles

  Mitch Horowitz, The New Age and Gnosticism: Terms of Commonality

4:30-5:30 pm  GNOSIS IN RHYTHM AND SONG, RICE MEMORIAL CHAPEL

  April DeConick, Sonja Bruzauskas, and Craig Hauschildt

Friday, March 30

9-10:30 am    PANEL 5: GNOSTIC MEANING-MAKING IN MODERNITY

  Miguel Connor,  Exiting the Black Iron Prison: How My Podcast on Gnosticism Taught Me We Live in Gnostic Times

  Matthew Dillon, The Afterlives of the Archons

10:45-12:15    PANEL 6: LITERARY GNOSTICISM

    Eric Wargo, The Space Jockey and the Future of Enjoyment: Alienated Sentience in the World of H.R. Giger

    Samuel Stoeltje, Channeling a Utopian Apocalypse: Alice Neihardt Thompson’s The Great Adventure

2-3:30 pm  PANEL 7: GNOSTICISM AT THE MOVIES

  Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, A Metaphysical Rebel? Camus’s Analysis of Gnosticism and Its Influence on Literature and Cinema

  Fryderyk Kwiatkowski, Eric Voegelin and Gnostic Hollywood: Cinematic Portrayals of the Immanentization of the Eschaton

7-10 pm    SCREENING OF DARK CITY with POST-FILM PANEL, RICE MEDIA CENTER

Saturday, March 31

9-10:30 am    PANEL 8: INTELLECTUAL RESPONSES TO THE GNOSTIC RENAISSANCE

  Lance Owens, C.G. Jung and the Gnostic Renaissance

  Arthur Versluis, Gnosis in the American Study of Religion

10:45-12:15    PANEL 9: ESOTERIC CURRENTS IN AMERICA

  Timothy Grieve-Carlson, American Aurora: Early American Religion and Jacob Boehme

  Hugh Urban, The Knowing of Knowing: Neo-Gnosticism from the O.T.O. to Scientology

2-3:30 pm    PANEL 10: THE MYSTIC AND THE GNOSTIC

    Erik Davis, The Electric Chrism Acid Test: The Problem of Psychedelic Gnosis

    Jeffrey J. Kripal, The Mysteries of Safed: Unexplained Correspondences in a Modern Jewish Visionary