2013 Weekend Workshops at The Alcyon Center a spir i tual l i f e r e t reat c enter on Mount Deser t Is land

The Flame of Things Alchemy and Ecology

Theolog ian Paul Evdokimov wrote that “we have los t the f lame of things” and access to the exper ience o f the Burning Bush. Poet and eco log is t Gary Snyder said “It i s in the deep mind that wi lderness and

the unconsc ious become one, and in some hal f -understood but very pro found way, our re lat ion to the outer eco log ies seems condit ioned by our inner eco log ies . This i s a metaphor, but i t i s a lso l i t eral .”

A Day with Tom Cheetham Explor ing the re la t ions be tween inner t rans formation

and our exper i ence o f Creat ion

April 27, 2013 Saturday (10 am-5pm) Cost $50 includes lunch

Tom Cheetham is a biologist and philosopher and the author of four books on the imagination and the meaning of Henry Corbin’s work for the contemporary world. He is a Fellow of the Temenos Academy in London and Adjunct Professor of Human Ecology at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. He

lectures regularly in Europe and the US.

Suggested Reading John Chryssavgis, “The World of the Icon and Creation: An Orthodox Perspective on Ecology and Pneumatology,” in

Hessel, Dieter T., and Rosemary Radford Ruether. Christianity and Ecology: Seeking the Well-Being of Earth and Humans. Cambridge, Mass: Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2000.

Tom Cheetham, “The Flame of Things,” Chapter 3 in After Prophecy: Imagination, Incarnation, and the Unity of the Prophetic Tradition : Lectures for the Temenos Academy. New Orleans, La: Spring Journal Books, 2007.

The Alcyon Center is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization Co-Directors Joan Jordan Grant & Kathryn Booth PO Box 40, Seal Cove, Maine 04674 207/244-1060

For Details, 2012 Calendar and Brochure and Registration, please contact us: alcyoncenter@roadrunner.com (email) www.alcyoncenter.org (website)