The Hermopolis Symposium
New Hermopolis, Egypt
24–26 October 2024With Digital Presentations
via the Arcanvm Channel
Ancient Wisdom, Future Self:
Towards a New ParadigmThe Hermopolis Symposium seeks to explore the philosophical vision stemming from ancient Hermetism, and to develop its insights for the present and future. The symposium is interdisciplinary and welcomes all whose work rigorously illuminates the ways of Hermes.
Conference Programme
Day One
24 October 2024
New Hermopolis, Egypt
Founding Committee Welcome
Mervat Nasser, Ike Baker
New Hermopolis: A Project for Our Time
Mervat Abdel Nasser (Founder)
The Ever-Present Ogdoad:
Primordial Sentience and the Perfect Black
Aaron Cheak (Keynote)
State-Specific Knowledge:
Hermetic Gnosis and Alterations of Consciousness
Wouter Hanegraaff (Keynote)
The Ka and the Metamodern:
Soul Moiety, Ψυχή, and Astral Self
Simon Magus
Paradoxical Language for a New Self/World Interpretation
Lisa Maroski
The Astrological Self
Soledad Davies
Back to the Future:
Rediscovering Self-Knowledge and Community
Peter Hoover
The Alchemy of Reading:
From Sacred Space to Profane Page
Siri Vevle
Techgnosis and Apocalypse:
The Past and Present of Near-Death Experiences’
Immanent vs. Artificial Immortality
Pascal Michael
New Hermopolis, Egypt
Day Two
25 October 2024
New Hermopolis, Egypt
Founding Committee Welcome
Mervat Nasser, Ike Baker
Great Mother of the House of Life:
A Study of Seshat in the Book of Thoth
Shannon Grimes (Keynote)
Ariadne's Thread:
A Teleology of Western Esotericism
Ike Baker
The Cosmic Return:
Astrology of the Personal Daimon
Jaime Paul Lamb
Royal Purple, Royal Art
P. D. Newman
A Solar Theology for the New Hermopolis
Charles M. Stang (Keynote)
On the Formation of Society as the Philosopher's Stone
Robert Gordon
Hyperhumanism Meets Holotechnica:
Combining Ancient Wisdom to Generate Future Knowledge
Carl Hayden Smith
Toward the Qualitative Within Ancient Egyptian Linguistics:
Isha Schwaller de Lubicz and her Study of the Sacred Alphabet of the Ancient Egyptians
D. E. A. Burnham
Ancient Egypt and the Art of Self-Becoming
Marques Redd
New Hermopolis, Egypt
Day Three
26 October 2024
New Hermopolis, Egypt
Founding Committee Welcome
Mervat Nasser, Ike Baker
Akhenaton, Hermes, and the Rosicrucian Tradition
Klaas-Jan Bakker (Keynote)
Music as Knowledge, Spirituality, and a Form of Inquiry
Cecilia Rose Inkol
Round Table Discussion
Conference Participants
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Digital Programme
Streamed via the Arcanvm Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@arcanvm
24–26 October 2024 (digital presentations)
24–27 November 2024 (conference recordings)
Purchase access to the digital offerings here:
New Hermopolis Patreon
Digital Presentations
Streamed via the Arcanvm Channel
Day One, 24 October 2024
Commencing 11.00 a.m. EST
Ariadne’s Thread: A Teleology of Western Esotericism
Ike Baker
Immortal Self, Eternal Wisdom: A Comparative Inquiry into Hermetic, Vedic, and Taoist Formulations of the Self
Marlene Seven Bremner
The House of the Ibis: Towards a New Revisioning of the Divine Self in our Modern World
Roger Calliste
Testimony of an Enchanted World: Antique Reflections on Panpsychism and Hylozoism for Reconsidering Modernity
Ian H. Gladwin
Modern Shamanism and Self-Empowerment: Contemporary Practice in Germany
Veronica French
The ‘Byzantine Self’ in Modern Esoteric Christianity
Aaron French
Day Two, 25 October 2024
Commencing 11.00 a.m. EST
Planetary Parts and the Multivalent Self
Jonah Emerson-Bell
Contributions of Vedanta Philosophy to Transdisciplinary Environmental Education
Samuel L. Pinheiro
Freedom: An Impossible Reality
Raymond Tallis
Ancient Egyptian Goddess Hathor, Musician-Priestess’ Ritual Use of the Systrum
Tahya T. Keenan
Seeing and Unsealing: Neural Flexibility as a Component of Theurgy
Francesco Ravanelli
‘Katoche’ in Ancient Greece and Possession in African Religions
Monte Plaissance
Conference Recordings
Streamed via the Arcanvm Channel24–26 November 2024
This offering features the presentations delivered at New Hermopolis, plus the following digital keynotes.
Tantric Mantras and Theurgic Divine Names
Gregory Shaw (Keynote)
Seeing Paradise: Dante’s Divine Comedy as a Guide to Transformation
Mark Vernon (Keynote)
New Hermopolis
Minya Governorate, 2313012, Egypt
New Hermopolis is an Eco-village founded by Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser with the mission of harnessing Middle Egypt’s heritage towards the cultural and economic development of this region. Our founding is connected to the thought and philosophy of Ancient Hermopolis with its belief in harmonious living and the regenerative power of human creativity.