The Hermopolis Symposium

New Hermopolis, Egypt
24–26 October 2024

With Digital Presentations
via the Arcanvm Channel


Ancient Wisdom, Future Self:
Towards a New Paradigm

The 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 Channel

24–26 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.