The Temenos Academy,[1] or Temenos Academy of Integral Studies,[2] is an educational charity in London which aims to offer education in philosophy and the arts in what it calls "the light of the sacred traditions of East and West". The organization's vision is based upon the perennial philosophy.[3]

The academy had its origins in the Temenos journal, which was launched in 1980 by Kathleen Raine, Keith Critchlow, Brian Keeble and Philip Sherrard to publish creative work which regarded spirituality as a prime need for humanity. Thirteen issues of Temenos were published between 1981 and 1992.[4] Mark Sedgwick argues that the journal was influenced by Traditionalism.[5]

In 1990[3] the academy was founded to extend the project through lectures and study groups. It was accommodated initially in the Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture in Regent's Park. Charles III has been a patron of the academy since its founding.[3][6] Raine described it as “an invisible college for our future king.”[7] Since the closure of the Institute of Architecture, the academy now holds meetings in different venues in London.

As of 2015 Temenos offered a two-year part-time diploma course in the perennial philosophy.[3]

The journal Temenos was continued as the Temenos Academy Review.

Lecturers

Temenos lecturers have included Hossein Elahi Ghomshei, Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi (Warren Kenton), Wendell Berry,[8] and Seyyed Hossein Nasr.[9] The academy staged a talk by the Dalai Lama during his visit to London in 2004.[10]

References

  1. ↑ Shusha Guppy (26 May 2000). "Orient your thoughts". Times Higher Education. London: TSL Education Ltd. Retrieved 8 July 2012. Scholars from all over the world have given lectures and seminars at Temenos Academy, in a spirit of the affirmation of 'the excluded knowledge' - the spiritual tradition, Platonic in the West, Vedic in India - that was once central to academic education but has now almost disappeared.
  2. ↑ Janet Watts (8 July 2003). "Obituary. Kathleen Raine. Singular poet who stood as a witness to spiritual values in an age that rejected them". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 July 2012. The editors of Temenos (the word means the sacred area around a temple) declared that 'the intimate link between the arts and the sacred' had fired imaginative creation in almost all human societies, except our own.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Mayer, Catherine. Charles: The Heart of a King. Random House. 2015.
  4. ↑ Hakl, Hans Thomas. Eranos: An Alternative Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century. Routledge. 2014. Page 284.
  5. ↑ Against the Modern World. Page 214.
  6. ↑ Sedgwick, Mark. Against the Modern World. Oxford University Press. 2009. Page 214
  7. ↑ Smith, Sally Bedell. Prince Charles. Random House. 2017. Page 103.
  8. ↑ Jason Peters, ed. Wendell Berry: Life and Work. The University Press of Kentucky. 2010. Page 91.
  9. ↑ Sedgwick 216
  10. ↑ The 2004 Singhvi - Temenos Interfaith Lecture


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