Dr Angela Voss
I am now a co-director of the Centre for Myth, Cosmology and the Sacred (www.mythcosmologysacred.com). I was Programme Director for the MA in Myth, Cosmology and the Sacred at Canterbury Christ Church University from 2014-2020. Previously (2006-2010) I was the Director of the MA in the Cultural Study of Cosmology and Divination at Kent. I completed my first degree in Combined Arts at the University of Leicester (Music, French, Italian and Classical Studies), followed by a Diploma in Early Music at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. After working for several years as both a professional musician and administrator (for Anthony Rooley and the Consort of Musicke), I studied for an MA in Music Performance Studies at the City University, London. By this time I had been introduced to the writing of the Renaissance philosopher, musician and astrologer, Marsilio Ficino, and had become thoroughly immersed in the world of 15th-17th century music and philosophy. I therefore decided to embark on a PhD to explore Ficino’s astrological music therapy - this was completed in 1992 as 'Music, Astrology and Magic: the astrological music therapy of Marsilio Ficino and his role as a Renaissance Magus'. From 1978 until 1993 I maintained a part-time freelance musical career, playing viols and baroque violin with many ensembles, organising concerts and touring. In 2000 the opportunity arose to devise and record a CD, ‘Secrets of the Heavens’,an imaginative reconstruction of Ficino's Orphic Singing, with the singers Mark Tucker and Catherine King, and the actor Mark Rylance. I also recorded the consort music of Thomas Lupo for ASV, and John Dowland’s Lachrimae for Riverrun Records ,both with the English Fantasy Consort of viols. Since moving to Kent in 1998 I have been teaching at the University of Kent, at first for the MA in the Study of Mysticism and Religious Experience, out of which emerged the MA in the Cultural Study of Cosmology and Divination in 2006. The MA was established due to the generous sponsorship of the Sophia Trust, and has focussed on divinatory theory and practice, symbolic interpretation, the function of the imagination as a mode of knowledge and traditional cosmology. I have published numerous papers on Ficino, as well as an edited collection of his astrological writings for North Atlantic Books, Western Esoteric Masters series. I am now moving deeper into the territory of symbolism and the imaginal, exploring statue-magic, the spiritual dimensions of music, LBL and past-life therapy, ancient Greek mysteries and the metaphysics of divination. Most importantly, I am now engaged in creating a framework for the MA within Transformative Learning, linking esoteric and wisdom traditions with soul-work and consciousness raising within the academy.
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Address: 10 Arnold Road
Chartham
Canterbury CT4 7 QL
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Enchantment catches us when we least expect it, not only through our thoughts, but through feelings, sensations, intuitions and instincts—and as Peter Abbs reminded us nearly forty years ago, if we want to promote ‘wholeness of being’ as an educational ideal then our schools and academies must embrace the full spectrum of human ways of knowing, in order to bring new, integrated perspectives to our conflicted world.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
About the Contributors
PART ONE
Re-enchanting the Institution
1. Patrick Curry
The Enchantment of Learning and the Fate of our Times
2. Simon Wilson
Clutching the Wheel of St. Catherine; or a Visit to an Enchanted College
3. Linden West
Re-Enchanting the Academy: Popular Education and the Search for Soul in the Modern Academy
4. Eduard Heyning
Not to Explain the World but to Sing it: Panpsychism and the Academy
PART TWO
Re-enchanting the Curriculum
5. Angela Voss
Delectare, Docere, Movere: Soul-learning, Reflexivity and the Third Classroom
6. Robert Bowie
Stepping into Sacred Texts: How the Jesuits Taught me to Read the Bible
7. Lisa McLoughlin
Enchanted Engineering: Reintegrating the Roots
8. Julia Moore
On the Margins of the Academy: Séances, Sitter Groups and Academics
PART THREE
Re-enchanting the Mind
9. Anita Klujber
The Salutogenic Imagination
10. Judith Way
Enrichment and Enchantment: The Poetic Heritage of the Western Esoteric Tradition
11. Becca Tarnas
The Fantastic Imagination
12. Paul Stevens
Engaging the Non-linguistic Mind
PART FOUR
Re-enchanting Nature & Body
13. Chara & Joan Armon
Toward Re-Enchantment: Cultivating Nature Connection and Reverence through Experiential Learning
14. Laura Formenti & Silvia Luraschi
How do you Breathe? Duoethnography as a Means to Re-embody Research in the Academy
15. Laura Shannon
Women with Wings: Right-brain Consciousness and the Learning Process
16. Sonia Overall
The Walking Dead; or Why Psychogeography Matters
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Angela Voss, PhD, is a senior lecturer in the School of Childhood and Education Sciences, Canterbury Christ Church University, and programme director for the MA in Myth, Cosmology and the Sacred. Her teaching and research centre on the role of the symbolic imagination in Western philosophical, spiritual and cultural traditions, and she has written extensively on the astrological music therapy of the Renaissance philosopher Marsilio Ficino (Marsilio Ficino, 2006). She is a ‘walker between the worlds’ of esoteric practice and transformative learning.
Simon Wilson, PhD, is a senior lecturer in the School of Childhood and Education Sciences at Canterbury Christ Church University, where he teaches on the Myth, Cosmology and the Sacred MA and supervises PhD students. He is also a member of the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge. Simon has published widely on subjects such as the Grail, René Guénon, and the writings of Charles Fort. His current research interests include icons, the mystical theology of the Eastern Church, and fortean phenomena.
Papers by Dr Angela Voss
Enchantment catches us when we least expect it, not only through our thoughts, but through feelings, sensations, intuitions and instincts—and as Peter Abbs reminded us nearly forty years ago, if we want to promote ‘wholeness of being’ as an educational ideal then our schools and academies must embrace the full spectrum of human ways of knowing, in order to bring new, integrated perspectives to our conflicted world.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
About the Contributors
PART ONE
Re-enchanting the Institution
1. Patrick Curry
The Enchantment of Learning and the Fate of our Times
2. Simon Wilson
Clutching the Wheel of St. Catherine; or a Visit to an Enchanted College
3. Linden West
Re-Enchanting the Academy: Popular Education and the Search for Soul in the Modern Academy
4. Eduard Heyning
Not to Explain the World but to Sing it: Panpsychism and the Academy
PART TWO
Re-enchanting the Curriculum
5. Angela Voss
Delectare, Docere, Movere: Soul-learning, Reflexivity and the Third Classroom
6. Robert Bowie
Stepping into Sacred Texts: How the Jesuits Taught me to Read the Bible
7. Lisa McLoughlin
Enchanted Engineering: Reintegrating the Roots
8. Julia Moore
On the Margins of the Academy: Séances, Sitter Groups and Academics
PART THREE
Re-enchanting the Mind
9. Anita Klujber
The Salutogenic Imagination
10. Judith Way
Enrichment and Enchantment: The Poetic Heritage of the Western Esoteric Tradition
11. Becca Tarnas
The Fantastic Imagination
12. Paul Stevens
Engaging the Non-linguistic Mind
PART FOUR
Re-enchanting Nature & Body
13. Chara & Joan Armon
Toward Re-Enchantment: Cultivating Nature Connection and Reverence through Experiential Learning
14. Laura Formenti & Silvia Luraschi
How do you Breathe? Duoethnography as a Means to Re-embody Research in the Academy
15. Laura Shannon
Women with Wings: Right-brain Consciousness and the Learning Process
16. Sonia Overall
The Walking Dead; or Why Psychogeography Matters
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Angela Voss, PhD, is a senior lecturer in the School of Childhood and Education Sciences, Canterbury Christ Church University, and programme director for the MA in Myth, Cosmology and the Sacred. Her teaching and research centre on the role of the symbolic imagination in Western philosophical, spiritual and cultural traditions, and she has written extensively on the astrological music therapy of the Renaissance philosopher Marsilio Ficino (Marsilio Ficino, 2006). She is a ‘walker between the worlds’ of esoteric practice and transformative learning.
Simon Wilson, PhD, is a senior lecturer in the School of Childhood and Education Sciences at Canterbury Christ Church University, where he teaches on the Myth, Cosmology and the Sacred MA and supervises PhD students. He is also a member of the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge. Simon has published widely on subjects such as the Grail, René Guénon, and the writings of Charles Fort. His current research interests include icons, the mystical theology of the Eastern Church, and fortean phenomena.
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