Temenos Academy

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.

The academy's background came from 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. Ten years later 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. Since the closure of the institute, the academy now holds meetings in different venues in London.

People associated with the academy

Lecturers include Hossein Elahi Ghomshei and Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi (Warren Kenton). The academy staged a talk by the Dalai Lama during his visit to London in 2004.[3] The journal Temenos was continued as the Temenos Academy Review.

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. The 2004 Singhvi - Temenos Interfaith Lecture


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