- Datum: 2014-05-27
- Tid: 17:00–19:00
- Plats: VG Nation, Västra Ågatan 18, 753 09 Uppsala
Föreläsare: Fil.dr. Henrik Bogdan, docent i religionsvetenskap vid Göteborgs universitet.
Henrik Bogdan kommer att föreläsa på ämnet för sitt senaste bokprojekt, Occultism in a Global Perspective (Acumen Publishing 2013), en antologi som med olika infallsvinklar tar upp ämnet ockultism sett ur ett globalt perspektiv. Föreläsningen kommer framförallt att behandla Henrik Bogdans egna kapitel i antologin: “Reception of Occultism in India: the Case of the Holy Order of Krishna”.
Här följer en kort beskrivning av ämnet, hämtad från introduktionskapitlet till Occultism in a Global Perspective:
“In Chapter 10, “Reception of occultism in India: the case of the Holy Order of Krishna”, Henrik Bogdan discusses the other side of the encounter of occultism with Eastern spiritual practices, that is, the migration of occultism into a Hindu context. Using the Holy Order of Krishna (which has existed for over a century) as a case study, Bogdan discusses how aspects of occultism have been adopted and reinterpreted in a Hindu context – and more specifically, the adoption and reinterpretation of Aleister Crowley’s motto “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law” by the Holy Order of Krishna as a “supreme mantra” during the 1920s and 1930s. Bogdan furthermore traces the reverse influence of the Holy Order of Krishna upon British occultism through the enigmatic Swami Pareswara Bikshu (or Yogi Bhikshu). Bikshu, who was affiliated with the Holy Order of Krishna, acted as the personal “guru” to a Londoner named David Curwen (1893–1984), who got in contact with Aleister Crowley in 1944, and became the last IXth degree member of the Ordo Templi Orientis during Crowley’s lifetime. Bikshu’s views on Tantra, as expressed in an important manuscript commentary on the Ananada Lahari, would later exert a profound influence on the British occultist Kenneth Grant (1924–2011) and his interpretation of sexual magic.” (Bogdan & Djurdjevic 2013: 12).
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