An interview with Esoteric Quest faculty member Joscelyn Godwin, PhD 1. In Plovdiv in August at our Esoteric Quest in Bulgaria, Crossroads of the Mysteries, you will be speaking about Orpheus. You wrote about Orpheus in the Open Center's magazine Lapis … [Read more...]
Destination Plovdiv, Bulgaria: The European Capital of Culture in 2019
By Ralph White In late August, the Open Center will offer its fifteenth Esoteric Quest, one of the world’s leading conferences and journeys into the half-forgotten spiritual history of the West. Since these Quests began in 1995 in Cesky Krumlov, the Southern … [Read more...]
International Trade, “Heresy,” and Esotericism in the “Dark Ages”
By Yuri Stoyanov The role of trade and mercantile networks in the dissemination of esoteric and heretical traditions is richly evidenced in well-known cases such as the far-flung spread of the universalist late antique “Religion of Light," Manichaeism, with … [Read more...]
Learning Travel: The Esoteric Quest Conference
The Esoteric Quest Conference is a vital and creative experience of the rediscovery of the lost spiritual traditions of the West. Our next conference will be taking place in Plovdiv, Bulgaria in August. Leonard George has been an advisor and presenter for the … [Read more...]
On the Trail of the Next Esoteric Quest: Plovdiv – City of Mystery and Antiquity
by Ralph White December 2018 As many readers of this column know, the Open Center has produced a series of conferences on the Western Esoteric Tradition for the last twenty five years. During that time we have met in the Southern Bohemian mecca of … [Read more...]
Open Center Past & Present – The Esoteric Quest
by Ralph White Some of our readers may wonder what is the longest-running program in the history of the Open Center? The answer would be the series of international conferences and travel experiences that have focused on aspects of Western spiritual history … [Read more...]
The New, Emerging Holistic China: A Personal Report
Open Center co-founder, Ralph White, recently returned from a month in China meeting many of the holistic pioneers there. This is his report on his extraordinary experiences and the awakening of consciousness that is beginning to happen in the world’s most … [Read more...]