‘PRS offerings online’

     

“Philosophy is of slight importance unless it is a source of strength in time of trouble; otherwise, higher intellectualism is only a hobby or recreation and not a useful instrument.”

Manly P. Hall


A recent note from Greg Salyer, Philosophical Research Society president and chief executive officer, reminds us of several online offerings, including on YouTube, to help us through this time of trouble. Excerpted:


PRS will continue its mission to provide practical and profound wisdom for the 21st century and now for the pandemic. Our website has been redesigned to highlight our online offerings. You will see there a number of exciting ways to seek and find wisdom during these trying times. We have recently made Lecturer-in-Residence Mitch Horowitz’s video series available as a package. In 16 lectures, he leads viewers through Manly P. Hall’s greatest work, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, as well as his first book, The Initiates of the Flame. It is a wonderful opportunity to sit at home and watch Mitch talk about the chapters of these two significant and relevant Manly P. Hall works.

I am very excited to share that our online enrichment curriculum is growing, and new courses are in development. We are also rerunning some of our existing courses, such as the ever-popular Basics of Esoteric Symbolism with Stephen Reedy and the powerful Walking the Path of Grief with Carlyle Coash. Watch for announcements of upcoming classes here, on the web site, and on social media. For example, I think you can expect the new and next course in esoteric symbolism to be available in the coming weeks, and it will be a close reading of the J. Augustus Knapp images in The Secret Teachings of All Ages.

Carlyle Coash will also present Going Boldly on the Path of Uncertainty: Calling on Green Tara and Our Protectors as a guest lecture on our YouTube channel. On that channel we recently premiered Courtney Sell’s wonderful documentary film of Artist-in-Residence Mandy Kahn titled Peace Piece. It is an amazing and evocative meditation on the beauty of words and bodies and thoughts in motion as only Mandy can create and only Courtney could capture on film. We are also looking forward to our dear friend Raïna Manuel-Paris offering a lecture on liminality, a topic that is all too relevant as we exist “in-between” what has been and what will be.

Finally, my President’s Class will continue on YouTube, where viewers can live-chat during the lecture and continue the discussion in the community forum. Beginning Tuesday I will offer a series titled Seeking Wisdom in These Times in which I will offer my own reflections on the pandemic, including what it reveals about ourselves and our cultures and what it can teach us about who we are and how to live.