"Just possibly one of the most important rituals of my life."
"Over the years, pagan ritual has largely lost its sense of mystery, and Steven Posch can show you how to put it back again. A technology of mystery: amazing."
"I now have to rethink every single thing I’ve done over the course of the past 16 years!"
"Steven Posch has single-handedly changed the way the Twin Cities [pagan community] does ritual. "
"One of Paganism’s top ritualists." Macha Nightmare
We don’t want you to miss Steven because of the bad economy so we’re holding the price at $95 until Feb 4th
Questions, or for more information, contact Cherry Hill Seminary.
Special Thanks to
Ancient Ways
for hosting Cherry Hill Seminary at the PantheaCon 2010 conference!
Click here to register for PantheaCon 2010, which begins the day
following "Giving Greater Rite," in the same location.
Questions, or for more information, contact
Cherry Hill Seminary.
If ritual is the nexus of contact with Other, with its accompanying experience of mystery, then why are so many of our rituals predictable and unsatisfying? From the heart of Paganistan, join us for a groundbreaking approach to ritual, presented by a master storyteller-performer and deeply-dedicated Pagan. Day-long program will cover:
The
Theory: Story & Mystery
Developing an oral culture: the re-oralization of written history
E.g. Mother Berhta and Gnasher Skeggi
Articulation of cultural identity via story/mythology/ritual
E.g. The old-new queer mythology
E.g. The 700 Songs (i.e. The “Devil’s Psalmbook”)
The Received Tradition, canonicity, and the old-new mythology
E.g. The case of Cernunnos
Sense of mystery (the unexplained; sense of presence; sense of contact;
non-ordinary e.g. chanted not spoken)
E.g. Wheaton College incident
The Practice: Ritual
Interface of story and ritual to instill sense of mystery: the necessity
of backstory
Eg. The Wild Hunt
Eg. The Bride of the Forest
Eg. The Passion of the Harvest
Giving Greater Rite: Does and Don’t for Serious Ritualists
“Taking the ‘Eek!’ out of Critique: An Introduction to the Bruner Method
of Ritual Critique”
Day-long conference will be held February 11, 2010, the day before PantheaCon, at the DoubleTree Hilton in San Jose, California. 8:00 AM until 5:00 PM, with a break for lunch on your own (there are three restaurants in the hotel lobby).
Called "the pagan
rabbi" and "one of Paganism’s top ritualists," Steven Posch draws
liturgical experience from a wide variety of backgrounds: Wicca, the
Regency, and the Pagan Movement in Britain and Ireland, as well as
Vaishnava Hinduism, Conservative and Reconstructionist Judaism, and
Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
Steven is co-founder and chief liturgist of Prodea, the Twin Cities’
oldest continuously-operating coven, and Beit Ashera Congregation (known
humorously as "Golden Calf Synagogue"), of which he is cantor emeritus.
His rituals are widely known and influential throughout the Midwestern
United States.