Mythology Of Modern Man: Myth, Mysticism and the Alchemical Repair of the World (Level 3)

Enter into the Opus Magnum of healing the world, from the place of your home within it.

Image Credit: Tarot de Jacques Viéville (1650) La Maison-Dieu

Learning is ceremony.

You are invited to this ceremony of growth, over eight weeks, if you have ever felt the need to receive the inner knowledge to transform your environment, to add your part to the greater process of the world’s restoration to wholeness. If you have felt that you need to discern your part in this story, this series is for you. If you have wanted practical spiritual knowledge of how to be an agent in the healing and transforming your world, through your own personal alchemy, these learning ceremonies and group processes are for you. If you suspect that acts of spiritual repair are powerful and worth pursuing, this is your alchemy.

In this learning experience, we draw on the ageless wisdom as our source for this alchemy writ-large. We will learn, together, how to become a vessel of social/ecosystemic healing, drawing on classical Greek sources, Kabbalistic ones on the process of tikkun, Islamic mystical texts and teachings on marifet, Indigenous wisdom, and other mythical and mystical systems that include within them the path of the community healer, the bodhisattva, and the alchemist.

What you recieve in this course:

1) Practical knowledge on how to use the intuition to serve and how to get out of your own way to allow the greater good to manifest through you.

2) New and ancient techniques that help us attune to ourselves, our environment and community to make our contribution to macro-level healing.

3) An understanding of the coding of ancient teachings within myths and historical events to help us understand ourselves and the cosmos better.

In each session of the eights weeks, we engage with practices to become channels of grace to the environment, in addition to meditating together on a sacred story that illustrates an important aspect of the alchemy being practiced. In some sessions there will be forms of ritual theater and systemic constellation, to wed these understandings with the body’s knowing.

Eight Week Program:

Experience One: Becoming the Vessel Uniting Heaven and Earth, the Hollow Bone, the Reed Flute
Experience Two: Robin Hood, Wealth, Abundance and Sharing; Advancing Beyond ‘Manifesting’
Experience Three: The Green Man, Earth Wisdom, and the Caretaking of the More-Than-Human World
Experience Four: Science and the Divine, the Electric Spark of Nikola Tesla, Alchemical Cocreation
Experience Five: The Sacred Fire of Hermes and Working with the Laws of Life
Experience Six: Inspiring Transformation Through Presence, Dancing with the Muses
Experience Seven: The Artist, Opening the Channel of Inspiration
Experience Eight: Becoming the Elder, Passing on Your Acquired Wisdom
Final Gathering: Completing the Circle of the Ouroboros

Class Fees

The standard cost for this series is 250 US dollars. For participants in need of a discount and those in Africa, Asia, the Middle Eart or Latin America, there is the option to take the lower fee of 100 US dollars. A small number of scholarships are available.

Facilitators:

Nalan Ozkan Lecerf

I have been working for Mercedes-Benz Türk for 19 years as a HR Specialist. Furthermore I was co-founder and member of the corporate voluntary group and also gained experience in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

Being thirsty of expressing my creativity and interested in community welfare, I am participating into creative drama classes since 2017. I passed the state exam organized by the Ministry of Education in order to be a Creative Drama facilitator in November 2021.

In order to broaden my perspective regarding the balance of ‘body-soul-mind’ which is essential to well-being, I got trained in Functional Medicine Life Coaching, Yin Yoga, Creative Dance Trainers Training and Systemic Constellation between the years 2019-2023.

Nicolas Lecerf

I was born in Canada, raised and educated in France. I started working in all the life cycles of books, such as printing, editing, and, marketing and press relations. I then studied Chinese in Taiwan and moved afterwards to Beijing, where I worked for Lafarge China in internal and external communications, first as a specialist, manager and finally vice president-government affairs. Additionally, I was a Regional Communication Manager for Lafarge in Asia, in charge of capacity building by setting up communication departments, organizing employees’ development in the communication function and providing support training and coaching for Korea, Japan, Indonesia, India,the Philippines and Malaysia.

I have been a student and practitioner for more than 40 years of alchemy and the sacred art of transformative archetypes, been trained by traditional masters belonging to ancient alchemical societies. While I was living in China for 15 years, I practiced Daoist alchemical traditions and was introduced to Tibetan lineages of Tantra.I also studied behavioural psychology with Dr. Michel de Salzmann and am a long time student and leader of the Gurdjieff Work, both in China and Turkey.

Dr. Logan Sparks

Dr. Sparks is a student, both of the planet’s healing traditions, and of the emerging modalities for the repair of the soul. He serves to heal broken relationships and restore the flow of love. His apprenticeship to traditional knowledge has taken him to Mexico, Native America, South Africa, Turkey, and the Middle East. He is a mediator trained by the state of Arizona, and has been in the field of family and systemic constellations for more than ten years.

He is a scholar-healer who holds a doctorate from the Institute of Ritual and Liturgical Studies, formerly housed at Tilburg University, in the Netherlands, and has a Masters in the Study of Religions from the School of Oriental and African Studies, at the University of London. He works in systemic healing with private individuals and groups, and teaches Native American undergraduate students in the tribal higher education system in the United States. Logan has two decades of experience as an intercultural and international educator, and group facilitator.