Temenos Academy is a teaching organisation in London

London

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 dedicated to creative spirituality

Spirituality

Spirituality can refer to an ultimate or an alleged immaterial reality; an inner path enabling a person to discover the essence of his/her being; or the “deepest values and meanings by which people live.” Spiritual practices, including meditation, prayer and contemplation, are intended to develop...

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Its origin was in 1980, when the Temenos Review was launched by Kathleen Raine

Kathleen Raine

Kathleen Jessie Raine was a British poet, critic, and scholar writing in particular on William Blake, W. B. Yeats and Thomas Taylor. Known for her interest in various forms of spirituality, most prominently Platonism and Neoplatonism, she was a founder member of the Temenos Academy.-Life:Raine was...

, Keith Critchlow

Keith Critchlow

Keith Barry Critchlow is an artist, lecturer, author, and professor of architecture in England, and a co-founder of the Temenos Academy.He was educated at the Summerhill School and the Royal College of Art...

, Brian Keeble

Brian Keeble

Brian Keeble is an author and editor. He is the founder of Golgonooza Press and a co-founder of the Temenos Review and Temenos Academy.-Biography:...

 and Philip Sherrard

Philip Sherrard

Philip Sherrard was a British author, translator, and philosopher. His work includes important translations of Modern Greek poets, and books on Modern Greek literature and culture, metaphysics, theology, art and aesthetics...

 to publish creative work which acknowledged spirituality as a prime need for humanity. Ten years later the Academy was founded to extend the project through lectures and study groups. It was accommodated initially in The Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture in Regents Park. Since the closure of the Institute, the Academy now holds meetings in different venues in London.

The Prince of Wales

Charles, Prince of Wales

Prince Charles, Prince of Wales is the heir apparent and eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Since 1958 his major title has been His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales. In Scotland he is additionally known as The Duke of Rothesay...

 is patron of the Academy. He said:

People associated with the Academy

Lecturers include Hossein Elahi Ghomshei

Hossein Elahi Ghomshei

Hossein Mohyeddin Elahi Ghomshei better known as Elahi Ghomshei, is an Iranian scholar, author and lecturer on literature, art and mysticism.-Life and Education:...

 and Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi

Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi

Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi is an author of books on the Toledano Tradition of Kabbalah, a teacher of the discipline, with a worldwide following, and a founder member of the Kabbalah Society.-Early life:...

 (Warren Kenton). The Academy staged a talk by the Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama is a high lama in the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" branch of Tibetan Buddhism. The name is a combination of the Mongolian word далай meaning "Ocean" and the Tibetan word bla-ma meaning "teacher"...

 during his visit to London in 2004. Temenos Review was continued as Temenos Academy Review. Grevel Lindop

Grevel Lindop

Grevel Lindop is an English poet, academic and literary critic.-Life:Lindop was born in Liverpool and studied at Wadham College, Oxford, where he read English. After two years of postgraduate research at Wadham and Wolfson Colleges, Oxford, he moved to Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, where he...

held the post of editor of the Review from 2000 to 2003.