Dr. Mervat Nasser - The Return of Hermopolis As Healing Memory

On Thursday 4th August we are delighted to be joined by Dr. Mervat Nasser who will present her book THE NEW HERMOPOLIS (Rubedo Press).

In The Quest for Hermes Trismegistus, Gary Lachman referred to Hermeticism as the religion of the mind, a perfect description for an intellectual discourse that clearly speaks to our psyches and gives us the necessary tools to be truly human. It is no exaggeration to say that it is a blueprint of what we came to know in our modern time as Humanistic Psychology. The Hermetica may be seen to clearly espouse the following humanistic principles: The power of the human creative potential. The necessity of integrating opposing forces  within one’s self to achieve wholeness. The realisation of the ever-changing, ever evolving nature of the universe that is described as a linguistic phenomenon with multiple interpretations and a variety of discourses. The acknowledgment of the connection between…