METAGEUM '07
EXPLORING THE MEGALITHIC MIND

CONFERENCE, TOUR, AND WORKSHOPS:
Exploring the Consciousness of the Megalithic Temple Builders
Caraffa Stores, Birgu, Island of Malta
3rd - 11th November 2007

Schedule

Official opening:
9:00 am on Saturday 3rd November. Introduction to the conference by Peter B Lloyd, followed by welcoming address by The Hon. Dr Francis Zammit Dimech, Minister for Tourism Culture.

Side activities:
What you see the below is the schedule of talks and workshops. To book a place, you have to use a Booking Form. There are two booking forms you can use -- the simple one or the complicated one. If you scroll down to the bottom of this page you will be looking at the Simplified Booking Form. You should use this if you just want to:

Book for the whole conference
Book for all the weekends
Book for for all the evenings

If you want more flexibility in what you are booking for, you need to use the more complicated Flexible Booking Form. That form enables you to:

Book individual days, or mornings, afternoons, or evenings.
Book visits to the Hypogeum underground temple at Hal Saflieni
Book to join one of Margaret Frendo's guided tours to the overground temples
Book to join workshops

There is one Flexible Booking form for each currency (Maltese Lira, Euro, British Pound, or US Dollar). So, to get to the Flexible Booking Form, please click on the link below for your preferred currency:

Flexible Booking Form for US dollars
Flexible Booking Form for British pounds
Flexible Booking Form for Euros (prices for overseas visitors)
Flexible Booking Form for Euros (prices for Maltese nationals)
Flexible Booking Form for Maltese liri

So, here's the schedule for the week-long Metageum conference:

Conference Schedule

Saturday, 3rd November

9-10

10-11:30

11:30-12:30

12:30-1:30

1:30-3

3-4

4-5

5-6

6:30-9:30

9:30-10

Peter B Lloyd +
Francis Dimech +
Didi Rasamayii
Welcome
9-9:30

Reception

Stuart Mason
Astro-
archaeology

Kris Attard
Sacred Geometry in the Temples of Malta

Discussion & lunch break

Peter Knight
European Chambered Tombs - Places of Liminality, Ritual and Earth Energies

Renate Haupt
The Metaphysical Sahara

Craig Webb
Dream
incubation
Nicole Harris
Trance-dance
Diana Bewley
Tales

Diana Bewley
Tales 9:30-10

Shaun Kirwan
Dowsing at Kordin III Neolithic temple, 1 pm to 2:30 pm

Sunday, 4th November

9-9:30

9:30-10:30

10:30-11:30

11:30-12:30

12:30-3

3-4

4-5

5-6

8-9

9:30-10

Diana Bewley
Tales

Reuben Grima
Cognitive aspects
of the minds
of the temple
builders

L Caruana
Ancient
Image
Language

Sina Farrugia
Making Neolithic Pottery

Discussion & lunch break

Mario
Vassallo
On temple
alignments

Chris Micallef
Astronomical alignments of Mnajdra Temple

Michael Hanby
Finding megalithic astronomical alignments

Craig Webb
The megaliths investigative dreaming ritual

Diana Bewley
Tales

Nataša
Pantovic
Tantra
yoga
1:30-2:30

Sina Farrugia
Neolithic Pottery Workshop

Nicole Harris:
Shamanic Journeying

Margaret Frendo: Coach trip to: Mnajdra & Hagar Qim temples

Kris Attard: Sacred Geometry: Temple Visit

Monday, 5th November

9-9:30

9:30-11

11-12:30

12:30-1:00

1-2:30

2:30-4

4-5:30

5:30-6

8-9

9:30-10

Diana Bewley
Tales

Craig Webb
Dream
Reporting
part 1

Peter B Lloyd
Prehistoric Metaphysics: What was the Neolithic Concept of Reality?

Discussion

Lunch break

Craig Webb
Dream explorations across space & time & lucid dreams

Tim Learmount
The Bodmin Moor Star Temple

Discussion

Renate Haupt
Embracing Dreamtime

Diana Bewley
Tales

Zoya
Lu
Tantra yoga 1:30-2:30
Nicole Harris:
Shamanic Journeying

Margaret Frendo: Trip to Tarxien & Kordin III temples

Tuesday, 6th November

9-9:30

9:30-11

11-12:00

12:00-1:00

1-2:30

2:30-4

4-5:30

5:30-6

8-9

9:30-10

Diana Bewley
Tales

Thomas Anderson
The Science and Art in Sound and Healing

Jake Ewen
Cymatics &
Sacred
Geometry

Scott Hawkins:
Expanded Horizons
performance

Lunch break

Francis
Aloisio
The Maltese Temples: A Different Perspective

Hugh Newman
Stone Age Survival: Earth Energies, Megaliths & Ancient Nutrition

Discussion

Paul Devereux
Megalithic acoustics

Diana Bewley
Tales

Zoya
Lu
Tantra yoga 1:30-2:30
Nicole Harris:
Shamanic Journeying

Margaret Frendo: Trip to Tas-silg & Borg in-Nadur Temples, Birzebbugia cart ruts

Wednesday, 7th November

9-9:30

9:30-11

11-12:30

12:30-1:00

1-2:30

2:30-4

4-5:30

5:30-6

8-9

9:30-10

Kevan ManwaringTales of the Wine Dark Sea

Dudley
Levenson
Shamanism
& art, part 1

Robin Skeates
Archaeology of Sensory
Experience

Discussion

Lunch break

Craig Webb
Dream
Reporting, part II

Scott Hawkins
Ding, Dong, Dolmen!

Discussion

Benny Shanon
Entheo-
genic
Origins of
Religion

Kevan Manwaring
Tales

Zoya
Lu
Tantra yoga 1:30-2:30
Nicole Harris:
Shamanic Journeying

Francis Aloisio
Consciousness raising workshop at a temple site

Margaret Frendo: Trip to Ta Hagrat Temple & Buskett ('Clapham Junction') 'cart-ruts'

Thursday, 8th November

9-9:30

9:30-11

11-12:30

12:30-1:00

1-2:30

2:30-4

4-5:30

5:30-6

8-9

9:30-10

Kevan ManwaringTales of the Wine Dark Sea

Dudley
Levenson
Shamanism
& art, part 2

Deborah Marshall-
Warren
Hypnosis & Shamanism

Discussion

Lunch

Showing of Chris Micallef's film The Tal-Qadi Stone (69 minutes), followed by discussion.

Caroline Malone
Neolithic religion in Malta I

Kevan Manwaring
Tales

Nataša
Pantovic
Tantra yoga 1:30-2:30
Nicole Harris:
Shamanic Journeying

Wende Bartley
Chanting in the Hypogeum underground temple

Margaret Frendo: Trip to Xemxija tomb, Bugibba & Tal-Qadi temples.

Friday, 9th November

9-9:30

9:30-11

11-12

12-1

1-2:30

2:30-3:30

3:30-4:30

4:30-6

8-9

9:30-10

Kevan Manwaring
Tales of the Wine Dark Sea

Craig Webb
Closing
Dream
Workshop

Jennifer
Berezan
On singing
in the
Hypogeum

Marlene Saliba
Reading from her book of poems, Ancestral Visions

Lunch break

Nataša
Pantovic
Worshipping
Goddess
in Malta

Hubert
Zeitlmair
Malta's Underwater Temple and Atlantis

Christopher Fülling
The memology of Atlantis & Discussion

Simon Stoddart
Prehistoric
Maltese Mind
on
Beliefs about Death

Kevan Manwaring
Tales of the Wine Dark Sea

Nataša
Pantovic
Tantra yoga 1:30-2:30
Nicole Harris:
Shamanic Journeying

Scott Hawkins:
Sound Rising: Natural Music and the exploration of place and individual empowerment felt through creative group activity

Margaret Frendo: Trip to National Archaeology Museum

Saturday, 10th November

9-9:30

9:30-10:30

10:30-11:30

11:30-12:30

12:30-3

3-4

4-5

5-6

6:30-9:30

9:30-10

Kevan Manwaring
Tales of the Wine Dark Sea

Peter Marshall
Europe's Lost
Civilization

Anton Mifsud
Archaeology in Atlantis

Graham Hancock
The Supernatural in Prehistory

Discussion & lunch break

Louis Laganà
The Maltese Prehistoric Goddess: A Mother Goddess or Another Deity?

Clotilde Mifsud
Thoughts on Goddess Spirituality in Prehistory, in Malta, in Today's World

Caroline Malone
Neolithic religion in Malta II

Jennifer
Berezan,
Julie Wolf
& Renzo
Spiteri

Kevan ManwaringTales of the Wine Dark Sea

Nataša
Pantovic
Tantra yoga 1:30-2:30
Nicole Harris:
Shamanic Journeying

Katie Birch - Story-telling Workshop

Margaret Frendo - Trip to Gigantija & Skorba temples, in Gozo

Sunday, 11th November

9-9:30

9:30-10:30

10:30-11:30

11:30-12:30

12:30-3

3-4:30

4:30-7

8-9

9:30-10

Kevan Manwaring
Tales of the Wine Dark Sea

Kathryn Rountree
Paganism in Malta

Robert
Wallis
Animism,
Agency
& Altered
Styles

Maria Arpa
Nonviolent Communication

Discussion & lunch break

Paul Devereux and Jennifer
Berezan, and Thomas Anderson

Wende Bartley
Temple Composition

Erik Davis
Looking back over the Metageum Conference

Kevan Manwaring
Tales of the Wine Dark Sea

Nataša
Pantovic
Tantra
yoga

Shaun Kirwan
Dowsing at Kordin III Neolithic temple, 1 pm to 2:30 pm

Simple Booking Form
Your name:
Affiliation (if any):
Telephone:
Email:
How did you hear about Metageum?
Maltese National ID (if any)
Events	Non-Maltese nationals			Maltese nationals
Events	US $	GB £	Euro	Euro	Lm
Whole Conference All conference sessions: 3rd-11th November ... including option to go on guided tours, or join workshop Trance-dance: (evening 3rd November) Jennifer Berezan's concert: (evening 10th November)	US$882	£441	€588	€441	Lm 196
Weekends Only Conference sessions: on Sat 3rd, Sun 4th, Sat 10th, Sun 11th ... including option to go on guided tours, or join workshop Trance-dance: (evening 3rd November) Jennifer Berezan's concert: (evening 10th November)	US$500	£250	€330	€250	Lm 110
Weekday Evenings Only Conference sessions: on the evenings of Mon 5th to Fri 9th	US$90	£45	€60	€45	Lm 20
Flexible Booking Select individual mornings, afternoons, and evenings: You can choose to book for particular morning sessions, afternoon sessions, or evening talks, or trips to the temple sites, or workshops. Click on the link for your currency, and go to the relevant page for flexible booking.	USD $ US dollars	GBP £ British pounds	EUR € Euro	EUR € Euro (for Maltese citizens)	MLA Lm Maltese liri (for Maltese citizens)
Total:	Total
Online payment: You can register online, and pay immediately for your order using your credit card. (US $, British pounds, or Euro only. Does not work with Netscape 8, you have to upgrade to Netscape 9.)					Online payment is not available for Liri.
Offline payment: If you are not able to make the payment using PayPal, then please enter your details and click on the button 'Register Only'. This will send your registration deatils to us. Then complete the registration process by sending a £ check or money order made payable to Metatopia (Malta) Ltd to the address below. The check or money order must arrive within seven days (or by 3rd November if sooner), otherwise the registration will be cancelled. (Note that there is a strictly limited number of seats in the auditorium, and you may lose your place if it is not secured by payment.) Peter B Lloyd, Box 142, No 8 Shepherd Market, London W1J 7JY, UK. or: Peter B Lloyd, Flat 921, St Angelo Mansions, Birgu, BRG 1737, Malta.

METAGEUM '07EXPLORING THE MEGALITHIC MIND

Schedule

Conference Schedule

Simple Booking Form

METAGEUM '07
EXPLORING THE MEGALITHIC MIND