Pilgrim’s Weekend 2015

This year the Gatekeeper Trust Pilgrim’s Weekend is in Oxford and we welcome Satish Kumar who will be speaking on Saturday afternoon and leading us in pilgrimage.

Please join us for one day or both

SATURDAY 25 APRIL - £20

• Morning registration from 10.00am for a 10.30am start. This morning session is optional.
• Please arrive by 1.30pm to register for the afternoon talk that starts promptly at 2.00pm.

The venue on Saturday is the hexagonal main hall at the North Oxford Community Association. Diamond Place, Summertown, Oxford OX2 7DP www.northoxfordassociation.org.uk

10.30am – 12.30: (Optional)
A talk and discussion by Friends of the Gatekeeper Trust – a chance to hear more about the Trust and the many fascinating aspects of pilgrimage and exploration of our sacred landscape.

12.30 – 1.30pm: Lunch Break

2.00 – 3.30pm: Satish Kumar will give a talk ‘The Way of the Pilgrim’

3.30 – 4.15pm: Tea Break

4.15 – 6.15pm: Satish Kumar will lead us on a pilgrimage along the Thames into Oxford

SATURDAY 26 APRIL - £10

10.00am – 12.30pm: A Pilgrimage in Oxford led by Jeremy Naydler.

Details on where to meet will be available on booking.
Optional pub lunch afterwards.

SATISH KUMAR

A former monk and long-term peace and environment activist, Satish Kumar has been quietly setting the Global Agenda for change for over 50 years.

In his early twenties, Satish embarked with a friend and with no money on an 8,000-mile peace pilgrimage from India to America, via Moscow, London and Paris, to deliver a humble packet of ‘peace tea’ to the then leaders of the world’s four nuclear powers. In 1973 Satish settled in the United Kingdom taking up the post of editor of Resurgence magazine, a position he has held ever since.

In his 50th year, Satish undertook another pilgrimage, this time walking 2,000 miles to the holy places of Britain, a venture he describes as a celebration of his love of life and nature.

Satish is on the Advisory Board of Our Future Planet, a unique online community sharing ideas for real change. He continues to teach and run workshops on reverential ecology, holistic education and voluntary simplicity.

JEREMY NAYDLER

Jeremy Naydler is a professional gardener and a philosopher who specialises in the religious life of ancient cultures. He has been inspired by Goethe's writings on the scientific method, and is the editor of Goethe on Science. His gardening books, Soul Gardening and Gardening as a Sacred Art are not gardening manuals but books that show us how essentially a garden is a sacred space in which we may work together with Nature. He is a Fellow and on the board of teachers at the Temenos Academy and author of Temple of the Cosmos, Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts.

Jeremy lives in Oxford and will be our guide on Sunday, sharing his wealth of local knowledge about this historic and fascinating sacred city.