The Land of the Exiles

The Silent Eye’s 2014 esoteric workshop

Weekend of 11-13 April, 2014, Derbyshire Hills

After seven years in cryogenic deep-freeze a group of interstellar colonists, fleeing the destruction of the Earth, awaken to find that their ship has crash-landed on Idos, their planned new home. The Commander, the sole member of the crew who volunteered to stay awake during the voyage, has disappeared, and the ship’s computer has gone rogue, imprisoning them in the one working
deck left in the ruin of the Hawk.
Seemingly intent on playing God after studying the Commander’s
electronic books of ancient religions, the computer determines to first explore what it is to be human. To survive, the colonists must assume mythical roles cast by the computer from the ancient past so that it can test their reactions. The future looks bleak for the survivors when there seems to be no way around the machine’s manipulations of their psyches.
But Idos has its own resources, and one of them, a natural intelligence in the planet that they come to know as the Mindstream, seeks them out while they are being played by the computer, making them aware that help is at hand if they can use their roles to outsmart the cyberintelligence pitted against them.
The mood changes, dramatically, as the colonists learn to interpret the Mindstream’s subtle interference, appearing to play along with the computer’s manipulations, but re-shaping their roles one step at a time to deepen their control of the situation.
In the final act, the mechanical computer comes face to face with the power of the evolved human soul, laid bare by the necessity of survival created by its very existence.

Join us for this ground-breaking consciousness-intensive
weekend.
Each person will play a (fully scripted) role for the whole weekend. The event offers a mixture of lectures and ritual dramas in which each of us will play a single role for the duration.

Creativity will be welcome and encouraged, and we will all explore the deeper meanings of being Human. Fun will most certainly be a theme and there is a lovely pub next door when we get tired of being serious!

Duration and Costs
The weekend will run from Friday evening 11 April 2014, until the Sunday afternoon, 13 April.
The inclusive costs will be £200.00, full board, shared twin room.
Supplements apply for single room usage and en-suite rooms.
There is limited availability of both. Costs are per person. The
event will be open to a maximum of 40 people.

Workshops are open to both students and non-students of the School.

The PDF brochure for the event and Booking Form are available on our website by clicking here.

The School Brochure, with details of the course, is available here.