MANY HAPPY RETURNS - Reincarnation and the Druze
- Brompton Cemetery Chapel
Description
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Pop-Up, Something A Little Different and Theatre/Arts
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Tickets from £13.20
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n/a
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Sun, 28th Oct 2018 @ 17:00 - 18:30
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17:00 - 18:30
The concept that we have lived a sequence of many lives is one that has been proclaimed by spiritual teachers and theorists for centuries. The Druze, a small Middle Eastern religious sect, believe in the transmigration and eternity of the soul, and that at death, one's soul instantly transfers from one body to another. Their doctrine states that the “soul does not lose breath between one life and the next” and that the process of rebirth reinforces a system by which good people who live right and moral will be more fortunate in their next lives than bad people.
In 2008, Chris French, a skeptic, travelled to Lebanon to take part in a Channel Four documentary investigating the reincarnation claims amongst the Druze. Here he interviewed several children who claimed to remember their previous lives including explicit details on how they had died. In his talk, French will discuss his experiences amongst the Druze outlining the case histories he came across against the backdrop of the general conceptual issues he has with reincarnation as well as the specific problems with Druze beliefs.
Chris French will argue that regardless of the truth of such religious theories, believing in reincarnation is beneficial for the Druze on a psychosocial level as he witnessed families taking an active role in constructing the past life story of their child and matching it to a known real story involving a tragic death.
Tickets £12 including a Hendrick's Gin cocktail.
Chris French
Chris French is a psychologist specialising in the psychology of paranormal beliefs and experiences, cognition and emotion. He is Professor of Psychology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and is head of their Anomalistic psychology Research Unit, which he founded in 2000. He has authored or co-authored over 80 articles and chapters dealing with a wide variety of subjects in psychology, He appears regularly in the media as a skeptical commentator on such phenomena as recovered memory, telepathy, faith healing, past life regression, ghosts, alien abductions and out-of-body experiences.
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Many Happy Returns
Includes a Hendrick's Gin Cocktail
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17:00 - 18:30 | £13.20 |
Location
Address
Brompton Cemetery Chapel, Entrances on Fulham Road or Brompton Road, London, SW10 9UG
Nearest Station
West Brompton (Tube)
Organiser
A Curious Invitation and Antique Beat
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2. Tickets are issued subject to the rules and regulations of the venue.
3. Please check your tickets, as mistakes cannot always be rectified.
4. Occasionally, events are cancelled or postponed by the promoter, team, performer or venue for a variety of reasons. If the event is cancelled, please contact us for information on receiving a refund from the responsible party. If the event was moved or rescheduled, the venue or promoter may set refund limitations. It is your responsibility to ascertain the date and time of any rearranged event.
5. The venue reserves the right to refuse admission and may on occasion have to conduct security searches to ensure the safety of the patrons.
6. Every effort to admit latecomers will be made at a suitable break in the event, but admission cannot always be guaranteed.
7. We regret that tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded after purchase.
8. Tickets are sold subject to the venue or promoter's right to alter or vary the programme due to events or circumstances beyond its control without being obliged to refund monies or exchange tickets.
9. If this ticket is re-sold or transferred for profit or commercial gain by anyone other than the promoter, venue management, DesignMyNight or one of their authorised sub-agents, it will become voidable and the holder may be
refused entry to or ejected from the venue.
10. The venue may operate a No Smoking Policy.
11. The promoter, venue management and DesignMyNight accept no responsibility for any personal property.
12. The event listed on the purchased ticket is strictly for ticket holders who are over 18 years of age. Identification may be required.
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