National/International Newsletter,
From R J Stewart February 2007
Greetings! This is the first national and
international newsletter for some time, announcing
and summarizing the program of events and publishing
for 2007 and beyond.
 Workshops
in 2007 include:
1. Gate Openings/Lineage of Zadok and the Fire Temple: This is the major new program of workshops in the USA
and Britain.
2. Living Magical Arts: New teachings/methods for the 21st century,
including material not previously taught in public.
The Living Magical Arts workshops are the foundational
classes for the Gate Opening series.
3. The Cord of Life and Death: advanced Cord series on death and continuity
between lives. Not suitable for new students.
4. The Way of Merlin, the Prophet, the Goddess, and the Land: A new workshop,
based on my book first published in 1990.
5. Fiona Macleod’s Runes of Power: an exploration of the remarkable system of
spiritual magic in the works of Fiona Macleod.
6. Celebrating the Male Mysteries: from my book first published in 1980, plus
new material!
7. Faery and UnderWorld Magic: Power at the Crossroads: a new series created
to meet repeated requests from workshop groups and
organizers. (Related books are: The Well of Light,
2007 edition, UnderWorld Initiation, Earth Light,
Power within the Land).
8. Teacher Training, Tours and Intensives 2007: described below. NOTE: Other
workshop themes may be presented by request. To request
or sponsor workshops or concerts, contact
R.J. Stewart.
Teacher Training, Tours, and Intensives in
2007
The Gate Opening/Lineage of Zadok workshops:
A series of Gate Openings, based on new
developments and expansions of material originally
imparted to me by the Glastonbury adept, Ronald Heaver
(1900-1980). We will experience attunement to the
powerful inner spiritual lineage of the Fire Temple,
poetically called “Zadok”. The workshops have an alchemical
aspect, preparing essences and substances imbued with
spiritual forces, for transformation of both body
and consciousness. The Gate Opening events
are a new advance in the Inner Temple Traditions and
Inner Convocation work that I have taught in Britain
and the USA from 1989 to the present day.
Teacher Training, Inner Temple Traditions InnerConvocation
™ ®
There is more to these Inner Temple gatherings
and convocations in May and November 2007 than teacher
training, and there are many reasons why you might
wish to join. If you feel that committing to teaching
is not for you, you may still find much to benefit
you in these intensives. There will be two intensive
training retreats, at The StarHouse near Boulder,
www.thestarhouse.org, on Memorial Day weekend May
25-28 inclusive and Veteran’s day weekend November
9-12 inclusive. The retreats are for people who wish
to go more deeply into the hidden aspects of Inner
Temple Inner Convocation work, and for those who have
committed to a number of workshops in the past and
wish to teach in the future. These intensives are
also essential for those who are already Inner Temple
Traditions teachers, to bring them up to date on new
developments and techniques. If you wish to apply,
please contact me via email.
Application does not guarantee a place.
Inner Temple Traditions InnerConvocation ™ ® is a
registered trade mark and service mark for the classes,
publications, texts, and recordings of R J Stewart
worldwide.
Hawkwood College, England, September 14-17
There will be a fully residential retreat at Hawkwood
College, sponsored by Caitlin Matthews’ FIOS group.
Join us for Elemental Chanting, an evening concert,
and a cycle of Gate Opening/Lineage of Zadok ceremonies.
We expect this event to be full long before September,
so book early! For all bookings: call Hawkwood College,
01144 1453 759034 or email: .
For content: email Caitlín Matthews on
or write to BCM Hallowquest, London WC1N 3XX, U.K.
Plus: A Tour of Ancient Sites in Cotswolds and
North Devon September 17-24
Following the Hawkwood retreat is a one-week tour
of ancient sites in the Cotswolds, Somerset, and remote
sites in North Devon, coordinated by British tour
agent Nigel Breen (www.nigelbreen.com
). We will visit sacred sites and power places that
were influential in the early years of my magical
life, including a remote Crossroads where I lived
in the late 1960’s. North Devon has many standing
stones and ancient sites that are not visited by tourists.
It also has historic houses, inns, and hotels, so
I expect this tour to be special in many ways. Numbers
are limited to 15 people. Please book early to secure
a place. To join, email: , or
call Nigel on +44 [0]1736 366755. Or UK cell phone:
07818 453017.
Publishing news! 
As a professional writer and recording artist, I
(like many others) have struggled for years with the
publishing industry. My books have been published
by Harper Collins and Penguin, and by smaller publishers,
such as Destiny Books or New Page. I have been fortunate
to associate with wonderful editors who believed in
my work, which has been translated worldwide, but
less fortunate in other respects. I have been blessed
with encouragement and support, and stressed by the
repeated failure of some (not all) publishing houses
to honor contracts. Many writers suffer from such
problems within the publishing industry, especially
with accounting and payment of royalties. Such has
been my experience over the years, with more than
40 books in publication in various languages.
After lengthy and deep discussions with a group
of other writers and artists, I made the decision
in 2006 to start a new author-friendly fully independent
publishing house. Here is our opening announcement:
“Announcing a new publishing and recording venture:
R J Stewart Books. R J Stewart Books
is an independent publishing house, registered in
Colorado, California, and Virginia. Books are printed
and published simultaneously in the US and UK, and
distributed nationally by Ingrams or associated distributors.
Bookstores can order direct from the distributors
at normal trade discount. For the individual reader
and listener we supply books and CDs to customers
by direct mail order, often at discount, from www.rjstewart.net
. Our authors and recording artists include Caitlin
Matthews (new CD, Earth’s Deep Well in the Wildwood),
Orion Foxwood (new book and CD The Faery Teachings),
Peter Berry (new CD, Durdabhla, Irish poems
and tales with harp), and exclusive reprints and new
books and CDs from R J Stewart. Additionally we act
as distributors for selected titles, such as books
by Dion Fortune and Gareth Knight, from Thoth Publications
(UK) in the USA. For 2007 and 2008 we have a growing
list of publications and recordings with remarkable
new and established authors and recording artists,
so please see www.rjstewart.net for announcements
and new titles.”
(Please note: R J Stewart Books is not
operated by R J Stewart in person: to contact the
book production team or mail-order office, please
)
Recent reprints: The Well of Light:
2007 also sees the reprint of The Well of Light,
From Faery Healing to Earth Healing, (book and
CD, R J Stewart Books). Reprints with other publishers
include a new edition of the classic Celtic Gods,
Celtic Goddesses, a revised edition of Living
Magical Arts, and a 30th anniversary
edition of my first book, Where is St George?
Pagan Imagery in English Folksong.
NEW BOOK: THE SPIRIT CORD . The Spirit
Cord is my latest book, published in the winter
of 2006. This book is volume 1 of the sacro-magical
practices taught in the Cord workshop series. Volume
2, The Cord of Life and Death, is currently
in preparation, for publication in late 2007.
Music and Recording: Caitlin Matthews new
CD, Deep Well in the Wildwood, will be available
in April 2007. Many of Caitlin’s original highly evocative
songs are featured, plus some medieval and traditional
songs, and two Shaker hymns. The songs are arranged
with a variety of instruments including 83 stringed
psaltery, cittern, tsouras, guitar, Native American
and Irish flutes, bass, keyboards, digeridoo and percussion.
I found producing and recording this CD highly visionary
and inspiring, and I am sure that you will find it
so, when you hear it. Copies are available from www.rjstewart.net
in the USA.
Media news: In the spring, the History Channel
will be airing a documentary on Prophecy and Oracles.
I had a pleasant time in Burbank in the summer of
2006, filming interviews about the medieval Prophecies
of Merlin, Thomas Rhymer, the Sybil at Delphi and
at Cumeae, and the relationship between prophecy and
apocalyptic vision.
Website news and on-line Discussion Lists: New
articles are appearing on our websites, some originally
published in various magazines, others written specifically
for the websites and not available elsewhere. A new
feature, soon to be available, is material drawn from
our successful and vigorous online discussion lists.
You can access and join the discussion lists from
a link at http://www.rjstewart.org/email.html
. My thanks to all the list members, who now total
around 1,000 for building the lists into an on-line
discussion community.
With good wishes to you all, and I look forward to
meeting you again at a workshop, concert, or event,
in 2007.
R J Stewart, February, 2007 www.rjstewart.org
www.rjstewart.net www.dreampower.com
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