Temenos Academy

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The Temenos Academy is a teaching organisation in London dedicated to creative spirituality.

Its origin was in 1980, when the Temenos Review was launched by Kathleen Raine, Keith Critchlow, Brian Keeble and Philip Sherrard to publish creative work which acknowledged spirituality as a prime need for humanity. Ten years later the Academy was founded to extend the project through lectures and study groups. It was accommodated initially in The Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture in Regents Park. Since the closure of the Institute, the Academy now holds meetings in different venues in London.

The Prince of Wales is patron of the Academy. He said:

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The work of Temenos could not be more important. Its commitment to fostering a wider awareness of the great spiritual traditions we have inherited from the past is not a distraction from the concerns of every-day life. These traditions, which form the basis of mankind's most civilised values and have been handed down to us over many centuries, are not just part of our inner religious life. They have an intensely practical relevance to the creation of real beauty in the arts, to an architecture which brings harmony and inspiration to people's lives and to the development within the individual of a sense of balance which is, to my mind, the hallmark of a civilised person.[1]

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Lecturers include Hossein Elahi Ghomshei and Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi (Warren Kenton). The Academy staged a talk by the Dalai Lama during his visit to London in 2004.[2]