Louisville Esoteric Society

It’s time for our third Louisville Esoteric Society (LES) meeting for 2023. Once again, it will be held at one of our regular members’ homes. Seating will be limited and our long-term members will be given first right of refusal for the available spots before they are opened to others on our email subscribers list.

TOPIC:

A Trip to Infinity

A film by Jonathan Halperin and Drew Takahashi

Can we experience the infinite?  An engaging cast of mathematicians, physicists, cosmologists and philosophers dive into infinity and it’s mind-bending implications for the universe.   (1 hour 19 minutes with discussion to follow)

WHERE:

At an LES member’s home. Those who successfully RSVP will be given the address prior to the meeting.

WHEN:

Tuesday, March. 28, 2023 – Meeting starts at 6:30 PM; Doors open at 5:45 PM
Arrive anytime on/after 5:45 PM for social engagement, adult beverages and light snacks.

RSVP:

This event is now full and at capacity!  Thanks for your prompt responses.

For this particular session we currently have seven available seats. This is a free gathering (no charge).

If you are interested in attending please RSVP as soon as possible to Jim Patterson at  jlpatters77@yahoo.com. Do not RSVP unless you are sure you will be attending. RSVPs will be allocated in the order they are received. (This post will be updated to indicate when the seating is full.)

We look forward to gathering again and meeting new seekers!

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It’s time for our second gathering of the Louisville Esoteric Society reboot! Once again, it will be held at one of our regular members’ homes. Seating will be limited and our long-term members will be given first right of refusal for the available spots before they are opened to others on our email subscribers list.

TOPIC:

The Earthing Movie: The Remarkable Science of Grounding

This is a video documentary that reveals the scientific phenomenon of how we can heal our bodies by doing the simplest thing that a person can do… standing barefoot on the earth.  (1 hour 15 minutes with discussion to follow)

WHERE:

At an LES member’s home. Those who successfully RSVP will be given the address prior to the meeting.

WHEN:

Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023 – Meeting starts at 6:30 PM; Doors open at 5:45 PM
Arrive anytime on/after 5:45 PM for social engagement, adult beverages and a few light snacks.

RSVP:

For this particular session we currently have seven available seats. This is a free gathering (no charge).

If you are interested in attending please RSVP as soon as possible to Jim Patterson at  jlpatters77@yahoo.com. Do not RSVP unless you are sure you will be attending. RSVPs will be allocated in the order they are received. (This post will be updated to indicate when the seating is full.)

We look forward to gathering again and meeting new seekers!

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After a several-year hiatus Louisville Esoteric Society is rebooting. We’re going to begin holding monthly meetings at a few of our regular members’ homes. Seating will be limited and our long-term members will be given first right of refusal for the available spots before they are opened to others on our email subscribers list.

RSVPs are closed (we are at full capacity)

Mark your calendars for next week! We’ve arranged for a new LES public presentation on Wednesday, June 13 at 6:30 PM:  “Finding Atlantis” presented by Lee Pennington.

Finding Atlantis

Lee Pennington, Author, Documentary Maker, President of Ancient Kentucke Historical Association, will speak to Louisville Esoteric Society on “Finding Atlantis.”

For the past several decades, Lee Pennington has been researching the lost continent of Atlantis. In the last half dozen years, he has focused his attention on looking in a different place from the Atlantic Ocean, where most think, if the legend has any validity at all, the island should be found.

In Plato’s time, however, there was no such thing as the Atlantic Ocean, so it stands to reason Plato, who in his “Dialogues” discussed Atlantis, could have been talking of someplace else when he referred to the continent being located beyond the Pillars of Hercules.

Pennington thinks he knows where Atlantis is located, as well as the lost land of Lemuria. He also thinks that a large monument rising into the Indonesian sky is somehow connected to both those lost places.

His presentation will perhaps not only convince you where Atlantis is but will also point out we have history all wrong—especially that part that says there were no civilizations beyond those we already know about and certainly none that reaches back beyond the ice age.

Gunung Padang, a great, man-made pyramid in Indonesia that’s in excess of 20,000 years old, should alone convince us history is wrong.

Lee Pennington and Jill Baker at Gunung Padang

LOCATION:

11905 Lilac Way, Middletown, KY 40243. “Kratz Place,” the home of Lee and Jill.

Lilac Way runs between Daisy Lane and Kratz Lane. You can park in driveway or in front of the house along the street.

Note: A $5 contribution is suggested.

Mark your calendars for next week! We’ve arranged for a new LES public presentation on Wednesday, May 9 at 6:00 PM:  “Dream Analysis” presented by Jill Baker.

DREAM ANALYSIS

Today research and actual experimentation on recording dreams is a topic for many studies. Dreams have been the subject of analyses and research since time began.

Dreams have always been considered messages from other dimensions and certainly arise from the subconscious. Jill’s presentation will include some background on how dreams have been viewed, categorized and analyzed in the past, but will also include a more interesting discussion of dream symbols and dream events and what they may mean to the dreamer.  Do dreams give hints about future events – sometimes referred to as visions or – are they the  wishes and fears of the dreamer playing out in the subconscious? Or, are they simply the left-over energy of an active brain?

Jill is an award winning artist, teacher and author.

Please mark your calendars and plan on attending this meeting which is sure to intrigue.

Jill Baker Artist’s Studio: 211 Daisy Lane, Louisville, KY 40243 E-mail: jillwbaker@gmail.com   Website: JillBaker.com Phone: (502) 650-1530 (cell)

Note: A $5 contribution is suggested.

LOCATION:

1200 Forest Bridge Road
Louisville, Kentucky  40223

Enter thru the front door and the elevator will give you access to the basement.

Lee Pennington’s presentation on February 22 to the Esoteric Society has been cancelled due to health reasons. The program will be rescheduled. Stay tuned.

Mark your calendars for later this month. We’ve arranged for a new LES public presentation on Thursday, February 22 at 6:30 PM:  “Finding Atlantis” presented by Lee Pennington.

FINDING ATLANTIS

For the past several decades, Lee Pennington has been researching the lost continent of Atlantis.

In the last half dozen years, he has focused his attention on looking in a different place from the Atlantic Ocean, where most think, if the legend has any validity at all, the island should be found.

In Plato’s time, however, there was no such thing as the Atlantic Ocean, so it stands to reason Plato, who in his “Dialogues” discussed Atlantis, could have been talking of someplace else when he referred to continent being located beyond the Pillars of Hercules.

Pennington thinks he knows where Atlantis is located, as well as the lost land of Lemuria. He also thinks that a large monument rises into Indonesian sky that is somehow connected to both those lost places.

His presentation perhaps will not only convince you where Atlantis is but will also point out we have history all wrong—especially that part that says there were no civilizations beyond those we already know about and certainly none that reaches back beyond the ice age.

Gunung Padang, a great man-made pyramid in excess of 20,000 years old, alone should convince us history is wrong.

LOCATION:
Commonwealth Bank & Trust, 286 N Hubbards Ln, Louisville, KY 40207.
Enter through the front door. The meeting will be held in the lower level meeting room of the bank building. Stairs and an elevator are just inside the front entrance.

Lee Pennington at the Los Lunas stone in NM; it’s an abbreviated version of the Ten Commandments written in ancient Khumry.

We’ve arranged for a new LES public presentation on Thursday, March 9 at 6:30 PM:  “King Arthur in America” presented by Lee Pennington.

Think you know all there is to know about King Arthur?

Well did you know that there were really two King Arthurs who lived 250 years apart and that scholars have mistakenly combined them into one individual?

Did you know that King Arthur II (of the Round Table fame) came to America in 573 with his brother, Prince Madoc, and that King Arthur was killed here (in Kentucky actually)?

Did you know that King Arthur’s body was mummified and was taken back Wales and the exact place of his burial is known?

This is not fiction! The evidence is compelling.

Don’t miss Lee Pennington, researcher, film maker, and poet, presenting “King Arthur in America.”

KING ARTHUR IN AMERICA

• In 562 AD Britain was the site of a catastrophic event—most likely a comet striking the Island country. The land was devastated. The king at the time was none other than the legendary King Arthur.  King Arthur’s brother, Prince Madoc, was at the time the fleet admiral of a substantial Welsh navy. Madoc was at sea when the comet struck and was blown totally off course and was gone for 10 years.
• England was mainly uninhabitable and Arthur took his people and army into Lydaw which is now Normandy. Records say that in 572 Arthur returned to Wales, and he and Madoc gathered 700 ships at Milford Haven and sailed west to Anwan, “that which is beyond.”
• Having missed Ireland, there is only one place, sailing west, they could have gone—North America!  Other records tell of King Arthur being killed in Anwan and being brought back to Wales in a celebrated voyage described in a number of extant manuscripts
• Lee Pennington will present compelling evidence that the Welsh records are totally correct in stating that Wales’ most famous king did indeed come to America and was killed here.

About the Presenter:

Dr. Lee Pennington is the author of 19 books including I knew a Woman (1977) and Thigmotropism (1993)–both nominated for Pulitzer Prize. He has had over 1300 poems published in more than 300 magazines in America and abroad. He has had nine plays produced, wrote the script for The Moonshine War (MGM, 1970, starring Alan Alda, Richard Widmark, etc.), and has published thousands of articles in everything from Playgirl to Mountain Life and Work. Since 1990, through his video production company, JoLe Productions (joleproductions.com),  Lee, along with his late wife, Joy, produced 23 documentaries including In Search of the Mudmen (1990), Wales: History in Bondage (1995), and Secret of the Stones (1998), Eyes that Look at  the Sky: The Mystery of Easter Island (2001), The Mound Builders (2001), The Serpent Fort: Solving the Mystery of Fort Mountain, Georgia (2005), Let Me Not Drown on the Waters: Fred Rydholm, Michigan’s “Mr. Copper” and Sometimes You Clean, Sometimes You Litter: The Amazing Warner Sizemore.  His most recent documentary is Room to Fly: Anne Caudill’s Album. Lee is a graduate Berea College in KY and the University of Iowa.

All sincere seekers are welcome.  A $5 donation is suggested.

LOCATION:
Old National Bank (rear door of the building), 4201 Shelbyville Rd.  Corner of Shelbyville & Hubbards Ln.
The room is small so seating is limited to the first 20 attendees to arrive.

Louisville Esoteric Society has lost our lease in Bakery Square due to a business expansion next door overtaking our space.  After a fruitful six years of thought-provoking presentations we’ve decided it’s time for LES to evolve. For the time being we will discontinue our regular twice-a-month public meetings, but may re-start public meetings at some point in the future. If we do, we’ll post a notice here, so you will be aware of our plans.  

The meeting for the 4th Wednesday of November (the 23rd) is cancelled:  Thanksgiving week break.