Alchemy
Imagination
Spirituality
& the Sacred
Mysticism
Transdisciplinarity
'Feminine'
Gnosis
Body
& the body
Esotericism
Methodology
Education
Alaturka
Istanbul?
Yes, Istanbul
About
Karen-Claire
To
that end I tried everything I could do to find a job that would mean a
way to stay there. One difficulty at that stage was that I was obsessed
with the idea it could all be achieved legally. (The Turks have since
taught me the folly of such convictions with respect to legalities.) One
job offer, with a well-known esoteric organization materialized, then
dematerialized, purportedly due to a late-breaking crisis within the organization.
My desperate attempts to persuade the French powers-that-be to allow me
to stay in France were to no avail. One memorable afternoon I was even
ushered ever-so-politely, but firmly, out of the Paris police department.
Having nowhere else to go, I moved to Istanbul in 1994. At that point
my raison d'être was to finish the Ph.D. thesis (along necessarily
politically-correct and hence very boring and minimally meaningful lines)
and return to my beloved Paris. For a number of reasons, some of them
merely Gaeilic, others truly Byzantine, all that changed. The thesis may
never be finished and I may never live in Paris, but I have nevertheless
continued my writing. I'm currently working on several projects, including
a collection of short stories partly inspired by my experience of living
in Istanbul.
I created this web site as a way to definitively break an admittedly long
silence. My academic field - history of religions with a specialization
in esotericism - does not exist in Turkey. For years I tried to find a
university position without success and I started to lose hope of being
able to teach at the university level. In August of 2003, however, I had
a wonderful interview at Fatih University and signed a contract to teach
in their Department of American Culture & Literature. I have found
great joy in getting back into the space of a university classroom. In
any case, I will continue developing this internet "space" because
it provides a way for me to share work I've written, am writing, and have
yet to write, as well as give voice to new ideas. It also provides a way
for interested persons to find me and get in touch with me. The whole
process of putting up the site in the first place felt profoundly correct
and that feeling proved right for it has functioned to open many, many
doors. Elsewhere I have remarked that it seems to me that the Internet
is the 21st century persona of Hermes. This certainly seems to be true.
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A
Moveable Feast
Music
Books
to Read
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Links
August
6-29 2005 "Finding
the Sacred in the 21st Century: a Transdisciplinary Event"
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