tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34641455401409290622024-02-19T18:07:42.995-08:00Dr. David HarrisonHistory of Freemasonry, Fraternal Societies, Symbolism and some Industrial Archaeology from an Academic PerspectiveDr David Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16172173715685926904noreply@blogger.comBlogger207125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3464145540140929062.post-29170970344523466632023-06-22T11:53:00.003-07:002023-06-22T11:53:55.630-07:00Sankey Canal animation storyboard for the Sankey Canal Restoration Society<iframe style="background-image:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yn5p5YVQpLQ/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/yn5p5YVQpLQ" frameborder="0"></iframe>Dr David Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16172173715685926904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3464145540140929062.post-4022269629187630382022-11-19T04:35:00.005-08:002022-11-19T04:37:50.860-08:00A New Short Paper to Download for Free: Arthur Evans and his notes on Illyria; the snake people and cultural identity in Albania and Kosovo<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi84GHSbUYS2PhMgu32BkIucTuddRhmn1XrVpURpNV84qBsaXBkYt-T-qL6gvxeBpFOo7__HZYTNnBRnRfhAZhKoUGHB9NRXmBN262KBKO_O6ywNaQaoJPQcfLdu8nq56zo2soUVKvqhUGtLPX7cC04jBXDjQyQ_TTsBWezlteZDASDclvj3GA5ZO1vBw/s1563/vandepassecadmusharmonia.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="984" data-original-width="1563" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi84GHSbUYS2PhMgu32BkIucTuddRhmn1XrVpURpNV84qBsaXBkYt-T-qL6gvxeBpFOo7__HZYTNnBRnRfhAZhKoUGHB9NRXmBN262KBKO_O6ywNaQaoJPQcfLdu8nq56zo2soUVKvqhUGtLPX7cC04jBXDjQyQ_TTsBWezlteZDASDclvj3GA5ZO1vBw/s320/vandepassecadmusharmonia.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #cccccc;">For the past few years, I’ve been visiting Kosovo and Albania and have been working on a number of academic projects. One such project was to transcribe anew the</span><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #cccccc;"> </span><em style="color: #cccccc; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Notes on Illyria</em><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #cccccc;"> </span><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #cccccc;"><span>from the rough handwriting of Oxford educated British archaeologist Arthur Evans. </span><span>Evans was based in Croatia during the early 1880s, though he was arrested as a spy by the Austro-Hungarians in 1882 and returned back to England. He then went on to visit Greece. In 1884, Evans was appointed Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum and in the same year, he gave the Ilchester Lectures on the Slavic conquest of Illyricum, though these remain unpublished. Evans’s</span></span><span><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #cccccc;"> </span><em style="color: #cccccc; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Notes </em><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #cccccc;">remain interesting as they convey his ideas of the Balkans in a late nineteenth century context, Evans using his knowledge of Classical sources. It is from this, that his discussion of Cadmus emerges, and this became an idea for a paper, especially catching my interest in regards to the snake symbolism that I had seen at various locations on my visits to Kosovo and Albania. The paper that can be accessed in this post was published by</span><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #cccccc;"> </span><em style="color: #cccccc; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Academia Letters </em><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #cccccc;">and was an ‘orphaned’ incomplete work that was attached to the original project of the transcribing of Evans’s</span><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #cccccc;"> </span><em style="color: #cccccc; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Notes on Illyria</em><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #cccccc;">, which became unfinished due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdowns. I had transcribed a good number of pages from</span><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #cccccc;"> </span><em style="color: #cccccc; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Notes on Illyria</em><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #cccccc;">, and one day in the near future I will post the transcription on Academia.</span></span></span></span><p></p><p style="color: #cccccc; margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>The paper can be accessed via this link and is free to download as a pdf: </span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/81649973/Arthur_Evans_and_his_notes_on_Illyria_the_snake_people_and_cultural_identity_in_Albania_and_Kosovo" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4fb3ff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;"><span>(99+) Arthur Evans and his notes on Illyria; the snake people and cultural identity in Albania and Kosovo | Dr</span><span> David Harrison – Academia.edu</span></a></span></span></p>Dr David Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16172173715685926904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3464145540140929062.post-64636342877469513042022-11-19T04:23:00.007-08:002022-11-19T04:23:47.311-08:00The Esoteric World of The Beatles - a free paper of mine to download from Academia<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjefi14d_Rub5Pml7dk2m9o9eDjsps0zgRIafphumRJicw9pygqI4Cfoc9qYFQlRv1rkLde9PPCGuixnod8UT7-kmp1vd-eeAs7zHZ8140YyixdB6z0SE_7XBcrdOHF2_oicp93Z3FIoaRvdBAnuxgLIowAiTYEVAKy1BtjKFYnhPGGvZlVFeCvu5DDvw/s3478/20221118_232132.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3478" data-original-width="1956" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjefi14d_Rub5Pml7dk2m9o9eDjsps0zgRIafphumRJicw9pygqI4Cfoc9qYFQlRv1rkLde9PPCGuixnod8UT7-kmp1vd-eeAs7zHZ8140YyixdB6z0SE_7XBcrdOHF2_oicp93Z3FIoaRvdBAnuxgLIowAiTYEVAKy1BtjKFYnhPGGvZlVFeCvu5DDvw/s320/20221118_232132.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><p></p><p style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;">he magician and Occultist Aleister Crowley appears on the cover of The Beatles’ 1967 masterpiece Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, situated on the back row of a crowd of people that the band admired. Crowley famously put forward in his book <em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Magick</em>, the practice of reverse speech, something that the Beatles experimented with in their recordings at this time. This short paper will explore how Crowley and other writers of the Victorian era inspired members of the band, and how spirituality and elements of the counter-culture of the late 1960s assisted to create an interest in the esoteric, which in turn inspired the music of the band.</p><p style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;">This paper was presented at Mersey College No.12, Societas Rosicrucian in Anglia, on the 18th of November, 2022, and can be <a href="https://www.academia.edu/90943996/The_Esoteric_World_of_The_Beatles" style="background: transparent; color: #4fb3ff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">downloaded for free in pdf format from my academia profile by clicking here.</a></p><p style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;">My academia profile includes a collection of published papers, mainly on the subject of Freemasonry, Fraternal Societies and the Occult.</p>Dr David Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16172173715685926904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3464145540140929062.post-84462311271126054192022-08-13T10:51:00.003-07:002022-08-13T10:51:42.694-07:00The resting place of Freemason and Occultist John Yarker...<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/XMNmP_Cg2ik" width="480"></iframe><div><br /></div><div>John Yarker (1833-1913) was a leading figure of the Victorian Occult Revival. He was a Freemason who explored the boundaries of this world, and the next....</div>Dr David Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16172173715685926904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3464145540140929062.post-27558214616809661302022-03-18T03:18:00.005-07:002022-03-18T03:18:59.298-07:00Cosmic consciousness<iframe style="background-image:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/u6ywaRJTAeo/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/u6ywaRJTAeo" frameborder="0"></iframe>Dr David Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16172173715685926904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3464145540140929062.post-69766750271190314382022-02-19T08:20:00.000-08:002022-02-19T08:20:01.579-08:00Interview featuring Dr David Harrison with the Amish Inquisition Podcast<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcnnPpcZszSffqlQVTu7iD-gmhjgF3LuyexUjZ2m4v77i1UsyUxZu0wFkkOaoyqWeXT5mxN2Ly6U70o4ScYSccE5ZFMmx5sQ1CcoHH0EUETaNH2kgEF3Ik5McDf9YDTt__AJU4QjNZxUXh_UBzI7qjZ3RP7n2ndClZgT0tsovk1_eFQfeskeDIk7mN9A=s1366" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcnnPpcZszSffqlQVTu7iD-gmhjgF3LuyexUjZ2m4v77i1UsyUxZu0wFkkOaoyqWeXT5mxN2Ly6U70o4ScYSccE5ZFMmx5sQ1CcoHH0EUETaNH2kgEF3Ik5McDf9YDTt__AJU4QjNZxUXh_UBzI7qjZ3RP7n2ndClZgT0tsovk1_eFQfeskeDIk7mN9A=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/kxRsR91sQwU" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kxRsR91sQwU/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe>Dr David Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16172173715685926904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3464145540140929062.post-71176021337392009352022-02-01T09:09:00.001-08:002022-02-01T09:09:07.405-08:00A look inside The City of York: A Masonic Guide<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/HNEEZU_FYb8" frameborder="0"></iframe>Dr David Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16172173715685926904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3464145540140929062.post-47418674278421306052022-01-30T11:39:00.003-08:002022-01-30T11:39:30.631-08:00A look inside The Lost Rites and Rituals of Freemasonry<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/8QunUu5jfBI" frameborder="0"></iframe>Dr David Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16172173715685926904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3464145540140929062.post-78323771699361432272021-12-25T12:28:00.002-08:002021-12-25T12:28:22.660-08:00Some of the footage from a recent documentary that I filmed for Aljazeera<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/bgZzY-36g1M" frameborder="0"></iframe>Dr David Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16172173715685926904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3464145540140929062.post-86284760533185862112021-12-22T09:53:00.005-08:002021-12-22T09:53:30.418-08:00A look at Rediscovered Rituals of English Freemasonry<iframe style="background-image:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ks8KMIyzEWo/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/ks8KMIyzEWo" frameborder="0"></iframe>Dr David Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16172173715685926904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3464145540140929062.post-80772699880760709892021-12-10T08:24:00.002-08:002021-12-10T08:24:09.534-08:00A Quick Guide to Freemasonry promotional video 2<iframe style="background-image:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Tvm8277mx_8/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/Tvm8277mx_8" frameborder="0"></iframe>Dr David Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16172173715685926904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3464145540140929062.post-22177837976955082272021-12-10T08:15:00.006-08:002021-12-10T08:24:30.803-08:00A Quick Guide to Freemasonry promotional Video 1<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/LbU3TtX-2AY" width="480"></iframe><div><br /></div><div>Now available in an Albanian language edition....</div>Dr David Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16172173715685926904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3464145540140929062.post-34739226114082375892021-11-30T05:26:00.002-08:002021-11-30T05:26:23.870-08:00A presentation on the Rite of Seven Degrees - the new book by Dr David H...<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/p7kWZe7_0x4" width="480"></iframe>Dr David Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16172173715685926904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3464145540140929062.post-4251429782372217782021-11-16T08:37:00.002-08:002021-11-16T08:37:13.310-08:00A look at A Quick Guide to Freemasonry<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/jKeQ8isXMmo" frameborder="0"></iframe>Dr David Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16172173715685926904noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3464145540140929062.post-13029049984182199392021-11-12T05:53:00.002-08:002021-11-12T05:53:15.282-08:00A look at Volume 1 of the new Scriptorium Journal of Masonic Research<iframe style="background-image:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4LiSTChGY4U/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/4LiSTChGY4U" frameborder="0"></iframe>Dr David Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16172173715685926904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3464145540140929062.post-66249686181715828642021-11-09T09:06:00.005-08:002021-11-09T09:06:58.983-08:00A look inside the new Masonica edition of Richard Carlile's Manual of Fr...<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/S7sEv_XxQLk" frameborder="0"></iframe>Dr David Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16172173715685926904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3464145540140929062.post-3546138529456947122021-11-05T13:52:00.005-07:002021-11-05T13:52:44.808-07:00Christopher Rawdon the Lost Philanthropist<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/NKRCmiiIC58" frameborder="0"></iframe>Dr David Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16172173715685926904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3464145540140929062.post-76149986622842584132021-10-31T10:36:00.003-07:002021-10-31T10:36:48.265-07:00The Rite of Seven Degrees - the new book by Dr David Harrison<iframe style="background-image:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VjvO1rx90Hg/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/VjvO1rx90Hg" frameborder="0"></iframe>Dr David Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16172173715685926904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3464145540140929062.post-62336736392609478432021-10-11T12:50:00.002-07:002021-10-11T12:50:13.940-07:00Kosovo<iframe style="background-image:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GFVGdoVEnuU/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/GFVGdoVEnuU" frameborder="0"></iframe>Dr David Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16172173715685926904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3464145540140929062.post-66190544024908115012021-10-04T12:12:00.001-07:002021-10-04T12:12:05.161-07:00Book signing at the Dukagjini Bookstore, Skanderbeg Square, Pristina, Kosovo<iframe style="background-image:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gaZzkkBiHmc/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/gaZzkkBiHmc" frameborder="0"></iframe>Dr David Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16172173715685926904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3464145540140929062.post-2351460058823208042021-09-12T09:55:00.006-07:002021-09-12T09:55:53.245-07:00Waves<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/B5x872JLMcU" frameborder="0"></iframe>Dr David Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16172173715685926904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3464145540140929062.post-63505918932034546752021-09-11T09:05:00.001-07:002021-09-11T09:05:05.856-07:00Spirituality 2<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/_xCnqVjbjx4" frameborder="0"></iframe>Dr David Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16172173715685926904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3464145540140929062.post-73603959189156338302021-09-05T11:16:00.002-07:002021-09-05T11:16:27.174-07:00Spirituality<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/r-23deSw8ok" frameborder="0"></iframe>Dr David Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16172173715685926904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3464145540140929062.post-59166772414738326582021-09-04T09:31:00.002-07:002021-09-04T09:31:16.174-07:00Ambient 3<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/4Yk_FrH7-Vs" frameborder="0"></iframe>Dr David Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16172173715685926904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3464145540140929062.post-83551860493615118932021-09-03T13:15:00.004-07:002021-09-03T13:15:33.417-07:00Ambient 2<iframe style="background-image:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MM3_72jVWUc/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/MM3_72jVWUc" frameborder="0"></iframe>Dr David Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16172173715685926904noreply@blogger.com0