Date: Tuesday July 14, 21, 28
Time: 7pm - 8.30pm
Admission: $120 ($99 for Patreon Members. To become a member and enjoy exclusive discounts, click here.
This course will be conducted through Zoom, ensuring a convenient and interactive learning experience for everyone. Additionally, to accommodate the diverse schedules of our participants, all classes will be recorded. These recordings will be made available to all participants, providing the flexibility to engage with the course material at your own pace.
The dichotomy the mystical experience, pain and pleasure, transcendence and union, the grotesque and the sublime. This has been the source of some of the most iconic works of art, and the most gut-wrenching spiritual practices in the west.
In this class, we will examine mortification of the flesh as a means of transcendence, and mystical communion within Catholicism, through a historical and artistic leans. This class explores practices of self mutilation, starvation, and pain as a means of transcending the flesh and reaching the divine, specifically in the lives of christian mystics, martyrs, and saints.
Sarah Lyons is a celebrated writer, witch, and filmmaker whose works and writing have appeared in The New York Times, Teen Vogue, Vice, Buzzfeed, NewsWeek, Bust, Dazed, SignsJournal, The Last Podcast on the Left, and The Witch Wave Podcast. Her first book, RevolutionaryWitchcraft was published in 2019 from Running Press (Hachette Book Group) and her second book, How to StudyMagic was published in 2022 also from Running Press. She is also the author of The ColoringTarot Guidebook (2023).
Image: Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, Follower of Jacques Bellange, 17th Century / Yukio Mishima as the catholic martyr photographed by Kishin Shinoyama in 1968
Date: Tuesday July 14, 21, 28
Time: 7pm - 8.30pm
Admission: $120 ($99 for Patreon Members. To become a member and enjoy exclusive discounts, click here.
This course will be conducted through Zoom, ensuring a convenient and interactive learning experience for everyone. Additionally, to accommodate the diverse schedules of our participants, all classes will be recorded. These recordings will be made available to all participants, providing the flexibility to engage with the course material at your own pace.
The dichotomy the mystical experience, pain and pleasure, transcendence and union, the grotesque and the sublime. This has been the source of some of the most iconic works of art, and the most gut-wrenching spiritual practices in the west.
In this class, we will examine mortification of the flesh as a means of transcendence, and mystical communion within Catholicism, through a historical and artistic leans. This class explores practices of self mutilation, starvation, and pain as a means of transcending the flesh and reaching the divine, specifically in the lives of christian mystics, martyrs, and saints.
Sarah Lyons is a celebrated writer, witch, and filmmaker whose works and writing have appeared in The New York Times, Teen Vogue, Vice, Buzzfeed, NewsWeek, Bust, Dazed, SignsJournal, The Last Podcast on the Left, and The Witch Wave Podcast. Her first book, RevolutionaryWitchcraft was published in 2019 from Running Press (Hachette Book Group) and her second book, How to StudyMagic was published in 2022 also from Running Press. She is also the author of The ColoringTarot Guidebook (2023).
Image: Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, Follower of Jacques Bellange, 17th Century / Yukio Mishima as the catholic martyr photographed by Kishin Shinoyama in 1968
