London Fortean Society

The tale of two forgotten mystics: Tahra Bey, who took 1920s Paris by storm as an ‘Oriental’ missionary, and Dr Dahesh, who harnessed Western science to create a pan-religious faith in Lebanon. Travelling the world, they reflected the desires and anxieties of a troubled age. Tuesday, 15 April 2025 6.30 pm doors. 7 pm start.  £10 / £7 Concessions / £7 Livestream  Advance Booking Conway Hall , 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL Tube: Holborn London Fortean Email List The interwar period was a golden age of the uncanny. Clairvoyants, fakirs, Theosophists, mind-readers, miracle-workers and jinn-summoners—all assured the masses that, just like the newly discovered invisible forces of electricity, radiation and magnetism, unseen spiritual powers commanded a realm of hidden human potential. This was a transnational movement of eccentrics, gurus and prophets, with East and West interacting in unexpected ways. Drawing on untapped sources in Arabic as well as European records, Raphael...

  Tuesday 25 March 2025 Women of the Golden Dawn The Golden Dawn is the most talked about and accidentally well documented magical Order of the last 150 years. It was set up with women and men working together as equals, and that created a harmony and a “roundedness” to their rituals even when the ink was barely dry on them. Respectable, disreputable, sociable and dedicated, quite a few of the members made names for themselves outside the Lodges. Geraldine Beskin , co-owner of the Atlantis Bookshop, talks about Moina Mathers, Florence Farr, Annie Horniman and other women who were not in supporting roles – they were great achievers both within the Golden Dawn and in the wider world.  Date: Tuesday 25 March 2025 Time: 8pm (Doors 7.30) Venue: The Bell, 50 Middlesex Street E1 7EX (Tubes: Liverpool Street, Aldgate, Aldgate East) Tickets: £5/£3   https://wegottickets.com/event/652812/

  Paracoustics – Sound and the Paranormal Tuesday 25 February 2025 From the chain-rattling ghost of Pliny’s first-century Athens to things that go bump in the night and 21st-century electronic voice phenomena (EVP), sound has always fascinated paranormal researchers. Dr Callum Cooper , co-editor of Paracoustics – Sound and the Paranormal , examines that fascination and presents a selection of the leading research in paranormal acoustics. He explores the physics and the psychology of sound and its association with the paranormal, including infrasound, EVP, séance tapping and other ghostly sounds. Venue: The Bell, 50 Middlesex Street E1 7EX ( Tubes: Liverpool Street, Aldgate, Aldgate East) Date: Tuesday 25 February 2025 Time: 8pm (Doors 7.30) Tickets: £5/£3 https://wegottickets.com/event/648638/