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Beyond reason

Lectures programmed for the exhibition “Black Light”

What space is still left for the irrational and the occult? How do we express nowadays the human drive for transcendence? The CCCB presents an approximation to cosmovisions which transcend reason.

Believing in the 21st Century

Lecture by José Casanova

The sociologist José Casanova discusses what appears to be the innate human need to believe and analyses the new forms religion is taking in the twenty-first century. What do these beliefs have that is really new? Why has science not yet managed to supplant religion?

Seeing the Invisible

Lecture by Gary Lachman

Gary Lachman, writer, musician, and expert on the history of consciousness and esoteric thought, emphasises the importance of occultism in the shaping of modern culture