DATE EVENT
26 April 2008 Centenary Conference for Cecil Collins
Robert was one of the speakers. Click here to see some information about the conference (PDF, 0.4MB)

9 October 2007 Phantom of the Opera 21st Anniversary
Attended the 21st Anniversary performance of Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, followed by a party to celebrate the occasion.
27 September 2007 Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco
Attended the opening night at the Royal Court Theatre of Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros. Our Foundation sponsored the after-show party.
19-20 May 2007 Megalithomania
The MEGALITHOMANIA Annual Conference took place on May 19th and 20th 2007, in Glastonbury. Robert spoke about his book THE CRYSTAL SUN and the uses of lenses in ancient times. Other keynote speakers were Keith Critchlow and John Michell.

Click to see the Megalithomania flyer and press release

Click on the image above to see a larger version of the Megalithomania flyer and the press release (PDF, 1MB)

For further details please see www.megalithomania.co.uk
February 2007 The Genius of China
A new and expanded edition of this book was published by André Deutsch.
5-8 September 2006 Cosmic Dust & Panspermia conference
Robert took part in an international conference on Cosmic Dust and Panspermia at the Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology, University of Cardiff, Wales. (‘Panspermia’ is the traditional name for the theory that life spreads from world to world, whether as small particles of the building blocks of life, or of viruses, or even bacteria. These particles are often suggested today as being found in enormous quantities in the cosmic dust which occurs in vast clouds throughout space, all over the Universe, and of being transported throughout galaxies on the interstellar ‘winds’ over long aeons, and of being spread throughout the many solar systems by the solar winds and trailed along in the tails of comets, with the viruses seething and mutating in the icy comet heads, spilling out and filtering down through the atmospheres of planets and ‘seeding’ life as the comets pass near the planets).

On Thursday September 7th, Robert delivered a paper entitled ‘The Prehistory of Panspermia: Astrophysical or Metaphysical?’ (To read the paper please click on the link below). He was also a panel participant discussing ‘The Societal Impact of the Discovery of Alien Life’.

The conference marked the academic retirement of Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, one of the world’s leading experts on interstellar dust, cometary nuclei, and the diffusion of life by means of cometary orbits. Numerous astrophysicists and radioastronomers participated, and the proceedings were published in The International Journal of Astrobiology. At the conference, Robert announced his discovery of the manuscript of a lost ancient (apparently pre-4th century BC) Chinese treatise on comets, and showed projections of all of the images of the comets as portrayed in the manuscript. The text of the Chinese work has not yet been translated, but Robert gave brief descriptions of the different types of comets described, and of the dire prognostications of war, revolution, or disease predicted for each type. He also discussed the ‘spermata’ of light diffused throughout the Universe by the Holy Spirit as conceived of by the earliest Christians, known as Gnostics, and explained how they were the ultimate metaphysical panspermia hypothesis, although … and here is the dilemma … they were also viewed as real, not as merely metaphysical: so where does reality end and the imagination begin in such a field of investigation as panspermia theories of ancient times?

You can read Robert's paper ‘The Prehistory of Panspermia: Astrophysical or Metaphysical?’ in the Articles & Papers section here

Photos from the conference can be seen here

www.panspermia.org
May 2006 Television Interview
Robert was interviewed for a 90-minute television documentary about the nature of consciousness. The other participants include former astronaut Ed Mitchell, Dr. Harold Puthoff, Dr. Russell Targ, Uri Geller, and Colin Wilson.
16 November 2005 Exploring the Later Art of the Fugue
Robert gave a talk in the Bechstein Room of Wigmore Hall, London, at 6:45 PM on the subject 'Exploring the Later Art of the Fugue'. This was followed by a piano recital by Stefano Greco at 7:30 PM in the Wigmore Hall on the theme 'The Later Art of the Fugue', a programme mutually designed by Greco and Temple, as part of their Later Fugue Project, surveying the fate of the fugue after Bach and Handel. The recital included two world premieres including a previously unknown fugue by Dinu Lipatti which was discovered in manuscript as part of the Project. There were several 'first British performances' of largely unknown fugues by famous composers, culminating in a spectacular one by Rachmaninoff.


Stefano Greco with Robert
1 November 2005 The Genius of China
Publication of latest reprint of Robert's book THE GENIUS OF CHINA by new publishers, Andre Deutsch/Carlton Books, London.
25 January 2005 Robert's 60th Birthday Party
Robert held a party on January 25th to celebrate his 60th birthday. Friends included Uri Geller and Michael Baigent. The following is an extract from Uri's newspaper column describing the event:

My head is buzzing with talk of pyramids, submerged cities and lost artefacts, after... mind-blowing parties with some of the foremost parascience writers and archaeological adventurers. Robert Temple, a real-life Indiana Jones, threw a 60th birthday party, and introduced me to Michael Baigent.
Michael has stunned the world twice with extraordinary discoveries about the Holy Grail and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
He summed up the barrage of controversy he generates with a simple statement, one I've believed all my life - "There's nothing too weird to be true!"
Article originally printed in The Weekly News, February 5, 2005


Robert with Uri Geller
Robert with Michael Baigent

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