The Heavenly Discourses conference was a celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Gagarin’s achievement, held at the University of Bristol and sponsored by the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. This date inaugurated the period of human space travel, and has a claim to be one of the most significant moments of human history. This dream finally became a reality on 12 April 1961 when Yuri Gagarin made his single, historic orbit of the Earth. And for millennia human beings have imagined a journey to the heavens. In much western art and literature they become metaphors, underpinning narratives – and discourses – which explore or dramatise the human condition, as in the epic narratives of modern, cinematic science fiction. Sometimes the stars speak for themselves as divine entities. In many cultures the heavenly bodies speak to humanity and, often, humanity talks back. From earliest recorded history and in all societies the stars and planets, indeed the entire sky, have been a source of meaning for human affairs. land of the dead in the sky, and all of them are exceedingly difficult to interpret. Life on Earth would not exist without the brilliant objects we see in it we would not be here without the light and heat of the Sun, and the rhythmic, tidal, biologically-vital, influences of the Moon. Salvation, astral ascent, initiatory mysteries, and weird planetary.
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