Welcome to IO Pan Jam!

IO Pan Jam is being reborn from the ashes this year!!

It is also being re-envisioned, and created in a new image. If you were a patron of past IO Pan Jam festivals, expect to see something a bit different with this new incarnation. IO Pan Jam will be presented May 28-30, 2010 (Memorial Day Weekend) In Fayette County, Texas.

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This festival is brought to you by the "Lords of Thebes" event planning group, a newly formed group specially created for this purpose. Special thanks goes out to "Horus of Two Horizons", who previously brought this festival to the Thelemic community, for allowing L.O.T. to continue this Texas tradition. IO Pan Jam is a completely OPEN festival. This means that you do not need to be a member of any Thelemic Organization to attend. You don't even have to be a Thelemite. Just make sure you come prepared to experience Thelema for the weekend. We would like for this festival to not only be a place where long-time Thelemites can come to build the bonds of universal brotherhood, but also a vehicle to promulgate the Law of Thelema. What we mean by this, is that we are very much interested in inviting members of the greater Pagan community to come see what Thelema is about. We plan to have some workshops covering basic Thelemic philosophy for those who would like to learn more. Don't be shy! We are commited to making this festival enjoyable not only for Thelemites, but for all Pagans, no matter their personal spiritual path. It is indeed a Thelemic festival, but many of the concepts within Thelema are truly universal, and therefore run concurrent to a wide diversity of spiritual paths.

Whether you are a seasoned Thelemite, or just interested in seeing what Thelema is about, and experiencing our culture first hand, we welcome you to IO Pan Jam. There will be Joy and Beauty for anyone who would like to attend...

The Night of Pan will be a primitive festival experience. It will feature Bonfires and Drumming, Lectures and Workshops, Feasting, Dancing, and all around joyous revelry...

This year there will be two main rituals:

The Opening Ritual: This will be a Dramatic Ritual which will include an invokation of Pan, and kick off the first night's Revel-Fire.

The Main Ritual: Prior to Saturday night's Revel-Fire, there will be a dramatic ritual that is designed around this first year's theme... "The Night of Pan"

There will also be other rituals taking place throughout the weekend, including...

Liber Resh vel Helios daily at the four stations of the Sun.

Daily celebrations of Liber XV, The Gnostic Mass.

Performances of Liber V1/2 vel Regulift, by appointment on Saturday Night.

IO Pan Jam will be held at "Spirit Haven". This is a Pagan festival ground located in Fayette County, Texas (between Smithville and Flatonia). Full directions can be found here.

More information on the location can be found at: www.magickal-arts.org ... This land is outfitted with an on-site medical facility where we will be prepared to deliver basic first-aid, a shower facility, MANY campsites, an area for vendors, areas suitable for private rituals, a stage, and many other great features. There will be plenty of clean portable toilets on-site as well.

IO Pan Jam will be an ADULTS ONLY FESTIVAL. It is 100% "clothing optional", but shoes will be required at all times.

Speakers and workshops for this year's IO Pan Jam will be announced as time goes on. We are in the process of determining what talks will be offered at the festival. Frater Oz will be in attendance, and may be inclined to provide some readings and musick throughout the weekend. We want to limit the lectures in order to allow for a more primitive, less academic weekend. We feel that is available elsewhere already, and would much rather focus on Dramatic Ritual, Social interaction, and all around Joyous Thelemic Revelry!!

Lon Milo Duquette, famed international author and occultist will present workshops on the Tarot and the Goetia. The Tarot workshop will be held on Friday. The Goetia workshop will take place on Saturday, and will be presented in two parts.

Frater Oz will be performing the "Regulift" ritual on individuals, by appointment, on Saturday night. Liber V 1/2 vel Regulift is an adaptation of Liber V vel Reguli. The main difference between the two is that rather than the magician performing Liber V individually, three magicians perform it ON them. It provides a way for the subject to get the benefit of the ritual, without actually performing it on their own. This disconnection from the mental aspect of performance can be quite powerful. The text of this exciting ritual can be viewed here... Since this ritual is performed on candidates one at a time, in a manner more resembling an initiation of sorts than a group ritual, we will only be able to offer a limited number of performances.

Candidates for the Regulift ritual should be able to perform banishing rituals on their own, as the effects of this ritual invoke the "93 Current" onto the individual, and can be quite palpable. Please contact us for an appointment if you would like to be considered for the ceremony.

Come join us for your Memorial Day weekend!