The Philosophers' Secret Fire: A History of the ImaginationBlue Angel Gallery, 2007 - 384 páginas Is there any place for the ancient myths of our ancestors in modern times? Could their shadowy presence in our common imagination be more influential than we realise? Across the globe many societies still believe in an Otherworld of spirits, gods and daimons, which the West has banished to the unconscious mind and now only visits in dreams. Yet this visionary tradition continues to subvert the rational universe, erupting out of the shadows in times of intense religious and philosophical transition. In his dazzling history of the imagination, Patrick Harpur links together fields as far apart as Greek philosophy and depth psychology, Renaissance magic and tribal ritual, Romantic poetry and the ecstasy of the shaman, to trace how myths have been used to make sense of the world. He uncovers that tradition which alchemists imagined as a Golden Chain of initiates, who passed their mysterious 'secret fire' down through the ages. As this inspiring book shows, the secret of this perennial wisdom is of an imaginative insight: a simple way of seeing that re-enchants our existence and restores us to our own true selves. |
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Índice
Prologue | 9 |
The SealWomans Skin | 25 |
The Fate of the Reverend Kirk Changelings The Bokos Jars | 38 |
The Soul of the World | 53 |
Inside Out | 65 |
How Natives Think | 83 |
The Daimons Tales | 93 |
History and Myth The Metaphorical and the Literal | 107 |
The Weight of the World | 203 |
The Myths of Machinery | 221 |
Coleridge Leaps the Gate A Passion of Awe | 237 |
Boehme and Blake | 251 |
The Still Sad Music of Humanity | 269 |
Syzygies | 285 |
The Nightmare LifeinDeath was She | 307 |
Ungodly Messiahs | 323 |
Darwins Nausea The Imbecile Stepmother | 123 |
The Composition of the Magi | 139 |
The Boar from the Underworld | 161 |
The Philosophers Retorts | 181 |
The Kore in the Underworld The Virus of Imagination | 338 |
Epilogue | 351 |
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The Philosophers' Secret Fire: A History of the Imagination Patrick Harpur Visualização de excertos - 2003 |
The Philosophers' Secret Fire: A History of the Imagination Patrick Harpur Visualização de excertos - 2002 |
The Philosophers' Secret Fire: A History of the Imagination Patrick Harpur Pré-visualização indisponível - 2003 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
abduction Adonis alchemists alchemy analogous angels animals Archaeopteryx archetypal become believe Blake body called Christian Coleridge collective unconscious consciousness cosmos daimonic reality daimons Darwin dead death demons described Dionysus divine dreams enantiodromia example experience fairies fantasy father Ficino Gnosticism goddess gods Greek Hades Harpur Heracles Hermes Hermetic Hermeticism hero Hillman human Ibid idea images imagination initiation initiatory Jung killed kind Lévi-Strauss literal living madness magi magic magus matter medieval memory mercury metaphor mind modern mystical myth mythic mythology Nature Neoplatonic Neoplatonists object Odysseus Otherworld Patrick's Purgatory perhaps perspective Philosophers Plato Plotinus poem psyche psychic psychological puritan Quoted rational ego realm red mercury Renaissance rites Romantic sacred scientism scientists secret fire seems sense shaman Sidhe soul spirit Stone symbol things thought traditional cultures transformed tribal turn unconscious Underworld universe variants virtual particles vision W. B. Yeats Western culture words world-view Yeats
Referências a este livro
Analytical Psychology and German Classical Aesthetics: Goethe ..., Volume 1 Paul Bishop Pré-visualização indisponível - 2007 |