Perhaps the greatest gift that we possess in the world is our Imagination. Without it, we would not have our greatest works of literature, paintings, music, film, even scientific breakthroughs. But science and the materialist worldview has few means to explain what the Imagination is. We know it is a ‘thing’ that gives us ‘things’ to help us and move us. On this episode of What Magic is This? I am joined by Caroline to merely scratch the surface of the Imaginal realm, perhaps my favourite place in this world or any other world.
Note- The audio quality of this episode is atrocious. I’m still new to the recording process, but this is unforgivable. I will never let it get this bad ever again. Thank you for your understanding …and! I somewhat butchered the details of Bicameralism and Julian Jaynes’ work. This will be rectified in the next episode. – Douglas
Show Notes
- The Lost Knowledge of the Imagination by Gary Lachman or if you so desire, his lecture on the book with Nura Learning Part I, Part II and Part III
- An Essay regarding The Lost Knowledge of the Imagination
- Positive Review of Jeffrey Kripal’s The Flip
- A Methodology of the Imagination by Angela Voss. As well as her as a podcast guest
- Towards an Imaginal Psychology by Becca Tarnas
- Becca Tarnas on Rune Soup Podcast
- Ramsey Dukes (Lionel Snell) on the Imagination. His YouTube Channel is worth your attention
- Why The World is Imagined by Bernardo Kastrup
- Idealism Reloaded: The End of the Perception-Imagination Duality by Bernardo Kastrup
- The Romantics BBC Series with Peter Ackroyd
- A Conversation with Neil Gaiman about the Imagination
- The Sandman – A beginners guide
- Art Matters by Neil Gaiman
- The Origins of Creativity and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Imaginative World
- How to See Fairies by Ramsey Dukes
- The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
- Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Shadow of the Colossus
- Einstein’s Thought Experiments
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- A good review of Brian Catling’s The Vorrh
- Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man by Friedrich Von Schiller
- Liminal Dreaming by Jennifer Dumpert
- The Master & His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist
- Mundus Imaginalis by Henry Corbin
- Review of Reality by Peter Kingsley
- What is Parmenides’ Being
- Hyperbole and a Half: Depression Part 2
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