COURSES ON THE MYTHIC IMAGINATION
AND NEOPLATONIC PHILOSOPHY
 by Jules Cashford and Patrick Harpur
in Dorset, England

The Mythic Imagination weekend courses draw attention to a neglected, almost secret, tradition which asserts that soul and its chief faculty, imagination, are of the essence.

From Plato and Plotinus, through the Renaissance magi, to the Romantic poets and modern depth psychologists - notably C G Jung - our tradition grounds reality itself in the images we call gods and daimons, and in the unauthored narratives we call myths.

Jules and Patrick try to show how this reality - this Soul of the World, this Primary Imagination - informs all our perceptions and underpins our arts, our dreams, our very lives.

The courses are high-powered but at the same time informal and fun. They comprise talks, discussions, films and field trips in the exceptionally beautiful landscape of
undiscovered West Dorset.

Please browse through the courses overview and the April 2012 course programme to get a better idea of what they are about, and we will be glad to answer any queries by email - contact@mythicimagination.info

'How then are Souls to be made? How then are these sparks which are God to have identity given them - so as ever to possess a bliss peculiar to each one's individual existence? How, but by the medium of a world like this? '

  ~  John Keats, letter 14th February 1819