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

The courses re-evaluate Western culture in terms of a tradition which has been neglected or ignored, called 'secret' or 'occult' - but which is now once again stepping out of the shadows as it always does in times of cultural transition. The Greeks called it the 'daimonic' tradition.

● They include talks about myth, philosophy and folklore throughout the ages, examining worlds where imagination is key – from the Egyptians and Pythagoreans through the Renaissance Magi, to Shakespeare, the Romantic poets, Jung, and T.S. Eliot.
● They aim to show how the idea of the daimonic, together with the analogous ideas of soul and imagination, provides a tool - the faculty of insight - for seeing beneath the waves of history to the undercurrents of myth by which our changing world-views are formed.

The courses are high-powered but at the same time informal and fun. The next sequence take place in September, October and November 2010 and comprises talks, discussions, films and field trips in the exceptionally beautiful landscape of undiscovered West Dorset.

Please browse through the courses overview and more detailed programmes 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

Autumn 2010 weekend dates now available  
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Spring 2011 weekends
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