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Jules Cashford read
philosophy at St. Andrews and did post-graduate research in literature at
Cambridge, on a Carnegie Fellowship, studying for a Ph D on Tragedy in the
novels of Joseph Conrad. She was for some years a Supervisor in Tragedy at Trinity College,
Cambridge. She studied Psychology of Consciousness with Max Cade
and lectured on Mythology at Birkbeck College of Extra-Mural Studies, University
of London.
She has also trained as a Jungian Analyst and is a member of the International
Association of Analytical Psychology.
She is author of
The Moon: Myth and Image (Cassell
Illustrated, 2003), and has translated The Homeric
Hymns for Penguin Classics (2003). She is the co-author, with Anne
Baring, of
The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image
(Penguin 1993). She writes and lectures on Myth and Literature. |
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Patrick
Harpur read
English at Cambridge
and is a writer, novelist and Hermetic philosopher. His non-fiction works
include Daimonic
Reality: a Field Guide to the Otherworld
and The
Philosophers' Secret Fire: a history of the
Imagination. He has also published an alchemical tract, Mercurius: or, the Marriage
of Heaven and Earth. |
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Louise Hodgson
is a painter and explorer. She
has spent 35 years studying the sacred places of Britain and in particular
those of the South West of England, the south Midlands and Wales. She has contributed much
geographic and geomantic
knowledge to the research of such writers as John Michell.
She now lives in West Dorset from where she runs her company Secret
Landscape Tours.
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Merrily
Harpur is a writer, cartoonist and painter, and is currently
Director of the Strokestown International Poetry Festival.
She has published five books
including
Mystery
Big Cats (Heart of Albion
2006) an examination of the many thousands of sightings of modern daimons,
the panther-like and puma-like animals seen throughout Britain (and the
world) in the past four decades, and
gives occasional talks in England and the USA on
the subject. www.harpur.org |
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