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The Mythic Imagination
- talks, trails and
mysteries |
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Weekend 2-4 September 2016 |
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The
Thought Fox |
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Interchangeable with
the physical landscape is the
imaginative one - and both can be held in tension by means of what William Blake termed 'double vision'.
This Mythic Imagination weekend aims to explore both.
Underlying these explorations is the tradition which asserts
that reality is grasped not so much through the abstractions of mainstream
philosophy and religion, as through the concrete imagery of myth and
folklore, depth psychology and - as is particularly emphasised this
weekend - poetic vision. |
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Friday 2nd September |
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6.00pm |
Welcome. Registration and drinks.
Patrick Harpur.
An introduction to the
weekend: Imagination and the Golden Chain. The tradition of
imagination as opposed to reason, from the Neoplatonists via the Romantics to
modern psychology. |
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6.30 pm |
Supper |
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8.00-9.00 pm |
Merrily Harpur.
The salmon of knowledge.
An illustrated revelation. |
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Saturday, 3 September |
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10.00 -12.30
Refreshments
at half time. |
James Harpur.
Workshop: Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes was one of the most illustrious links in the Golden Chain of
the twentieth century.
In
this seminar, which includes a coffee break, James will introduce
Hughes’s life and work, outlining the key moments in the poet’s life and
illustrating his poetry with a selection of poems. Texts will be
provided and no prior knowledge of the poems is necessary. The session
is suitable both for experienced writers and newcomers who would like an
introduction to mythic poetry. |
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12.30 |
Lunch |
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2.00 |
Trail: The pike's
domain. Guided by Patrick and Merrily Harpur |
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4.30 |
Tea and discussion |
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5.30 |
Film: The Adoration
of the Lamb, by Jan Van Eyck. Jules Cashford.
Or Film: The Haunting of
Hunting by Merrily Harpur |
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6.30 |
Supper |
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8.00-9.00 |
Jules Cashford.
'To a To a Man of Imagination, Nature is Imagination itself.
As a man is, so he sees.’ (William Blake). A talk with
lots of illustrations. |
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Sunday, 4 September |
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10.00 |
Lindsay Clarke. Talk: 'The Shaping Spirit of Imagination'. |
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11.00 |
Refreshments |
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11.30 |
Discussion:
James, Jules, Lindsay, Patrick and Merrily answer questions. |
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12.30 |
Lunch |
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2.00 |
Trail: Metamorphoses.
Guided by Patrick and Merrily Harpur |
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4.30 |
Tea and discussion |
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5.00 |
Farewell |
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Talks are illustrated with Power Point projections as appropriate.
Patrick, James and Merrily will be present most of the time (except for
lunch) for
informal questions and discussion. Lindsay Clarke and Jules Cashford will be present some of
the time.
N. B. The programme is flexible - timings and individual talks within it may
change from time to time. |
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How to book |
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Courses overview |
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The Golden Chain |
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Home |
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'...Call the world if you Please "The vale of
Soul-making". Then you will find out the use of the world (I am speaking
now in the highest terms for human nature admitting it to be immortal
which I will here take for granted for the purpose of showing a thought
which has struck me concerning it). I say 'Soul making', Soul as
distinguished from an Intelligence. There may be intelligences or sparks
of the divinity in millions - but they are not Souls till they acquire
identities, till each one is personally itself. Intelligences are atoms of
perception - they know and they see and they are pure, in short they are
God. 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 |
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