Owen Barfield: Imagination and Spiritual Sight, Pt 3

[@lindacarroll5018]

Thank you so much - wonderful reflections on The True, The Good & The Beautiful.

[@brucehanify3892]

Thank you! My three favorite people.

[@floydwilkes9904]

So exquisite & elegant. So insightful & empowering. Brilliant Mark. I am so grateful 🙏

[@audreyconway9933]

Thank you for uploading these lectures. They are amazing.

[@eddietennison1191]

Thanks for tying Barfield to his literary and historical context..this is very valuable to me, as someone who has not spent too much time on Steiner and Lewis....or even on Coleridge and Blake...although I have superficial acquaintance with all of them, of course. Jung I know more about......but I'm still learning at age 64...there is quite a lot to know. You can read Barfield and get that there is something hugely important there...but maybe miss the spiritual significance if you aren't careful....or the importance in our own personal spiritual journey and in exploring our own consciousness. Thanks for your scholarship and your insight. Much appreciated.

[@leahsommers8870]

This whole 3 part series was so very wonderful. You pull so many strands of thought together in a way that is engaging and accessible, exciting and touched with grace. I have long wrestled with Jung, enjoyed poetry, and tried to be a Christian as well as intellectually grasp Christianity. Also have attempted to work with dreams, make sense of synchronicity, understand David Bentley Hart, and pondered the teleology of it all and the meaning of love. Lol. Not exaggerating when I say your videos shed a light of increased clarity and order on it all.

[@PlatosPodcasts]

Thanks for saying so.

[@m3rcurus]

You're a bright light in a dark year. I'm sold on the idea of the imagination as a key faculty. We have to reach into creative space and pull out new behaviors and ways to relate, not just techne. Loved the comment about single celled organisms as a kind of eternity. For a moment I could almost feel what it's like to be millions of soil microbes churning through life, death, and reproduction on some hillside. It's similar with mushrooms too which have forever been oscillating between spores and networks.

[@Ge872]

Excellent lectures, thank you so much 🙏

[@thevulgarhegelian4676]

This reallly resonates with me. the Idea of continuous offering back this Divine Life we've been given, idea of kenosis dance perichoresis of the trinitarian God. For Nietzsche, a God that doesn't dance is neither supreme nor worth bothering with. This is a great tool for were I'm at in your book, like synchronicity with the imaginal. Really appreciate your work. Thank you

[@vincentstanzione8112]

As I work on the translation of the Maya K'iche' Popol Wuj I search for deeper understandings of the human and divine imagination. Bingo it comes upon Mark Vernon speaking again from intuition and empirical witnessing of our inner lives. My being moves step and step with cosmos opening up around the ideas of Barfield, Hillman, Jung, Kingsley, the Poets of Temenos and of course all the Native American People of the Americas who live through their imagination from dusk to dawn in dream and then from dawn to dusk in the natural world imagined through sacred stories-myths and dreams. The soul fed is the soul that will find its way through the imagination become real in every way.

[@Owen_Barfield]

Well said and well done.

[@Owen_Barfield]

@@WarrenFrancisco I'm the Grandson, same name.

[@Owen_Barfield]

@@WarrenFrancisco That's a lovely experience, thank you for sharing it.

[@Terpsichore1]

Thank you Mark!

[@simka321]

Could you give some specific references to where Vladimir Solovyov writes about "inner apocalypse"? I would be much obliged to you, Mark Vernon. Great talk, by the way. Very informative!

[@PlatosPodcasts]

I got the exact expression from Gary Lachman’s book, The Return of Holy Russia. It’s a summary of what’s explored in War, Progress and the End of History, particularly the story of the antichrist as a direct rejection of his early theocracy ideas.

[@vincentstanzione8112]

"the consciousness beckoning us to return..." the return to Ancient Texts, Sacred Narratives we call Myths, Stories that fed our imagination thus our soul so we may feel not only whole but that we might experience atonement with the dead, those that Western Civilization attempted to eradicate from the face of the earth. Our imagination can bring back to consciousness those and that which was and is banned from our consciousness. Language is Muthos as it is Logos, yet Mythos for our imagination and dream is what is the really real...

[@vangannaway1015]

Any interest in Gurdjieff/Ouspensky Ray Of Creation?

[@PlatosPodcasts]

Indirectly yes. I think I receive doses of them quite regularly via other thinkers...

[@nigelmiller500]

Just wait till you realize you are the divine and are creating your external reality .