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Mercurius patrick harpur5/25/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() For more information see Jules Cashford read philosophy at St. 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. T he courses are high-powered but at the same time informal and fun. 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.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.The Greeks called it the ‘daimonic’ tradition. ![]() ![]() 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. ![]()
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