The Lost Knowledge of the Imagination

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The Lost Knowledge of the Imagination

The ability to imagine is at the heart of what makes us human. Through our imagination we experience more fully the world both around us and within us. Imagination plays a key role in creativity and innovation.

Until the seventeenth century, the human imagination was celebrated. Since then, with the emergence of science as the dominant worldview, imagination has been marginalized—depicted as a way of escaping reality, rather than knowing it more profoundly—and its significance to our humanity has been downplayed.

Yet as we move further into the strange new dimensions of the twenty-first century, the need to regain this lost knowledge seems more necessary than ever before.

This insightful and inspiring book argues that, for the sake of our future in the world, we must reclaim the ability to imagine and redress the balance of influence between imagination and science.

Through the work of Owen Barfield, Goethe, Henry Corbin, Kathleen Raine, and others, and ranging from the teachings of ancient mystics to the latest developments in neuroscience, Lost Knowledge of the Imagination draws us back to a philosophy and tradition that restores imagination to its rightful place, essential to our knowing reality to the full, and to our very humanity itself.

C O N T E N T S:

1: A Different Kind of Knowing
2: A Look Inside the World
3: The Knower and the Known
4: The Way Within
5: The Learning of the Imagination
6: The Responsible Imagination

Notes
Further Reading
Index

About the Author

Gary Lachman was born in Bayonne, New Jersey, and has lived in London since 1996. He is a full-time writer with more than a dozen books to his name on topics ranging from the evolution of consciousness and the Western esoteric tradition to literature and suicide and the history of popular culture. Lachman writes frequently for journals in the US and UK and lectures on his work in the internationally. His work has been translated into several languages. Mr. Lachman’s books include Madame Blavatsky: The Mother of Modern Spirituality (2012); Rudolf Steiner: An Introduction to His Life and Work(2007); Jung the Mystic: The Esoteric Dimensions of Carl Jung’s Life and Teachings (2010); The Quest for Hermes Trismegistus (Floris, 2011); A Secret History of Consciousness (Lindisfarne, 2003) and The Caretakers of the Cosmos

Additional information

Weight 18 oz
Dimensions 6 × 0.5 × 9 in
Author

ISBN13

9781782504450

ISBN10

1782504451

Published

January 2018

Format

Paperback

Pages

208

Publisher

Floris Books

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