Why the World around You Isn’t as It Appears

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Why the World around You Isn’t as It Appears: A Study of Owen Barfield

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.”
Albert Einstein

Empirical knowledge is only one side of “reality.” Empirical knowledge is all about the “outside,” the surfaces of objects, the matter we can see and touch. It does not speak to the “insides,” the unconscious inner reality, subjectivity, feelings, and meaning that humans contribute to the world of objects we experience in our day-to-day lives. The New Enlightenment looks at the inside from that place phenomenologist Edmund Husserl termed “the great world of the interiority of consciousness.”

Using the insights of Owen Barfield (1898–1997) as his starting point, Linderman investigates the nature of consciousness, the Enlightenment, scientific thinking, belief, and the power of imagination.

This book is for those who appreciate the insights of alternative thinkers, but feel at the mercy of an engineer neighbor, an amateur “science buff” friend, or skeptical relatives. They confidently present clear, reasoned, scientific arguments to discredit, or, at least, bring considerable doubt to the veracity of the claims of the alternative thinkers you find compelling. For you to explain why you find some alternative writers so helpful, you need to be able to articulate succinctly the theory of knowledge that undergirds them. Likely, you struggle to do so now. You should find help in this book.

C O N T E N T S:

Introduction

1. Moving beyond “The Belief”
2. The Trojan Horse of Science
3. The Evolution of Consciousness
4. How Do We Know Anything: The Activity of Thinking
5. Consciousness and Language
6. Thinking, Reason, and Matter
7. Imagination
8. Knowledge of Qualities

Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Albert Linderman, Ph.D., CEO of Sagis Corporation; cultural anthropologist guiding organization and community change, and servant leader of high-profile collaborations, including city-wide multi-sectoral collaborations of regular citizens, government, business, nonprofit, and faith communities to solve complex community issues. He currently leads Impact Passaic for Passaic County, New Jersey. He has previously guided collective impact initiatives in communities large and small in South Dakota and Minnesota as well as having guided leadership transitions for several major Minnesota health care organizations. Albert is an experienced practitioner of a number of disciplines and evidence-based methodologies including Presencing, MIT’s System Dynamics, and Sense-Making Methodology and serves on the Board of SteinerBooks.

Additional information

Weight 17 oz
Dimensions 5.5 × 0.5 × 8.5 in
Author

ISBN13

9781584201212

Published

April 2012

Format

Paperback

Pages

194

Publisher

Lindisfarne Books

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