Lost Knowledge of the ImaginationwithGary Lachman

Books Mentioned In This Interview

gary lachman aleister crowley gary lachman aleister crowley: magick, rock and roll, and the wickedest man in the world gary lachman beyond the robot: the life and work of colin wilson gary lachman dark star rising gary lachman dark star rising: magicking and power in the age of trump gary lachman in search of p. d. ouspensky gary lachman jung the mystic gary lachman lost knowledge of the imagination gary lachman madame blavatsky: the mother of modern spirituality gary lachman rudolf steiner gary lachman rudolf steiner: an introduction to his life and his work gary lachman rudolf steiner: an introduction to his life and work gary lachman swedenborg gary lachman swedenborg: an introduction to his life and studies gary lachman the quest for hermes trigmegistus gary lachman the return of holy russia

Gary Lachman is the author of twenty-one books on topics ranging from the evolution of consciousness to literary suicides, popular culture and the history of the occult. He has written a rock and roll memoir of the 1970s, biographies of Aleister Crowley, Rudolf Steiner, C. G. Jung, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Emanuel Swedenborg, P. D. Ouspensky, and Colin Wilson, histories of Hermeticism and the Western Inner Tradition, studies in existentialism and the philosophy of consciousness, and about the influence of esotericism on politics and society.

Here he suggests that, as a result of modernity, we have lost sight of the conscious poetic power of nature and reality itself. He focuses on the work of Goethe who claimed that the disciplined imagination of the poet can be applied to scientific questions. His argument centers on the work of philosopher and historian Henry Corbin, who argues that the “imaginal” realm was distinct from fanciful imagination and also ontologically real. He also describes the journeys taken by the great Swiss psychiatrist, C. G. Jung, into the depths of his own psyche.

(Recorded on May 21, 2019)

Published on May 25, 2019

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